Modern women are both internal and external masters, playing important roles both in the family and at work. Therefore, women should love themselves well and pay attention to their own health.
So, how much do you know about women's health? Do you know that these details in life that you haven't paid attention to are hurting your body
Cold evil, the first external evil that harms women's physical health
Nine out of ten women nowadays have a cold and damp constitution, especially in the south. When women realize that they have a cold and damp constitution, they urgently seek a formula to expel the cold evil in their bodies.
However, using antipyretic drugs alone is not enough to cure cold evil. What should women do then?
Understanding the source of cold evil is the fundamental way to solve the problem.
Many women are aware of the cold dampness constitution, but unknowingly, cold evil enters their bodies. In fact, women who understand the entry channels of these cold pathogens can completely avoid their invasion:
1. Eating: Prefers foods that are cold, damp, and yin cold
Women belong to Yin and have a naturally cold and evil constitution. They are more suitable for eating foods that supplement Yang energy, at least not foods that damage Yang energy. Many women prefer to eat fruits and drink milk.
Fruits are mostly cold and damp, and eating too much can damage the spleen yang. Many women experience stomach pain and continuous phlegm and dampness when they eat some fruits. In fact, fruits have many benefits in modern medicine. In traditional Chinese medicine, there is also a saying that the five fruits are helpful, but everything should be moderate. Eating more fruits can cause damage to the spleen and stomach.
Suggestion: Women should not eat fruits as food and drink milk as water, because women are born with a yin cold constitution and cannot control yin cold foods, which can be affected by cold and dampness.
2. Wearing: Greedy and showing important parts of the body
Exposed shoulders can lead to shoulder periarthritis; Exposing one's waist can harm the fire of the life gate. The knee is the weakest point and also the blind spot of the body, which is the favorite hiding place for cold and dampness.
Clothes with waist and navel exposed can exude sexiness and personal charm, but they are very detrimental to health.
There is a very important acupoint in our lower back: the gate of life.
The kidney is the innate foundation of human beings, and there is true fire hidden in the gates of life. Kidney qi has the function of warming the body's yang energy. In addition, the navel is also an important acupoint called Shenque.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the navel is a acupoint that connects the five organs and six viscera. "The navel is the foundation of the five organs and six viscera, and the root of the accumulation of vital energy.". The health or diseases of the five organs and six organs can be reflected through the navel, which is a barometer of people's health. Therefore, we need to focus on taking good care of the navel.
If you often wear low waisted pants and navel revealing clothing, it is easy to cause cold evil to the kidneys and navel, leading to a loss of kidney qi, insufficient yang qi in the body, and poor blood flow, even lower body numbness, pain, and coldness.
The abdomen is most afraid of the cold, and even the veins are afraid of the cold; The Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian, and Ren Meridian are all located in the waist and abdomen. Therefore, in daily life, it is important to pay great attention to keeping these areas warm.
3. Blow: The sky is hot and greedy for coolness, invaded by wind evil
The cold evil in ancient times was mostly generated in natural environments, such as sudden cold weather and people not having time to wear more clothes. Throughout the long period of human existence, the situation has mostly been like this. That is to say, the human body has basically evolved to adapt to the changes of the four seasons in nature. Summer is hot, winter is cold, and the human body basically has the ability to adapt.
But in modern society, which has been nearly a century, this situation has been completely changed. Firstly, the emergence of air conditioning has created a microclimate pattern that has not appeared in the past few hundred thousand years.
What kind of pattern is it? It's like being outdoors in the scorching sun for the first thirty minutes, and entering indoors in the last thirty minutes is a chilly air-conditioned environment. Then go out and sweat, and then come back trembling.
In this way, humans have evolved their bodies for tens or hundreds of thousands of years, but in recent decades, they have suddenly encountered new situations, and the challenges are actually significant. In summer, the air conditioning in various shopping malls, subways, offices, and other places is fully turned on. People's bodies are being tested back and forth in this alternation of cold and hot.
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon states that the summer sun is a very good medicine for nourishing yang energy. Modern women like to wear navel baring clothes and drink cold drinks in air-conditioned rooms, and the cold entering the body is basically a guaranteed thing.
The wind of the air conditioner is a false and evil wind, which can block the pores and prevent the body from releasing moisture, resulting in various urticaria and eczema. At this point, women think they have a fire and then take cold medicine, but the more they treat it, the worse it becomes. So when using air conditioning in summer, it is important to pay attention to the temperature and direction of the air conditioning, as well as wear more clothing, and try to minimize exposing your skin to the outside mirror of the air conditioning.
Some women take advantage of the cold evil by not taking good care of themselves during postpartum confinement. Postpartum is the weakest time for the body. It is advisable to stay cool before childbirth and warm after childbirth. Many women don't sit during their postpartum period, toss around, don't pay attention to food, dress, and swim, and eventually end up with postpartum illness. As they age, the cold and dampness come to collect debts, causing their bodies to churn and their intestines to turn blue.
Suggestion: Women can do a good job of sun protection, allowing other parts of the body to fully contact the sun and expel the cold from the body. Many cold women have solved years of cold and dampness problems by sunbathing their backs during the dog days, and various body pains have been relieved.
Stagnation of blood stasis, qi and blood stasis, causing damage to physical health due to lack of honor and obstruction
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that women's bodies are very afraid of stagnation of qi and blood. Because the physiological systems of women, such as the uterus, rely on the warm nourishment of the blood. Once a cold evil strikes, the qi and blood of those who lack proper qi will coagulate, posing a threat to women.
Especially during the physiological period, after the stagnation of qi and blood, the accumulation will be difficult to eliminate, which can have adverse consequences.
Women are more prone to blood stasis than men because they are naturally lacking in yang energy and do not enjoy exercise. Blood stasis can cause spots and discoloration on a woman's face.
Therefore, women should learn to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis by the age of thirty. They cannot just spend money on cosmetics, treating symptoms rather than the root cause!
There are two main types of Qi and blood imbalance, one is lack of honor and the other is obstruction. Blood stasis belongs to obstruction. There are five reasons for the formation of congestion:
As mentioned earlier, being cold is the primary factor causing women to experience congestion;
Qi deficiency, because Qi cannot promote the circulation of blood, blood will stagnate;
Qi stagnation is like traffic jam on a highway. If one's breath is blocked, naturally blood will also be blocked;
Blood deficiency is like a river with little water flow that cannot wash away the sand and stones in the river;
Heat evil, to the extreme, can damage the body fluids, just like when the river water is dried in the sun, the fish in the water cannot swim anymore.
How can we dispel stasis without damaging the vital energy?
1. The most cost-effective way to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis is through exercise
If there is a medicine to hold in one's own hand, it is appropriate exercise. Exercise itself promotes the circulation of Qi and blood in the body, which can slowly dissipate and take away excess energy from the blood, promoting the decomposition and utilization of energy.
Just like the old-fashioned faucet in the past, if the water pipe rusts after being used for a long time, and the water is opened too much, it will bring out yellow rust water, but if the water is small, it will not. Exercise is like regularly increasing the blood flow in the blood vessels, washing away the accumulation of stagnant fat and other debris in the blood vessels.
This method of removing blood stasis is regulated by the human body's own regulatory mechanism and is not prone to adverse reactions, but it is important to be cautious and avoid excessive exercise. Whether it's jogging, Tai Chi, Baduan Brocade, etc., this effect can be achieved, and the key is to persist in exercise.
2. Through moxibustion (selected for people with cold coagulation and blood stasis)
Ai Ye has a warm, spicy, and bitter nature. Warm can dispel cold, spicy can stimulate the orifices, and bitter can unblock. For people with cold coagulation and blood stasis, they are usually afraid of cold and the affected area is cold. The function of moxibustion warm circulation powder can be used to promote the interaction and circulation of qi and blood.
Moxibustion is a method of dispelling and dispersing cold pathogens, allowing blood flow to slowly return to normal from a cold state. Coagulation of stagnant blood is dissolved by heat to achieve the function of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
Moxibustion is a product that restores yang and is not easily harmful to the body's qi.
3. Eating foods that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis frequently
By absorbing through the intestines and stomach, slowly adding some ingredients that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis can also safely and effectively produce the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, without easily causing side effects. But it is not easy to overeat at once. You can add a small amount of blood activating and stasis removing ingredients in each meal, such as black fungus, hawthorn, onions, and scallions, in small quantities and multiple times.
Liver qi discomfort, many diseases in women are related to it
Many diseases in women are related to liver qi discomfort.
Not only traditional Chinese medicine, but modern medicine also proves that there is a very high correlation between emotions and diseases. If the first two factors can be avoided and resolved by understanding some health principles, then only "emotions", even if women know that they have a significant impact, they are "powerless".
1. Qi stagnation, prone to liver depression
Ten women and nine depression, why are women more prone to liver depression? In fact, this is closely related to the fact that women are naturally more emotional, easily troubled and angry about small things.
The liver is responsible for regulating blood flow, which can unblock the entire body's qi and make it smooth without stagnation, and disperse without depression. The liver, on the other hand, prefers relaxation and dislikes depression. If one's emotions are not well controlled and they tend to get angry, it can lead to dysfunction of liver function and stagnation of qi, resulting in liver depression.
Liver depression leads to the loss of qi and blood circulation, the stagnation of phlegm and dampness, and the accumulation of phlegm and dampness over time.
2. Liver qi discomfort, prone to discomfort
If you often wake up from 1 to 3 am after falling asleep, accompanied by symptoms such as bitter mouth, dry mouth, dizziness, poor appetite, chest tightness, palpitations, rib pain, irritability, nausea and vomiting, and insomnia and excessive dreaming, it is mostly caused by liver qi discomfort. Long term insomnia can also affect your appearance, and dark spots and freckles often appear on your cheeks.
If the liver qi is not comfortable for a long time, it is easy to become depressed and turn into fire, exhibiting symptoms such as dizziness, blushing, red eyes, bitter mouth, constipation, and incomplete menstrual flow. It can be said that liver qi discomfort is the main cause of gynecological diseases, and more attention should be paid.
3. Soothing the liver and regulating qi, try moxibustion
Firstly, it is important to regulate one's emotions. Do not turn a blind eye to anything, maintain a calm mindset, make rational judgments about the reasonableness of the situation, think from multiple perspectives about problem-solving methods, and avoid being impulsive!