🌿 Folk Prescriptions

The National Day holiday has arrived—the beautiful golden autumn is the prime time 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 travel, while reminiscing about joyful moments, people may gradually feel soreness in the waist and back, limb fatigue, and overall exhaustion, dampening the otherwise pleasant mood... Is there a way to eliminate fatigue? The answer is yes.
Allow Your Body a Buffer Period
How can post-travel fatigue be effectively relieved?
1. Bathing: Taking a bath helps remove metabolic waste from the skin surface, dilates capillaries, and effectively reduces fatigue. However, after returning to accommodation 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 Before Bed: Soaking feet in hot water helps relieve fatigue and improve sleep. Water temperature can be slightly higher, just below the point of discomfort. Soaking expands blood vessels, accelerates blood flow, and enhances circulation.
3. Massage: Excessive physical exertion leads to lactic acid buildup in muscles. Massage helps speed up the absorption of lactic acid into the bloodstream. Method: Gently pinch or lightly tap the calves, thighs, arms, shoulders, and back to relax muscles. Many people assume that sleeping or doing nothing is the best way to recover after a long day of travel—this is a misconception.
Experts emphasize that on the day after intense activity, one should not rest completely but maintain half the previous day’s activity level, providing the body with a buffer period to effectively relieve fatigue and restore energy quickly.
Finally, experts especially remind women: after returning from travel, consider getting a medical check-up to ensure you’ve had a healthy vacation and haven’t contracted any infectious diseases. Only then can you confidently return to work.
Diet Can Help Restore Energy
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. Therefore, consume more protein-rich foods such as tofu, milk, pork, beef, fish, and eggs.
3. Vitamins: Vitamins B and C help process accumulated metabolic waste in the body. Eating foods rich in vitamins B and C can eliminate fatigue.
4. Drinking Activated Water or Purified Water: Water contains abundant oxygen, which can quickly relieve 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 and absorption, these foods quickly reduce blood acidity, balance it to a mild alkaline state, thereby eliminating fatigue.
Try Some Relaxation Exercises
1. Neck Stretching 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 for 1–2 seconds.
2. Side Stretching Sitting Position: Place one hand on hip, raise the other arm straight upward, slightly lean the upper body sideways, and stretch the arm upward 5 times. Switch sides and repeat, holding each position for 1–2 seconds.
3. Shoulder Stretching Sitting Position: Cross fingers overhead, palms facing up, then slowly and forcefully shake arms backward 10 times.
4. Waist and Abdomen Stretching Sitting Position: Clasp hands behind head, bend forward, then arch backward, elbows outward, stretching the body as straight as possible. Hold for 3–4 seconds, repeat slowly 5 times.
5. Chest and Back Stretching Sitting Position: Bend elbows forward horizontally, hunch chest and lower head, then extend arms laterally and backward, lift head and straighten spine. Repeat 10 times.
6. Leg Stretching Sitting Position: Bend knees and bring legs to chest, then extend both legs straight, pointing toes forward. Repeat 10 times, holding each position for 1–2 seconds.
Keep the Pleasant Mood Going
1. Chat casually or close your eyes during the journey home, whether 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 dazzling vacation memories deceive you; remind yourself to return to your usual routine.
4. Brew a strong coffee or steep a cup of tea, do nothing, and simply sit quietly for a while.
5. Bring back the joy of your trip—share photos, tell funny stories, and distribute souvenirs with colleagues or friends during your break.
6. Connect the benefits and feelings of your vacation to the value of your work, helping you regain your original rhythm of life.