After the Great Cold, strengthen the kidneys and nourish the blood

Although we have just entered early winter and there is still a long time before the Great Cold, from the perspective of health preservation, we should make preparations in advance. Chinese medicine health preservation requires methods. Whether in diet or lifestyle habits, we should focus on strengthening the kidneys and nourishing the blood. So, what should we do to strengthen the kidneys and nourish the blood after the Great Cold? I believe many people are very confused. In order to better help maintain health and promote health, let us take a look at the detailed introduction below.

Methods for strengthening the kidney and nourishing blood after the Great Cold

After the Great Cold, we should pay more attention to diet and health preservation methods. So, what are the methods to strengthen the kidneys and nourish the blood after the Great Cold? First of all, we should nourish, replenish and strengthen the kidneys. It not only includes kidney-nourishing methods through diet, but also lifestyle habits and exercise. These methods are introduced to you in detail below.

Nourish the kidneys and tap the kidney meridian. Regularly moving your waist can make the qi and blood in the waist flow smoothly and replenish kidney qi; tapping the kidney meridian every day can also play a role in benefiting the kidneys.

You can tap the kidney meridian when you are resting or feeling tired. Start from the base of the inner thigh, tap or press the middle of the inner side, and slowly move down from top to bottom until you reach the sole of the foot.

You can also tap your lower back alternately. The method is to stand with your legs shoulder-width apart, relax your arms naturally, turn your waist left and right, and at the same time, swing your arms naturally with the rotation of your waist, and pat your waist and back alternately. You can do this for about 5 minutes in a row.

You can pat the Shenshu and Mingmen acupoints on the back appropriately to nourish the kidneys.

Foot bath is good for kidney health. Foot bath is a good way to nourish the kidneys. While bathing, you can also massage the Yongquan acupoint (i.e. the sole of the foot) appropriately. Because Yongquan acupoint is the first acupoint of the kidney meridian, soak your feet in warm water at about 40℃ before going to bed every day, and then massage the soles of your feet alternately with your left and right hands for about 10 minutes each time. Regularly massaging the Yongquan point can replenish essence, nourish the kidneys, and strengthen the body.

Teeth clicking can strengthen the kidneys. "Teeth are the end of bones" and are also "innately created" by the kidneys. Tooth loss in old age indicates that kidney function has declined.

The maintenance of teeth can actually affect the function of the kidneys. Therefore, in order to strengthen the kidneys, you can also do the health-preserving exercise of teeth tapping. The method is: sit or stand upright, relax your mind, then tap your upper and lower teeth regularly, with a frequency of once per second for about 10 minutes. Long-term persistence is very beneficial for strengthening the kidneys.

Fear can damage the kidneys, and thinking about the consequences is important. During the severe cold season, you should be less frightened and not scare yourself. There is a saying in traditional Chinese medicine that "fear can damage the kidneys". Fear can easily damage the kidneys, leading to loss of kidney qi and causing problems such as incontinence, premature ejaculation, etc. "Thoughts overcome fear". Use thoughts and thinking to control the kidneys and overcome fear. For example, you can think about your relatives or friends.

Diet therapy: from strong tonic to warm tonic

Dahan is the last solar term of the year, followed by Lichun, so the diet is slightly different from that of Xiaohan. It is said that we need to nourish our body a lot in winter. In fact, when the coldest season comes, we should focus on both nourishing yin and replenishing yang.

People with weak Yang Qi can use some Yang-warming methods to regulate their body and avoid cold hands and feet. You cannot use strong tonic drugs to replenish yang. For example, aconite is a classic medicine for tonifying yang, but it should not be used in large quantities during severe cold. If you normally use more than ten to twenty grams, then seven or eight grams will be enough during the Great Cold. It is most appropriate to take cinnamon before the beginning of spring. Because cinnamon is a medicine that guides fire downward and returns to its origin, in layman's terms, after taking it, it can unblock the blood circulation at the extremities, and you will not feel cold hands and feet after taking it. In terms of diet therapy, you can drink more mulled red wine, which has the same effect.

In winter, you can eat some foods that have the effect of relieving exterior symptoms and dispersing wind and cold, such as perilla leaves, ginger, onions, chili peppers, Sichuan pepper, cinnamon, etc. For example, if you have a mild cold caused by external wind and cold, you can drink ginger and sugar water or soak your feet in ginger water, which will have a better effect. If you need to take medicine to nourish your body, in addition to the solar terms, personal constitution is more important. In terms of Chinese patent medicine, people who are usually afraid of cold can take Jinkui Shenqi Pills under the guidance of a doctor, because it adds two yang-tonifying medicines, cinnamon and aconite, to Liuwei Dihuang Pills, making it a prescription for seeking yang from yin.

During the severe cold season, wind evil is easy to cause trouble, and "cold enters from the lungs". If you do not pay attention to the protection of the respiratory tract, it is easy for wind evil to invade the respiratory tract and eventually reach the lungs, affecting the health of the lungs. Because ginger can warm the yang and dispel cold, preventing wind and cold from invading through the mouth. In cold weather, you can hold a piece of ginger in your mouth when you go out to achieve the purpose of health preservation and disease prevention.

The above has introduced in detail some methods of strengthening the kidneys and nourishing the blood after the Great Cold. I hope it will be helpful to everyone. People who really understand health preservation will pay more attention to healthy diet and good health-preserving living habits all year round, no matter what season of the year it is. Otherwise, if any aspect is not done well, it may affect your health.