The solar term is the best way to keep healthy both physically and mentally, and the Qingming health care must pay attention to both "physical" and "mental" health.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival to visit graves, mourn for relatives and feel sad. People will pay tribute to their ancestors on this day, and it is also an opportunity to vent their grief, which is conducive to eliminating bad emotions and has certain benefits for mental health.

Everyone has worldly desires, and everyone has anxiety or depression. This kind of abnormal mood can be adjusted by emotional health care.

There are various ways to preserve one's emotional health. Mourning in Qingming includes solemn meditation, emotional restraint, emotional catharsis and exercise adjustment.

Moderate crying or shouting

Crying is a direct way to relieve diarrhea. The fluid in the liver is tears, and the flow and discharge of tears can promote the function of the liver in controlling the discharge of qi, regulate the qi movement, and make the liver qi strip comfortable; Modern research shows that sad tears contain two neurotransmitters-leucine enkephalin and prolactin, which are related to people's nervous mood and numbness of pain in the body respectively. These substances are excreted with tears, which can relieve tension.

pour out and adjust

people can pour out their grievances, depression, depression, anxiety and other emotions to their ancestors, so as to relieve or eliminate psychological pressure.

exercise regulation

exercise is the best way to regulate emotions. Exercise can not only enhance the motivation of life, but also be a good way to vent emotions. Appropriate leisure and sports can relieve patients' stress, anxiety and depression.

Physiological research shows that exercise can promote the brain to secrete endorphin (endorphin); Sweat excretion, hormones secreted by bad emotions. Qingming outing is also a sport; Ball games, both sports and venting depression through hitting, are the best sports methods recommended. Of course, these sports must be done within our capabilities.

cultivate optimism

happiness is the elixir of mental health, and optimism can be cultivated through happiness training. Mental optimism can resist negative emotions that are not conducive to human health and promote human physiological functions.

People's personalities are different, but all of them can gradually cultivate optimistic personality and promote health and longevity through exercise and cultivation in life.

kindness and gratitude time

kindness and gratitude are nutrients for mental health.

Time is a good medicine for mental health.

Diseases that should be mainly prevented in Qingming Festival

Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

People are easy to get emotional at Qingming Festival, especially when the elderly are sweeping graves, they are easy to have negative emotions or indulge in sadness and can't control themselves, so Qingming Festival is a small and high incidence period of myocardial infarction, stroke and other diseases.

The elderly with a history of coronary heart disease and hypertension should not be excessively sad, and it is better to be accompanied by relatives and friends to avoid accidents.

prevention of asthma

Qingming is the season when flowers are in full bloom and trees are lush, and it is also the high bee period when pollen and insects cause allergies, which can easily cause itchy throat, cough, chest tightness, breath holding, etc., and even induce asthma attacks.

Prevention of dermatosis

During the Qingming Festival, high pollen concentration is also likely to cause allergic skin diseases. Therefore, when people with allergic constitution go out, they should try not to go to places with wild flowers, always wear masks and prevent overwork.

In addition, when you go to the countryside to sweep graves, you need to be careful of the insects in the grass, especially when the humidity is heavy after the rain, the insects multiply, such as the common scrub typhus in spring, and people are prone to get scrub typhus after being bitten. Therefore, when sweeping graves in the wild, you should avoid going deep into the grass. It is best to wear long-sleeved underwear and boots, tighten the trousers, and apply insect repellent to exposed parts of your body, just in case.

preventing colds

Qingming is in the alternation of spring and summer, when cold and warm air meet alternately, and the weather and temperature change greatly, sometimes hot and sometimes cold. Pay attention to prevent colds.

About the author: Li Fangling, chief physician, director of traditional Chinese medicine department of Beijing Geriatric Hospital

Doctor of Medicine, tutor of master's degree, national outstanding clinical talents of traditional Chinese medicine, compound talents of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine in Beijing, and studied under Professor Sun Guangrong, a master of traditional Chinese medicine. He has been engaged in clinical work of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 3 years, and his main research direction is senile diseases combined with traditional Chinese and western medicine. Pay attention to the combination of medicine and nursing, and be good at treating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic cough, kidney and spleen and stomach diseases in the elderly.