Women keep in good health in winter and nourish their liver more
1. Keep warm
Women's body is cold, so they should eat less cold food, especially women who often have cold hands and feet, are easy to catch a cold and are in menstruation. Because the female reproductive system is afraid of the cold, once it catches the cold, it is easy to cause dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation. Therefore, in winter, women should pay attention to the warmth of their neck, abdomen and legs and add clothes in time. They should not ignore the bearing capacity of their body in order to pursue fashion and beauty.
2. Soak your feet every day to keep out the cold
Cold comes from the soles of the feet. Soaking your feet in winter can help women prevent cold and keep warm. Soak your feet in hot water at about 40 ℃ for 15-30 minutes before going to bed every day, which can not only relieve low back pain, but also promote sleep. The foot soaking water should not be too shallow. At least it should not be over the foot surface, and the effect will be better if it is soaked with the lower leg. Women who are afraid of cold should put on warm cotton socks to help keep their feet warm before going to bed at night. 3. Supplement meat appropriately
Dog meat, mutton, beef and venison contain protein, carbohydrates and fat, which are beneficial to kidney yang, moderate temperature, tonifying qi and activating blood circulation, and have a good effect of keeping out the cold. Eating these meat can accelerate the metabolism of the body with Yang deficiency and enhance the endocrine function, so as to prevent the cold. In addition, women can eat more jujube yam porridge, five color porridge and other porridge products. Soup meals such as Beiqi dangshen stewed mutton and radish spare ribs soup can warm blood gas, enhance physique and resistance; When cooking, put some spices such as ginger, pepper and pepper, which can produce heat and help the body resist the cold.
4. Focus on nourishing the liver
Women are blood-based and liver is congenital. For women, the importance of the liver is self-evident. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the liver is the official of the general, the main catharsis, and the nature likes strip and reaches but hates depression. The liver stores blood. It is determined to be angry. It enlightens the eyes and governs the tendons of the whole body. Therefore, anger hurts the liver. Gynecological problems such as eye related diseases, tendon related diseases and women's irregular menstruation are often related to the liver.
The physiological characteristics of the liver are 'main rise, initiative and dispersion'. How to nourish the liver? Mainly from the characteristics of liver. Liver belongs to wood in the five elements, so nourishing liver should first nourish yin, followed by nourishing blood. The liver is responsible for storing blood and regulating blood volume. If there is a problem with the blood supply in the body, the liver must be blamed, so nourishing the liver must nourish blood. Women can eat more onions, garlic, buckwheat, shepherd's purse, spinach, celery, chrysanthemum, lettuce, eggplant, horseshoe, cucumber, mushroom, etc.
Men keep in good health in winter and tonify the kidney
1. Do not steam sauna frequently
In winter, it's cold and windy. Taking a comfortable hot bath can not only warm but also relax the body. However, when the external temperature is as high as 50 ℃ - 70 ℃, it is very easy to destroy the growth environment of male sperm and even cause 'dead sperm'. Therefore, men should not frequently take hot water bath or sauna, but once a week. The temperature should be 37 ℃ - 41 ℃, 15-20 minutes each time, and the cumulative time per week should not exceed 30 minutes. Men with fertility requirements should not take a hot bath or sauna for half a year. 2. Exercise gently often
Cold weather is prone to diseases, which is related to heart and lung. Heart and lung health can reduce the incidence rate of autumn and winter. Appropriate moderate intensity exercise can improve cardiopulmonary function and enhance human immunity. Walking, swimming and jogging are good fitness exercises, which can help men maintain their heart and lungs and increase their resistance in autumn and winter.
3. Eat less cold food
In winter, men should eat more warm food and less cold food to take care of their stomach qi. Garlic, green onion, ginger, star anise, fennel and other spicy foods and products. Eating more food will help dryness hurt Yin, which will aggravate internal heat and make dryness evil invade the human body. It is not suitable to eat more. Men should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamin C, such as Kiwi fruit and oranges. Dog meat and mutton are warm and tonic meat, which can be supplemented appropriately.
4. Pay attention to tonifying the kidney
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney has the functions of storing essence, controlling growth, development, reproduction and water metabolism, which is known as the 'congenital foundation'. Kidney deficiency and essence loss is one of the important factors causing visceral dysfunction and diseases. Therefore, health practitioners take nourishing the kidney as an important measure of anti-aging and anti-aging.
Medical research shows that if men have kidney deficiency and do not tonify the kidney in time, they are likely to cause a variety of concurrent symptoms, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema and hypertension. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that 'coronary heart disease' is also mainly caused by heart pulse stasis and deficiency of heart and kidney. Chronic diarrhea in the elderly is closely related to deficiency of spleen and kidney yang; Kidney deficiency can also cause benign prostatic hyperplasia (hypertrophy). In addition, diabetes, chronic nephritis and so on are also related to 'kidney deficiency'.