For influenza, try a Chinese medicine trick

2018-01-19 People's Daily online

Since the beginning of winter, influenza has been high everywhere in China. "Cold wind, fever, headache, cough and sound," wrote Yang shiying of the northern song dynasty. The qing dynasty Lin peiqin put forward in "the class of evidence to cure" : "the cold of the time, cold and hot, cold without sweat, shen su drink, ginseng lose poison to spread."

There are many simple and easy ways to prevent the flu:

A hot water bubble. Soak your feet every night to improve blood circulation at the bottom of your feet. In addition to drive the cold and loose wind, it can also warm the Yang pulse. All the Yang meridian of human body starts from the foot, the hot water soak can achieve health care, prevent the effect of cold. Soak your feet in hot water for 15 minutes each night, and drop in some vinegar or a small amount of prickly ash in the water. When the feet are soaked, the water should not be over the feet, and the feet are flushed. You can also use the palm to rub the bottom of the foot of the spring, to expel the chill. In particular, headache, chills, pain and other mild symptoms, hot water bubble foot helps to block the occurrence of the cold.

Massage acupoint. Head and face acupoint massage plays an important role in preventing and treating colds. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the head is the meeting of the sun, the body meridian of the Yang qi in the head and face, massage the head and face of the acupoint can prevent the cold. Each morning, you will rub your hands together, and then massage them up and down for 18 times in the palm of your palm. You can prevent colds and relieve the symptoms of sniffles and runny noses. In addition, back and forth massage temples, wind pool holes until fever, can also prevent the cold and reduce the headache, neck discomfort and other symptoms.

The room is fumigated. The high incidence of influenza season, if a patient in the home, in addition to the well ventilated and isolation, it is recommended to use moxa leaf or moxa burning, with its burning gas for fumigation of indoor air. Studies have shown that the gas produced when the leaves are burning can inhibit the reproduction of viruses, bacteria and other microorganisms in the air, which can help prevent colds. Each square metre USES a leaf 5 gram or ai article 1, fumigation 30-60 minutes can. If you have a respiratory allergy or asthma, it is best to use it under the guidance of a doctor.

Make a reasonable schedule. Proper exercise, such as walking, running, mountain climbing, playing, taijiquan, and eight sections can enhance the body's ability to resist virus attack. Get enough sleep, try not to stay up late, feel tired and rest in time to stay energized. In addition, sooner or later to add appropriate clothes, sleep when indoor temperature at 22 ℃ - 18 ℃ advisable.

Adjust your diet. During the cold, avoid excessive calories, fat excess diet. The diet not only aggravates the digestive system burden, but also reduces the body immunity, and it can turn the heat of wet, causing the phlegm and heat, which is harmful to the human body. Balanced with protein, sugar, fat, minerals, vitamins and so on, can help strengthen the constitution. Adding more green food also helps boost your immune system.

Drink tea and drink tea. For children, three grams of reed root, mulberry leaf and honeysuckle can be used, and water can be used for tea drinking, 1 dose per day for 3 to 5 days. For adults, 3 grams of honeysuckle, mint, raw licorice, 1 dose per day, 3-5 days. Chinese herbal tea is suitable for people who have close contact with flu cases. The person that often catch a cold, old person, baby, pregnant woman, companion with a variety of chronic disease and so on special group, had better not take medicine, suggest to arrive at the hospital in time.