Temperance, hygiene, diet, fear of cold.
First, we should be temperate. Prevent overeating. Also pay attention to the time and distribution of three meals. Breakfast should be around 7: 00, lunch around 12 and dinner around 18. Do "eat well early, eat well at noon and eat less at night"
Second, it must be hygienic. Especially in summer, unclean diet can lead to diseases;
Third, we must avoid eating cold food. Summer is hot, yang is exposed, and yin is depressed in the body. If you eat too many cold fruits and vegetables, it will make the body cold and wet, and it is not easy to be digested by the spleen and stomach. In particular, the yang in the spleen and stomach of the elderly is gradually decreasing. Eating cold food will further damage kidney yang and cause diarrhea.
Children's digestive function is not yet complete, and they are easily affected by summer heat and humidity. Eating cold food as usual, especially ice cream and drinks, is high in sugar, which is easy to damage the transport function of the spleen and stomach, leading to long-term loss of appetite, abdominal pain, abnormal stool and other symptoms. If it is not corrected from the diet, it will lead to gastrointestinal diseases, which may affect the health of children throughout their lives.
Women have special physiological processes such as menstruation, leucorrhea, pregnancy and childbirth, and are prone to deficiency of qi and blood. The characteristic of blood is that it likes warm and hates cold, so women should not be cold at will, especially during menstruation and postpartum. Overeating and cold not only hurts the spleen and stomach, but also causes palace cold, causing excessive leucorrhea, dysmenorrhea and even infertility. Therefore, women must be temperate in eating cold food in summer.
In addition, the weather is hot in summer, and many men like to drink cold beer, but many people will induce gout; Or damage the spleen and stomach function, causing acute gastroenteritis; It leads to rapid contraction of blood vessels and causes cardiovascular problems.
Light, five flavors, nourishing the heart and strengthening the spleen
Summer diet should be light first, and we should eat a simple diet that is easy to digest by the spleen and stomach to prevent the occurrence of gastrointestinal diseases. A light diet is what we usually call "simple tea and light rice". The staple food should be whole grains, and the non-staple food should be beans, vegetables, fruits and fungi. A light diet is not a complete vegetarian diet. Meat contains protein necessary for human body. A vegan diet can easily lead to malnutrition, so we should eat less light meat. Cooking is mainly based on cooking, reducing frying, putting less oil and salt, and trying to keep the original flavor of food.
Secondly, food should be bitter, spicy, sour, salty and less sweet. According to the requirements of traditional Chinese medicine, the five flavors correspond to the five elements and five internal organs, that is, acid enters the liver, bitter enters the heart, sweet enters the spleen, pungent enters the lung and salty enters the kidney.
Different tastes have different functions. Sour taste has the functions of astringing sweat, stopping sweating, stopping diarrhea, astringent essence and reducing urine, such as dark plum, hawthorn, dogwood and pomegranate.
Bitter taste has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, eliminating dampness, lowering qi and detoxifying, such as dried tangerine peel, bitter almond, bitter gourd and lily.
Sweet and sweet, it has nourishing, tranquilizing and spasmolytic effects, such as brown sugar, longan pulp, honey, rice flour food and so on.
Salty taste has the functions of diarrhea, softening and hardening, dispersing stagnation, nourishing yin and nourishing blood, such as salt, kelp, laver and jellyfish.
Pungent taste has the functions of dispersing stagnation, promoting qi circulation and promoting blood circulation, such as ginger, onion, garlic and pepper.
Third, it is advisable to nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen, relieve summer heat and eliminate dampness. Recently, the humidity in the air is relatively high in the rainy season, and people are more likely to feel wet evil. Once the adaptability of the spleen and stomach is exceeded, there will be spleen diseases such as loss of appetite, loose stool, abdominal distension and tepid limbs. Therefore, people with spleen deficiency can eat less and eat more meals, eat some spicy food appropriately, increase appetite, help digestion, and resist the invasion of dampness on the spleen. You can also take traditional Chinese medicines that can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Cordyceps militaris, lotus seeds, Poria, Pogostemon rugosa, Amomum villosum, etc., which can not only strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also dispel summer heat and eliminate dampness.
The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Care of the Affiliated Hospital of the Academy of Medical Sciences, presided over by Liu Zhifeng, an expert of traditional Chinese medicine health care, is committed to individualized health plan treatment, sub-health comprehensive system conditioning and auxiliary treatment of various chronic diseases with outstanding results and immediate results.