Focus on winter wellness for children

With the arrival of winter, our body functions are gradually transformed between yin and yang, until the summer solstice of the following year, the body’s yang energy will gradually rise, while the yin energy will gradually latent, that is, the so-called yang long yin elimination, and the winter solstice is the starting point of this transformation. The winter solstice begins, the body’s yang energy begins to grow, it is difficult to get rid of evil, we can only strengthen and mobilize the body’s yang energy through artificial methods, including the use of drugs and food, to protect the cold to help, prevent disease and eliminate evil, improve the body’s immunity, in order to better achieve the purpose of health care, life and longevity. Children’s winter health care focuses on disease prevention and treatment, especially for those with low immunity and often prone to spring colds, asthma, allergic cough, allergic rhinitis, bronchitis, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases in winter and spring, as well as deficiency cold stomach pain, diarrhea, fear of cold and other characteristics of the “deficiency cold body” children, especially should be well Seize the period from the winter solstice to the beginning of spring to nourish Yang, in order to achieve the purpose of “winter diseases, spring diseases, winter treatment”, that is, as Chinese medicine says, “three nine to make up a winter, the next year no disease pain”. So how should children actually take care of their health in winter? Chinese medicine believes that more convenient and suitable for children should be the drug diet regimen, which is often referred to as medicine therapy, of course, specifically for children’s health medicine therapy and adult medicine therapy or a great difference, the reason for this is mainly related to the physiological characteristics of the child itself. Due to the physiological characteristics of children’s delicate internal organs, the shape of gas is not full, vigorous, rapid development, we must pay attention to the types of drugs used in the usual as little as possible, the amount of not too much. Although winter health care is effective for children with cold deficiency, this so-called “cold deficiency” can not be generalized to “deficiency” to discuss. Chinese medicine classifies “deficiency” into four categories: “Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Qi deficiency, and blood deficiency”, and each “deficiency” has a corresponding medicine that can be adjusted. Here I will briefly introduce the clinical manifestations of the four types of deficiency and the medicinal treatment methods. The manifestations of Yin deficiency are: thinness, heat in the hands and feet, thirst, dry throat, cold drinks, flushed face, night sweating, constipation, red tongue with little coating, thin pulse, etc. Yin deficiency children, in the cold winter months can stew some snow pear and Sichuan scallop soup, yam and red dates soup, carp stewed tofu, silver fungus and wolfberry soup, etc. to corresponding conditioning. The manifestations of Yang deficiency are: fear of cold as the main manifestation, accompanied by the lack of warmth in the limbs, fear of heat and cold, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, clear and long urine, loose stools, light and fat tongue, white smooth coating, and sunken and thin pulse. Yang deficiency children, usually at night can eat some cinnamon boiled eggs, fried leeks, carrots stewed dog meat, in addition, shrimp is also a good Yang deficiency products. The manifestations of Qi deficiency are: shaky white face, fatigue and shortness of breath, lazy speech, general weakness, blurred vision, loose stools, light and fat tongue, weak pulse, etc. Astragalus, ginseng, red dates, yams, beef, eel, glutinous rice, potatoes, etc. are all good for Qi, and can be used to make various diets suitable for children. Eel porridge, japonica rice, astragalus jujube porridge, etc. are suitable for children with this constitution. The manifestations of blood deficiency are: dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, numbness in hands and feet, pale lips and claws, pale or impotent face, pale tongue, slippery coating with little fluid and weak pulse. Like pig liver, lean meat, as well as spinach, peanuts, black fungus, jujube and cinnamon are useful in treating blood deficiency evidence. Children can be made into pig liver soup, spinach and lean meat porridge, cinnamon and red dates punch egg, fried black fungus, etc., all have the effect of nourishing blood and replenishing blood. In addition to the above, parents must pay attention to the children after the winter solstice to keep warm, early to bed and late to rise, and also to carry out appropriate physical exercise, then in the safe passage of the three nine days of winter at the same time, children’s physical fitness will also have a good improvement, thereby reducing the occurrence of a variety of good diseases in the winter and spring.