Talking about health in spring and having to give seasonal advice for seasonal worries is somewhat difficult with the first ultraviolet radiation, which is the name of the biologically particularly active portion of the spring sun – when seen in the light – even for a doctor. Listen to the keywords and judge for yourself: Spring mortality and spring sadness, spring cheerfulness and spring tiredness, spring cure, spring fashion, spring hat. A thematic jumble to jump out of your skin.
Spring changes us
According to recent expert opinions, spring fatigue is due to increased hormone release. But since no one can get out of his skin, and the confusion, moreover, is only apparent, but in reality a true reflection of the season, be boldly begun to familiarize their minds with how you can steer their bodies with prudence and skill safely through the stormy spring. A new beginning is now everywhere in nature, and folk wisdom knows a wealth of examples with deep symbolic content. Already several weeks before March 21, the calendar beginning of spring with its equinox, on Sunday Oculi, hunters have been going out for the first time every year to hunt snipe – “Oculi, here they come” – since time immemorial. At the same time the bees start to fly out, the sheep are driven to pasture and the chickens are supposed to lay the best eggs. These are examples and incentives to give the body the attention it deserves during a long and harsh winter. The human being is indeed a small cosmos in itself, but equally an integrating part of the large cosmos, which by no means remains without influence on the small one. If one regards this influence from the point of view of the seasons, it is above all climate and weather which exercise it. This would be the happy turn to be able to introduce the serious sides of the spring topic with the classical, harmless conversation about the weather. In the weather-related, seasonal biological events of the year, the spring accumulation of unpleasant events of all kinds plays the most prominent role. The rule of the spring peak of deaths and many diseases is valid almost for all countries. It is not actually the spring that has a causal effect, but rather the transition from winter to spring, the compensation of the winter poverty by the spring abundance. It does not mean a right physiological stimulus if the winter low is not felt before.
Effect of weather and climate in spring
It begins with the ultra-violet night of the winter climate, in which the biologically important ultra-violet radiation no longer reaches down into the deeper layers of the earth’s atmosphere. From the scarce light there is a direct connection to the ergosterol of the skin, which is no longer converted to vitamin D in the usual quantity, to the calcium deficiency, to blood shifts and manifold changes in the chemistry of the organs, in which ultimately the hormone balance is not uninvolved. Although humans do not hibernate because of this, like hamsters and dormice, marmots and dormice, many life processes are slowed down and switched to economy mode. The stormy young spring initially turns all this into the opposite, before a balanced middle position settles in. All at once, the sun’s rays regain their full biological value. Sufficient vitamin D is built up again and the entire growth is accelerated with a calcium increase in the blood. One can imagine easily that thereby not always only the desired healing of the winter damages takes place, but also unwanted incidents occur: Circulatory disturbances, blood pressure crises, allergy fluctuations, loud in itself already unpleasant attacks, which, according to experience, sometimes have even longer lasting serious consequences. Because ultraviolet radiation also acts as a hormonal stimulus, spring is finally the high time of internal secretion and brings the annual peak of sexuality with its sunny and dark sides. After all, a considerable number of important and variously linked phenomena, which already justify a few minutes of reflection and contemplation. Even if the dwelling man, as long as he is healthy, is able to intercept these attacks with his reservoir of forces without effort, he does better to submit to nature and to follow its changeover by appropriate adaptation of his habits of life.This is the deeper meaning of all spring cures, and here one should not feign tiredness, in general the spring tiredness, for which one made otherwise the sinking of the vitamin content in the food responsible, comes this year only after the spring vitality and goes according to recent expert opinions on the account of increased hormone distribution.
Treatment of spring fatigue
This biological phenomenon also starts somewhere with tempting spring fashions and a new spring hat, and it’s perfectly fine. “Spring has given her courage,” it was said in a much sung hit song of the otherwise often quite questionable so-called Golden Twenties. In this respect, too, it is not least a matter of their prudence and the right measure that spring weariness is not followed by spring sadness or even worse, but can still be such a spring again in a hundred years. So be nice to your body and do a spring cure, even if it seems hard to your mind. By all means not a big diet cure, as it is described in magazines and usually requires the medical assistance; no, a very own, your quite personal cure. Change yourself: Do things you don’t usually like to do, and let others do things you don’t usually like to let them do. For example, instead of taking a nap at noon, go for a walk for an hour or, if you have to walk and toil a lot otherwise, relax and lie down in the spring sun for a quarter of an hour without thinking about work. Smokers give up half their cigarette ration and non-smokers give up their beloved chocolate bar. Everyone checks their weight; no one eats between meals, and everyone ensures that their body is thoroughly purified, with or without a fruit day and laxative tablets. The most proven means: fasting, not starvation, systematic fasting according to a set plan with a happy face; proven for thousands of years. One full meal, two small refreshments. And not to forget, a cure lasts not four days, but four weeks; and occasionally there are fourteen days of extension. It creates a whole new body feeling, just the spring feeling. Finally, just as spring has always been about love, love and skin are as inseparable from each other as skin and spring are from each other. Whenever it is a matter of decisive interventions of nature in the human organism, as in the case of spring, the skin gains special significance. At the same time, with its appendages, especially the hair, it is also a decisively important sexual organ, which sometimes causes evil tongues to address love exclusively as a skin matter. The skin must participate in the spring cure. Treat it not only to the first rays of the sun, but also to a vigorous warm bath with soap and brush. It will thank you for it, especially if it is then lovingly cared for with a good cream, because it needs not only water but also fat. One must not only be washed with all waters, as it is called in the vernacular, if one wants to survive the aggressive spring weather well, but also anointed with all ointments, as they say in Bohemia. Last but not least, behind the fresh skin there must be the firm will to really participate and to honestly go through the cure, which is always also a spiritual exercise. Otherwise, it would be better to postpone it to next year, which would be a pity for the missed opportunity.
