1. Mung beans can eliminate dampness and strengthen the spleen.
Heavy hot and humid days can easily lead to spleen deficiency, so we should pay attention to strengthening and protecting the spleen. Shen said that the diet should be light, mung beans have the function of strengthening the spleen, and you can drink mung bean porridge to eliminate dampness and strengthen the spleen. Chinese medicine also believes that mung bean soup has the therapeutic effects of relieving summer heat, benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and has a good therapeutic effect on mild heatstroke, dizziness and headache, chest tightness and shortness of breath, and irritability without sweat. In addition, we should eat more fruits and vegetables, especially some fruits and vegetables with high vitamin content, such as tomatoes, watermelons and cucumbers. People with solar dermatitis need to pay attention to eating less photosensitive foods, such as celery and spinach, in this season, because these foods will accelerate the skin's sensitivity to light and aggravate the allergy to ultraviolet rays.
2. Fan cooling is better than air conditioning.
Air conditioning can quickly cool down, but blowing air conditioning often will affect people's perspiration function. Yang Li told reporters that perspiration is a self-regulating cooling process of the human body. If you stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time, your body's ability to adjust temperature will decrease, and your central adjustment ability will also decrease, which will cause various discomforts. So it's best to turn on the air conditioner less and use the fan instead of cooling. You can also open more windows to speed up air circulation and help cool down. Especially for the elderly, due to their weak body and limited ability to adjust the temperature, they should blow less air conditioners and bring more fans when going out. It should also be reminded that even if you blow the air conditioner, don't blow it all day and all night. You can open it for a while and then close it. Don't adjust the temperature too low, ensure that the indoor and outdoor temperature does not exceed 7℃, and be careful not to let the air conditioner blow directly on your body.
3. The cotton-padded clothes and trousers have strong perspiration ability.
According to the survey, whether clothes are cool in summer has a great relationship with the sweat absorption ability of the clothes we wear. Cotton-padded jacket is not only comfortable and soft to wear, but also very sweat-absorbent. Therefore, wearing a cotton-padded jacket in summer can accelerate the absorption of sweat discharged from the body, and can quickly bring out the heat in the body, which plays a role in lowering the body temperature.
However, don't wear too tight clothes. Loose clothes can also make sweat leave the body surface quickly. Dark clothes have strong heat absorption ability, so you can choose clothes with lighter colors, such as white, light yellow, light pink and light blue. Don't go to bed shirtless and wear pajamas, which can protect your abdomen and prevent colds from entering your body and hurting your internal organs. It should be noted that wearing less is not necessarily cold. When the temperature is higher than 37℃, the skin will not only not dissipate heat, but also absorb external heat. So to some extent, men should not go out shirtless in summer, and women should not wear short skirts.
4. Green tea supplements water to remove fire.
The temperature is high in summer, and people are prone to dehydration. Drinking more water is the best way to prevent heatstroke. Shen said that when replenishing water, you can choose to drink some green tea. Because the human body loses not only water but also a lot of electrolytes in dog days, green tea not only has the effect of clearing away heat and fire, but also contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, which can quickly replenish electrolytes lost by the human body, thus maintaining the dynamic balance of body fluids. In addition, green tea can eliminate fatigue and refresh the mind. If it is not suitable for drinking tea, you can add some salt to the boiling water, or you can supplement the water by eating watermelon and drinking mung bean soup, but mung beans are cool and should not be given to children in large quantities.
A hot bath is better than a shower.
The weather is hot, and many people will choose to take a bath with cold water directly to cool down. Actually, this is not the right way. Zhuang Ganzhu said that in summer, the temperature is high, the pores of the human body are open, and the metabolic rate is fast. Direct cooling will lead to a sudden drop in skin surface temperature, pore closure, sudden contraction of blood vessels, and body heat can not be emitted. After washing, it can not only relieve fatigue, but also make people feel weak limbs, sore shoulders and knees, and even induce arthritis and chronic gastroenteritis. Therefore, it is best to take a warm bath in dog days, and the water temperature is 35℃~37℃. This temperature is higher than the skin temperature, but lower than the body temperature, which is very suitable for heat dissipation in summer.
However, what needs us is that some elderly people are very afraid of catching a cold, so they will have hot water to wash, which is also incorrect. Excessive temperature will reduce the oxygen content in the bathroom, so there will be fainting caused by lack of oxygen. Therefore, we'd better use warm water when taking a bath.
Swimming is the most popular summer sport.
People often say that "dog days in summer" is not to let everyone exercise regardless of time, place and occasion. In summer, the human body consumes a lot of energy, so exercise methods such as running, playing ball and climbing mountains must be done according to one's ability. It is best to do some "low-key" exercise, which can not only have the effect of exercise, but also avoid discomfort. Experts recommend swimming, because the heat dissipation capacity of water is 15 times higher than that of air, and the human body can keep its body temperature constant when swimming, so it is not easy to get heatstroke.
In addition, pay attention to exercise time in summer. Outdoor exercise in high temperature and strong sunshine is not only easy to get sunburned, but also increases the risk of heatstroke and dehydration. Therefore, it is best to choose outdoor sports in the early morning and late at night, that is, when the temperature is relatively low and the sunshine is not so strong in the morning and evening. Pay attention to replenish water many times during exercise, and drink 10 to 15 minutes 100 ml to 150 ml.
Learn the above six tricks to fight the summer heat easily. Summer is the hottest season all the year round. There is a saying in Chinese medicine: "Summer is hot and humid, so it should be clear." In fact, in addition to cleaning in summer, we should pay more attention to the small details in life and learn more common sense of heatstroke prevention to make ourselves feel at ease in summer.