Winter yoga protects your kidneys
Winter is the best time to maintain your kidneys, and practicing winter yoga can allow us to live a stable winter.
Among the many asanas in yoga, there are many actions to maintain kidneys. Among them, the snake pose, bow pose, camel pose, bridge pose and cat pose can most stimulate the kidneys and achieve the purpose of activating organs.
You will find that these movements are all chest expansion postures. Yes, as long as you open your chest and lean back with your hands on your back or on the ground. This backward bending posture will just compress your kidneys. If you stop doing these movements for a while, your lower back may feel a little uncomfortable, and some people may even feel the feeling of being pressed on your left and right kidneys. However, as long as you are not a person with a problem, you can relieve these discomforts by returning to baby-style rest.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that nourishing the kidney is not just to maintain the kidney as an organ, but the adrenal gland is also another key point. It is located in the abdominal cavity, and the above-mentioned posture can also compress and stimulate the glands, promoting the balance of adrenaline secretion.
Liver and kidney maintenance cannot be separated because the right kidney is located almost directly behind the liver. Therefore, when doing the above postures, the action of leaning back is of course directly compressing the kidney, but for the liver on the front side, it is a strong stretching action. In other words, while maintaining your kidneys, you are also doing liver protection, right?
Interestingly, in both Western and Eastern health studies, the maintenance of liver and kidney is almost always mentioned at the same time, and the maintenance methods are not much different. For example, going to bed early and getting up early, less greasy and less irritating, are the most basic conditions for protecting the liver and kidneys, making people feel that the liver and kidney are not separated. Just mentioned some postures, the professional coach of Beijing Tianyue International Yoga Academy specially reminded everyone that there is no rib protection near the kidneys and it is relatively "fragile". Therefore, it is not advisable to suddenly hit both kidneys violently when practicing yoga, otherwise it will be easy to "internal injuries". It is also best not to stay in one action for too long. After all, maintenance is something that needs to be done all the time, not three days to dry the net and two days to replenish the fish. (Internship Editor: Wu Jinyu)