How to maintain health in spring

Spring is the time when all things come back to life, and it is also the time when people need to pay more attention. Maintaining health is a very important thing in this season, so we must do a good job of health preservation in spring. We usually have many ways to maintain health, and the effects are also good. The main thing is to choose the method of health preservation according to your own situation. How to maintain health in spring? Let’s take a look at it together below.

In spring, buds begin to sprout, everything comes back to life, the days grow longer, the sun shines brightly, and everything begins to renew itself. Farmers’ proverbs say it well: “Rains arrive at the beginning of spring, so get up early and go to bed late”; “A year’s plan begins in spring.”

1. Relaxing muscles, protecting liver and strengthening legs. The liver governs the tendons, so relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation are important methods to protect the liver. The steps are as follows:

Dry cleaning legs: Hold one thigh tightly with both hands, rub it down to the ankle with a little force, and then rub it back to the thigh. It can prevent varicose veins, edema and muscle atrophy in the lower limbs. “Rubbing the calf: Use both palms to hold one side of the calf (knee muscles) tightly and rub it in a circular motion. This can strengthen the muscles and prevent calf cramps and muscle atrophy.

2. Spring supine posture adjustment method for liver care

In spring, it is better to go to bed early and get up early, and sleep with your head facing east to conform to the natural energy. Just do it once a day before going to bed. The method is to lie on your back with your head to the east and your feet to the west, press your tongue upwards, close your mouth and eyes, and gargle 30 times to gradually increase the saliva in your mouth. When your mouth is full of saliva, slowly swallow it. This method is effective for dry mouth, dry skin, etc. caused by lack of body fluid in spring.

3. Spring urination method to nourish the liver

Su Dongpo said in (Miscellaneous Notes on Health Preservation): "If you want to live long, your urine should be clear; if you want to live longer, your urine should be clean." Clear and clean urine indicates that the body's water metabolism and liver function are normal. The ways to keep urine clean and smooth are: eat less. If you eat less, it will be digested faster, so the clear and turbid will be easier to separate. You should not hold your breath too much when urinating, as this can easily cause a temporary lack of blood supply to the brain and lead to sudden fainting. When you are full, your qi and blood are sufficient, and men can stand to urinate; when you are hungry, you should squat to urinate, which is beneficial to the maintenance of the liver.

4. Spring simple health care method

Asarum powder. 3 grams of asarum, 1.5 grams of roasted licorice, and 3 grams of Sichuan peony root, decocted in water and drank while hot, once a day. Suitable for people who feel obviously sleepy in spring. Take 30g each of Chrysanthemum Powder, Chrysanthemum, Peucedanum chinense, Inula flower, White Peony Root, Scrophularia ningpoensis, and Saposhnikovia divaricata, grind them into powder, and take 3g to 6g of it with rice soup before going to bed. Suitable for symptoms such as spring headaches, facial swelling and itchy eyes. Grind Yannian powder, 120 grams of dried tangerine peel and 60 grams of licorice into fine powder, take 5 grams each time, once a day. Taking it in spring helps digestion and absorption of food.

Spring is also the season when "all grasses sprout and all diseases break out", so we should pay attention to health care. "Nourish yang in spring and summer, and nourish yin in autumn and winter" is a health principle proposed by ancient Chinese medical scientists based on the impact of the four seasons in nature on the qi and blood functions of the human body.

Through the above introduction, we know how to maintain health in spring. This is also the most important time for health care in a year. Therefore, in such a season, we must pay attention to health preservation methods. There are many health preservation methods that are particularly easy to do in our lives, but we just need to pay attention to discover them in normal times.