Six styles of fitness yoga treat colds and headaches

A person is like a machine. Even if there are no major obstacles, there will occasionally be minor problems, such as headaches and colds. Many people are reluctant to go to the hospital because of a minor problem. We all know that yoga has a great effect in recuperating and recuperating. Now Xiaobian will introduce you to six yoga poses to treat headaches and colds to enhance your physique and prevent the next time when treating colds. It happens.

1. Prevent headaches

The causes of migraines are complex. Most of them occur on one side of the head. They are mostly common in women. They are periodic severe headaches, even accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Sometimes women can experience migraines before their menstruation, and visual impairment can easily cause migraines.

It is generally believed that disorders in the contraction function of the head blood barrier are the main cause of migraines. When migraines begin to attack, there is first cerebral ischemia due to spasm of the internal carotid artery, followed by dilation of the external carotid artery, and then headache symptoms appear. Usually taking a hot bath or immersing your feet in hot water can improve the symptoms of migraines; lying down and taking a yoga break can also relieve the pain.

Headaches are caused by blood stasis in the head. Doing more neck exercise or massage can smooth the blood. Therefore, people with habitual headaches must pay special attention to regular daily life. During holidays, they should go outdoors to get in touch with nature and walk more. They should take as little sleeping pills and painkillers as possible, and avoid stimulants such as alcohol, tobacco, and coffee as much as possible. Women should pay attention to keeping their abdomen and feet warm, avoid getting cold during menstruation, and avoid wearing shoes that are too sharp and narrow to avoid poor blood circulation in the feet and causing headaches.

Here are three yoga postures that can prevent or reduce headache symptoms.

1. Reverse posture

Squatting down, wrap your right hand around your right leg, hook your hands behind your back, twist your waist and twist your head and neck to the left as much as possible; at the same time, press down your right leg to compete with your right hand, so that the muscles of your neck and shoulders feel trapped; breathe naturally for 20 seconds and restore; change to the other side.

2. Half inverted

Kneel down, put your elbows on the ground (first cross your hands and hold each other's elbows), then open your hands, and hold your fingers together. According to the main principle of handstand, hold the back of your head tightly with your hands, then raise your hips, straighten your knees, and shift your center of gravity to the top of your head; Breathe naturally for 20 seconds. When restoring; overlap your fists, place your forehead on your fists, and relax and rest.

3. Hoe-variant

Lie on your back, with your feet close together (hands on the left and right sides of your body, palms on the ground) and exhale, slowly lift your feet to a 90-degree right angle, take another deep breath and exhale; bounce up your waist and support your back with both hands at the same time (elbows closer) Keep your feet back until the tips of your feet touch the ground, open your legs as slowly as possible, and then grab your thumbs with both hands. After breathing naturally for 30 seconds, return to supine rest, and then perform a fish pose to relieve the compressed cervical spine.

2. Manage colds

The causes of colds are nothing more than: (1) six exogenous excesses (2) internal injury and seven emotions (3) eating disorders. Wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, and fire are generally called the "six qi", and only when causing disease are called the "six excesses".

Diseases caused by the six excesses have certain seasonality: for example, summer heat diseases and winter cold diseases. Due to the complexity of climate change in nature and individual differences in the human body, six types of wind evil, cold evil, summer evil, dampness evil, dryness evil, and fire evil are collectively referred to as "exogenous diseases".

Most people's colds are caused by exogenous wind and cold. [Wind is the chief of all diseases]. Wind evil can cause coughing or severe headache; wind evil invades the lungs and causes lung qi to not disperse; wind evil stops at the top, making meridians and meridians unsmooth and blood and blood flow unsmooth. Most patients with cold evil diseases are afraid of cold and like heat, cold all year round, cold lower abdomen, clear nose or intense pain, qi stagnation and blood stasis.

The "seven emotions" refer to people's spiritual and will activities. In traditional Chinese medicine, they are divided into seven categories: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear, and shock. If due to long-term mental stimulation or sudden mental trauma, it will easily cause dysfunction of yin, yang, blood, and viscera in the body, resulting in disease. Therefore, colds can also be called "emotional disease".

Eating disorders directly damage the spleen and stomach, causing digestive dysfunction, while causing stomach diseases and diarrhea, resulting in weak body resistance and weak vitality. It is most likely to attract exogenous wind and cause disease.

The following are three yoga postures; they can improve physical fitness, strengthen viscera functions, and enhance resistance to achieve the root cause.

4. Big Bowing Style

1) Kneel down (King Kong Sit: The thumbs of both feet are overlapped, and the buttocks are seated on the heels, with the heels divided into large parts

2) Inhale, put your hands together and lift them flat on your shoulders, and put your arms close to your ears

3) Exhale, bend your body forward and touch your forehead on the ground

(Hold this pose for 8 seconds, then inhale and stand up; repeat the practice 8 times)

5. Fish style

1) Lie on your back, adjust your breathing and exhale, while resting on your elbows on the ground, holding your chest high, and putting your head on the ground

2) Then put your hands together and breathe naturally.

3) Raise your feet about 35 degrees, which can also strengthen the abdominal and internal organs function

(After posing, slowly turn your head left and right to the limit; once on each side

6. Reverse posture

1) Sit on the ground with your feet spread in front of you, bend your left foot, cross your right foot over your left leg, place it on the outside of your thigh, and place the soles of your feet close to the ground

2) Cross the outside of the right knee with your left shoulder and your left hand, and hold the back of your right foot with your backhand

3) Place your right hand on the right rear ground, turn your head and neck to the right as much as possible, maintain your posture and breathe naturally for 30 seconds, return to your original posture, and change to the other side, 4 times each (intern editor: Wu Jinyu)