Solar term health 10 Wang Guowei

Spring grows in summer and autumn is harvested in winter. China people's food, clothing, housing and transportation are all made with the seasons and flow with the years.

In 2020, Life Times launched a series of "24 solar terms health calendar" with the four seasons as the course, which lasted 365 days a year and synchronized with the seasons.

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In the year of Gengzi, Mao Yiyue became the rising sun.

Spring comes and the epidemic goes, and everything can be expected.

"New green weeds and exotic flowers and grasses by the water"

It is recorded in The Vernal Equinox: The Rise and Fall of Yin and Yang in the Han Dynasty: "As for the mid-spring moon, the yang is in the east and the yin is in the west, which is called the vernal equinox. The vernal equinox is half yin and half yang. Therefore, it is hot and cold all day long. "

Spring is over half, and after the cold spring, the warm and beautiful spring scenery has begun to stir. Because of an epidemic, it is difficult for us to go out to explore spring, but we might as well open an extra window to let spring in and cure all the diseases.

Everything grows and the epidemic dissipates.

The vernal equinox is the most vigorous season for all things. The crops in the field grow rapidly and the metabolism of the human body is gradually accelerated. The vernal equinox brings us not only beautiful scenery, but also upward vitality.

With the "clearing" of cases in many places, the domestic epidemic has achieved a staged victory. A spring breeze blows, everything is thriving, and the dawn is ahead.

The vernal equinox preserves health and harmonizes yin and yang.

Chinese medicine believes that at the vernal equinox, the rising Yang Qi and the falling Yin Qi gradually coordinate, averaging day and night, and balancing yin and yang. Health care should focus on reconciling yin and yang. Coordinate the operation of qi and blood of zang-fu organs with physical functions such as mental and physical strength.

In the year of Gengzi, Mao Yiyue became the rising sun.

Three meanings of vernal equinox

Hot food

The ancients believed that "vernal equinox, yin and yang dichotomy, day and night are uniform, cold and summer are flat." During the vernal equinox, the diet should be moderate, with cold and heat, and with meat and vegetables.

For example, when cooking bean sprouts, fungus and other vegetables, add some onion and ginger isothermal ingredients; When eating spicy leeks and Toona sinensis, fry them with eggs.

Comb hair

At the vernal equinox, the yang of nature and human body is on the rise, the pores are stretched and the metabolism is vigorous. Combing hair can stimulate many acupoints on the head, make the yang in the body rise comfortably, and dredge meridians and qi and blood. Has effects in nourishing hair, strengthening brain and hearing, dispelling pathogenic wind, improving eyesight, and preventing and treating headache.

Rub one's nose

As the saying goes, "a hundred herbs germinate, and old diseases germinate", and the vernal equinox is the period of high incidence of allergies. Rubbing Xiang Ying point on both sides of the alar (near the midpoint of the alar outer edge and in the nasolabial groove) every day is helpful to prevent the recurrence of asthma, rhinitis and other old diseases.

In the year of Gengzi, Mao Yiyue became the rising sun.

Vernal Equinox and Three Taboos

Spring fatigue

When the weather gets warmer, the blood vessels and pores of the skin gradually relax, the function of the circulatory system is strengthened, and the blood supply to the brain is relatively reduced, which makes people sleepy.

Going to bed early and getting up early, taking a proper nap, and regularly massaging the temples to bask in the sun are also helpful to relieve spring sleepiness.

cold

The vernal equinox is also the dividing line between early cold and early warm. As the temperature rises, strong convective weather also begins to increase. Especially in the north, the weather is hot and cold, and the difference in one day may be 6~ 10 degrees Celsius, so you should take shelter from the wind and keep out the cold when you go out.

Dust mite

Spring is the season of high incidence of respiratory diseases and infectious diseases, and dust mites accumulated at home are likely to bring harm to the body.

Choose a good day for cleaning, first open the window for ventilation, and use a wet sweep to prevent dust. Thoroughly clean the sanitary corner under the bed and sofa, and take the bedding and other fabrics outdoors to dry.

From the date of the vernal equinox, the night gradually fades away. Looking around the world, spring scenery is everywhere, and everything comes as scheduled.

The chill of spring has passed, the epidemic will eventually disperse, and all diseases will be cured by spring.

The sun leaves us more time to chase the light, and the days will become brighter and brighter. ▲

Interviewed experts

Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine affiliated to Capital Medical University, Li Qiangou, a famous old Chinese doctor.

Peng Yuqing, Standing Committee Member of Sub-health Professional Committee of China Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Wang Guowei, chief physician of Digestion Center of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.