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What effect does winter have on the body?

The Influence of Winter on People's Health

In winter, the climate is cold and the cold is stagnant, which easily leads to poor qi movement and poor blood circulation, and makes the old disease relapse or aggravate. Especially those serious life-threatening diseases, such as stroke, cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial infarction. Not only has the incidence increased significantly, but the mortality rate has also increased sharply.

In winter, the human body's yang accumulates, and qi and blood tend to flow inward, so the skin is dense and water is not easy to leak from the body surface. However, after the kidney and bladder are gasified, a small part of them become body fluid and spread all over the body, and most of them differentiate into water, and urine is poured into the bladder, which invisibly increases the burden on the kidney and easily leads to nephritis, enuresis, urinary incontinence, edema and other diseases. Therefore, winter health care should pay attention to the maintenance of kidneys.

Winter is a good season for measles, diphtheria, influenza, mumps and other diseases. Cold winter often induces chronic diseases, such as bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis. Myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular diseases and arthralgia are also aggravated by cold. Therefore, it is very important to protect yourself from the sun and the cold. At the same time, we should also be strict.

Facial and limb health care for preventing frostbite.

Generally speaking, the weather in winter is mainly cloudy, and the sun is often invisible, especially in winter, even if it is sunny, the sun is weak, which has a great influence on people's mood, often making people depressed and sad, and prone to fatigue and burnout.