Early autumn should follow the "ancient law" to cool off the heat.
"One stop by the lake is evil, and nourishing the heart is better than medicine." Professor Xia, an expert of Sanxiang famous doctor think tank in Changsha Evening News and deputy director and chief physician of the Institute of Geriatrics of Changsha Central Hospital, said that this is a natural way for the ancients to enjoy the cool. Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty also pointed out that fishing can relieve the dryness and heat of the heart and spleen, and it is still hot in the long summer, which makes people bored and easy to get angry, so fishing is a good choice. In addition, ancient people's healthy and natural summer activities include keeping goldfish, fishing turtles, catching frogs and hunting in summer. There were also cool rooms for people to enjoy the cool in the Tang Dynasty. It is generally built by water, which drives the fan wheel by water circulation and slowly sends cold water into the house.
With the popularity of household electric fans or air conditioners, hand-cranked cattail fans and banana fans are mostly laid off. Xia said that corresponding to the natural law of autumn harvest, the human body surface began to weaken during this period. If you are suddenly stimulated by cold when sweating in summer, it is easy to get sick.
Staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time is prone to respiratory diseases and gastrointestinal diseases, and people's physique will also decline. Therefore, it is best to have a fixed time to contact the natural environment every day. Might as well follow the "ancient law" to enjoy the cool, so that the hot body and mind can return to calm in the natural cool wind, that is, calm and naturally cool.
Around sunset and after dinner, it is the best time to enjoy the cool. For office workers who have worked all day, they can also relax themselves. Shake the fan to get rid of summer heat and cool down. Compared with the "strong wind" of electric fans and the "evil wind" of air conditioners, the natural wind brought by shaking the fans is more natural and healthier. Flapping is a kind of upper limb movement that needs the coordination of fingers, wrists and local joint muscles. It can strengthen the exercise of upper limb joint muscles, promote the blood circulation of muscles, enhance the flexibility of muscle strength and the coordination of various joints, and prevent and treat scapulohumeral periarthritis. Old people often move their heads when shaking their fans, which also plays a certain role in preventing cervical hyperosteogeny. In addition, taking a fan when going out for a walk in summer can also repel mosquitoes.
Give some "healthy sweat" to enhance immunity
Xia said that when I went out of the clinic yesterday, I heard from Ms. Wang, a patient, that it was very hot these days, and I lived a two-point and one-line life at home and work every day. I stayed in the office during the day except going home for dinner. In order to be cooler, Ms. Wang also changed her desk to directly below the air conditioner. She thinks this is the beginning of coolness. Unexpectedly, one day later, Ms. Wang had to come to the hospital because of a bad cold.
"When the human body sweats in hot days, it can excrete the oil secreted by the skin surface together with the metabolites, which plays the role of moisturizing and skin care, expelling toxins and expelling cold." Xia said that sweating can also consume excess energy in the body, which helps to promote the decomposition of fat, and there is less fat in the body, which is conducive to the reduction and improvement of chronic diseases such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular diseases. Studies have found that antibacterial peptides contained in sweat can effectively resist viruses, bacteria and fungi, and sweating can effectively enhance your own immunity and improve your antibacterial and antiviral abilities.
It is normal to sweat in summer, but Xia pointed out that it is not appropriate to go shirtless during this period, and sweating should be "healthy sweat". Drink hot water and porridge before exercise to keep the pores half open. After proper exercise, let all the pores open and sweat naturally. Don't catch a cold after exercise, wait patiently for the sweat to subside. At the same time, skillfully use ginger to help people sweat, ginger is warm, and insist on drinking Jiang Shui, such as tea soaked with ginger slices and ginger jujube water. , promote perspiration. For people who have worked in office buildings for a long time, taking a bath or soaking their feet after returning home can achieve the same effect. Bathing or soaking feet with a water temperature of about 40℃ is beneficial to sweating and relieving fatigue. To cultivate the body's ability to actively sweat, sit still for an hour every day, bask in the sun properly, and sweat slightly is healthier.
"In late summer and early autumn, the heat and humidity are still strong, and proper sweating is essential, but sweating should be moderate." Summer reminds that proper sweating can regulate body temperature and is conducive to smooth blood flow. However, frequent sweating and hyperhidrosis are not only easy to consume body fluids and hurt blood, but also may hurt yang qi, resulting in both qi and blood injuries, loss of heart support, and symptoms such as palpitation, shortness of breath, insomnia, mental fatigue and polydipsia. If you have obvious sweating amount, sweating time or abnormal body feeling, you need to seek medical advice in time.
Proper "hardship" can reduce fever and relieve summer heat.
/kloc-Xiaojun, a 0/5-year-old middle school student, recently developed a lot of acne on his face, followed by oral ulcers, nosebleeds and other symptoms, and school is about to start. His parents took Xiaojun to the clinic to see Professor Xia. After detailed consultation and examination, it was found that Xiaojun was "grumpy", malnourished and lacked vitamins.
"In late summer and early autumn, the temperature is still very high and the humidity is very high. When heat accumulates in the body, symptoms such as acne and oral ulcers may occur. " Summer analysis shows that after a long summer, various nutrients in the human body, especially inorganic salts, are consumed in large quantities, coupled with loss of appetite and reduced activity caused by the intense heat, the health status of the human body is at a low level. Under the influence of multiple factors, the yin and yang of the human body are unbalanced, and diseases are easy to come uninvited.
Xia said that in view of this situation, it is recommended to "suffer hardships" in diet and health care. "Bitter" refers to bitter food, which contains bitter substances such as alkaloids and has the functions of antipyretic, anti-fatigue, spleen strengthening and dampness drying. Some bitter vegetables, such as bitter gourd and bitter vegetable, are rich in alkaloids, vitamins and minerals, which can make up for the excessive loss of nutrients in summer and have the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, refreshing and invigorating the stomach. Lotus seed soup, lotus flower tea and bitter chrysanthemum tea are also the best refreshing foods, especially for people who often have diarrhea due to functional degradation of large intestine. They can often eat stewed lotus seeds, which is beneficial to tonifying the heart and kidney, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and calming the nerves.
"But when people eat bitter food, enough is enough." Xia believes that this is because bitter food is cold and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. People with weak spleen and stomach should be careful to eat foods with too much bitterness; People with deficiency-cold constitution should eat less bitter food.
In addition, you can eat sour food in moderation in autumn, and don't eat too much spicy food. Acidic food has the functions of convergence, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, which is beneficial to the convergence of lung qi. The corresponding season of lung health preservation is autumn, which should be harvesting rather than sowing. After beginning of autumn, it is the time to nourish the lungs, and the diet after autumn should be "less bitter and more sour".
Source: Changsha Evening News