Three tips for health preservation in early spring

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Generally speaking, February 4 is the first day of spring, but this year is different. Spring begins on February 3. What are the customs of the beginning of spring? At the beginning of spring, how to keep healthy? Let's take a look at the following health tips.

Three tips for health preservation in early spring

First, it should be light - the "liver qi" is strong in spring, which will affect the transport function of the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with weak spleen and stomach should eat more yam, jujube and lotus seed porridge in spring to control the excessive liver qi and prevent the aggravation of symptoms such as stomach distension caused by chronic stomach disease and chronic hepatitis. After the beginning of spring, people with bad spleen and stomach on weekdays must eat a light and moderate diet, especially avoid hot food such as mutton or hair products such as seafood.

Second: warm tonic - farewell to the cold, into the beginning of spring, should be appropriate to reduce tonic, can adapt to seasonal changes, eat more warm food, such as green onions, ginger, garlic, glutinous rice, carrots, etc., can play a good effect of dispelling Yin and dispersing cold.

Third: it is suitable to be sweet and moist - the climate changes rapidly in spring, the air is sometimes dry and sometimes cold, the stomach and intestines are in a sensitive state, and there is often no appetite. At this time, we should eat more sweet food. Note that sweetness and sweetness are not exactly the same. The so-called sweet food, not only refers to the food taste a little sweet, more importantly, has the role of nourishing the spleen and stomach, eat more sweet food can benefit the human body of the spleen and stomach. Jujube and yam are the first sweet food. Eating these two kinds of food often helps to improve human immunity. Can also jujube, yam, rice, millet porridge together, can prevent the recurrence of gastritis and gastric ulcer. In addition, there are spinach, taro, sweet potato, potato, black fungus, longan, chestnuts and so on, which are good sweet food.

matters needing attention

Avoid spicy - after the beginning of spring to eat less too spicy food and fried, barbecue food. In early spring, the resistance of human respiratory system decreases, which is a high incidence period of respiratory infectious diseases, such as cold. Spicy food stimulates the respiratory tract, and consumes Yang Qi, leading to fire, which is more likely to be infected with virus.