Each round of seasonal change brings a new environment for our body to adapt to. In this season of recovery, there are many things we should do, worth doing, and the most important root cause for our body to build a good foundation. How do we go about regulating ourselves in the face of the changing external environment? Time waits for no man, if you do not act now, you will not have this great opportunity to change yourself later.
Spring is the best season for purifying and regulating the body, and it is also the season when old diseases tend to occur. How to maintain health in spring to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and fitness?
Rule 1: Nourish Yang
Spring and summer is the time when nature’s temperature rises and yang energy gradually flourishes, so it is advisable to focus on nourishing yang in order to comply with seasonal changes. According to the characteristics of the body’s yang energy in spring, you can choose the flat tonic and clear tonic diet, such as the use of warm food for tonic. Flat tonic diet is suitable for normal and weak people, such as buckwheat, coix seeds, soy milk, mung beans and apples, sesame seeds, walnuts, etc. Qing tonic diet refers to the diet boiled with cool food, such as pear, lotus root, water chestnut, lily of the valley, etc.
Rule 2: Nourish Yin
Yin deficiency and gastroduodenal ulcer disease is appropriate in the spring attack, diet can be used in honey therapy, honey steamed in water on an empty stomach before meals, 100 ml per day, in 3 doses; or 250 ml of milk, boiled and mixed with 50 grams of honey, 6 grams of Bletilla, blended and drink. All these have the effect of nourishing Yin and benefiting the stomach. For those with Yin deficiency and internal heat, choose foods such as rice porridge, adzuki bean porridge, lotus heart porridge, mashed green vegetables, etc. Do not eat large sweet, fatty, fried, cold and rough foods.
Rule 3: Nourish the brain
In spring, people with hyperactive liver yang are prone to headaches and vertigo, which is the reason why ancestral medicine says “spring is the time when all diseases are in the head”. The dietary prevention method is to eat bananas or oranges 250 to 500 grams a day; or 100 grams of banana peel, water decoction for tea to drink frequently. In addition, can also be used with celery 250 grams, red dates 10, water decoction for tea.
Rule four: nourish the spleen
Ancestral medicine also believes that “spring is appropriate to save acid and increase the sweet, in order to nourish the spleen.” This is because spring is the time when liver qi is strong, liver qi will affect the spleen, so spring is prone to spleen and stomach weakness, and eat more sour food will make liver Yang hyperactive, so spring diet should be selected pungent, sweet and warm products, avoid sour and astringent, should eat more vegetables and wild vegetables.
Rule 5: Nourish the kidneys
Spring is a good time for patients with poor kidney function to nourish their kidneys and regulate their kidneys. Taking kidney-strengthening formulas and kidney-strengthening diets at this time is highly effective in the early stage of kidney function damage. You can eat light fruits and vegetables, such as mangosteen, lotus root, coix seeds, cucumber and melon, etc.
Rule 6: Nourish the stomach
Diet should avoid the intake of pork soup, chicken soup, fish soup, beef soup and spinach, beans, animal offal and stimulating condiments that are rich in creatine, purine and other substances, because the above foods have a strong stimulating effect on the secretion of gastric juices, but also easy to form gas leading to abdominal distension, increasing the burden on the stomach and intestines. The diet should be light and easy to digest, and the above-mentioned honey therapy can be used.
Rule 7: Nourish the gas
Chronic bronchitis in the elderly is also prone to attack in spring. In order to support Yang Qi, we should pay attention to the diet, such as onion, coriander, black bean curd, jujube and astragalus, etc. We should also eat more food with expectorant and healthy spleen, kidney and lung, such as loquat, pear, lotus seed, lily, jujube, walnut, honey, etc., which can help reduce symptoms.
The rule: to raise “heat”
In early spring, the climate is still very cold, the cold stimulates the thyroid gland, which can cause hyperfunction and consume heat to make the body’s endurance and resistance weaken. On the other hand, the body also needs to consume heat to stabilize the basal body temperature in order to protect itself from the cold. Therefore, the composition of the diet during early spring should be mainly high in calories. In addition to cereal products, glutinous rice products and soybeans, sesame flour, peanuts, walnuts and other foods can be used to replenish energy in time.
Rule 9: Disease prevention
Spring climate from cold to warm, bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms increased vitality, easy to invade the body and cause disease. In the diet should take enough vitamins and inorganic salts. Cabbage, rape, persimmon peppers, tomatoes, citrus, lemon and other fresh fruits and vegetables, rich in vitamin C, has an antiviral effect; carrots, amaranth and other yellow-green vegetables, rich in vitamin A, has the function of protecting and enhancing the respiratory tract mucosa and respiratory organ epithelial cells; rich in vitamin E food should also be eaten to improve the body’s immune function, such as sesame, green cabbage, cauliflower, etc.
Rule 10: relief “sleepy”
If you can pay attention to the diet, you can also lift the “spring sleepy”. The ideal dietary arrangement is: the most calories consumed at breakfast, followed by Chinese food, dinner at least. Eating potassium-rich fruits and juices can also help to relieve “spring sleepiness”, because potassium helps to maintain cell moisture, potassium deficiency will make people feel weak, but also affect the concentration, raisins, bananas, apples are rich in potassium.