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Winter health care knowledge of the elderly

Health preservation in winter has a good effect on the human body. For the elderly, health preservation in winter is more important. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that health preservation in winter should collect Yin, protect Yang, and conserve energy for the coming year. In order to make the elderly safely spend the cold winter, elderly friends can refer to the following health preservation methods.

1. Strengthen exercise and enhance physique. Traditional Chinese medicine has always said that Qi is better than food. Move in winter, less illness; If you are lazy in winter, drink more medicine. Qi tonic or movement is movement. The simple and easy method is: knock your teeth about 50 times in the morning or before going to bed, rotate your tongue about 5 times in the mouth, rinse with drum about 40 times, and swallow body fluid into the Dantian twice or three times. After adjusting your breath and calming down, practice the word blowing skill about 40 times. When inhaling, lift your hands up to your chest after passing through your waist and shrug your shoulders. When exhaling, read and blow words (without making a sound), lift your anus and close your abdomen, grasp your toes, drop your hands from your chest to your knees, and bend your knees and squat. Then, climb your feet with both hands, stand or straighten your legs, press the back of your feet or grab your toes with both hands, stop for a while, and do it repeatedly and slowly for about 10 times. Rub your waist 50-100 times, and finally walk backwards for about half an hour. You can also learn to play taijiquan, clapping, dredging meridians, etc; Or do jogging, walking, water skiing, rope skipping, ball games and other sports.

2. The law of life, daily life often "Su Wen & middot; great theory of four Qi regulating spirit" contains: lie down early in winter and March and get up late, you must stay in the sun. Go to bed early to nourish the Yang of the human body and maintain a warm body; Get up late to nourish milk gas and do it at sunrise to avoid severe cold and seek warmth. Modern medicine also believes that people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay attention to cold prevention. For example, coronary heart disease is easy to induce angina pectoris and myocardial infarction due to cold. Clothes should be warm, loose and soft. Keep your feet warm. Wash your feet with warm water before going to bed and rub the soles of your feet 100-200 times to tonify the kidney and brain. In short, in winter, it is appropriate to cultivate Tibet, strengthen the kidney and help Yin, so as to comply with nature. Keep warm and keep fit.

3. Diet adjustment is scientific and reasonable. The kidney controls the salty taste, and the heart controls the bitter taste. Salty can overcome bitterness. Therefore, the taste of diet in winter should be reduced and bitter, so as to supplement the heart qi and strengthen the kidney qi. Diet should be warm, but not overheated. Avoid eating cold and sticky food to prevent damage to the spleen and stomach. As the saying goes: don't be hollow in winter, don't be full in summer. Therefore, you can simmer ginger and take a little in the morning to drive out the wind and keep out the cold. Also pay attention to the intake of vitamin A, vitamin B2 and vitamin C, and eat carrots, rape, spinach, mung bean sprouts, jujube, walnut kernel, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that food is better than medicine. People with Yin deficiency should eat more mutton, chicken and goose to supplement deficiency, replenish qi, nourish stomach and generate fluid.

In winter, the day is short, the night is long and the sun is weak. You should exercise outdoors to make up for the lack of sunlight. Activity in cold air can enhance nerve regulation function, improve hematopoietic function and resistance, but exercise should not sweat to prevent colds. Avoid exercising in bad weather such as strong wind, fog, rain and snow.