Chinese medicine emphasizes the balance of "Nature and Man" for the health, all personnel should be in accordance with the laws of nature to achieve harmony between man and nature. People under winter cold weather can take more sunshine to get rid of cold and keep warm in the body, especially the elderly should take for more than 30 minutes in the sun every day. In fact, basking in the sunshine has a lot of skills, do it in appropriate way will be more effective in health effect.

6 am to 10 am for foot
At this period the infrared is relatively strong with weak UV, indoor temperature gradually rose and more moderate. After a night of rest, due to poor blood circulation, the heat is not easy to reach the feet. It may cause swelling of the toes, increase the chances of frostbite. After getting up, you can properly expose the ankle, facing the sun drying the soles of the feet, not only can promote blood circulation and let ankle joint activities freely, but also direct sunlight foot acupuncture points to promote the body's metabolic function to enhance internal organs.

10 am to 4 pm for head
This time the sun is the most violent with strong ultraviolet light, if basking in the sunshine for a long time will cause harm to the skin. Chinese medicine believes that the head of the first for the “Zhu Yang”, the essence of the five internal organs of the blood, six internal organs of the gas sinks in the head, suitable for basking at noon. Suggested that you can take a walk after lunch to a quarter of an hour, it will help smooth Lotus, tone up Yang.

4 pm to 5 pm for back
At this time the α-ray ultraviolet light is strong and it is the best time to reserve vitamin D, more sunshine helps the intestinal calcium and phosphorus absorption. Yang back to the human body, a lot of meridians and acupuncture points are in the back, basking the back at dust to help conditioning organs blood and warm meridian. It should be noted that the UV is weaker in the winter. If wearing too thick, it is hard to reach the skin through the UV light. The best choice is wearing the loose, soft and red cotton clothes while sun basking because the red radiation wave can reduce the lethal strong ultraviolet short-wave. Avoid basking in the sun under strong winds, if the wind is strong, you can stay indoors across the glass, and it will get the same effect.

Source: www.lifetimes.cn