Talking about cold drinks from the perspective of Chinese medicine, our intestines and stomach have always been very fragile and need to be protected at all times, because once we are a little careless, it will lead to physical problems. If we eat cold drinks, it will definitely have some bad effects on our health. Let's discuss cold drinks from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine.

Talking about cold drinks from the perspective of Chinese medicine 1 Why does Chinese medicine say that you can't drink cold drinks?

Chinese medicine says: "Spleen, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, triple energizer and bladder all belong to soil. They form a relatively complete digestive system, carrying, grinding, filtering, absorbing and discharging food every day.

In summer, the center of qi and blood of the human body is far away from the middle earth and transferred to the heart, lung and body surface, so our skin, hands and feet are hot in summer, but our stomachs are as cold as autumn.

Because of this, people's spleen and stomach function is biased in summer, and eating greasy, cold, spicy or unclean things is easy to have diarrhea.

Sleeping in the summer night is greedy and cold, and the whole body can be exposed, only the stomach should be covered, because the stomach is the easiest to catch cold. Experienced people take care of children, even if it is very hot at night, they will put on Chinese corsets for children, or quietly cover their stomachs when children fall asleep.

Eating cold food in summer is the weakest link to attack the human body, so every cold drink can hit the point.

What is the damage to the spleen and soil system after being attacked? We can test it by the following symptoms:

1, rarely hungry, even if you are hungry, you don't want to eat.

2, too picky about food.

3, muscle weakness, lazy, easy to fatigue.

The temperature of the stomach and knees is too low (comparable to others).

5, the body is too fat or too thin.

6, easy to catch a cold, shortness of breath, or rhinitis, pharyngitis.

7, allergic problems, skin diseases.

8, two stools are abnormal, early defecation is difficult, and constipation or diarrhea is frequent.

9, cold body, cold, cold hands and feet.

10, female dysmenorrhea.

Talking about cold drinks from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine II. Eating cold drinks like this is the easiest way to enter the emergency room.

The stomach contains the food we eat and the drinks we drink. It relies on the gastric acid secreted by the stomach to help kill foreign pathogens and make protein degenerate and easy to digest.

Our stomach is like a ball mill, which grinds food through peristalsis and mixes it with digestive juice to push chyme into the small intestine.

Our stomach, because of its rich blood circulation, can quickly transport raw materials for repairing gastric mucosa, take away harmful substances and always maintain normal operation.

If we drink iced drinks or eat iced food incorrectly, it may do harm to the stomach. The following practices are particularly undesirable:

1. Eating iced food or drinking iced drinks immediately before and after meals will cause gastric vasoconstriction, affect gastric blood circulation, easily cause gastric juice secretion disorder, affect digestion and absorption, or cause stomach cramps and abdominal pain.

2. Eating a lot of iced food or iced drinks at a time will dilute gastric juice and reduce the concentration of gastric acid, which is not conducive to killing pathogenic microorganisms mixed in food, and may also dilute digestive enzymes and affect digestion and absorption.

3, friends with stomach problems should be more careful, because if you eat a lot of iced food and drink iced drinks improperly, it will aggravate the original symptoms and affect the treatment of stomach problems.

On the "lethality" of cold drinks from the perspective of TCM health preservation

Drinking cold drinks in the wrong way is easy to be "discovered" by acute diarrhea, abdominal pain, acute appendicitis, acute pancreatitis, fever, cough and other diseases.

Then, from the perspective of TCM health care, where is the "lethality" of drinking cold mainly reflected?

1, affecting lung function.

Chinese medicine says that "cold forming and cold drinks will hurt the lungs." Patients with repeated coughs often get worse or never recover after drinking cold. The reason is that the cold pathogen attacks the lungs, and the lungs are not declared and cough.

2, affect the spleen and stomach transport function.

Cold syndrome causes abdominal pain due to gastrointestinal muscle spasm, and diarrhea due to indigestion and absorption of fine substances.

3, aggravate palace cold and dysmenorrhea.

Palace cold and dysmenorrhea are more common in women with yang deficiency constitution. Drinking cold in summer will aggravate yang deficiency and internal cold, leading to abdominal blood stasis and pain. On the premise of not hurting the spleen and stomach, remember the first four words of "departure".

Therefore, in the midsummer season, the correct way to open cold drinks should be:

1, it is not advisable to eat chilled food and drinks before and after meals 1 hour;

2. Although iced food and drinks relieve summer heat, it is not advisable to eat too much at one time;

3. People with stomach problems need to carefully choose chilled food and quantity with appropriate temperature according to their own situation;

Don't drink cold drinks directly after strenuous exercise.

Talking about cold drinks from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine 3 In fact, ancient Chinese medicine discovered the harm of cold drinks to people very early. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, yang is transferred from the body to the outside in summer, especially when spleen deficiency occurs. At this time, if you eat cold drinks again, people with spleen and stomach deficiency will catch cold, and they can only extract vitality from the kidney to convert heat energy to protect the spleen and stomach. In the long run, it will also hurt the kidneys, and the lack of kidney qi will further disrupt their ability to reconcile yin and yang.

Typical symptoms of spleen cold include white tongue coating, abdominal pain and diarrhea, nausea, etc.

Both the stomach and kidneys like warmth rather than cold, and a cold diet is especially harmful to the stomach. The whole grains that people eat need to be absorbed by the spleen and stomach and detoxified by the kidneys, so it is particularly important to protect the spleen, stomach and kidneys for human health.

In addition, the disharmony between the spleen and stomach further damages the kidney, making the constitution worse and the resistance poor, and it is easy to suffer from various diseases such as chronic pharyngitis and rhinitis. The most common example in life is that children have cough symptoms soon after eating cold drinks, especially when changing seasons.

What are the hazards of cold drinks to human body?

1, cold drinks are sad

Every summer, there are many patients with myocardial infarction caused by binge drinking cold beer. Especially for people with bad heart, the sudden change of chest cavity can easily lead to accidents such as heart disease and cerebral hemorrhage.

2, cold drinks damage Yang

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, people's yang begins to decline at the age of 40, and with the increase of age, the yang in the body will become less and less. Eating cold drinks without restraint when you are young and wearing exposed clothes in winter will make the yang lose faster.

Many friends here may retort that foreigners drink cold water every day, but they don't feel uncomfortable. In fact, this is because of the differences in national physique and eating habits. Europeans and Americans usually eat a lot of high-calorie food. As the saying goes, Yang Shou Yang Shou, you can live long only if you have yang, and you will die when you run out of yang.

3. Cold drinks can easily induce hypertension.

Old people, eating and taking medicine is not easy to absorb, mainly because of poor spleen and stomach. Middle-aged and elderly people should eat in a hurry and have a light taste. The most important thing is to eat more hot dishes and meals and drink less cold drinks. Too much cold food and cold drinks will lead to sudden contraction of blood vessels, which is especially unfavorable for patients with hypertension.

4. Cold drinks can easily cause gynecological diseases.

Compared with men, women should touch less cold drinks, and it is best not to take a cold bath. Due to the special physiological reasons of women, such as pregnancy, menstruation, etc., being stimulated by cold water is easy to induce a series of gynecological diseases such as dysmenorrhea.

5. Cold drinks affect children's development

Cold drinks can stimulate the stomach, leading to decreased appetite and insufficient nutrient intake. In the long run, it is easy to have problems such as malnutrition. Such as iron deficiency anemia, lack of various trace elements. It not only affects health, but also seriously affects the growth and development of children.