Autumn has arrived, and it is easy to be tired of autumn
Some small actions on weekdays can help us maintain health and lift our spirits. Rub your hands together every morning to refresh your mind; Bask your back at noon to replenish your yang energy; Soak your feet before bed to soothe your body.
Autumn health is not difficult, just these three tricks can help us have a good body.
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" pointed out: "All diseases originate from the blockage of the meridians. ”
The meridians of the human body meet at the ends of the limbs, and if the meridians are blocked, the human body is not smooth. There are 12 canons in the human body, and six of them pass through the hands. And these six meridians are all connected to the heart and lungs.
As the saying goes, "ten fingers connect the heart", there is a basis for it from the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. It is precisely because of this correlation between the meridians that local massage makes sense.
After waking up in the morning, the organs of the human body will start a new day of work after a night's rest.
It can be used to rub hands to stimulate the meridian acupuncture points of the hands to rejuvenate the body that has slept overnight.
Waking up early to rub your hands is not only good for your heart and lungs, but also effective in preventing stroke.
It should be noted that when you get up early and rub your hands, follow the scientific steps:
Rubbing the palm: There is the lung meridian on the inside of the palm, the heart meridian on the other side, and the pericardial meridian in the middle.
Rubbing your palms in the morning can help resuscitate your heart and lungs.
Hegu: Hegu is located below the tiger's mouth, at the midpoint of the radial side of the second metacarpal bone.
It is recorded in the "Book of Medicine": "The face and mouth are closed to the grain", but if there is a problem with the head and face, the Hegu acupoint can be managed.
I didn't look good when I got up in the morning, so I rubbed the valley acupoint, and my complexion immediately became ruddy.
Rub the back of the hand: The more important meridians on the back of the hand are called the Sanjiao meridian.
The Sanjiao meridian corresponds to our endocrine system, rubbing the back of the hands every day to effectively regulate the endocrine.
Afternoon sun on the back
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" believes: "The yang is the outside, and the outside is solid." ”
Yang energy surrounds the body and protects the human body from external evils.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the abdomen is yin and the back is yang. This is because among the meridians of the human body, the yang meridian mostly runs on the back, and the yin meridian mostly runs on the chest and abdomen. And noon is the time of the day when the yang energy is at its highest. Drying your back at noon can play a role in replenishing yang energy.
From the perspective of Western medicine, sun exposure can also promote the production of vitamin D in the body and help the absorption of calcium.
For children, sun exposure is good for growth and development;
For the elderly, sun exposure can effectively prevent osteoporosis, far better than eating calcium tablets.
1. Avoid the tuyere position on the back, and do not reduce your clothes immediately after the sun to avoid catching a cold;
2. While drying your back, you may wish to take off your hat and let the sunlight enter the human body from the Baihui acupoint on the top of your head, so that the effect of replenishing yang energy is better.
Soak your feet in the evening
As the saying goes, "To raise a tree, you need to protect your roots, and to raise people, you need to protect your feet." "Autumn foot soaking for health has a history of thousands of years in China.
"The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" has a record: "After autumn, the cold rises, soak the feet to drive away the cold, and eliminate all kinds of diseases." ”
Qianlong, the longest-lived emperor of the Qing Dynasty, also insisted on "getting up 300 steps in the morning and a pot of soup in the evening". The "pot of soup" here refers to soaking feet in hot water. The way of longevity of the ancients is hidden in this pot of "soup".
People who often have cold hands and feet and menstrual cramps insist on soaking their feet, which can drive away cold and dampness, improve qi and blood, and relieve dysmenorrhea.
If there are elderly people with rheumatism and bone pain and joint pain at home, soaking their feet every day can relieve arthritis, cold legs, and nerve numbness.
For people who are usually deficient in qi and cold, soaking their feet can prevent colds and relieve cold symptoms.
Because soaking your feet can speed up your metabolism, insisting on soaking will also have the effect of slimming.
1. The foot soaking time should not be too long, controlled at about 15-20 minutes, and the body should sweat slightly;
2. Diabetic patients and those with foot wounds should soak their feet under the guidance of a professional doctor.
