The change of autumn and winter is the season of the year when you are most likely to catch a cold! When you have a cold, especially in a closed room or before going to bed, you often feel stuffy and can’t breathe, making you dizzy. Western medicine often uses antihistamines and acetaminophen to treat colds, which can immediately relieve the discomfort but can have many side-effects, such as drowsiness and lethargy; from a Chinese medicine point of view, colds are called wind evils, and the influenza we often hear about is a more severe form of wind, which is called a warm disease or epidemic in Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine has its own way of preventing colds and avoiding the side effects of taking Western medicine.
The so-called wind evil refers to the combination of wind and cold evil. According to the ancient Chinese medicine records, “wind and cold in people, so that people hair straight, the skin closed and for heat.” Therefore, once the body is affected by the wind will have a heavy head and feet, sore muscles and bones, nasal congestion, runny nose, so treatment to “dispel wind and cold” as the principle. Chinese medicine doctor Sheng-Pu Lee said, winter easy to catch a cold, wind evil, is because the body does not coordinate the movement, once the lack of vital Qi, not enough energy, poor nutrition, ” three not ” as long as there is a not, will make the body weak, viruses, wind and cold can take advantage of, people will be easy to catch a cold.
To resist such “external enemies”, we must normally reserve enough qi and blood, nutrition, so that the body’s internal mechanism of operation can have the raw materials to support the body’s operation, but also to repel external viruses, bacteria. In terms of Chinese medicine, the universe and the body’s operation, there are its natural mechanisms, and that “qi” is the most basic material that constitutes the world, everything in the universe, are the results of the movement and changes in qi. The human body is the view of the universe, the human body, derived from the development of “kidney qi”; therefore, Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee pointed out that if the kidneys are not good, then the qi is insufficient, qi is insufficient, it is easy to premature aging, physical deficiency.
Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee said, Chinese medicine, winter is easy to cause disease is another cause of “external evil”, external evil is the source of disease, such as wind, heat, humidity, dryness, cold, fire. To avoid disease, in addition to “Qi smooth” to maintain a healthy body, the immune system must also play its defensive function; therefore, the usual diet intake, rest is to maintain physiological function.
Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee stressed that in order to strengthen the body in winter, there are only two ways. The first is to eat less ice, because the body will eat nutrition after the body needs heat to convert it into energy to carry nutrition to all parts of the body, if the temperature of colder food into the body, it will affect the Qi smooth, Chinese medicine believes that the Qi is not smooth will slow down the body’s transport function; second is more warm body, you can eat more warm food, exercise to maintain body temperature, do not let the limbs, head cold, because as long as the body is warm, you can maintain the body Just like a machine needs to be “warmed up” in order for the machine to operate smoothly. It is recommended that sesame oil and shredded ginger be added to dishes to warm up the body and to help smooth the air and prevent colds.
Originally from: Healthnews.com.tw
Healthnews/ Reporter Shuo-Ying Xu reports 2015/12/01
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