03/25/2024
🌸 Spring is here! 🌸
☯️ In Chinese Medicine, living in harmony with the seasons will promote optimal health and longevity. It can create more ease within our bodies and minds if we adapt our lifestyle to the change of the seasons.
🧣 As the spring weather changes, it is "spring-ing" back and forth between being warm and cold with some windy days. Chinese Medicine refers to wind as feng and is considered to be an external cause of disease that causes colds, flus and viruses. External wind can enter into the body through your wind points which are located on the back of your neck. Wearing a 🧣 scarf🧣 in windy weather can help to protect your wind points!!
🥬 During the winter season, heavy and warm foods are ideal for our hibernation time. As we are emerging from Winter and transitioning, now is the time to start eating lighter cooked foods. Thing GREENS!! Lots of green veggies - kale, bok choy, mustard greens, spinach, sprouts - these are amazing for cleansing, nourishing the Liver/Gallbladder (which are the organs of the Spring) and blood.
🍋 Fruits like lemons, limes and grapefruits are sour which is great this time of year. Sour foods are naturally cleansing so this is another great way for our bodies to naturally cleanse itself of the fats and heavy foods of the Winter.
🏃♀️ Get your body moving!!! Just like the wind which embodies movement and change, our bodies want to do the same this time of year. The goal is to feel energized and nourished after a workout. You want to move to create qi not to tax yourself. Now is a good time for gentle Yang activities - think a brisk walk, hike, yoga, tai chi and qi gong.
📍 The seasonal transition times are a great time to get an acupuncture tune up and get yourself in balance with the upcoming spring season!!
