Beauty and Health Sutra of Female Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 16 Beauty and health, age reduction life starts from the details (3)
Drive away the "sleepy bugs" in the afternoon

Leg exercise: Do squat exercises for both legs, 60 times each time, 1 time in the morning and [-] time in the evening.

Practice abdominal breathing: Abdominal breathing for 10 minutes, every morning and evening.Do it every night before bed for best results.

Massage acupoints: When the sleepy bugs come to make trouble in the afternoon, repeatedly press and knead the Zhongchong acupoint located in the middle of the fingertip of the middle finger, or tap the Yuyao acupoint located in the middle of the eyebrows with the middle finger for 5 minutes.

Interpretation of traditional Chinese medicine on drowsiness during menstrual walking
Spleen deficiency and dampness due to lethargy and lethargy: "Danxi Xinfa" says that "if the Qi of the spleen and stomach are insufficient, they will not be able to raise the Qingyang when they are ordered to moisten and moisten in the long summer, and the Qi in the middle will be healthy, and the fire of the Shaoyang will be restored. When the heat damages the vitality, the limbs will be lazy, the legs will be flaccid and weak, lethargy, fever, and lack of energy.” Women with lethargy during menstruation due to spleen deficiency, polymorphic obesity, accompanied by limb edema, decreased appetite, and asthma when moving , epigastric fullness, leucorrhea amount, sticky and thick.Whenever menstruation comes, there will be symptoms such as fatigue, heavy limbs, sleepiness and lethargy.

This type of drowsiness can be treated with Taiwushenshu powder in "Yi Fang Ji Jie".Drug composition: 12 grams each of herb and tangerine peel, 9 grams each of Huoxiang, Magnolia officinalis, and Shichangpu, 3 pieces of ginger, and 3 pieces of red dates.Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.Start taking it 5 days before menstruation and continue until the end of menstruation.Menstrual sleepiness refers to sleepiness that occurs during menstruation.Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sleepiness during menstruation is mostly caused by spleen deficiency and dampness, insufficient qi and blood, or loss of kidney essence.Female friends who have this kind of problem must strengthen physical exercise in normal times and take part in more sports such as jogging, playing ball, yoga, etc. The premise is to choose a sport that you like and stick to it for a long time. effectiveness.In terms of diet, eat less sweet and fatty foods.Especially in summer, when the temperature is high, brain activity is more likely to be inhibited and lethargy occurs. You can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and you can cook porridge with red beans and barley for three meals.How to treat menstrual sleepiness?Under normal circumstances, women with drowsiness during menstruation, as long as they pay more attention to life and take medicine according to the doctor's advice, they can become a sober beauty in a short time.

Menstrual lethargy and physical weakness: For women, menstruation itself is a process of blood loss. If some female friends are already weak, they will show lack of breath, dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, etc. during menstruation. symptom.At the same time, menstrual flow is less, the color is light and thin, accompanied by drowsiness all day long, especially after meals.

This type of lethargy can be treated with Shiquan Dabu Decoction in addition or subtraction.Drug composition: Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, licorice, angelica, white peony root, rehmannia glutinosa each 12 grams, astragalus 35 grams, cinnamon and chuanxiong 6 grams each.Decoction in water, 1 dose per day.Start taking it 3 days before menstruation, and take it continuously for 5-8 days, or until the menstruation is clean.

Depletion of kidney essence due to menstrual lethargy: Menstrual lethargy caused by kidney essence deficiency is more common in women who undergo frequent induced abortions.The prominent manifestations are lassitude and good sleep, tinnitus and deafness, sluggish expression during menstruation, accompanied by physical weakness, soreness of waist and knees, accompanied by prolonged menstrual period and less menstrual flow.

This type of drowsiness is often treated with Heche Daizao Pills.Drug composition: Ziheche 30 grams, Rehmannia glutinosa 15 grams, fried Eucommia ulmoides, Asparagus, Ophiopogon japonicus, Achyranthes bidentata, Tortoise shell 12 grams each, Phellodendron 6 grams.Grind the above medicines into powder together, and take them as honeyed pills, or decoct them in water.

In addition, during the long summer rainy season, or women with spleen deficiency have excessive moisture, lethargy will also occur.In daily life, you can use mint, wrinkled wrinkle, lotus leaf and other medicines that have the effect of dispelling dampness and refreshing the spleen, and drink them in boiling water, and drink them instead of tea, which can drive away "sleepy bugs", make people glow again, and become a smart and pretty woman .

Emotional beauty, be a happy beauty

Depression, the source of many disease attacks

People who are depressed for a long time tend to think that death is a kind of relief and a shortcut to get rid of distress.Among the many causes of suicide, depression is one of the important reasons, and the death rate caused by depression in the world is as high as 30%.More than $600 billion has been spent globally to overcome this human psychological conundrum.Due to the relationship between work, depression is prone to occur among professional women.

Now, about 40% of mental workers have symptoms of mental disorders, such as insomnia, headache, muscle pain, fear, irregular heartbeat, decreased libido, and decreased ability to work.Professional women are mostly engaged in desk work, 8 or more hours of overloaded work a day often make them exhausted, and the unit pays attention to efficiency and competition, which makes young professional women face greater psychological pressure.Lonely and helpless, and when their careers are not going well, they often bear the pressure from various aspects alone. Under the influence of these pressures, they seem to be unable to escape the clutches of depression.

what do you know about depression

"Huangdi Neijing" believes that all diseases related to emotion and will are related to liver dysfunction. If the liver qi is not dredged, it will cause depression, loss of interest, strong fatigue, weakness, unwillingness to speak, do not want to communicate with others, do not want to Exercise, which is an early sign of depression.Normal people will also have these manifestations, but when these adverse manifestations persist for 2 weeks or more than 2 weeks and cannot be relieved, it is necessary to suspect whether they are suffering from depression.

Depression is not depression: young people nowadays talk about "depression" and "depression" at every turn. However, being unhappy does not mean that they are suffering from depression, because it may be better to sleep and rest .People who are really depressed usually hide their negative emotions.Depression mainly includes three major symptoms, namely low mood, slow thinking and motor inhibition.Depression refers to not being happy, sentimental, pessimistic and disappointed with people and things around; slow thinking refers to conscious brain forgetfulness, inability to remember things, and slow reaction; motor inhibition refers to inactivity, laziness, Walks slowly, does not like to communicate with others, and the most serious ones may even lose the ability to take care of themselves.

Confusing manifestations of depression: There are various manifestations of depression, and patients with all the above symptoms are relatively rare.More patients have only one or two of these, and the severity varies from person to person.

Depression, loss of interest, lack of energy, anxiety, pessimism, and low self-esteem are common symptoms of depression in most cases.However, depression has a more typical feature, that is, "heaviness during the day and lightness at night". If the above symptoms are more severe in the morning, they will be lighter in the afternoon or evening, indicating that the possibility of suffering from depression is very high.

Depression can also manifest as physical symptoms, often manifested as symptoms of autonomic nervous dysfunction such as general discomfort, dry mouth, constipation, palpitation, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and loss of appetite, so it is easy to be confused with some gastrointestinal diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

Suicide is the last manifestation of depression. The survey found that more than half of the people with suicidal tendencies are depressed patients.Some unexplained suicides may have suffered from severe depression during their lifetime, but the treatment was not discovered in time.In order to prevent depression patients from choosing death as a relief, the best way is to achieve early detection and early treatment.

How to diagnose depression: The main manifestation is low mood, which lasts for at least 2 weeks, and must have 4 of the following symptoms: ① loss of energy and unexplained fatigue; ② loss of interest in daily activities and lack of pleasure; ③ Psychomotor retardation or agitation; ④ Difficulty in associating, or a significant decline in self-perceived thinking ability; ⑤ Low self-evaluation, negative emotions such as self-blame and guilt, which can reach the level of delusions; ⑥ Insomnia, early awakening or excessive sleep time ; ⑦ Suicidal psychology; ⑧ Loss of appetite, or significant weight loss; ⑨ Significant loss of libido.

Conventional Treatments for Depression
Psychotherapy: The most common form of treatment is psychotherapy along with medication.

Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, is often used by clinical psychologists to treat mild depression patients.The psychiatrist understands the behaviors, emotions and thoughts of the patients that cause depression through conversations, and guides their cognition reasonably to help the patients improve their self-control.Psychotherapy is mostly carried out one-on-one by the doctor and the patient. Of course, family members or lovers can also be present to assist.

Medication: Medication is one of the most effective ways to treat depression. Your doctor will choose a drug for you based on your symptoms. The price of the drug and possible side effects will be taken into consideration.The most common clinical drugs are Deanxit and Prozac, which are often used starting from small doses, and the course of treatment is longer, usually more than half a year.

Electroconvulsive therapy: Electroconvulsive therapy, which adjusts the state of brain nerve cells through electric shocks to the human body, is the fastest and most effective therapy for people with severe depression and suicidal tendencies and mania. Methods.The premise is that this therapy should only be considered when other treatments are ineffective.

Alternative Therapies: There has been a trend to use alternative therapies in the treatment of patients with mild depression.Commonly used alternative therapies include acupuncture, guided intention, yoga, and relaxation therapy.This method has no obvious effect on the treatment of patients with severe depression.Clinically, not all depression patients can receive effective treatment from western medicine. For these people, alternative therapy can be used. Although its safety and effectiveness have not been proven, it has already occupied a place in the medical field.

Prevention of Depression
Judging from the clinical effect of treatment, depression is difficult to cure. Even if the condition can be significantly improved after treatment, there is a possibility of relapse in the future. Therefore, preventive work should be done to avoid depression.

Adjust eating, drinking, and sleeping, and move your body: eating, drinking, and sleeping are the basic ways for human beings to survive. If these three things are not well realized, it will inevitably affect mental health, and mental health problems will affect eating, drinking, and sleeping. , forming a vicious circle.For example, insomnia, which is a consequence of low mood, can in turn aggravate low mood.To cut off this vicious cycle, as long as you eat well, drink well, and sleep well, you can cut off the chain of this cycle. This is a positive means to prevent depression.

Clarity of values ​​and goals: In psychoanalytic theory, the search for a sense of excellence is an unconscious part of the human being.When you have expectations for life and work, if you set the goal too low, you will not be able to satisfy your inner desire for excellence; if you set the goal too high, it will be more difficult to achieve, and it will easily lead to frustration. It is the source of depression.Therefore, no matter how you deal with life or work, you should have a clear and reasonable positioning, know what you can do and what you want, this will help the pursuit of excellence, and when the inner unconsciousness is satisfied, there will be no Depression happened.

Bring joy into life and confide in time: Freud believed that depression is the anger that turns to the heart, which implies that to avoid depression, you must avoid anger, maintain a happy mood, and when anger arises, You must know how to vent it, otherwise it will accumulate slowly, which is extremely detrimental to mental health.In theory, people who are prone to depression tend to be kinder and considerate of others, but deny the joy they deserve.Female friends who are prone to depression must be happy and happy. When you have anger in your heart, you can confide in good friends. After you confide your anger once, you will get [-]% off, and twice you will get [-]% off. The more you confide, you will be divorced. Depression further away.

Friendship is a panacea for depression: friendship is the inner need of everyone.When it comes to fighting depression, happiness is a positive factor, while anger is a negative factor.When you have friendships of high quality and quantity, the happiness is doubled and the anger is discounted, which is undoubtedly of great benefit in preventing the occurrence of depression.

Step 1: Make new friends.

Step 2: Establish friendship and find common ground with friends, such as whether they have the same sports, reading, film and television hobbies.

Step 3: Cement friendships and keep in touch.

Step 4: Keep the friendship in good working condition and sincerely help the friends around you.

Step 5: When you are happy, share it with your friends, then the happiness becomes two shares; when you are angry, pessimistic and disappointed, talking to your friends can make these negative emotions dissipate as soon as possible.

The skin does not look old, decompression is very important

What does stress have to do with the skin?The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Many people think that the skin is only used to protect the body, perspire, and sense heat and cold. In fact, it is also the immune organ of the human body and maintains a direct or indirect relationship with the brain.

When feeling anxious and nervous, the hypothalamus sends a signal to the pituitary gland, which then sends a signal to the adrenal gland, which eventually causes the adrenal gland to secrete glucocorticoids.The effect of pressure on the skin is accomplished through the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis.

Glucocorticoids can help the skin resist diseases in the short term, but if they exist for a long time, they will cause a series of skin reactions, such as skin inflammation, roughness, redness, and collagen denaturation to produce wrinkles.In addition, acne, dryness and itching can also be seen. These are warning signs of stress reflected on the skin and should be taken seriously.

As mentioned above, stress can cause skin inflammation, and the pigmentation produced after inflammation will form patches of spots. When it appears together with wrinkles, even young and beautiful women will look dull.

Mood articles on decompression

Main manifestations: easy to get angry, often worry about some trivial matters, and frown all day long.

Countermeasure 1: Find something you are interested in and practice more.

Spend more time doing things that excite and cheer you up physically and mentally.If you like writing, then give full play to your endless imagination and write out what you think in your heart; if you like painting, have a relaxing date with Huahua; Can be a "slow release capsule" for easy stress relief.When indulging in these creations, the stressful mood will naturally struggle out of the sea of ​​suffering.

Countermeasure 2: Don't feel how important you are, let alone think that the earth cannot turn without you.This kind of self-importance and do-it-yourself pressure is completely unnecessary.At this time, you can let go and let others share some of the burden for you, "split production to each household" and let relatives and friends help you complete it, and the psychological pressure will gradually decrease.

Diet for decompression

Main manifestations: loss of appetite or eating desperately.

Countermeasure 1: Ginseng can relieve physical and mental tension, restore energy levels in the body, and improve the body's immune function.At the same time, it can also activate the hormones in the brain and refresh people.

Countermeasure 2: Symptoms of the digestive system are often accompanied by stress, such as flatulence and nausea.Peppermint tea has an antispasmodic effect; chamomile tea is also good at relieving tension and relieving stress, and it is also good for insomnia, stomach pain, neuralgia, and back pain.

Countermeasure 3: Whether drinking water or bathing in water, water can significantly improve the state of tension.Drinking water is not only beneficial to remove the garbage in the body, but also can provide sufficient nutrients for the body.

Exercise for decompression

Main manifestations: weakness, too lazy to move.

Physical exercise can counteract stress, it can speed up the flow of endorphins in the body, thereby improving people's depression and making people feel refreshed.

Countermeasure 1: Yoga is the master of decompression, it makes people relax and breathe freely.Regular practice of yoga can lower blood pressure and maintain a calm state of mind.

Countermeasure 2: Going to the gym to take part in exercises can fully exercise all organs of the whole body. After sweating, take a warm bath, and the pressure will be swept away.

Countermeasure 3: Do stair climbing or participate in dance classes.

Behavior of the stress reduction method

Main manifestations: dark skin, dark circles, back pain, headache, insomnia and other symptoms.

Countermeasure 1: Fragrance is a powerful weapon to relieve stress and relax nerves.After a busy day, you may wish to use juniper, cedarwood or vetiver essential oils to bathe and enjoy a relaxing state of mind and body; if you want to have a sweet sleep, you can choose lavender and bitter orange blossom essential oils; if you want to improve fatigue and tense nerves , you can choose lemon or ylang ylang essential oil.

Countermeasure 2: Tighten and relax the muscles of the whole body sequentially from top to bottom, from the face to the feet.Here's how to do it: Clench your hands for a few seconds and relax; tense your legs for a few seconds and then relax.1-2 times a day, 15 minutes each time.

If you learn how to decompress, you will be able to deal with skin problems caused by stress with ease, and you will no longer have to worry about skin inflammation, acne, and wrinkles.When the physical and mental stress is completely released, you will find that your skin has become younger.

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