Winter is a good time to keep fit. If you want to have a healthy and strong body, you must master the correct lifestyle, adjust your diet and do a good job of self-care.
Washing your face with cold water in winter morning can not only improve the blood circulation of your face, but also enhance the elasticity of your skin and avoid wrinkles. In addition, it can enhance the ability to resist cold, reduce the chance of rhinitis and cold, and relieve nervous headache caused by neurasthenia, but the water temperature should not be too low, about 10℃. Soaking feet with hot water one hour before going to bed can not only relieve fatigue, but also promote sleep. There are many acupoints on the soles of feet. Soaking feet with hot water can relax tendons and activate collaterals, accelerate blood circulation of feet, and help to treat chilblain and varicose veins.
In winter, you can choose suitable tonic food according to your physique, and you can eat beef, mutton, ginger and onion for cold physique. You can choose lily duck, turtle radish and Chinese cabbage for heat constitution. General physique can choose fish, beans, lean meat and other foods containing high-quality protein, which can increase nutrition and enhance cold resistance. In addition, drinking hot porridge in winter, such as oatmeal porridge, radish porridge, walnut porridge and jujube porridge, has the effects of nourishing the heart, removing annoyance, resolving phlegm, benefiting qi and nourishing yin respectively.
Put your hands together on your navel in winter, keep natural breathing clockwise and counterclockwise, and massage for 30 times each, which can promote local blood circulation and metabolism, assist in the treatment of obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and arteriosclerosis, and promote food digestion.
Press the left hand on the top of the left breast, gently push the finger obliquely downward to the lower right abdomen, rub it back and forth for 50 times, then change the right hand and rub it in the same way. Finally, the palm is alternately slapped on the chest and back, each time 100, which has the functions of widening the chest, regulating qi, improving cardiopulmonary function and prolonging life.