Blood is the lifeblood

Chapter 23 Lifestyle to maintain health—nourishing qi and blood lies in the details of life (4)
Excessive exercise in spring will consume blood in the body
[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] According to traditional Chinese medicine, in the spring, the body’s yang qi rises, the whole body’s qi and blood flow smoothly, the meridians are smooth, the skin is loose, and the yang qi is easier to vent; if you want to maintain your health, you need to pay attention to protecting the body’s yang qi, Avoid excessive loss.

The plan of the year lies in spring, which is a good time for people to do outdoor sports. Everything is full of vitality, the climate is warm, and the human body's yang energy rises.Outdoor exercise is good for the human body to expel the old and absorb the new, absorb the true energy, invigorate the rising yang energy of the human body, transform the vital energy, blood and body fluid, and nourish the viscera, muscles and bones.In this way, it can not only supplement the yang energy consumed by the cold air in winter, but also enshrine the yin fluid consumed by the hot air in the coming summer heat.

However, exercise in spring requires the control of attention and measurement. Sun Simiao pointed out in "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions": "The way to maintain health is to often desire light labor, but nothing can be tolerated by fatigue and strength." Therefore, "spring exercise" Do not engage in high-intensity strenuous exercise to avoid adverse effects on human body nourishment and growth due to excessive activity and loss.That is to say, spring training should be performed with a small amount of exercise, and it is better to not sweat or sweat slightly.If you exercise too much and sweat profusely, Chinese medicine believes that "sweat is the fluid of the heart" and "sweat and blood come from the same source". If you sweat too much, it will consume your heart and blood.Excessive body fluid consumption will damage Yang Qi.And because of excessive sweating, the pores are open, and the wind and cold are easy to induce colds and other diseases, which will affect the health of the body.

Winter is coming to spring, it's April in the world, Ms. Wang took off her heavy cotton padded clothes, and finally she can have fun. After a winter's accumulation, the "swimming ring" on her waist is already obvious.In order to lose the "swimming ring" before wearing skirts in summer, Ms. Wang signed up for aerobics, and she did it once a day, but after a few days, she collapsed from exhaustion.She originally expected to maintain her health through fitness, but who would have expected that she would develop a problem all over her body? Ms. Wang felt that she was really wronged.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Ms. Wang's choice of spring training. The fault lies in not controlling the amount of exercise well.

First of all, after the cold winter, the functions of various organs of the body are at a low level, and the muscles and ligaments are also relatively stiff. It needs a period of adjustment to adapt to a large amount of exercise.Therefore, sports in early spring should aim to restore the functional level of the human body, pay attention to moderation, and not blindly pursue the amount of exercise.However, Ms. Wang's aerobic exercise once a day is obviously beyond the standard. It is best to control the aerobic exercise to 3 times a week.

In addition, excessive exercise in spring will also reduce immunity.Foreign studies have shown that aerobic exercise 3 times a week is more appropriate. Excessively high-intensity and dense exercise will actually reduce immunity.The University of Toronto tested people aged 19 to 29 who did not exercise regularly and asked them to perform 3-minute aerobic exercise 5 times or 40 times a week for 12 consecutive weeks.Blood tests found that the number of immune cells decreased by 5% in those who exercised 33 times a week, while those who exercised 3 times a week did not change.Experts believe that 3 times a week, 30 minutes of persistent aerobic exercise can achieve health care effects.

Based on the above reasons, the ancients advocated "walking widely in the courtyard and walking slowly with hair loose" in spring, that is, activities with a small amount of exercise.Especially for those who are irritable and prone to anger, spring training should focus on gentle and soothing exercises.The following exercises are more suitable for spring training.

1. Take a walk
After sunrise and sunset are good times for walking. It is better to choose places for walking beside rivers and lakes, in parks, tree-lined roads or country roads, because the negative ion content in the air in these places is relatively high and the air is fresh.When walking, the clothes should be loose and comfortable, and the shoes should be light, preferably with soft soles.When walking, you can cooperate with rubbing your hands, rubbing your chest and abdomen, beating your back, slapping your whole body and other actions to help dredge qi and blood and generate yang qi.Walking should be slow rather than hasty, the whole body is relaxed, the arms swing naturally, the hands and feet are in harmony, the breathing is harmonious, and the mind is happy.Walking is informal, and the speed depends on personal physical strength, and the length of time should go with the flow. It should be tireless and slightly sweaty.Walking speed is generally divided into three types: slow step, quick step, and carefree step.It is better for the elderly to walk slowly, about 60-70 steps per minute, which can make people emotionally stable, eliminate fatigue, and also have the effect of strengthening the stomach and helping digestion.Take a brisk walk, about 120 steps per minute. This kind of walking is easy and pleasant. Walking for a long time can boost your spirits, stimulate your brain, and make your lower limbs healthy and strong. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with good physique and young people.When walking, stop and go, fast and slow, walk for a while, rest for a while, then walk again, or walk fast for a distance, and then walk slowly for a while, this kind of leisurely walking with stop and go, fast and slow, is suitable for recovery after illness stage patients and the infirm.

2. Jogging
Jogging is a simple and practical exercise. It has a good effect on improving cardiopulmonary function, reducing blood fat, improving body metabolism, enhancing body immunity, and delaying aging.Jogging also helps to regulate the relaxation of the cerebral cortex, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, enhance digestion and eliminate constipation.Do 3 to 5 minutes of preparatory activities before jogging, such as stretching and doing calisthenics.It is advisable to control the jogging speed at 100-200 meters per minute, and it is better to take about 10 minutes for each exercise.The correct posture for jogging is to make fists with both hands, and the pace is even and rhythmic. Pay attention to landing with the soles of your feet. After jogging, you should do finishing exercises.It is advisable to jog in the morning and evening, and it is advisable to choose a place with fresh air and flat roads.

3. Fly a kite

Flying a kite in spring is an activity that combines leisure, entertainment and exercise.When flying a kite, through the coordination of the hands and eyes and the activities of the limbs, the purpose of dredging the meridians, reconciling qi and blood, and strengthening the body can be achieved. It has a preventive effect on vision loss, insomnia, forgetfulness, and muscle fatigue. It is more suitable for teenagers.Middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to protecting their necks when flying kites. Do not lean back their heads and necks for a long time.When flying a kite, it is best to fly a kite with 2 to 3 people and choose a flat and open field.

4. Fuck class
There are many forms of health exercises, such as radio exercises, aerobics and aerobics.Among them, broadcasting exercises are formulated after serious research by relevant experts, and can be practiced throughout the year.The movements of each exercise move different parts of the body. It has a wide range of applications and has different exercise effects for different people. It is especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people who work at desks for a long time, those with poor physical fitness, or those with high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. people.Aerobics for the waist and abdominal muscles can remove fat in the waist and abdomen, improve the elasticity and toughness of the waist muscles, and is especially suitable for young and middle-aged people.In addition, there are Taijiquan, Qigong, Wuqinxi, Baduanjin, etc. in the traditional fitness methods in our country, which are also very good spring exercise items. They are also optional items.

The above exercises can control the rhythm and amount of exercise independently, avoid excessive consumption of the body, and benefit the body's transition in the spring period of "yin receding and yang growing".

Misconceptions about Qi and blood health preservation that must be corrected
[Qi and Blood Health Sutra] Everyone has their own physical conditions, so the maintenance of Qi and blood should also take a personalized route, and it cannot be uniform. What is popular may not necessarily be suitable for you.

In fact, keeping in good health is the same as dressing. The classic styles on the catwalk and the popular styles of fashionable men and women may not be suitable for you.

Guan Zhilin is called "Guan Dameiren" by people in the Jianghu. Her beauty is a kind of traditional beauty in the eyes of Chinese people.Even God favors beauties, and the years are like birds flying lightly in the sky without a trace.Rosamund Kwan's face is so beautiful that it is almost "artificial", her skin is like an egg that has been peeled off its shell, tender, smooth, rosy and shiny.

You must think that she is either naturally beautiful and beautiful, or that she is full of skin care products and inexhaustible. Her beauty is actually maintained by her good living habits tailored for herself. of.Her living habits are based on nourishing blood. She does not eat Ganoderma lucidum and bird's nest as often as we usually imagine. She said that it will "get angry".On the contrary, her diet is very simple, and soy milk is her favorite "beauty soup".

Chinese people seem to like to get together by nature, to join in the fun and follow suit in everything.Therefore, looking around, there are many misunderstandings about Qi and blood health preservation on the market.

Misunderstanding [-]: Only women need to nourish Qi and blood
In the eyes of more than 90.00% of people, replenishing qi and blood is a matter for women, and even more ignorant, it is a matter for postpartum women.Although due to physiological reasons, women are more likely to be deficient than men, but it cannot be said that replenishing qi and blood is a woman's patent.

Clinically, many men suffer from deficiency syndrome.Elderly people have more deficiency syndromes, chronic illnesses have more deficiency syndromes, and others, such as congenital deficiencies, overwork, improper diet, and imbalance between hunger and fullness, etc., can all lead to deficiency syndromes.So men should also pay attention to replenishing qi and blood, after all, they are all flesh and blood.

Misunderstanding [-]: Exercise can increase Qi and blood energy
Exercise will open up the meridians, strengthen the heart function, and improve the ability to remove garbage in the body, but it will not increase the body's energy and blood.

The impact of exercise on health is mainly to speed up blood circulation, which can unblock some blocked meridians, especially for the opening of the pericardium meridian.The smoothness of the pericardial meridian can strengthen the heart's ability, improve the body's immune function, speed up the body's metabolism, and speed up the discharge of human waste.

If it's just pure exercise, without improving your living habits at all, or increasing or adjusting your sleep time, then exercise will only consume blood energy meaninglessly.

Many busy urbanites in modern times exercise at night. After a whole day of physical exertion, the human body must have no extra energy for exercise at night.Therefore, when exercising, the body must mobilize the stored anger, coupled with the stimulation of exercise, the spirit is in an excited state. After stopping exercise at [-] o'clock at night, it takes at least two or three hours for this excited state to disappear before falling asleep.Because the anger is still strong, the night's sleep must be restless.Not only is this kind of exercise not beneficial to the body, but if it forms a long-term habit, it will become the biggest killer of health.Most people think that exercise can create energy, so they can be particularly energetic after exercise, but they don't know that this is completely the result of overdrawn anger.

Misunderstanding [-]: Black food must be able to replenish blood
We often see such propaganda-black food nourishes the kidney and blood, such as black sesame, black beans, black rice, black fungus, kelp, seaweed, black-bone chicken bones, etc.In fact, it is not always the case. Warmth is nourishing, and cold is venting.Black rice and black-bone chicken are warm in nature and have obvious effects of nourishing blood and kidney; black sesame seeds are neutral in nature, nourishing kidney, nourishing liver, moistening intestines and nourishing hair; black beans are calm in nature, nourishing kidney, promoting blood circulation and detoxification; Cold, you can often eat it in summer, try not to eat it in winter.

Therefore, whether any food supplements or not supplements must be based on the attributes of the food, rather than seniority based on color.

Myth [-]: Cold food must be bad

Regarding the relationship between cold food and qi and blood, we will explain in detail later. Here, we will give you a vaccination first. Not all cold food will have a negative impact on the body if it enters the stomach. It can be eaten when the season of eating is suitable and can play a role of neutralization and balance.For example, in summer, the human body sweats a lot, and eating some watermelon in a moderate amount can remove dryness and heat, and can also replenish the water and sugar lost due to excessive sweating in the human body. At this time, the watermelon can coordinate the body. , the role of blood, and eating watermelon in cold weather can easily lead to blood loss.

Cold and hot food should be eaten together. For example, when eating crabs that are very cold, they must be served with ginger, which is warm in nature. digestion and absorption.

Of course, there are still many common misunderstandings in life. Friends who have time to pay attention may wish to summarize them by themselves, publish them on the Internet or other methods, and share them with everyone.

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