5 tips for your health in winter, the suggestions from Chinese Medicine practitioner

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In Chinese Medicine, we believe the winter is season to store "Yang energy" , we need relatively the more rest, keep warm , go to bed a bit early and get up a bit late, also a bit careful with our lifestyle to prevent the disease.

* The weather is cold in winter, try to avoid too much outdoors exercise or outdoor exercise with profuse sweating, if go outside for exercise, keep warm, especially keep the neck and back covered.

* "Yang energy" withdraw into the inner side of the body, so that we are not that active in winter, go to bed a bit early and get up a bit late will be good, some people will feel the extremities easy feel cold or " frozen" in winter, self message your PC8 and KI1 acupuncture points will help.

* Take the more warm porridge or soup for your digestive system, also can add the walnuts, black sesame in porridge ; having some red meat and bone soup for "tonify"

* Doing some meditation or relaxing exercise ( for example, Tai Ji) to calm the spirit, try to not "over respond" with emotional or environmental stimulation, it will be benefit for your mental and physical balance.

* Taking one piece fresh ginger, 4 red dates and 10 GouJi berries drink as a tea, will be helpful for the people easy to get diarrhea in winter.