🌿 Folk Prescriptions

The National Day holiday has arrived—the beautiful autumn is the golden season for travel. People can climb mountains to admire majestic peaks or embrace the refreshing sea breeze and feel the vastness of the ocean. However, after returning from trips, people may gradually feel back pain, limb fatigue, and overall exhaustion, dampening the joy and spoiling the good mood. Is there a way to eliminate fatigue? The answer is yes.
Allow Your Body a Buffer Period
How to effectively relieve post-travel fatigue?
1. Bathing: Bathing removes metabolic waste from the skin, dilates capillaries, and effectively relieves fatigue. However, after returning or completing activities, rest briefly until your heart rate returns to normal before bathing. Water temperature should be around 40°C; a bath lasting 15–20 minutes is sufficient—avoid prolonged soaking.
2. Soaking Feet in Hot Water Before Bed: Soaking feet in hot water helps relieve fatigue and promote sleep. Water temperature can be slightly higher, just warm enough to feel slightly hot. Soaking expands blood vessels, accelerates blood flow, and enhances circulation.
3. Massage: Excessive physical exertion causes lactic acid buildup in muscles. Massage helps speed up lactic acid absorption into the bloodstream. Method: Gently pinch or lightly tap the calves, thighs, arms, shoulders, and back with hands or fists to relax muscles. Many people assume sleep or inactivity is recovery after a long trip, but this is a misconception.
Experts emphasize: on the day after intense activity, do not rest completely—maintain half the previous day’s activity level to give your body a buffer period, effectively relieving fatigue and restoring energy quickly.
Finally, experts especially remind women: after returning from vacation, get a medical check-up to ensure you’ve had a healthy holiday and weren’t infected with any illness—then return to work with peace of mind.
Diet Can Aid Energy Recovery
1. Hot Tea: Tea contains caffeine, which increases respiratory frequency and depth, stimulates adrenaline secretion, and helps combat fatigue. Coffee and chocolate have similar effects.
2. High-Protein Foods: Excessive calorie expenditure causes fatigue, so eat more protein-rich foods like tofu, milk, pork, beef, fish, and eggs.
3. Vitamins: Vitamins B and C help process accumulated metabolic waste. Consuming foods rich in these vitamins can eliminate fatigue.
4. Drinking Activated Water or Purified Water: Water contains abundant oxygen, quickly relieving physical fatigue.
5. Alkaline Foods: Consume more alkaline foods such as fresh vegetables, fruits, soy products, dairy, and animal liver rich in protein and vitamins. After digestion, these foods rapidly reduce blood acidity, balancing it to a mild alkaline state, thus eliminating fatigue.
Try Some Relaxation Exercises
1. Neck Stretch Sitting Position: Clasp hands behind head, forearms against cheeks, gently press forward to flex neck, then forcefully extend neck backward. Repeat 8 times, holding each position 1–2 seconds.
2. Side Stretch Sitting Position: Place one hand on hip, raise the other arm straight upward, slightly lean the upper body sideways, stretch the arm upward five times, then switch sides. Hold each position 1–2 seconds.
3. Shoulder Stretch Sitting Position: Interlace fingers overhead, palms up, then slowly and forcefully shake backward 10 times.
4. Waist and Abdomen Stretch Sitting Position: Clasp hands behind head, bend forward, then arch upper body backward, elbows outward, stretching the body fully. Hold for 3–4 seconds, repeat slowly 5 times.
5. Chest and Back Stretch Sitting Position: Bend elbows forward, tuck chest and lower head, then extend arms laterally and backward, lift head and expand chest. Repeat 10 times.
6. Leg Stretch Sitting Position: Bend knees and bring legs to chest, then straighten both legs forward, pointing toes. Repeat 10 times, holding each position 1–2 seconds.
Keep the Good Mood Going
1. Chat casually or close your eyes during the journey home by car or plane.
2. Watch a light-hearted comedy or romantic film—even if seen before—or listen to familiar music to calm your excited mind.
3. Don’t let laziness or vivid vacation memories deceive you—remind yourself to return to your normal life.
4. Brew a strong coffee or steep a cup of tea, sit quietly without thinking.
5. Bring back the joyful mood from your trip—share photos, tell funny stories, and distribute souvenirs with colleagues or friends during breaks.
6. Connect the benefits of your vacation with the value of work, helping you regain your original rhythm.