First, the diet should be more sweet and less sour. Sweet food enters the spleen. At this time, you can eat more jujube, yam and other foods, strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, eliminate dampness and nourish the liver. Eat less acidic food. Cold foods are not suitable for eating, such as ice cream and cold drinks. Otherwise, the cold will gather in the body, leading to spleen deficiency and physical discomfort in summer. Some foods, such as ginger, leek, garlic, mustard, etc. Warm and pungent, suitable for the characteristics of spring hair growth, you may wish to eat more. And dehumidifying foods, such as yam, Euryale ferox, adzuki bean, crucian carp, soybean milk, etc. , can be a good elimination of moisture in the body, but also eat more. "Spring grows and summer grows". At this time, you can add more protein, such as fish and meat, eat more beans, and choose dark vegetables to supplement vitamins to prevent angular stomatitis.
In summer, it is advisable to eat light, digestible and spleen-invigorating foods, such as fish, eggs, milk, watermelon, cucumber, wax gourd, corn, etc. The beverages can be mung bean soup, sour plum soup, honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea, etc.
Summer belongs to fire in the five elements, and all five tastes are bitter. Eating bitter food in summer, such as bitter gourd, lily, chrysanthemum, kudingcha, etc., has the functions of relieving fever and inflammation, helping digestion, stimulating appetite, refreshing the mind and eliminating fatigue, but eating bitter food will benefit the heart and hurt the lungs, because excessive heart fire will inhibit the lungs.
So you can eat more sour and salty food in summer, such as bayberry, strawberry, tomato, beans and their products, kelp and so on. The astringency of sour taste can protect the body surface and prevent excessive sweating. Proper consumption of sour food helps to enhance appetite. Salty food can help the body replenish salt lost due to excessive sweating and prevent excessive sweating from damaging the heart. It is best to eat warm food in summer, not overheated. Overheating will hurt qi, and warm food should help yang qi.
Second, taking a nap is good for health. In spring, everything recovers and the sun of everything rises. Therefore, the yang of the human body should also conform to nature and diverge upward and outward.
When spring returns to the earth, the weather turns warmer and the air is moist, which makes people's skin relax gradually, the function of circulatory system is strengthened, the blood supply to the peripheral parts of the skin is increased, the secretion of sweat glands is also increased, and the load of various organs is increased, which makes the body sleepy, commonly known as "spring sleep". Therefore, in daily life, you should lie down and get up early at night instead of staying up late.
After getting up, you can take a walk in the wide courtyard, or blend in with nature and enjoy flowers. You should take off your coat and don't let your body be bound. Especially for the elderly, because they are old and have many chronic diseases, we should stick to this regimen.
The temperature changes greatly in spring, so we should pay attention to keep warm and cold, protect the yang, and increase or decrease clothes according to the weather. We shouldn't be suddenly attacked by cold, because winter is over.
Summer is the season with the highest yang in a year, with high temperature, abundant sunshine and vigorous metabolism. Therefore, at this time, health care should focus on adapting to the external high temperature environment and the internal characteristics of the human body.
In daily life, you can go to bed late and get up early, which is in line with the change of yang excess and yin deficiency in nature and is conducive to physical fitness. However, when the summer heat is at its peak at noon, you can take a nap properly, which can not only escape the heat, but also eliminate fatigue, replenish physical strength and make up for sleep time.
Third, aerobic exercise should pay attention to more exercise, mainly aerobic exercise, or go out for an outing, spring outing, or walk or swim. Don't take a cold shower or blow air conditioning immediately after sweating after exercise. It should conform to the natural law of rising yang, and don't let cold air douse it.
Fourth, keep quiet and calm. In terms of spiritual cultivation, spring is the time when the liver is in season, so keeping a cheerful, positive and optimistic attitude can promote the release of liver qi, and also help to unify the rise of liver qi with the rise of Yang Qi in spring, thus enhancing the adaptability of the body to the outside world.
Here we recommend several kinds of health porridge alternating in spring and summer.
1. Perilla porridge. Ingredients: 6 grams of perilla leaves, 50 grams of japonica rice, and appropriate amount of brown sugar.
Production: add appropriate amount of water to the casserole, add perilla leaves, boil for 1 min, remove residue and take juice for later use. Wash japonica rice, boil water separately, add japonica rice to cook porridge, add perilla leaves and brown sugar when porridge is cooked, and stir well.
Efficacy: Perilla leaves are pungent and warm, and have the effects of dispelling cold, relieving exterior syndrome, promoting qi circulation, relieving depression and resolving phlegm. It can dilate capillaries, stimulate sweat secretion and make people sweat. Its immersion liquid is useful for influenza virus. Perilla leaves in summer are the season with the most abundant yang in a year. Cooked with japonica rice, it has the function of harmonizing stomach and dispelling cold and relieving exterior syndrome.
2. Rehmannia porridge. Raw materials: fresh rehmannia root, white honey, japonica rice and sesame oil.
Production: Rehmannia glutinosa is washed and mashed, and white honey 120g is added to every 500g juice, and it is boiled into paste, stored and sealed, and 10g is used each time. Cook porridge with about 50g japonica rice. Add 10g Rehmannia glutinosa paste and a little ghee after the porridge is cooked. Eat on an empty stomach every morning and evening.
Efficacy: nourishing yin, nourishing blood and moistening lung. It is suitable for lung and kidney yin deficiency, dry cough with little phlegm, hemoptysis, constipation due to yin injury, etc. If it is used for tonifying kidney and lung, the cooked sheep kidney can be put into porridge, chopped and eaten together; If pepper and ginger are added to the porridge, it will have the effects of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold, restoring yang and dredging veins.
3. windproof porridge. Materials: Saposhnikovia divaricata 12g, onion 2g, japonica rice 60g. Production: Wash japonica rice, add water to make porridge, add Fangfeng liquid (cooked in advance) and scallion (washed and chopped), and cook with slow fire to taste.
Efficacy: pungent and warm, dispelling wind and dispelling cold. It is suitable for people with exogenous wind, cold and dampness, fever and aversion to cold, headache and stuffy nose, and aches all over. Because it can express delivery, dispel wind and remove dampness, it can be used for joint pain, headache and dizziness of the elderly. Avoid greasy and cold products when eating. The seasoning should be light. People with rheumatic joint pain should not eat it.