Our lungs — a vital organ of every breath of life — are facing many challenges when the cold wind plays the winter prelude. In winter, cold and dry air, frequent haze, indoor and outdoor temperatures and the flu season are rampant, making lung maintenance a key health-care issue. In this special time, how can we build an umbrella for the lungs and a line of defence against external aggression?
Clean up the air, guard it from the source. Outside the room, the fog is often like an “immediate visitor” and small particles (PM2.5, etc.) can enter the deep respiratory tract and damage the lung bubble. Traveling with a professional protection mask, like the N95 type, can effectively filter over 95% of the fine particles and set the “entry level” for the lungs. Indoor closed doors and windows, while keeping warm, make the air impregnable, the air cleaners are known as “health guards”, choosing to focus on the CADR (clean air output ratio) of high value and applicable area matching room-based products, adsorbing formaldehyde, dust and fungi, and improving the breathing “microenvironment”. It is also possible to purify the air by greening, so that some of the harmfuls can be absorbed by green carrots, chandeliers, etc., and to decompress life and care for heart.
Temperature nourishes, and the mucous membranes are reinforced. The dry, cold, sandy paper in winter, wears the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract and allows the fungus to “organise”. Active refilling is the basis for the daily drinking of 1500 – 2000 ml of hot water, diluting aqueous fluids, and “cleaning” the airways with hysteria; the humidifiers are used to increase indoor humidity to 40 – 60 per cent and to keep the mucous membranes wet and resilient. Eating is like larvae in the snow, larvae in Sydney, hot and dry, fragrance of the pulmonary cough and hysteria; honey water with empty abdomen and lubricitis, like a “protective membrane” on the respiratory tract; more white vegetables, such as silver ears and white carrots, and a “white pulmonary” theory of Chinese medicine, which draws lung strength from food.
Motion lung, respiration potential. While cold winters do not allow the body to “hover”, sport is a “vibrancy pump” for the lungs, in a variety of ways and with all the good things.
– Jogging: When the weather is clear and the air is of good quality, outdoor jogging takes place when the sun is full. At the beginning of the run, the pace is light, the breathing is steady, the mileage increases, the conscious respiration is intensified, the air is fully pumped into the lungs, the pacing and contraction of the chest is felt, 3 – 4 times a week, approximately 30 minutes each, to gradually increase the efficiency of lung activity and gas exchange.
– Eight bands: this ancient exercise is especially suited for winter indoors. “Hands to the sky, three focus” style, with feet wide with shoulders, hands slowly up and up, abdominal abdomen inhaled, aerobics raised from the field along the spinal column to the chest cavity, stretching out the chest, decompositioning the body, a whole set of actions to breathe, a snorkel to activate the pulmonary aerobic circulation, daily exercises 1-2 times, stretching the body, and strong lungs.
– Indoor jump ropes: Indoor jump ropes are the preferred option when it is too cold to go out. Where there is good ventilation, space is open, group jump ropes, each group lasts between 1-2 minutes and 30 seconds, short-time high-frequency beats prompt the CPR to “combat”, rapidly boosts the CPR rate and enhances CPR resistance, and takes 4 – 5 times a week for 15 – 20 minutes each.
Warm and heat-proof, risk-averse. The neck, mouth and nose are lung “ports” and cold winds can cause cough and sores. The scarf is tight around the neck and selects soft and heavy materials to block the cold wind; the mask is often worn, medically used to protect the smog, warm the mask from the cold and double-guarded. From the warm room to the outdoors, the body is given a buffer to adapt to the temperature and do not take its clothes off abruptly; it is warm in its bedside feet, immersed in hot water for 15 to 20 minutes, with open blood, warm lungs, and cold evil.
Immunization upgrades to protect against disease. Strong immunity is the “hard shield” of the lungs, and nutritional balance is the cornerstone, with high-quality proteins (meat, eggs, beans), vitamins (a, C, D, etc.) rich fruit and vegetables, mineral synergies, organization rehabilitation, enhanced immune lines. Inoculation against influenza, pneumonia, pre-empting viral bacteria “attacks” on the basis of age and health status; non-stop patterns that allow the immune system to “stave” according to biological clocks; less stress, less optimism, less immunity due to emotional stress, a calm mind that helps to “pleasure” immunization and a full-blown lung through winter.
In winter, lung care is a systematic “engineering project”, from air, diet to exercise, heat and immunization, multi-dimensional energy and dripping, so that the lungs can function well in the cold and snow season and continue to deliver life’s “gas” as we walk through the cold and warm springs in good health.
