“Winter March, this is said to be closed, water ice chap ground, no disturbance to the sun”, the internal scripture that the winter need to be closed to supplement the kidney, cultivate the fundamentals of a good year, the next year can be rooted in deep leaves, strong body, why is winter a good time to supplement the kidneys? Kidney for the innate nature of this, hidden innate essence, both about life, but also about health, so the kidneys can not not be maintained. According to the theory of the five elements, winter water is strong, into the kidney, so winter is the main time by the kidney, winter is also a good time to nourish the kidneys. (This theory can also be extended to other organs: spring nourishes the liver, summer nourishes the heart, long summer nourishes the spleen, fall nourishes the lungs.) In winter, yang qi is hidden in the kidneys, and nourishing the kidneys means nourishing the hidden yang qi, so that it will not be used up in any way. Anatomically, the kidneys are located in the lumbar region, one on each side. However, the kidney in Chinese medicine is not entirely anatomical in the sense of the kidneys, but also includes the brain, medulla oblongata, reproduction, hematopoietic, immune system of some organs and functions. First, the kidneys can not be injured, the injury will be serious If you need to nourish the kidneys, you must first understand what situations will hurt the kidneys. In particular, we need to know how to take care of our health and pay attention to it, otherwise some wrong behavioral habits will damage the kidney essence. For one thing, physical and mental overwork depletes kidney essence. The essence stored in the kidneys is not only from the essence of the parents, but also from the essence transported by the spleen and stomach. If you are physically and mentally exhausted, the essence of both heaven and earth will be injured. Excessive physical exertion is initially detrimental to yang, and then detrimental to essence. Such as marathon running, triathlon and other sports are overly depleted kidney yang and kidney essence, not conducive to health. The camp in the fame and fortune, mental and spiritual exhaustion, also hurt the kidney essence. The kidney is the main marrow, the brain is the sea of the marrow, if too much brain labor, the gradual injury to the sea of the marrow, which is also injurious to the kidneys. Most of the time we fitness purpose is for health. Therefore, fitness should be moderate, not excessive. Generally speaking, exercise can generate yang, when it is cold, a move will be warmer, but if excessive exercise, not only will not generate yang, on the contrary, it will deplete the yang, then the more you move the colder it will be. If the repeated and continuous large number of sports, yang injury to a certain extent, it will damage the kidney essence. Do not see those marathon, Tour de France cycling athletes are all thin, that is, excessive exercise, depletion of kidney essence signs. Fame and fortune can not not pursue, but also need to be measured. If the excessive pursuit of fame and fortune, so that the mind and spirit fatigue, although the fame and fortune and kidney essence is also injured, the opposite is not beautiful. Moreover, even with fame and fortune, also need a healthy body to enjoy the joy of success. Otherwise, health is no longer, more fame and fortune and how much sense? Secondly, the phase fire, disturbing the kidney essence. See beautiful and evil thoughts, or watching pornography, or thinking about lust, that will lead to phase fire, disturbing the essence of the Palace, although not see the injury, but the dark consumption of kidney essence, the most unfavorable to health. Moreover, see the wealth and status of others envy, which is common sense, but also the driving force of life. However, if you are immersed in envy and do not know how to control it, then it is also a phase of fire. Therefore, young people need to work hard to cultivate positive thoughts, peace of mind, stop evil thoughts, cultivate a vast and righteous, natural phase fire does not move. In addition, if the phase fire can not be restrained, you can eat some bitter food or Chinese medicine, such as bitter melon, coffee, Huanglian, Scutellaria baicalensis and so on. Bitter can firm kidney yin, but also can diarrhea heart fire, both can clear fire, but also can tonify the kidney. Thirdly, excessive sexual intercourse, the dark depletion of kidney essence. If you have moderation in sexual intercourse, you will be able to refresh yourself and be healthy. If the house is overworked, the most injurious kidney essence, and even short life and death. Ancient people have long had a clear message: drunkenness can not enter the room, dramatic changes in the weather can not enter the room, the four seasons of the seasonal changes in the day can not enter the room. If you want to enjoy the moment and do not know how to hold and maintain, the injury to the kidney loss of essence, it is too late to regret. Especially in winter, yang qi convergence in the kidney water. At this time, if excessive intercourse, so that the convergence of the kidney essence leakage, young or do not feel its injury, but feel its pleasure. Or long time consumption of essence, after middle age, that is the rapid emergence of kidney failure, or mental weakness, or memory loss, or hair early spotting, or lumbar and knee weakness, or cold hands and feet, etc., are all signs of injury to the kidney essence. Fourth, long-term disease and kidney, from the surface into the inside. Evil attack, the first is in the surface, mostly belong to the three yang, if the positive qi resistance is insufficient, then the evil will sink into the three yin level. Alternatively, if there is insufficient yang qi in the Shaoyin, the evil qi may enter the Shaoyin directly from the Sun. The hand Shaoyin belongs to the heart and the foot Shaoyin belongs to the kidney. When evil enters the Shaoyin, it either enters the Heart or the Kidneys. If it enters the heart, it will cause panic and anxiety; if it enters the kidneys, it will make the waist soft and the urine will be cloudy. Moreover, if the positive energy is sufficient, the disease is still light and can be cured quickly; if the positive energy is weak and the disease does not go away for a long time, and gradually enters the kidney, the symptoms will be aggravated and difficult to be cured. Evil into the kidneys, it will damage the kidney gas; and the kidney essence is not enough, it is weak to get rid of the evil, resulting in difficult to heal, so the formation of a vicious circle, the long term will fall into the incurable. Second, the way to nourish the kidneys and replenish the kidneys First, the kidneys are salty in taste. Salt hurts the kidney. Too salty diet will damage the kidney essence, resulting in essence loss in the lower, and false fire upward, that is, into hypertension, stroke and other diseases. After the fracture need to avoid salt, because the kidney is the main bone, bone has been fractured that can not hurt the kidney. By extension, all bone diseases, including bone tuberculosis, bone cancer, osteoporosis, etc., need to avoid salt or less salt, so that the treatment effect is good. Even if you have not yet seen kidney injury, you need less salt in your diet. Modern research suggests that each person should not eat more than six grams of salt per day, this amount is not easy to grasp, but always need to pay attention to not eat too salty food. Some people say, if the food or soup is too salty, then I add some water and finish it, will it be better. This actually does not make sense, because the salt into the body is not less. The most important thing is to avoid salt, need to eat a light diet, slowly adjusted, and with the drink grain porridge, can be cured. And, all of the kidney disease, such as all kinds of acute or chronic nephritis, renal failure, renal hypogonadism, etc., need to avoid salt to cure. If you can’t avoid salt, light condition is lingering difficult to heal, heavy lead to unforeseen consequences. Modern research: hypertension, heart disease patients can not eat too salty, otherwise it will aggravate the burden on the heart, in fact, this is also the embodiment of salty injury to the kidneys. Chinese medicine believes that if the evil into the kidneys, its symptoms are mostly manifested as abdominal distension, swelling of the lower limbs, heavy body, sleepy, bone pain. Furthermore, if the kidney yin deficiency, it is manifested as dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, forgetfulness, lumbar and knee weakness, hot flashes and night sweats, zygomatic redness and dry mouth, dizziness and tinnitus, spermatorrhea, women’s dream intercourse and other symptoms; if it is a deficiency of the kidney yang, it is manifested as mental fatigue, lumbar and knee pain and weakness, cold limbs and cold, urination, impotence spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation of sperm, women’s uterine cold infertility and other symptoms. All such symptoms, need to pay attention to eat less or not eat salt, so as not to excessive injury to the kidney, affecting the recovery of the condition. Chinese medicine believes that: sweet is better than salty. Sweet can alleviate the effect of salty kidney diarrhea. Kidney deficiency people, may be appropriate to eat some taste sweet color black things, can use the effect of sweet over salty to achieve the effect of kidney. In fact, “black five types” and other kidney food is mostly sweet. Secondly, the kidney in the will for fear. Fear will hurt the kidneys. Fear is the gas down. People encounter fear, often appear lower limbs, almost can not stand up, and even incontinence, which is fear of injury to the kidney performance. The kidneys are not easy to maintain, and efforts need to be made to avoid injuring the kidneys. Therefore, things that are prone to fear need to be avoided as much as possible. For example, do not walk alone at night. Night is yin, especially in the mountains and forests at night, if the human body is not enough yang, it is easy to be attacked by the yin of the night and get sick. If there are ghosts and monsters in your heart, walking at night will scare yourself and hurt your kidneys and essence. Especially at night, a person passes through the cemetery, the most of the kidney is a taboo. Some people are afraid of heights, if you stand in a high place and look down, your lower limbs will be weak. So try not to stand too high to look down, so as not to hurt the kidneys due to fear. For example, hundreds of meters on the Pearl of the Orient, fear of heights is most inappropriate to go. Horror movies are very popular, I can not understand. Scare yourself so much that you do not dare to turn off the lights and sleep, do not dare to stay alone in the house, why is it necessary. Watching a horror movie will form a horror memory for many years, every darkness or sleep alone will be afraid, so it will make the kidney essence has been secretly depleted. Some people like to listen to ghost stories and even tell ghost stories. Frightened others in a daze, they feel very exciting, do not know because of listening to ghost stories and fear in the heart, so can also hurt the kidneys hurt essence. Confucius why “not talk about the strange and chaotic God”, I think the strange and chaotic God belongs to the false things, both hurt the kidney, but also not conducive to the life of the enterprising, why say it. Some people like to scare others, first hidden in a corner, waiting for people to come over, suddenly jumped out to scare people; or, wearing the clothes of ghosts and monsters in the night jumped out to scare people; and even medical school students lying in the autopsy room, multiplied by the people who come to study in the sudden sitting up to scare people, so on and so forth, in order to seek stimulation for their own damage to the essence of the kidneys of other people, it is very undeserved. People suffer from fear, the light is not the mind and panic palpitations, the heavy is the bile broken kidney deficiency and lead to coma, death. Chinese medicine believes that: thinking is better than fear. We still remember the parable of the bow and the shadow of the snake, this is a case of thinking over fear. If you understand it, you won’t be afraid. Third, the kidney in the liquid for saliva. Saliva is produced by the essence of the kidneys. Saliva can help to warm the kidneys. Usually leisure can gently buckle teeth 72 times, and then the tongue in the mouth of the left and right each stirring 12 times, slowly will produce saliva. And then divided into three small mouth slowly swallowed, with the intention of the saliva into the dantian. This is the best way to nourish the body and helps digestion. Spitting is a bad habit, and spitting indiscriminately is both unhygienic and injurious to kidney energy. Saliva not spit can nourish kidney qi, spit is hurt kidney. The ancients said: far spit far hurt, near spit near hurt, not spit not hurt. When I was young and ignorant, I competed with the children to see who spit far away. Now think, this is not a good competition, at least will hurt the kidney. Just children’s kidney qi healthy, do not realize its injury. Moreover, from the Chinese medicine point of view, far saliva loss of gas, more saliva loss of God. Because saliva is the fluid of the kidneys, because the heart is the master of God, the essence can be transformed into gas to produce God, so more saliva far saliva will lead to the loss of Yin essence in the kidneys, that is, the loss of gas, the loss of God. Saliva and phlegm is different, if there is phlegm in the mouth, you need to spit out, this has nothing to do with spit saliva. Fourth, the kidney is black in color. Black nourishes the kidneys. Chinese folk have “black must be complementary” argument that black food has anti-aging, health care, longevity, prevention, treatment, hair beauty and other unique effects, in fact, is the embodiment of black into the kidney. Nourish the kidney, you can eat more black food, such as black beans, black sesame, black dates, black rice, black fungus class black five types of food. And then the Chinese medicine in the black more kidney astringent kidney effect, such as ripened earth, mulberry, antler gelatin, the system of He Shouwu, and so on. In addition, black chocolate also has the function of kidney. Modern research suggests that it can antioxidant, probably also the effect of kidney performance. And that the darker the chocolate, the higher the cocoa content, the stronger its antioxidant effect, especially valuable is completely sugar-free pure cocoa bar. In addition, in Europe, supermarkets sell blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, etc. to do the juice drink, its color black, its taste sweet, have a good effect on the kidneys. The black bone of chicken with its bone color black, into the kidney, with black bone chicken stew, the most can tonic kidney essence. There is an ancient medicine, Wu Ji Bai Feng Pills, which has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and regulating menstruation.