How to maintain good health at the beginning of spring

Spring, the sun’s yellow longitude 315 degrees. Spring for the first month of the festival, standing for the meaning of building, spring wood gas began to arrive, although the meaning of spring, but at this time the first warmth is still cold, it is not advisable to reduce the clothes too early, still have to “spring cover”. Proverbs: spring frozen bones frozen meat in the fall. Because the cold of spring is from the basis of the winter cold, and the cool of the fall is from the warmth of summer. Before and after spring, the climate is dry, infectious diseases are high, in addition, spring is also a high incidence of liver and gallbladder disease, spleen and stomach disease. After the spring, Yang Qi is sprouting, everything is recovering, and the body’s metabolic function is beginning to be active. At this time, you should go to bed late and get up early, and in the morning, you can wear loose clothes to walk and exercise in order to stretch the body. Indoors should pay attention to ventilation and moisturizing, emotionally, to maintain a happy mood. A year’s plan is in the spring The general principle of diet is more sweet and less sour, sweet is the taste of its own sweet food, such as jujube, rather than processed sweets; less sour is because the acid has a collection of astringent effect, is not conducive to the rise of yang qi, is not conducive to the liver’s detachment, and therefore to eat less umeboshi, hawthorn, and so on. In addition, this season can also eat more pungent food, which helps to disperse yin and protect yang. Before and after the spring should eat food: vegetables, spring leeks, green onions, cilantro, radish, tomatoes, toon; soy products, tofu, tempeh; aquatic products, shrimp; drinks, honey, milk, boiled water and so on. Spring health points focus on catching 2 points: the birth of yang qi; regulate the liver qi. 1, Taichong point Location: in the back of the foot, the first, the second metatarsal bone combination in front of the depression. Acquisition method: the back of the foot, from the first, two toes between the head of the suture lines to the back of the foot to push, to the front edge of the two bones in the depression (about the head of the suture lines of the two transverse fingers), that is, this point. Methods of operation: moxibustion: mild moxibustion, lighting moxa, 2-3cm from the point for hanging moxibustion, so that the local feeling of warmth, each time 5-10 minutes, moxibustion until the skin redness to the extent that 1 times a day, a total of 7 times. Tui na: thumb kneading method, the thumb finger end of the pressure point for rotary kneading, strength to feel the degree of soreness, 50 ~ 100 times per minute, for 3 ~ 5 minutes, 1 time a day, a total of 7 times. 2, Liver Yu Positioning: in the back, when the ninth thoracic vertebra under the spinous process, 1.5 inches aside. Methods: sitting or prone position, from the seventh thoracic vertebrae and then feel down two vertebrae, that is, the ninth thoracic vertebrae spinal protuberance next to the opening of the two transverse fingers (about 1.5 inches), that is, this point. Methods of operation: moxibustion: moxa box moxibustion method, lighted moxa, moxibustion box into the moxibustion moxibustion, so that the local feeling of warmth, each time for 20 ~ 30 minutes, moxibustion until the skin redness to the degree that 1 time a day, a total of 7 times. Tui na: thumb kneading method, the thumb tip of the pressure points for rotary kneading, strength to feel the degree of soreness, 50 to 100 times per minute, for 3 to 5 minutes, 1 time a day, a total of 7 times. Cupping: leave the canister method, the canister suction localized acupuncture points after not moving, left for 10 to 15 minutes, until the skin is bruised to the degree, every other day, a total of 3 times.