Monday, February 8, 2010

Choosing the appropriate method of walk

It is for health that ordinary walk in general. Walk includes slow speed (60-70 steps / min) and medium-speed (80-90 steps / min). It would better walks about 30-60 minutes each time. It can reduce to 20-30 minutes each time for the elderly who suffer from coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and respiratory disease.

It is suitable for ordinary middle-aged people, physically healthy and chronic arthritis, gastrointestinal disease, patients with hypertension recovery that walk quickly for about 30-60 minutes each time, 90-120 steps / minute.

Walk with swinging double arms, as the speed of 60-90 steps / minute. It can improve the activity of shoulder and thorax. It is suitable for the patients who have tuberculosis, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, respiratory disease and frozen shoulder, upper and lower extremities.

Walk as the speed of 30-60 steps / minute, meanwhile massage the abdomen. Double hands rotating message the abdomen. Massage the abdomen one round and walk one step. Massage abdomen with corotation and rollback alternately, each time for 3-5 minutes. It could be knew from a modern point of view that it can promote the secretion of gastric juice to enhance gastrointestinal tract motility, contribute to treat chronic indigestion and gastrointestinal tract through gentle abdominal massage.

It should limit the amount of walk according to the movement intensity, include the distance, speed, slope, and break frequency and duration. It is need to divide the intensity of walk. The intensity of walk should is 130 times / min as standard for 30 years old, 120 times / min as standard for 40 years old, 110 times / min as standard for 60 years old. It could be 30 to 60 minutes for a walk. It has a good result to the reduction of abdominal fat, lowering blood pressure and enhancing the body's light pleasure.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

A good sleep depend on warm water and foot bath

The feet are farthest from the heart where it is a bad supply to blood. Because subcutaneous fat of foot is less, the ability of warmth is poor, so it is a fairly common situation to cold feet. In particular, there are many acupuncture points of feet related with upper respiratory tract mucosa. If feet are cold, then immunity decline, it is apt to cause upper respiratory infection. Feet bath and massage before going to bed, it can lead entraining air to downstream, so that the feet will warm up immediately to help sleep. Ready a pot of hot water which the temperature about 30 ~ 40 degrees to soak feet for about 20 to 30 minutes generally. Material of feet bath is 50g of dried wormwood or Guizhi (can be bought in pharmacies) and boil, and can add a piece of old ginger or wine. When feet are bathing, you can massage feet. It can speed up blood circulation.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Enough sleep to store Yang-gas

Chinese medicine mentioned that the yang-gas means can promote the operation of the internal organs, and is the source of the human body warm. If yang gas is not sufficient, it will lead to malaise of spirit and afraid of the cold easily.

Enough sleep, just to add to deficiency of yang gas. In particular, it need to got bed early and get up late. It is the time to get up when the sun came out. You can avoid the early morning cold, but also can reduce the chronic diseases due to excessive temperature caused by rapid contraction in blood vessels, and lead to heart disease, stroke. Try not to stay up all night. The resistance of body is particularly weak 1:00 pm in morning; the epinephrine secretion of body is lowest at this time. As long as the temperature decreases a little, some patients of having asthma are most likely to attack. The body would have sufficient the ability to resist external cold and pressure if has adequate sleep and rest.

If it is suddenly cold, you can press the back of the tiger's mouth He Gu point to strengthen the blood circulation.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Relieve stress and maintain a good mood

Stress is the reason to make blood circulation to deteriorate. Japanese studies have found that about 70% of women have troubles of cold hands and feet. These new women have fewer sleep and irregular working hours. The blood vessels continued contract, at last, lead to blood circulation becomes bad to worse.

Therefore, experts suggest, you would better divided time into three copies of the day. It is 8 hours for work, 8 hours sleeping, 8 hours to do their favorite thing. For example, getting together with friends, listening to music, learn to relax. All these will help to improve cold hands and feet.

It is apt to make people have depression and emotional instability in cold weather. You can drive limbs with soul, through simple exercise, it can secrete endorphins, make people happy.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

More tonic effect the health in winter

It is need to conditioning originally weak body and strength to resist the cold through eating tonic in winter. But it is not everyone need for tonic in fact, because the nutrient is rich. If your hands and feet are cold, then you need add moderate diet cooked with some drugs, such as Si Wu soup, sesame chicken and so on to accelerate blood circulation.

It should not eat more diet cooked with some drugs, if you have dry mouth, bad breath, constipation, or high blood pressure. If you have some cases of having a cold, fever and diarrhea, you would best to stop all kinds of supplements to avoid worse.

Some patients who have chronic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus should not eat these supplements. If eat these supplements, it can make the disease worse. It should look for Chinese medicine.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Warm food can prevent cold

Food can let the body feel warm, and it is the fastest you can take, especially have a hot drink, such as hot milk With high protein, the brown sugar ginger tea with prescription for warming, the West rosemary tea, cinnamon tea, these are a good source of heating. Vitamin E and Nicotinic Acid is in sesame and peanuts. It can help the absorption of vitamin B, strengthening the capacity of nerves against the cold. Vitamin E has a role in expansion of blood vessels; it can enhance the peripheral blood circulation. Walnut is rich in nutritional value; it is suitable for long-term cough and asthma patients in the winter.

Some spicy foods, such as shallot, ginger, garlic, also make the body produce warm feeling. But if you are the high blood pressure and skin allergies, should eat a little. It is the best to eat food of light and less greasy to avoid increasing the burden on stomach. In addition, you can increase the quantity of staple food for child just a little. Because the cold weather is easier to consume quantity of heat, while the amount of children's activities in the winter will not be reduced, it will require more quantity of heat to add.

The role of old ginger is warm; it is used mainly in pregnant women during confinement. The role of fresh ginger is sweating; it is used mainly to remove the cold.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Exercise without lazy

To adapt to the cold, we must first improve their resistance to the cold. Movement is the best way. Habit of continuing regular exercise can improve constitution which is afraid of cold.

China has a saying: "Move in the winter, less disease in the winter." Sports can indeed stimulate the muscles, blood circulation, boost the immune system. In particular, people eat food and usually lead to a nutrition surplus. Therefore it was suggested that “Food cures better than medicine, Movement better than food cures ".

But the winter sports should not be too intense; it is good generally to sweat slightly. You can play Tai Ji, do the soft exercise or yoga, it can increase the blood circulation. Encourage everyone to do more walk, it can improve stomach
To do housework, sweeping the floor is also a very good campaign.

Remember to keep warm when you go out for sports, with a towel to wipe sweat. Do pre-exercise to warm body, in order to avoid excessive temperature, and lead to physical discomfort.