時差與季差養生 Jet Lag simple plan, related sickness prevention

Jet Lag 時差

• travelling disconnect us from our usual environment
• our bodies’ bio-clock will be unsynchronized with the local environmental clock
• unsynchronization make our body susceptible to sickness such as nose allergy, skin allergy, flu, cough, stomach pain, insomnia …

Double Jet Lag

• Day n Night time jet lag due to travelling between different time zones
• Hot n Cold season jet lag due to travelling between northern and Southern Hemisphere

Day n Night time jet lag

• easily affect the sleeping time and meal time
• causing insomnia, sleepiness, burp, stomach pain, bowel disorder…
• prevention technique:
• sleep only when it is local time for sleep
• most important sleeping time is 11pm-3am of local time
• wakeup early, never sleep pass 11am in the morning
• afternoon nap should lean back on a chair, never face down on the desk, never lie down in bed, keep it less than 20m
• eat when it is local meal time but not too much, eat some ginger during or after meal if you feel stomach uneasy
• eat snack only when you feel hungry during home meal time to prevent stomach from over acidic
• Chinese: Have a good breakfast, a full lunch, a small dinner. 早餐要食得好，午餐要食得飽，晚餐要食得少。
• English: For breakfast, eat like a king; for lunch, eat like a lord; for dinner, eat like a pauper.
• European: Share your breakfast, keep the lunch to yourself, give the dinner to your enermy.

Hot n Cold season jet lag 季差

• easily affect the normal activities of the lung and pores
• causing nose allergy, skin allergy, cold, flu, cough…
• prevention technique depends on the direction of change
• Hot > Cold
• before trip and start of trip:
• reduce consumption of HOT food: chili, beef, lamb, curry, prawn, mango, pineapple
• increase consumption of COLD food: water melon, yoghourt, sour taste food, vinegar, honey

• Increase consumption of Decending food: almond or almond drinks
• no consumption of Raising food: ginger, white pepper, chicken

• hot short shower in morning, warm short or no shower in the evening; with good air circulation; never bath
• try to use less heater, make sure fresh damp air is circulated, drink more honey water for dry throat and dry skin
• exercise less and sweat less
• Cold > Hot
• before trip and start of trip: the opposite to Hot > Cold

• reduce consumption of COLD food: water melon, yoghourt, sour taste food, vinegar, honey

• increase consumption of Raising food: ginger, white pepper, chicken
• increase consumption of HOT food: chili, beef, lamb, curry, prawn,
• no consumption of Decending food: almond
• hot long shower or bath in morning, warm short or no shower in the evening
• exercise more and sweat more