Understanding Spring’s Temperament; Essential Tips Everyone Should Know
According to traditional medicine, all beings—including humans, animals, plants, and seasons—have a temperament. If the seasons share similar temperaments, the climate becomes unbalanced and can lead to various health issues. Each season requires specific precautions based on its nature to keep the body healthy. Here are some health tips for the spring season.SelMagzDetailsTemperament MedicineWe have presented the characteristics of the spring season.
What is the nature and temperament of spring?
Spring is the most suitable season for health and physical well-being when aligned with one’s natural constitution. It is considered the best season for blood and spirit-related qualities.
Some believe spring is hot and moist, but in terms of heat and cold, wetness and dryness, it is balanced with a slight tendency toward mild heat and moisture.
Spring has moderate warmth and heat, and does not cause body breakdown like summer heat.
Spring encourages blood circulation to the surface of the body, giving a red color to the face and skin.
Spring Seasonal Temperament Do’s and Don’ts
Use appropriate measures each season to stay healthy. Spring precautions include:
Eat less food
Consume lighter, milder foods during spring and keep eating moderation. Enjoy the freshness of spring and prevent weakness and excess dryness.Blood thickeningOpt for a lighter diet.
Drink cool fluids and syrups
During spring, consume cool syrups such asPomegranateand aromatic herbs likeBasiland rose water, beneficial for health. Cool drinks like rhubarb syrup, and herbal syrups such as jujube, tamarind, sour orange, lemon, and yew, as well as spring herbal infusions like butterfly pea,Barberryand sour grapes, orange blossom syrup, lemon, and fig, and herbal distillates like inula, chicory,Plantainandmask are suitable for spring.
Eat laxative soups for body cleansing
During late winter and early April, to cleanse the body, consume laxative soups or use purgatives. To prevent buildup of toxins and waste, everyone should eat less.
Avoid hot drinks
Refrain from hot or overly irritating beverages like very sweet syrups made fromGrapesorDatemilk and buttermilk, etc.
Avoid consuming sweets
During spring, avoid foods that produce excess blood, like sweets, cakes, cream, and rich desserts.
Eat light foods during spring such as
soup, borani (vegetable purees), spinach, chickpea borani,lettuceand drinks like sour cherry syrup, barley pudding, chickpea, and black sour cherry preserve that provide basic energy and vitamins but have less nutritional load, helping to cleanse the blood and strengthen nerves and body energy.
Avoid greasy and fried foods
Refrain from oily and fried foods in spring and avoid overeating, mixing foods, or eating at the same time.
Consume fewer hot temperament foods
Such as salted nuts, sunflower seeds,walnutsand other nuts, as well as spicy spices likeginger, cinnamon,less frequently.
Avoid eating too many fruits with moist and hot qualities
which quickly cause unwanted changes in the body, such asCucumberandwatermelon.
Avoid long baths
During spring, avoid long or very hot baths and saunas.
Engage in gentle exercise
Refrain from intense physical activity during spring and opt for moderate exercise. Heavy exercise can excite stagnant humors and cause skin rashes or other ailments, while moderate activity helps in eliminating waste through urine and stool.
Wear light, soft clothing
In spring, wear light fabrics like cotton and linen, and reduce outer coverings.
Pay attention to children’s diet in spring
Do not give children spicy foods and avoid stimulating foods or those with cold properties like sour foods, to prevent ailments like constipation. Include jujube in their meals for health benefits.In springPerform cupping therapy
and bloodlettingto detoxify. Spring is the best season for treatments like cupping, bloodletting, and venesection to remove faulty humors and reduce excess blood. Besides cupping, reducing blood through blood donation or phlebotomy at blood centers can also be helpful.Understanding your temperament and common spring illnesses
In spring, various disorders increase, including bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood disorders. Hot and moist (bilious) and blood-related (damp) individuals are more prone to illness, while cold and dry (sanguineous) types tend to be healthier. Those who accumulated waste due to overeating and little movement in winter are especially vulnerable in spring.
In winter, the body needs more energy to fight cold, leading to increased food intake, which produces more waste that is not expelled. This waste, when the moderate warmth of spring begins to circulate, can flow into weak areas like the thighs, under the skin, deep brain structures, nasal passages, joints, etc., making one susceptible to abscesses, sore throats, colds, voice issues, coughs, seasonal allergies, joint pain,
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sanguineous imbalances, evenepilepsyand strokes.Spring triggers chronic diseases, causing stagnant humors to circulate. The warmth of spring increases body porosity and fluidizes humors, leading to excessive humors in arteries and organs, which can cause related health problems. Proper early season management helps prevent humors from expanding during summer heat.Treating allergies in spring
1. For seasonal allergies and sensitivities, drink traditional barley water for three days without eating other foods. To prepare: boil barley in water with a ratio of 1 part barley to 14 parts water—one cup of barley in 14 cups of water—for an hour, until the barley grains open and the water turns pink. Then turn off the heat, let it cool, and strain out the barley. During this diet, eat cooked, spice-free, and small portions of vegetables for a few days.
2. To treat throat itchiness in spring, boil a few grams of violet flowers and swiftlet fruits in two cups of water until one cup remains. Strain and drink before bed and on an empty stomach in the morning.
3. To reduce frequent sneezing caused byseasonal allergyapply violet oil to the nasal passages and forehead twice daily.4. To treat spring allergies and the bitter taste in the mouth, include plantain as a vegetable in meals, which is very effective.During spring
consume cooked, spice-free, small portions of green vegetables as part of your diet.
5. Eating bitter herbs like chicory can help with spring allergies and oral bitterness.Eat beneficial herbs likeplantainandviolet oil
to alleviate spring-related itching and bitterness in the mouth.Enjoy spring’s health benefits and nature’s characteristicsSpring’s temperament and natural qualities
