What are the ways to maintain health in winter

Winter consists of six seasons: winter, snow, snow, winter solstice, small cold and big cold, which is the coldest season of the year. The wind in winter is the north wind, which is cold in nature. “Cold” is the main feature of winter climate change. China’s yang qi on the earth into the stage of hiding, Chinese medicine believes that the arrival of this festival is yang qi latent, yin qi, withered grass and trees, hibernating insects, all things tend to rest, to hibernate state, to maintain vitality for the next spring vigorously in preparation. Winter in the five organs should be kidney, “winter does not hide the essence of the spring will be sick temperature. Nutrition should also comply with the law of “storage of Yang Qi”, that is, the so-called tonic kidney hidden essence, to maintain the essence of the spring for the next year, there is enough power to lay a good foundation. Winter is a cold day, all trees wither, the vitality of the latent closed season, the body’s yang qi is also with the transformation of nature and latent in the inner. Therefore, winter health care should comply with the law of nature closed, in order to converge yin and protect Yang as the fundamental. Hidden yang includes living, eating and even emotional aspects, people’s state should be like a cocoon chrysalis, to maintain physical and mental calm, reduce the publicity, to maintain the essence of the spring waiting for the right climate to break out of the cocoon. If the winter leakage of yang, spring prone to plague. Winter due to the human body Yang Qi closed after the body’s metabolism is correspondingly low, and therefore rely on the prime mover of life “kidney” to play a role in ensuring that life activities to adapt to changes in the natural world. Kidney function is normal, can regulate the body to adapt to the severe winter changes, otherwise, that will make the metabolism dysfunction and produce disease. Therefore, the winter health is very important point is “kidney cold”. Points of winter health: 1, mental conditioning in the mental conditioning to do to strive for its quiet, control of emotional activities, to maintain the tranquility of the spirit and emotions, contain but not show, avoid disturbances, so that the body can be hidden Yang Qi. Winter by the use of fireplaces, heating, dry climate and other aspects of the impact, people are prone to “fire”, emotions are also prone to change. 2, dietary regimen The basic principle of dietary regimen in winter should be to “hide heat” as the main, according to traditional Chinese medicine, “autumn and winter yin” “no disturbance to the sun”. The principle of “deficiency is complementary, the cold is warm”, in the winter dietary principles should eat more warm, hot, especially warm tonic kidney yang food to adjust mileage, in order to improve the body’s ability to withstand the cold. 3, living health care in the cold winter, do not disturb the yang and destroy the body’s yin and yang conversion of physiological functions. Early to bed to raise human yang qi, keep warm body. Sunrise and do, in order to avoid the cold, seek warmth, in terms of sleep, sleep is best at about 21:00, the latest but 22:00. Therefore, early to bed and late to rise, sunrise (especially for the elderly), to ensure adequate sleep, is conducive to yang qi latent, yin essence accumulation. 4, exercise to strengthen the body As the saying goes: “move a winter, less a disease. Lazy in winter, lazy, drink a bowl of medicine.” Chinese medicine has always been as good as the gas complement said, it has been proved that more participation in outdoor activities in winter, so that the body is subject to appropriate cold stimulation, make up for the lack of sunlight, get up in the winter with cool water to wash hands, wash your face, which is beneficial to the body, can be “aroused by yang qi” to enhance the resistance to cold.