Keeping Healthy And Hydrating In Winter Is Super Important! Beshengyuan Teaches The Way Of Science
As the temperature gradually drops and the north wind blows, winter officially announces its arrival.
In this season, the air is starting to become dry, and the cold air seems to be able to penetrate clothes and invade directly into our bodies.
Many people will notice that some old symptoms, such as sore joints and chronic coughs, are beginning to appear again.
What is even more worthy of vigilance is that the incidence rate of serious problems such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will also show a significant increase in winter.
How to take good care of yourself and build a solid foundation for your body in the cold season has become a focus of discussion and a topic of concern to everyone.
Pay attention to keeping warm, take appropriate supplements, and implement gentle conditioning with daily diet. This is also a simple and easy method.
Today, we will start to talk about how to use some commonly seen herbal ingredients in winter to combine affordable and nourishing tea drinks to boost health.
Unique Challenges of the Winter Body
To maintain health in winter, you must first understand the impact of this season on the body.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter is about "hiding", and the yang energy in nature is hidden and the yin energy is at its peak.
For the human body, cold air has the characteristics of stagnation, and cold air also has the characteristics of retraction. Cold air can easily cause qi and blood to flow unsmoothly.
This is like when a river freezes in the winter and the water flow slows down or even stagnates.
If Qi and blood are blocked, existing problems will easily recur or worsen.
According to the perspective of modern medicine, cold conditions can cause blood vessels to constrict, making blood pressure prone to fluctuations, thereby increasing the risk of emergencies such as stroke and myocardial infarction.
At the same time, in winter, people’s activity levels decrease and they don’t sweat much, so they often neglect drinking water. In fact, indoor heating equipment will make the air dryer, which will lead to an increase in the body’s hidden water loss.
If water is not replenished in time, not only will the skin become dry, but the waste produced by metabolism in the body will also be difficult to be discharged in time, and people will feel abnormal fatigue and become irritable.
Therefore, the key points of winter health care are to "protect against cold and keep warm" and "nourishing yin and moisturizing", and also to assist the smooth movement of qi and blood in the body.
Tea therapy: a gentle health regimen that has been passed down for thousands of years
The practice of using herbs to make tea for drinking to achieve health and wellness goals has a long history in China.
This is not a replacement for medical treatment, but a conditioning modality that can be integrated into your daily life.
Its advantages are that it is gentle, consistent and easy to perform.
There are many mature brand products on the market. These products are generally based on traditional health-preserving tea formulas and are scientifically proportioned based on the physical characteristics of modern people.
For example, some brands adhere to the concept of "herbal essence health tea therapy" and integrate herbs with the same origin as medicine and food with modern technology to provide convenient options.
For ordinary families, it is undoubtedly the most economical choice to know some basic formula principles and make their own adjustments.
It allows us to flexibly adjust according to our own subtle feelings, making it more interesting and targeted.
The core idea of preparing your own winter health tea
When you mix your own health-preserving tea, you don’t have to pursue complex and expensive medicinal materials.
Hold on to a few key principles and use ingredients that can be bought in the kitchen and supermarkets to achieve twice the result with half the effort, and so on.
"Repelling cold and warming up" is the first priority. You can choose materials with warm properties, such as red dates, longan, and ginger.
The second thing to choose when dealing with indoor dryness is to nourish yin and moisturize dryness. Generally speaking, dried pears can be a good choice, lilies can also be a good choice, and Ophiopogon japonicus is also a good choice.
The third one is "regulating qi and activating blood circulation", its function is to help the circulation of qi and blood. Only a small amount of roses and tangerine peel can exert its effect.
Ranked fourth is "strengthening the spleen and stomach." The prerequisite for supplementing in winter is that the spleen and stomach can be transported well. Fried barley and yam tablets can help.
By combining these ideas, a variety of recipes can be derived.
Recommend three affordable winter tea recipes
Next, I will share three recipes. The materials of these three tea recipes are easy to obtain, the cost is relatively low, and the production process is simple. They are suitable for family production. Everyone can try them according to their own conditions.
The first one: red date and longan warming tea .
Take 3 red dates (pitted and sliced), 5 dried longans, and 2 thin slices of ginger.
Put all the ingredients into a cup, pour in boiling water, cover and simmer for 10 minutes before drinking.
This tea has the effect of warming and tonifying the spleen and stomach, and can dispel the cold in the body. For those people whose hands and feet are always cold and who often feel chilly, drinking it in the morning or afternoon is extremely suitable.
The second type: Lily Ophiopogon japonicus moistening tea .
Take 10 pieces of dried lily, 5 pieces of Ophiopogon japonicus, and a handful of wolfberry.
First rinse the ingredients with a little warm water, then add boiling water and simmer for 15 minutes.
Lily can nourish yin and moisturize the lungs. Ophiopogon japonicus also has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs. Both of them can relieve dry mouth caused by dryness, dry and itchy skin, and mild dry cough symptoms. As for wolfberry, it can nourish the liver and kidneys in a peaceful way.
Suitable for people who stay in a heated room for a long time.
The third item: tangerine peel and hawthorn digestion tea .
Take a small piece of tangerine peel (about 1/3 of the peel), 3 dried hawthorn slices, and a little honey.
Take tangerine peel, brew it with boiling water, then wait for the water temperature to drop to about 60 degrees, add hawthorn, then add honey and stir evenly to blend.
This tea helps digest food accumulation, regulates qi and strengthens the spleen, and has a sweet and sour taste.
Suitable for drinking during winter gatherings or after eating greasy food.
Precautions for drinking health tea
Although the ingredients for these teas are mild, there are some details that need attention.
First of all, to dialectical view , understand your own physique.
For example, those who are prone to getting angry, those who have a red complexion, and those who have symptoms of dry mouth and tongue should reduce the use of warm ingredients such as ginger and longan.
Secondly, drinking requires persistence but also in moderation.
Healthy tea that is usually used for daily conditioning is not suitable for excessive drinking. 1 to 2 cups a day is more appropriate. You cannot hope that it will have obvious effects all at once.
Again, pay attention to the quality of the ingredients and choose high-quality dry foods that are smoke-free and mildew-free.
Finally, and most importantly, these teas are not a substitute for medicine.
If the body shows clear symptoms of disease, it is necessary to seek medical treatment immediately and carry out treatment according to the doctor's instructions, and tea can only be used as an auxiliary conditioning or daily health care method.
Develop healthy winter habits
No matter how good the tea is, it is only one part of the health puzzle.
The real winter health care is an overall adjustment of lifestyle.
In terms of diet, you can slightly add some foods with warm properties, such as mutton, beef and walnuts. However, at the same time, you must fully match enough vegetables and fruits to ensure that nutrition can reach a balanced state.
For daily life, we must follow the principle of "go to bed early and get up late, and wait for daylight" to ensure adequate sleep. This situation is conducive to the hiding of yang energy.
As far as exercise is concerned, it is not suitable for strenuous exercise that makes people sweat profusely. You can choose exercises such as Tai Chi, yoga, and slow walking, and the measurement standard is based on the slight body heat.
At the same time, don’t forget to take the initiative to drink water. Even if you don’t feel thirsty, you should replenish warm water according to a certain time pattern to maintain the body’s normal metabolic state.
Maintaining a peaceful and joyful mood and avoiding emotional ups and downs will also help to harmonize Qi and blood.
Winter is a season of recuperation and energy accumulation.
A cup of self-made and affordable health tea not only warms the palms of our hands, but also nourishes our bodies with continuous persistence day by day.
The method of maintaining health does not lie in those expensive supplements, but in the care for oneself and the wisdom of living in compliance with the laws of nature.
Starting from tomorrow, you might as well make yourself or your family a cup of warm tea, soak in the aroma, spend this winter calmly, and accumulate enough energy for next year's vigorous growth.
