Post Date December, 03 2023
After entering autumn, the temperature difference between day and night is getting larger and larger, and the temperature is also gradually decreasing. The work of keeping warm needs to start. Although there has always been a saying of "covering the spring and freezing the autumn", there are three parts of the body that must not be "frozen"!
1、 Head
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head is the confluence of various yang and is vulnerable to wind and evil. Therefore, it is particularly important to protect the head yang. From the perspective of western medicine, when the temperature is low, the head is exposed to the outside, which is easy to cause vasoconstriction, and lead to insufficient blood supply to the brain, thus causing dizziness, headache, and even accompanied by symptoms such as upset, tinnitus, irritability, insomnia and dreaminess.
Heat preservation method:
Wear a hat
In cold and windy weather, it is best to wear a hat to protect the head. It is better to wear a hat to cover your forehead, and don't take off the hat when you sweat a little. Too fast heat loss can easily cause a cold.
Dry comb your hair
Dry combing is a simple head massage method. The method is very simple. Just bend your fingers into a "comb" shape, place them on the hairline of your forehead, and then push them back from your forehead to the back hairline. When you think of it, you can comb them 3 to 5 times.
Regular massage can not only dredge the meridians of the head, unblock qi and blood, enhance the head's function of resisting cold, but also nourish the hair and prevent hair loss and early white hair.
2、 Abdomen
Cold in the abdomen easily causes stagnation of qi and blood in the abdominal meridians. For example, people with a history of stomach disease are prone to stomachache after suffering from cold
Heat preservation method:
Tummy rubbing method
Rub your hands before going to bed every night, put your left palm on your navel, and your right hand on the back of your left hand. Then rub the abdomen clockwise around the navel for about 10 minutes. Long-term adherence can not only effectively relieve the discomfort caused by abdominal cold, but also regulate the spleen and stomach and prevent constipation.
3、 Foot
"Cold comes from the feet". The feet are the most chilly parts of the body. Because the feet are the farthest from the heart, the blood flow through the "distance" is the longest. After the long journey to the feet, not only the speed will slow down, but also the blood volume will decrease. In addition, the foot skin is thin, with little fat and poor warmth retention, so the foot skin temperature is low, and it is most vulnerable to the invasion of cold evil.
Heat preservation method:
Soak feet in ginger and pepper water
Adhering to using hot water to soak feet can help promote the movement of qi and blood, dredge meridians, relieve the exterior and disperse the cold, effectively relieve the cold of hands and feet, and warm the whole body. Adding ginger and pepper to hot water can strengthen the effect of dispelling wind and dispersing cold.
In addition, the water temperature of the feet should not be too high and the time should not be too long. The water temperature should be around 40 ℃ and the feet should be soaked for 20 minutes.
4、 Neck
In autumn, as the temperature drops, people will wear high-necked clothes and cover their necks. This purpose is mainly to protect their necks. You should know that if the neck is exposed to the cool wind, it will often get sick.
For some office workers who work at their desks for a long time, keeping a fixed position or keeping a low head position for a long time will often cause the neck to be in a bending state. Such a state will cause the muscles and ligaments of the neck to become stiff, which will lead to chronic strain.
In fact, the neck is very delicate. When it is in a stalemate, the cold wind will also cause the contraction of blood vessels, making the neck muscles in a state of spasm, causing nerve edema and inducing cervical spondylosis.
In addition, in order to resist the cold in autumn, we should try to eat less cold food, and eat more lily, sesame, walnut, glutinous rice, etc.
