How to maintain health after Frost Descent? Keeping warm and nourishing the stomach is the key

Frost Descent is the last solar term in autumn and a transition period from autumn to winter. Cold air often invades at this time, causing the temperature to drop sharply. At this time, you should be cautious in both diet and exercise. So, how to maintain health after Frost Descent?

Diet: mainly clean and nourishing

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this season belongs to the "gold" in the five elements, corresponding to the lungs. Therefore, the diet and health care at this time is suitable for "balanced nourishment", mainly to keep warm, moisten dryness, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. Suitable foods include pears, apples, olives, ginkgo, onions, mustard greens, etc. These foods have the effects of promoting body fluid and moistening dryness, clearing heat and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and relieving asthma, and strengthening the kidneys and lungs. At this time, you should eat less cold food and pay attention to keeping your stomach warm to avoid causing diseases.

It is recommended to eat more pumpkin. Pumpkin is rich in carotene, which will be converted into vitamin A in the human body, and vitamin A has the function of protecting the respiratory tract and upper respiratory tract mucosa.

Disease prevention: Keep your lower limbs warm

Experts remind that the temperature drops rapidly after the Frost Descent, which is the peak period for respiratory diseases. To prevent these diseases, we should first keep warm, especially the lower limbs; secondly, we should strengthen physical exercise.

Patients with gastrointestinal diseases, hypertension and cerebral arteriosclerosis should pay special attention, avoid strenuous exercise, maintain emotional stability and a good mood, and try to avoid being attacked by cold air.

Daily life: Get enough sleep, go to bed early and get up early

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "in spring and summer, we should nourish Yang, and in autumn and winter, we should nourish Yin." At the turn of autumn and winter, we should pay more attention to maintaining the Yin in our body. When the weather turns cold, it is the time when the Yang in the human body is restrained and the Yin essence is hidden inside. All daily life, emotions, and exercise should conform to the principle of "autumn harvest."

The best way to maintain health is to get enough sleep, go to bed early and get up early. Getting up early can make people wake up earlier, be energetic, and make the yang energy in the body smooth; going to bed early can facilitate the collection of yin essence.

Mental conditioning should not be neglected. One should calm down, be calm and happy, and avoid sadness. Especially for the middle-aged and elderly, one should be careful not to get angry, so as to avoid internal fire, loss of yin and fluid, and hyperactivity of liver yang, which can induce high blood pressure, stroke and other diseases.

Keep the indoor temperature appropriate, not too hot. If the indoor temperature is too different from the outdoor temperature, you will catch a cold easily. Keep the humidity appropriate. Viruses and bacteria are more likely to multiply in dry conditions, so keep the room moisturized. Put a basin of water in the bedroom, or mop it with a wet mop. Improve ventilation. Open the window for 15 minutes in the morning and evening. You can put some flowers and plants in the house, but don't put them in the bedroom at night.

Exercise: Don’t overexert yourself

After the Frost Descent, fog tends to gather in the morning, and frost may occur as the temperature drops. Therefore, the time for morning exercise can be postponed appropriately. It is best for the elderly to wait until the sun comes out or it is warmer to go out for exercise. If you are active, sweating, and feel hot, you should unbutton your clothes to let your body cool down slowly. Pay attention to the reasonable arrangement of movement and rest, and avoid overwork.

Be well prepared before each exercise, pay special attention to protecting the joints, and increase the range of motion of each joint after completing the regular warm-up exercises. The necessary warm-up exercises are ankle, knee and hip joint exercises. When exercising in the gym, the warm-up time should be appropriately extended, pay attention to the stretching of the ligaments, and do leg stretching, standing forward bends and other exercises when the body is hot.

When elderly people engage in outdoor sports, they must not overdo it and should not do exercises that require the knees to bend for long periods of time. They should try to reduce the load on the knee joints.

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Please keep these stomach-nourishing drinks

Coldness can cause great stimulation to the stomach. If you are not careful about your lifestyle and diet, you may develop gastrointestinal diseases or make stomach problems worse. Therefore, it is particularly important to nourish the stomach.

Stewed beef with radish (digestion and warming the stomach)

Beef is rich in nutrients, including protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron and B vitamins. It also warms the stomach and is a good choice for nourishing the body in autumn and winter. The combination of radish and beef can not only strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, but also drive away the cold.

Yam and pork ribs soup (nourishes the stomach and helps with sleep)

People who don't get enough rest at night often have poor gastrointestinal function. Fresh yam is rich in mucopolysaccharides and digestive substances, which are beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food by the gastrointestinal tract, and can also help insomniacs restore gastrointestinal function. Stew yam, red dates and spareribs together and add some wolfberry before serving. It is not only good for the spleen and stomach, but also can moisturize the skin. In addition, it is also good to use yam to make porridge or squeeze juice for drinking. It is rich in nutrition and can also calm the mind.

Barley and tangerine peel tea (relieves diarrhea)

Many people suffer from diarrhea in autumn, so you can make a cup of barley tea to relieve it. In addition, tangerine peel and hawthorn have the effects of soothing the liver and relieving depression, strengthening the stomach and digesting food, but people with bad stomachs are not suitable for eating hawthorn. It is recommended to make some tangerine peel to drink, which is warm in nature and has a good effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach.

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