The principle of “Yin and Yang” is inseparable from any health care and treatment. When it comes to seasonal health care, we must talk about how the yin and yang of this season, the length of sunlight, the corresponding changes in human physiology, in order to understand and master the “heavenly and human corresponding” treatment rules and health care methods.
1. The principle of spring cover.
When does the spring season start? How do the yin and yang of spring change and grow?
The 24 solar terms are divided according to the position of the sun on the ecliptic (i.e. the orbit of the earth around the sun). The sun starts from the ecliptic point (zero degree of the ecliptic, when the sun shines vertically on the equator) and advances 15 degrees for each festival; it runs for one week and returns to the ecliptic point, which is a return year of 360 degrees, so it is divided into 24 festivals.
From “Spring” to “Sting”, Yang energy is not yet sufficient and Yin energy is still strong. This is reflected in the climate: the temperature is slow to rise, and the spring chill is still present with the coldness of winter. In terms of treatment and health care, it is necessary to protect yang energy from being injured by yin and cold.
From “Spring Equinox” to “Qingming”: On the day of “Spring Equinox”, Yin and Yang reach a balance and Yang Qi grows to a level comparable to Yin Qi. For the next month and a half, the yin energy gradually decreases and the yang energy becomes more and more abundant. Since the vernal equinox divides the day and night, cold and heat, people should pay attention to maintaining the balance of yin and yang in the human body when taking care of their health. Dressing is not mainly to protect Yang Qi from damage. Instead, the main focus is on “wind protection”. Another seasonal characteristic of spring is revealed: more wind. “The wind is not small at the spring equinox, so prevent pain and deep disturbance”.
From “Ching Ming” to “Valley Rain”, gradually prepare for the summer, the sunlight time is extended, the temperature rises, air humidity increases, thick winter clothes put away, jacket and long-sleeved shirts, long pants is the main dress. This time to “sun protection” is the main.
2, the classification of spring cover.
Protect the sun: after the spring to the vernal equinox.
”Spring cover” is an act to protect Yang Qi, especially for the elderly whose Yang Qi has fallen and children whose Yang Qi is not yet sufficient, at this stage, do not take off winter clothes. For young adults with strong yang energy, it is enough to protect the feet, lower limbs and back from yin and cold. Yang energy comes from the bottom and is gathered on the head and face. As you can appreciate, after spring, you will rarely wear a hat to protect the temperature of your head and face. To sum up, from “spring” to “hibernation” the focus of the cover is to maintain the rising Yang Qi from being damaged, and the parts covered are mainly the lower body and the back. In addition, the broad sense of “covering” should also include the warmth of the room and the blanket. Generally speaking, in the early spring season, you can make the room temperature a little higher and the blanket a little thicker.
Wind prevention: After the spring equinox to the clearing.
The wind is light, good at moving and changing, the wind is the longest of all diseases, which is the basic characteristic of wind. Wind is the main qi of spring and corresponds to liver wood. Wind is a disease, its evidence of a wide range of disease, rapid change. Its specific characteristics are: ① throughout the body: everywhere, from the head, down to the feet and knees, outside and skin, internal and internal organs, any part of the body can be attacked by the wind. ②Media role: can be combined with cold, moisture, heat, dryness, fire, etc. for disease. ③ its pathogenic specificity, wind disease comes and goes quickly, the course of the disease is not long, its special symptoms are also easy to recognize, such as sweating and bad wind, itching, wandering, numbness and shaking and other symptoms. When the evidence, the onset of the disease in spring is obviously related to the feeling of wind, the presence of wind can be considered.
Then, protection against wind is to prevent the attack of wind evil.
If the temperature is still low, or for the elderly, children and other people with a relative lack of Yang energy, an undershirt can be added to protect the temperature of the front and back of the heart.
Local attention should be paid to protect the shallowly exposed parts of the blood vessels and the delicate parts of the mucous membranes such as the mouth and nose from wind evils. The superficially exposed parts of the blood vessels are: solar plexus, Fengchi, Fengfu, neck, wrists and ankles. The mouth and nose can wear a mask to protect local wetness to reduce upper respiratory tract infections.
Sun protection: Qingming to Valley Rain.
Although spring is not as hot as summer, UV exposure is not weaker than summer. This season, the global ozone layer content is the least, so the UV content increased, coupled with the skin’s metabolic cycle is generally 28 days, the end of April and early May after strong UV exposure, to June will appear sun spots, therefore, whitening sunscreen, more from the spring.
3, the method of reducing clothing.
After six seasons in spring, gradually transition from winter to summer, “spring cover” also from “warm” to “wind” and then “sun protection “The clothes should be gradually reduced. The ancient health science book “regimen news theory” proposed: “spring weather cold and warm, not to go to the cotton clothes, the elderly weak, sparse bones, the body is timid, wind and cold easy to hurt the coup, time to prepare the jacket, warm and easy, a weight to reduce a weight, not a storm to go.”
Spring cover” should be a certain limit. When the southern region into March or the northern region into April, the weather has become significantly hotter, if still wearing thick clothes, the same is not good for health. Just pay attention to the “wind” can be.
4.What are the consequences of not taking care of your health in season?
In the “Su Wen Si Qi Tuning Shen Da Lun”, it is said: “In March, this is called hair Chen. Heaven and earth are born, all things to glory, night sleep and get up early, wide walk in the court, be hair slow shape, in order to make Zhi Sheng, born but do not kill, give but do not take away, reward but do not punish, this spring should be, the way to nourish life.” This can be regarded as the general rule of the Nei Jing on spring health, which points out that in the spring season, people should take care of the human body from many aspects, such as spiritual conditioning, life and living, exercise and fitness, with “life” as the center, “injury to the liver, summer for the cold change, to serve the long person less. ” Suwen four qi tune Shen Da Lun” also has: “against the spring, the less Yang is not born, the liver within the change.”