Some people have said before that maintaining good health means nourishing yang energy. Nurturing yang energy is very important for the human body. Many people may be weak, prone to colds, and easily afraid of the cold, so they need to nourish yang energy. In fact, it is very good to maintain health in Futian. It can prevent many diseases. So what are the ways to nourish Yang Qi? How to nourish Yang Qi in Futian?
1. Sweat during exercise to replenish yang energy
Go outdoors for more exercise in summer, such as Tai Chi, Baduanjin, jogging, dancing, etc. Sweating all over will help It releases Yang Qi and removes cold and dampness from the body.
For those who work overtime and don’t have time to exercise, taking a warm bath and basking in the sun, especially your back, can also replenish your yang.
This is because there are Beishu points of various organs on the back, which are also where the Du channel is located. The Du Vein is the ‘sea of ??Yang Veins’, which governs and regulates Yang Qi throughout the body. The Ming Dynasty medical book "Four Essentials of Health Preservation" also mentioned that "the back is attached to the five internal organs. The back is always warm, and the warmth will not damage the lungs."
But whether you are doing exercise or sunbathing, you can stop when you feel your whole body sweating. There is no need to sweat profusely. Because of excessive sweating, Yang Qi will leak out excessively.
2. Diet therapy and nourishing yang rely on ginger
As the saying goes, "If you eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, you don't need a doctor to prescribe medicine." Ginger is pungent and warm in nature and has the effect of dispersing wind-cold, warming the middle and warming the stomach. It can treat colds due to wind-cold, as well as stomachache, vomiting and other cold symptoms caused by deficiency of the spleen and stomach.
Pay attention to "go to bed with carrots and get out of bed with ginger". Ginger can stimulate yang energy, but the human body's yang energy converges at night, so it should not be eaten.
3. Cupping and scraping to drive away cold
Cupping and scraping are equivalent to artificial "perspiration". In an air-conditioned environment, people's pores are blocked and they rarely sweat. Cupping and scraping therapy can open the pores and vent the body surface, which is beneficial to excreting dampness, wind and cold evils in the body. It can treat colds, muscle and joint pain caused by wind and cold, etc.
Tips for cupping: Identify the meridians and use home cupping to dispel cold. The locations can be the Du Vessel and the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian. The Du Channel is the spine. There are two main trunks of the Foot-Taiyang Bladder Meridian, which run two fingers apart from the left and right sides of the spine and are approximately parallel to the spine.
4. Soak your feet in summer to nourish your body.
Foot soaking is not just for winter. The five internal organs of the human body have corresponding reflex zones in the feet. Soaking your feet with warm water in summer can also help dredge meridians, support Yang and dispel cold.
Add some warming herbs into the hot water for foot soaking to achieve a better yang-tonifying effect.
5. Moxa stick moxibustion dispels cold and nourishes yang
Moxa leaves are pungent and warm in nature, and are good at moving. With the help of fire, they can penetrate deep into the internal organs to dispel cold and drive away dampness.
Moxibustion tips: Moxibustion on Fengmen, Beishu, and Fengmen points with your head down. At the junction of the neck and back, there is a protruding bone and a depression below the bone. Starting from this depression, go down to the spinous process of the second thoracic vertebra, then take the depression below it as the center, and take 2 fingers on each side to form this point. Moxibustion on this acupoint has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving symptoms.
Beishu point is the collective name of a group of acupoints, including Xinshu point, Pishu point, Dachangshu point, etc. This group of acupuncture points is located 2 fingers apart on the left and right sides of the spine on the back. Moxibustion can be performed by moving the moxa stick left and right near the spine. Moxibustion on this group of acupoints helps to regulate the deficiency of the five internal organs.
6. Strengthen dietary maintenance
In the cold winter, the body is in a sealed state, the yang energy is not released indiscriminately, and the spleen and liver functions are relatively strong. It is a good time to nourish yin. For the elderly who suffer from a loss of yin essence, insufficient yang energy, and lukewarm limbs in winter, they can choose foods with high heat production, rich nutrition, and strong flavor and color, such as mutton, dog meat, beef, lean pork, chicken, etc. In addition, glutinous rice, soybeans, longan meat, black sesame seeds, walnuts, etc. are all good products to nourish the heart and strengthen the kidneys and essence in winter, so you can eat more of them. For dietary supplements in winter, it is advisable to choose foods that are lighter and milder and can support healthy qi and replenish vitality.