Massage position: the intersection of the connecting line between the two ears and the midline of the head.
Massage method: Gently press Baihui point on the head with the index finger of the left hand or the right hand, rotate the finger close to Baihui point once, for 1 time, and press and knead for 30 times.
2, porridge therapy (1) celery porridge
Materials: celery root120g, 250g of japonica rice.
Practice: Wash celery, cut into six sections and wash japonica rice. Put celery and japonica rice into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then stew with slow fire until porridge is finished, add a little salt and monosodium glutamate, and stir well.
Efficacy: Celery porridge has the effects of calming the liver, clearing away heat, relieving cough, invigorating stomach, lowering blood pressure and reducing blood fat.
(2) Chrysanthemum porridge
Chrysanthemum powder 15g, japonica rice 100g.
Practice: Take off the pedicel of chrysanthemum, steam it in a cage, take it out and dry it in the sun or in the shade, and then grind it into fine powder for later use. Wash the japonica rice, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with strong fire, then cook it with slow fire until it is half cooked, add chrysanthemum fine powder, and continue to cook it with slow fire until the rice is rotten into porridge. Dinner twice a day.
Efficacy: Chrysanthemum porridge contains stevioside, volatile oil, flavonoids, choline, coumarins and alkaloids. It can inhibit a variety of pathogenic bacteria and influenza viruses, significantly dilate coronary arteries, increase coronary blood flow, and reduce blood pressure and blood lipids.
(3) mung bean seaweed porridge
Ingredients: mung bean and kelp100g, and appropriate amount of rice.
Practice: Chop kelp and cook it with the other two flavors into porridge. Can be eaten as a dinner for a long time.
Efficacy: Mung bean kelp porridge has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and lowering blood pressure. Suitable for essential hypertension.
(4) Lotus leaf porridge
Ingredients: fresh lotus leaf 1 piece, japonica rice 100g, a little rock sugar.
Practice: Wash and fry fresh lotus leaves into soup, and then cook porridge with lotus leaf soup, japonica rice and rock sugar. Hot food for breakfast and dinner.
Efficacy: Regular eating has the effects of clearing heat, heatstroke prevention, diuresis, lowering blood pressure and lowering blood fat.
3. Treat tea (1) Sophora japonica tea.
Raw materials: Sophora japonica and boiled water.
Practice: Take the buds of Sophora japonica to dry, soak them in boiling water and drink them as tea several times a day.
Efficacy: It has a unique therapeutic effect on patients with hypertension.
(2) hawthorn tea
Ingredients: 65438+ 0-2 pieces of hawthorn fruit.
Practice: Make tea with fresh hawthorn fruit 1-2 tablets several times a day.
Efficacy: Hawthorn contains ingredients that can help digestion, dilate blood vessels and lower blood sugar and blood pressure. At the same time, drinking hawthorn tea regularly has obvious auxiliary effect on treating hypertension.
(3) Polygonum multiflorum Thunb tea
Raw materials: Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. 20-30g.
Practice: Take 20-30g of Radix Polygoni Multiflori Preparata, add water and decoct for 30 minutes, then use it as tea after cooling, one dose per day.
Efficacy: Polygonum multiflorum Thunb has the function of reducing blood lipid and thrombosis. People with hyperlipidemia often drink Polygonum multiflorum tea, and the effect is very obvious.
(4) Apocynum venetum and Schisandra chinensis tea
Ingredients: 6 grams of apocynum venetum leaves, 5 grams of Schisandra chinensis, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: add apocynum venetum leaves, Schisandra chinensis and rock sugar, and brew with boiling water without drinking tea.
Efficacy: Drinking this tea regularly can lower blood pressure, improve hypertension symptoms and prevent coronary heart disease.
6 Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea has the following functions besides lowering blood pressure: 1. Gynostemma pentaphyllum can improve the ability of macrophages (immune cells), significantly increase the number of white blood cells, enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells, promote the secretion of interleukin in the body, and increase the production of serum immune proteins.
2. Gynostemma pentaphyllum can protect adrenal gland, thymus gland and endocrine organs from atrophy with age and maintain the normal function of endocrine system. Because Gynostemma pentaphyllum has this effect, it has the functions of lowering blood sugar and improving sugar metabolism. It is an ideal drug for diabetic patients and a good health care product for lowering blood sugar.
3. Regulating female endocrine has excellent curative effect on dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation and female climacteric syndrome, and also significantly improves constipation, insomnia, pigmentation, acne and gloomy complexion caused by female endocrine disorder.
4. Gynostemma pentaphyllum can reduce cholesterol (TCH), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL) and increase high density lipoprotein (HDL), protect the inner wall of blood vessels, prevent lipid from depositing on the wall of blood vessels, and resist arteriosclerosis. Gynostemma pentaphyllum can also regulate the waste fatty acids produced by oxygen decomposition in the body to achieve the purpose of reducing blood lipid. Gynostemma pentaphyllum tea generally has a feeling of not being greasy or greedy for meat for a long time after drinking for about three days.
5, promoting sleep Gynostemma pentaphyllum has the effect of nourishing the brain and calming the nerves, so it can adjust the balance of excitement and inhibition in the cerebral cortex, have a two-way adjustment effect on the central nervous system, and have the functions of sedation, hypnosis, anti-tension, fatigue relief and memory enhancement. Especially for insomnia, it has a quick therapeutic effect. Under normal circumstances, sleep will be significantly improved within one or two days.
6. Anti-fatigue Scientists have proved that Gynostemma pentaphyllum has anti-fatigue, strong and fitness effects through experiments on mice. The experimental results are as follows: Compared with mice without Gynostemma pentaphyllum, mice with Gynostemma pentaphyllum swim for about 365,438+0-57% longer than mice without Gynostemma pentaphyllum, and their physical strength recovers much faster. After taking Gynostemma pentaphyllum, people are more energetic, less prone to fatigue, and easy to recover even if they are tired, thus improving work efficiency.
After eating Gynostemma pentaphyllum for two to five days, I feel full of energy, and the backache caused by fatigue has disappeared.
7. Gynostemma pentaphyllum used for headache and neurasthenia also has the functions of relieving pain and asthma, so it has a good curative effect on neurasthenia, bronchial asthma, migraine, palpitation and shortness of breath, chest tightness and numbness, dizziness and headache, amnesia and tinnitus, spontaneous sweating and fatigue.
8, treatment of constipation Gynostemma pentaphyllum can protect the intestinal wall, peel off the waste deposited on the intestinal wall, maintain normal defecation, and treat constipation and loose stool, two-way conditioning. (Thin stool does not mean thin stool, but that kind of stool is shapeless and looks like mud, commonly known as loose stool. According to the reaction, the effect can be seen two to three days after taking Gynostemma pentaphyllum, and the effect is obvious in about one month, which is gradually consolidated.
9, stomach-regulating Gynostemma pentaphyllum can strengthen the stomach and improve digestion and absorption. If the patient has the symptoms of sour belching and abdominal distension, after taking Gynostemma pentaphyllum, the gastrointestinal peristalsis is accelerated, the appetite is increased, and the hunger and thirst tolerance time is long, which has a good conditioning effect on stomach diseases, stomach pains and gastrointestinal discomfort.
10, Gynostemma pentaphyllum can inhibit the production of free fatty alcohol and synthesis of neutral fat by adipocytes and prevent the transformation of glucose. Therefore, Gynostemma pentaphyllum can fundamentally avoid the production of fat, so there will be no weight loss rebound and achieve the effect of stable weight loss.
The experiment of adjusting fat and losing weight proved that the cholesterol and neutral fat contents of the two groups of women were similar by regular inspection and comparison between the five groups of women who insisted on taking Gynostemma pentaphyllum while eating fat and the five groups of women who did not eat meat or take Gynostemma pentaphyllum. It can be seen that Gynostemma pentaphyllum has a benign transformation and regulation effect on human fat.
1 1. Drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum for beauty and skin care can strengthen blood circulation and promote metabolism, thus maintaining and restoring skin health. Gynostemma pentaphyllum also has the effect of blackening hair and caring skin. Moreover, because Gynostemma pentaphyllum is rich in nutrients and vitamins, it is called the preferred health drink for beauty, skin care and weight loss.
12, counteracting the side effects of hormones Gynostemma pentaphyllum can counteract the side effects of dexamethasone and other hormones, obviously improve the immune function caused by tumors, restore organ atrophy caused by glucocorticoid, and prevent organ atrophy caused by hormones. It is a rare health care product for people taking hormone drugs.
13. The cancer inhibition rate can reach 20%-80%. Pharmacological tests have proved that Gynostemma pentaphyllum can prevent normal cells from becoming cancerous. Gynostemma pentaphyllum mainly acts on the DNA synthesis process of tumor cells, and obviously inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells such as stomach, rectum, uterus, esophagus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidney, lung, skin cancer and melanoma.
Anti-cancer pharmacological experiments show that Gynostemma pentaphyllum can not only prevent normal cells from becoming cancerous, but also promote cancer cells to gradually return to normal. Compared with the group without Gynostemma pentaphyllum, the cancer of mice with cancer decreased by 44.8% and the survival time was prolonged by 53.3%. Gynostemma pentaphyllum is an effective anticancer drug, which has obvious inhibitory effect on more than 20 kinds of cancers such as lung cancer, liver cancer and breast cancer. Taking Gynostemma pentaphyllum for a long time in healthy people can also reduce the risk of cancer.
14, prevention of prostate cancer Because the trace element selenium in the human body decreases with age, it will increase the probability of prostate cancer in middle-aged and elderly people. Gynostemma pentaphyllum contains 18 kinds of essential amino acids, and is rich in trace elements such as zinc, strontium, iron and selenium. Eating foods rich in selenium and trace elements can help prevent the risk of prostate cancer in men's later years. It must be noted that the more trace element selenium in the body, the smaller the risk of prostate cancer.
15 and anti-aging human cell culture experiments showed that the regeneration times of human skin cells, fetal cells and lung cells were 22 and 5 1 generation respectively, and the extracted gypenosides could be extended to 27 and 55 generations respectively. This proves that Gynostemma pentaphyllum plays a significant role in cell regeneration. It can prolong the generation of cell reproduction and passage, and prolong the cell life by 22% and 7%. It can enhance the activity and endurance of SOD. It can also inhibit the formation of substances that cause human aging (lipofuscin), prolong cell life and delay aging.
16, protecting blood vessels We all know that iron will rust if it is left in the air for a long time. This chemical process is called oxidation. Similarly, the organs of human body will be oxidized by substances called free radicals and "rust" like iron, which will lead to many diseases and accelerate aging. Gynostemma pentaphyllum not only directly provides cell nutrition, but also can resist the damage of free radicals to cells, maintain the normal metabolism of cells from the side and ensure smooth blood vessels.
17, improve immunity sub-health refers to an intermediate state between health and disease, neither health nor disease. Simply put, sub-health refers to a physiological and psychological state in which the body has no index of organic pathological changes, but its immunity is reduced, its physiological function is low, its vitality is reduced, and its adaptability is reduced. Gynostemma pentaphyllum can improve human immunity and effectively eliminate sub-health state.
18. Gynostemma pentaphyllum can enhance the vitality of heart and brain, increase coronary artery flow, relieve arteriosclerosis and promote the overall circulation to be more vigorous and smooth on the basis of reducing myocardial wall tension and relieving cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular resistance.
19, anti-allergic A certain part of the human body is weak, and it will be allergic to certain substances, thus forming symptoms such as bronchial wheezing, skin papules and joint pain. Gynostemma pentaphyllum has a good therapeutic effect on these diseases.
20. Other aspects Gynostemma pentaphyllum has other effects in other aspects, such as preventing and treating cerebral thrombosis, diabetes, asthma, migraine, bronchitis, oral ulcer, gastric ulcer, hepatitis B and other stubborn diseases.
7 Pay attention to 1 when drinking Gynostemma pentaphyllum and asparagus tea. Friends who drink Gynostemma pentaphyllum and asparagus tea for the first time had better drink a small amount first, and then gradually increase the amount after the body adapts until it suits their favorite taste. Drinking too much at a time is easy for the stomach to accept and diarrhea occurs.
2, the water for making tea should not be too low, because the saponin contained in Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea has a high melting point. It should be dissolved at a high temperature above 80 degrees. Hot boiled water can not only fully leach the effective components of Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea, but also maintain the color and good taste of the tea.
3, it is not appropriate to drink Gynostemma pentaphyllum and asparagus tea every day. Drinking it every day will stimulate the digestion of the spleen and stomach, otherwise it will easily destroy the normal digestive function of the stomach and lead to gastrointestinal discomfort. Therefore, it is recommended to drink 2-3 times a week on average.
4, can not drink overnight Gynostemma pentaphyllum asparagus tea is easy to breed bacteria, especially in summer, drinking it is easy to have diarrhea, it is best to get up in the morning and drink a cup on an empty stomach, the effect is particularly good, hydrating, preventing constipation, clearing the brain, diluting blood, reducing blood viscosity and promoting blood circulation.
5. Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea should not be eaten with cool ingredients or herbs, and it is best not to drink with cool foods or herbs, such as common chrysanthemums and cassia seeds. These herbs are compatible with Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea, which may cause physical discomfort due to their excessively cold properties. In addition, people who are physically weak and afraid of cold should use cold medicine and ingredients of Gynostemma pentaphyllum and asparagus tea with caution to avoid more side effects and aggravate the original symptoms.
6. Don't wash tea. There is no need to wash the tea when brewing Gynostemma pentaphyllum and Gracilaria lemaneiformis tea Washing tea is an essential process when we usually make tea, which allows us to taste the delicious tea better when drinking tea. But don't have this process when brewing Gynostemma pentaphyllum and asparagus tea, because it will waste the effective substances brewed. If you must wash tea, you'd better wash it with cold water.
7. Taboo people (1) have a bad stomach, and people with cold constitution should not drink it;
(2) Infants, pregnant women and lactating women should not drink it;
(3) Old people, children and patients with physical symptoms should drink under the guidance and advice of doctors.
(4) Those who have adverse reactions such as nausea, vomiting and dizziness after taking Gynostemma pentaphyllum Gracilaria tea should stop drinking.