The four seasons of health – spring health The characteristics of spring: Yang Qi is born, everything begins to grow The five elements of spring: wood The physiological characteristics of wood: “wood is said to be curved and straight”, that is, upward growth and outward expansion, with the characteristics of growth, rise and development, strip up, relaxation 2, the five organs of spring The physiological characteristics of the liver: “The liver is the official of the extreme”. Zhang Zhongai, Department of Geriatrics, Nanjing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Spring Health – Emotions and Wills The liver is the spirit of anger, and it likes to be well regulated but not depressed. At the same time, we should make full use of and cherish the time of spring when nature “develops”, taking advantage of the rising of Yang energy, the rise of everything, and the vigorous metabolism of the human body, so that the spring Yang energy can be declared and the metabolic function can operate normally through proper regulation. Spring health – diet “against its nature, so bitter, so its nature, so desire. The desire is the good of the god of the organ, that is, the tonic. Bitterness is the evil of the God of this organ, that is, diarrhea.” Su Wen? The law of hidden qi time says: “The liver is the main spring, …… liver want to disperse, urgent food pungent to disperse the, with pungent tonic, acid diarrhea.” In the relationship between the five organs and the five tastes, the sour taste into the liver, with astringent nature, is not conducive to the growth of Yang Qi and liver Qi drainage, dietary regimen should be invested in the internal organs of the good. In terms of diet, we should take into account the initial growth of Yang energy in spring, so it is advisable to eat pungent and sweet products, and not acidic and astringent flavors. The food should be pungent, warm and dispersing, such as dates, edamame, green onions, cilantro and peanuts. Spring health – living Suwen? The Four Energies of the Spirit: “In March, this is the month of spring. The earth and the sky are all alive, and all things are glorious. Sleep at night and get up early, walk widely in the court, be hair and walk slowly, so that the will is born, born and do not kill, with and do not take away, reward and do not punish. This is the spring response.” In early spring, the weather changes from cold to warm, and various disease-causing bacteria and viruses grow and multiply, and warm and poisonous evil begins to move, so that influenza, influenza, measles, scarlet fever and pneumonia, as modern medicine calls them, also occur and are prevalent. The characteristics of summer: the weather is getting hotter, the Yang energy is strong, and plants are flourishing. 1, the five elements of summer: fire The characteristics of fire: “fire is said to be hot”, that is, warm, rising, with warmth, rising, activity, rising. 2.The five organs of summer: Heart The physiological characteristics of the heart: “The heart is the official of the ruler”, the heart is the master of blood and the heart harbors the spirit. Summer Health – Emotion and Spirit Suwen? According to the “Treatise on the Four Energies of the Gods”, “In the month of summer, the month of March is called the month of prosperity; heaven and earth are in harmony, and all things are in full bloom. The summer month of March refers to the period from the beginning of summer to the beginning of autumn, when the weather is warming up and plants are flourishing. Suwen? The four qi tune Shen Da Lun said: “so that the will without anger, so that Huaying into the show, so that the gas can be released, if the love of the outside, this summer gas should be, the way to nurture the long”. That is to say, the summer should be clear and broad-minded, as everything needs sunlight to grow, to have a strong interest in the outside world, to develop an optimistic and outgoing personality, in order to facilitate the flow of qi. Jikang “health theory” on the hot summer has its unique views, that the summer heat, “more appropriate to regulate the quiet mind, often as ice and snow in the heart, the heat is also in my heart less reduction, can not be hot for hot, rejuvenated hot carry on.” That is, “the heart is quiet and naturally cool”, here is the summer health method of spiritual conditioning. Summer health – living Summer heat, “summer is easy to hurt the gas” if sweating too much, people dizzy chest, palpitations and thirst, nausea and even coma; summer heat, the coup open, vulnerable to wind, cold and moisture. Should 1, in line with the changes in the natural world Yang Sheng Yin decay, it is appropriate to sleep late and get up early. 2, arrangements for outdoor work and physical exercise, should avoid the scorching heat of the sun, strengthen protection. 3. It is not advisable to send wind to fans during sleep, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor rooms with air conditioning should not be too large, and it is not advisable to sleep in the open at night. Summer health – exercise Summer exercise should not do overly strenuous activities, if the exercise is too aggressive, can lead to sweating, sweating too much, not only hurt Yin, but also appropriate loss of Yang. In the process of exercise, sweating too much, can be appropriate to drink light salt water or mung bean salt water soup, do not drink a lot of cold water, not immediately with cold water shower, shower, otherwise it will cause cold damp paralysis, yellow sweat and other diseases. Summer health – diet “Suwen? Zang Qi Fa Shi Lun” said: the heart of the summer, “the heart bitter slow, anxious to eat acid to collect”, “the heart wants X, anxious to eat salty to X of, with salty supplement, sweet diarrhea”. In summer, the heart fire when the order, Chinese medicine believes that it is appropriate to eat more sour taste to solidify the table, eat more salty taste to replenish the heart. From the perspective of yin and yang, the summer month of volatile yin within the diet should not be too cold, such as heart and kidney failure, that is, the external heat within the cold meaning, because of its external heat within the cold, so cold food should not eat more, less is still possible, greedy more will definitely be cold injury to the spleen and stomach, people vomit and diarrhea. Watermelon, mung bean soup, plum bean soup, although for quenching thirst and summer heat of the good, but should not be chilled food. The four seasons of health – autumn to raise the characteristics of autumn: Yang Qi began to collect, Yin Qi gradually long 1, the five elements of autumn properties: gold gold properties: “gold said from the leather”, that is, convergence, sinking, stable, with clean, purging, astringent role. 2, the five organs of the autumn attribution: the lungs The physiological characteristics of the lungs: “the officer of the phase Fu”, the lungs are the main gas, the Division of respiration. Autumn health – nourish the harvest “Guanzi” in the record: “Autumn is the beginning of Yin down, so everything is collected.” The climate of autumn is the transition from hot to cool, and is also a period when the yang energy is gradually collected and the yin energy grows, gradually changing from yang to yin, and is the season when everything is ripe for harvesting, and is also a transitional period when the yin and yang metabolism of the human body appears to be yang and yin. Therefore, autumn health care, all spiritual and emotional, diet and exercise, all to nourish the principle of harvest. The lung is weak, the body’s tolerance to adverse stimuli decreases, and it is easy to have the emotion of sadness, so in the self-cultivation must not deviate from the laws of nature, following the outline of the ancients “to make the will peaceful, in order to slow the autumn punishment, astringent spirit, so that This is the way to raise the lungs, and the way to maintain the harvest of autumn. In the spiritual conditioning: to achieve inner tranquility, tranquility, mood, avoid sadness and sadness, to avoid the slaughter of the gas, but also to convergence of the qi, to adapt to the autumn gas, autumn health – living In the living conditioning: the season of autumn is already high in the sky, should begin to “early sleep Early to sleep in order to comply with the convergence of Yang Qi, early to get up so that the lung gas can be stretched, and prevent the convergence of too much. Autumn is the season of early autumn, the summer heat is not yet over, and the weather is unpredictable. Therefore, you should not dress too much, otherwise it will affect the body’s ability to adapt to the cold climate, easy to catch a cold. Autumn health – diet The Suwen? Dirty qi law time theory” said: “the lung is the main autumn …… lung astringent, urgent food acid to collect it, with acid supplementation, pungent diarrhea”. It can be seen that the sour taste astringent lung gas, pungent taste dispersing diarrhea lung, autumn should be collected should not be dispersed, so try to eat less onions, ginger and other pungent products, appropriate to eat more sour fruits and vegetables. In autumn, the lung gold is in order, the lung gold is too vigorous to grasp the liver wood, so the “Golden Mystery” and “autumn does not eat lung” said. Autumn dryness when the order, easy to hurt the fluid, so the diet should be nourishing Yin lung as appropriate. Drinking food is about to say: “autumn dryness, it is appropriate to eat hemp to moisten its dryness, prohibit cold drinks. Some even advocate that it is appropriate to eat raw earth porridge in autumn to nourish Yin and moisten dryness. In short, in autumn, you can eat sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, loquat, pineapple, dairy products and other soft and moist food to benefit the stomach and produce fluid. The four seasons of health – winter nourishing Tibet The characteristics of winter: Yang Qi, hidden, latent vitality The five elements of winter: water The characteristics of water: “water is said to run down”, that is, nourishing, downward, cold, with nourishing, cold, downward running role. 2, the five organs of the winter attribution: kidney The physiological characteristics of the kidney: “for the strong official”, the kidney stores essence, the kidney is the master of gas, the kidney is the master of water, kidney reproduction, etc.. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine? Suwen? The four qi tune Shen Da Lun” pointed out: “in March, this is called closed Tibet, water ice ground chap, no disturbance to the Yang, sleep in the morning and get up at night, must wait for daylight, so that the will if the ambush if hidden, if there is a private intention, if there is a gain, go to the cold on the temperature, no drainage of the skin, so that the gas is taken away, this winter gas should be, the way to nourish Tibet. Adverse is injured kidney, spring for impotence and convulsions, the less the people who serve life.” This scripture is an incisive discussion of spiritual, living and dietary regimen, and introduces the principles of human winter health according to the changes in nature, which tells us that winter is the season when the sky is cold, the earth is chaparral, all the trees are withered, and the vitality is latent and hidden. Therefore, winter health care should follow the law of nature’s closed storage, to converge Yin and protect Yang as the fundamental. Winter health – emotion and will In the spiritual conditioning to do “…… make the will if the ambush if hidden, if there is a private intention, if to have to get” to strive for its quiet, control the activities of the emotion and will, keep the mental emotional tranquility The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get the best out of their own personal life. In winter, we should not disturb the yang energy and destroy the physiological function of yin and yang transformation in the human body. As “in winter time, heaven and earth are closed, blood is hidden, people should not work and sweat to release yang energy.” Therefore, early to bed and late to rise, sunrise and work, to ensure sufficient sleep, conducive to the Yang Qi hidden, Yin essence accumulation. The clothing is too little and too thin, the room temperature is too low that is easy to catch a cold and consume Yang Qi. On the contrary, too much clothing is too thick, the room temperature is too high, the coup d’état, Yang Qi is not hidden, the cold is easy to invade. winter health – diet diet regimen to follow the “autumn and winter yin” “no disturbance to the Yang” “deficiency of the tonic, the cold warm “the ancient tradition, with the four seasons of climate change and adjust the diet. Yuan Dynasty Khu Si Hui by the “Drinking Meals About” said: “…… winter gas cold, it is appropriate to eat millet to heat to cure its cold.” That is to say, eat less cold, but also should not be manic heat, targeted consumption of some nourishing Yin submerged Yang, higher calorie meal is appropriate, but also to eat more fresh vegetables to avoid vitamin deficiency, such as: beef and mutton, chicken, carp, drink more soy milk, milk, eat more radish, green vegetables, tofu, fungus, etc.