On April 4th, this year, the eighth day of the third lunar month was Tomb-Sweeping Day. As far as TCM health care is concerned, Qingming Festival is an important period of health care in a year. After Tomb-Sweeping Day, everything stretches. Chinese medicine believes that people should be at four o’clock, and everything grows in spring, so does the body.
When everything grows, it is clean and bright, so it is called Qingming.The Paper reporter Wang Xiqing
So what aspects should we pay attention to during the Qingming period? Zheng Min, deputy director of the Department of Endocrinology, Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, gave detailed answers to readers from the aspects of disease prevention, diet and daily life.
[Hou] When sweeping sacrifices for an outing,
"When I was 100 questions" said: "When everything grows, it is clean and bright, so it is called Qingming." Every Qingming, the climate is warm, the sun is shining, the willow is green and pink, and the vitality is infinite. It is the most refreshing solar term among the 24 solar terms. In the south of the Yangtze River, it rains in succession during the Qingming Festival. At this time, it is cloudy and sunny, and abundant water can meet the needs of crop growth.
In the history of China, Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi has its own particularity. The Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival were both around the Qingming Festival, and the three festivals gradually merged into one.
Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3, is rich in content, with customs of cleaning yourself, spring outing in the suburbs, and love between men and women. According to legend, March 3rd is the birthday of the Yellow Emperor. In the Central Plains, there is "February 2nd, the dragon rises; On March 3, I was born in Xuanyuan. In the ancient Shangsi Festival, people feasted at the water’s edge and had a spring outing in the countryside. Shangsi Festival is also the "Valentine’s Day" in China. At this time, it is the day when "a woman is in love with her, and a lucky girl will seduce her". On this day, young men and women go for a spring outing in the suburbs, and the government even encourages men and women to have sex and regard this day as a good day for matchmaking between heaven and earth. "Zhou Li. Media’s": "The mid-spring moon makes men and women meet, so when it comes, runners can’t help it." Later, on Shangsi Festival, sacrificial feasts and meandering water were added. At the beginning of late spring, Wang Xizhi, a book sage, gathered with friends in Lanting, and wrote the preface to Lanting, the world’s first running book.
The Cold Food Festival is also a day or two before Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is a custom formed by ancient people changing fire in spring. The ancestors drilled wood for fire, and the fire was hard to come by. Every early spring, when the weather is dry, people’s saved kindling is easy to cause fire, and spring thunder is also easy to cause mountain fires. At this time, the ancients put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, and then drilled out a new fire in a few days, which is called "changing the fire" and "inviting a new fire".
In the days without fire, people can only live on cold food, that is, cold food. In the poem of Wei Zhuang, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, the phenomenon of forbidding fire in cold food and taking fire in Qingming is: "Thousands of snows bloom in cold food, and millions of cigarettes are produced in Qingming fire."
In addition to the prohibition of cold food by fire, cold food also has the custom of sweeping graves. People regard sweeping graves on the Cold Food Festival as a festival to return to the roots and pursue the religion with caution. Because Qingming is close to the Cold Food Festival, people often postpone sweeping graves until Qingming. In the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day became one.
This season, there is not only the feeling of pursuing the distance carefully, but also the ecstasy of where will you go, the atmosphere of enjoying spring and the vivid scene of fresh and bright. Du Muyou, a Tang Dynasty poet, said, "It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask the local people where to buy wine and worry? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival depicts the Qingming scene in the prosperous period of the Song Dynasty.
Step in the spring to prevent allergies
Zheng Min, deputy chief physician, reminded us that during the Qingming period, there may be cold in late spring, susceptible to cold, and at the same time, it will enter a rainy season. At this time, it is prone to dampness, and many bacteria and viruses have entered the breeding period, which is easy to spread various infectious diseases.
For the elderly and children with weak disease resistance, they should strengthen their health, benefit qi, dispel wind and dampness, strengthen their physique, pay attention to personal hygiene and environmental hygiene at the same time, wash their hands and change clothes frequently, often open windows and ventilate at home, and seldom go to public places to reduce the generation of germs, thus reducing the risk of infectious diseases.
Spring is closely related to the liver and wood in the five elements, and wood makes a fire, and fire is the heart, so this festival is easy for the heart to flourish. It is easy to induce hypertension when you are depressed and too angry. Therefore, people suffering from hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases should pay attention to control their emotions, keep their emotions comfortable and prevent blood pressure from fluctuating too much.
Liver wood hurts gold, and gold is lung, so this solar term should also pay attention to prevention of respiratory diseases. During the Qingming Festival, spring blossoms, and the excessive accumulation of oily and polysaccharide substances in pollen into the human respiratory tract causes allergies. Therefore, for friends with allergies, special attention should be paid to staying away from pollen or preparing a mask for emergencies.
Qingming is a good time to go for an outing. Under the premise of fully considering one’s own illness and combining one’s hobbies, one should do what one can and make a reasonable choice. People who are less active need to do exercise according to their abilities and should not be too big. When the elderly are active, their heart rate should be controlled within 100 beats/min, and their breathing should be controlled within 24 beats/min. Young people can relax their requirements appropriately, and it is more suitable to choose hiking and jogging.
Patients with heart disease, hypertension, acute and chronic bronchitis, emphysema, nephritis, anemia, tuberculosis, fever, acute infection, and patients in the active stage of calculus should not engage in excessive exercise such as mountaineering, swimming and running.
After Tomb-Sweeping Day, the climate becomes warmer, which makes people feel physically and mentally tired and sleepy. This is called spring sleep. Here, before getting up every morning, we can insist on sitting for a few simple actions, which will not only help us to be energetic all day, improve work efficiency, but also help us to strengthen our physical fitness.
Rub your face: after opening your eyes in the morning, rub the "Yingxiang point" next to your nostrils with your middle fingers for several times at the same time, then rub it up to your forehead, then separate it to both sides, and rub it down along your cheeks until the cheeks meet. Rubbing face for 20 times can promote facial blood circulation, and increase the effects of facial skin on resisting cold, refreshing brain and preventing colds.
Play the brain: sit on the bed and press the palms of your hands against your ears respectively. Flipping the back of the skull with the index finger, middle finger and ring finger, 3~4 times every morning, can relieve fatigue, prevent dizziness and enhance hearing.
Shepherd’s purse can benefit the liver
Zheng Min, deputy chief physician, reminded that during the Qingming period, the kidney qi is getting weaker, the heart qi is getting stronger, the liver qi is flourishing, and the climate is rainy and humid. Therefore, Qingming should pay attention to the following points in its diet.
Qingming should not eat too much "fat" food, such as bamboo shoots and chicken. Bamboo shoots are cold, slippery and gas-consuming. "Materia Medica from the New" says: "People who eat more bamboo shoots will cause more diseases", that is, people who have a long illness will have more qi deficiency, and eating bamboo shoots will more easily damage their qi and induce disease attacks. Spring is the season of hyperactivity of liver-yang, and eating chicken is easy to move wind and help liver fire, which will easily lead to the recurrence of chronic hepatitis, hypertension and other diseases.
Qingming should eat more foods that soften the liver and nourish the lungs, such as shepherd’s purse, spinach and yam. Shepherd’s purse can benefit the liver and the middle energizer, spinach can benefit the five internal organs and promote blood circulation, and yam has the function of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lung.
Qingming can take some proper nourishing products, such as tremella, which can moisten the lungs and produce fluid, nourish the yin and soften the liver. In the rising season of spring, taking tremella often can receive the effect of softening the liver and nourishing the lungs.
In addition, you can eat more leek, which is warm and rising in hair. It is a tonic in spring, which can increase the gastrointestinal peristalsis of human body, play the role of blood vessel scavenger, tonify liver and kidney and increase the body’s resistance, but it is not suitable for "warming up" or those who have accumulated fire and phlegm.
[Fang] Spring vegetables are used in medicinal diet.
The expert of medicinal diet in Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine recommended two kinds of medicinal diets suitable for spring.
Stir-fried mushroom with lily:
Ingredients: 50 grams of lily, 100 grams of celery, 30 grams of mushrooms, 30 grams of mushrooms, and appropriate amount of auxiliary materials.
Practice: Wash the lily without removing the coating film, wash and slice the rest mushrooms, stir-fry the mushrooms in the oil pan first, then add auxiliary materials, appropriate amount of water and lily to cook slightly, and add seasoning to serve.
Efficacy: Lily is sweet and cold in nature, which can nourish yin and moisten lung, clear heart and soothe the nerves. It is used for chronic cough due to yin deficiency, blood in phlegm, vexation and fright, insomnia and dreaminess. This medicated diet lily is crystal-clean, delicious, and has the effects of resolving phlegm, moistening lung and enhancing immunity. Note that lily coating has pharmacological effects, so it is generally not necessary to undress, and it can be seasoned when cooking.
Malan mixed with wolfberry fruit:
Ingredients: 100 grams of Malantou, 5 to 10 grams of Lycium barbarum, and proper amount of seasoning.
Practice: After washing and blanching Malan leaves, squeeze them into cold boiled water and cut them into powder. The cold boiled water in the head of Lycium barbarum is slightly swollen for use. Add appropriate amount of salt, seasoning and sesame oil to the end of Malantou, and then sprinkle with Lycium barbarum.
Efficacy: red and green, fresh and sweet. Clearing heat and moistening skin, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Spring in the south is the season when Malantou is listed. Using Lycium barbarum directly in cold salad can not only increase the color, but also protect the nutrients in Lycium barbarum from high temperature damage. This is a delicious and refreshing diet cold dish. Note that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not use it more.