Summer is a special season. This season is hot and humid, which is most likely to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is very necessary to regulate the spleen and stomach in summer. In fact, the most important thing to regulate the spleen and stomach is to prevent heatstroke and eliminate dampness. How to regulate the spleen and stomach?

Humidity is high in summer

It is rainy and hot in summer, and it is easy to produce moisture. Chinese medicine believes that dampness belongs to yin evil, while spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, so spleen is prone to get sick in summer. Summer has another feature, especially the long summer, which is the sun that shines in the sun all year round. At this time, Yang Zui may lose the election.

In addition, in summer, people are greedy and drink cold, and the spleen and stomach are very prone to illness. The spleen mentioned in Chinese medicine is not the spleen in western medicine anatomy, but a high summary of the transport and transformation of the five internal organs. Therefore, the focus of summer health care is to regulate the spleen and stomach.

In summer, due to the heavy external humidity, the human spleen and stomach are easily trapped and become relatively weak, so it is very important to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Not only do we not forget to strengthen the spleen and stomach, but we can spend the summer safely by doing these things well.

Summer heat will hurt qi, and summer heat will be wet.

Chinese medicine believes that summer heat is yang evil, which is loud and easy to consume gas and hurt body fluids. Moreover, due to hot steaming, the phlegm will sweat as soon as it is released, and the body fluid will be damaged, and the body fluid with gas will be qi-deficient. Therefore, hot weather can easily make people feel tired, tired, thirsty, angry and lazy, and sweat like rain when they move a little. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "summer heat will hurt qi and biochemical losses."

Therefore, it is advisable to adopt some dietotherapy or "clearing away heat and summer heat" with the effect of benefiting qi, which is helpful to healthy qi and prevent diseases. In summer, when treating cold and cold in the elderly, avoid sweating. We should pay attention to the principle of "strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil". We shouldn't just buy common cold medicines on the market. First of all, we should distinguish cold, heat, deficiency and excess, and then distinguish drugs to avoid sweating and consuming healthy qi.

It will definitely rain in summer. Dampness is the evil of heavy turbidity, and summer heat is the gas of fumigation. In summer, the atmosphere of heaven and earth intersect, and it is extremely hot and humid. Especially in rainy days, the higher the temperature, the more water vapor in the air, so the heat is heavier.

When summer dampness invades the human body, it can limit the transportation and transformation of the spleen and stomach. In addition, summer-heat and dampness directly damage healthy qi and hinder the clearing mechanism of yang qi. Therefore, the common symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, palpitation, heavy limbs, thin stool, low fever and greasy tongue coating are called "summer" by the people, which are easy to occur in the elderly or people with deficiency of both qi and yin and weakness of spleen and stomach. For people who have been ill for a long time, don't catch a cold when summer comes, so as not to suppress the nostalgia for damp evil and lead to lingering illness.

1, double bean drink, summer heat and spleen is right.

Everyone only knows that it is good to drink mung bean soup in summer, but they don't know that mung beans are cold and easy to hurt the spleen and stomach; Here I recommend a "mung bean soup" that everyone can really drink, that is, cooking soup with mung beans and white lentils. This can not only relieve summer heat and strengthen the spleen, but also achieve the purpose of relieving summer heat and strengthening the spleen. It is also known as the popular "double bean drink".

Mung bean soup is cold, although it has the function of clearing away heat and detoxifying, but drinking it every day may easily hurt the spleen and stomach, and the elderly, children and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not drink more. White lentils are slightly warm, and also have the effects of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, harmonizing the middle and relieving summer heat. They are a perfect match for cooking soup.

Note: White lentils are hard and difficult to cook. Soak them for 3-4 hours in advance (if the weather is hot, it is best to soak them in the refrigerator). Cook them in a pot first, and then cook them with mung beans. Because white lentils contain physostigmine and can only be destroyed at high temperature, they must be cooked to avoid poisoning accidents.

2, Fuling soup, a good choice for slimming.

Some people find themselves fat in summer. In fact, many people are caused by heavy moisture in the body and poor transport and transformation ability of the spleen and stomach, which leads to water retention in the body. Want to lose weight, here is a Poria cocos old duck soup. Poria cocos is a kind of medicine with the same origin as food, which can induce diuresis, moisten the spleen and calm the heart. Duck is the king of meat in summer. As the saying goes, an old duck wins the tonic in summer. Before the arrival of summer, take action to get rid of dampness and lose weight!

Note: Poria cocos in the market is massive and flaky. Because massive poria cocos is not easy to boil, flaky poria cocos is usually the first choice, so it is more convenient and quick to make soup without soaking for a long time. Poria cocos old duck soup can also add a little dried tangerine peel, mung bean, coix seed and so on. Then the fire boiled for about an hour.

Reviewer: Chen Ting, Dongguan People's Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association.

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