The long summer comes before the stomach.
Chinese medicine believes that there is fire, water and earth between heaven and earth in Jin Mu, and Jin Mu's five internal organs are also divided into fire, water and earth. Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and the five elements belong to the soil. Chinese medicine also says that the five internal organs should respond to the four seasons, and the spleen should correspond to the "long summer" outside the four seasons. This is because in the long summer, the climate is hot, there is more rain, the land is full of vitality and everything is thriving. Spleen governs the transport and transformation, produces essence, qi, blood and body fluids, and supplies them to the whole body, which is similar to the transport and transformation of soil energy. Therefore, in the long midsummer season, when the earth is most prosperous, it is precisely the best time for the spleen and stomach.
Liking dryness and hating dampness is one of the physiological characteristics of the spleen. Although it is the season with the highest yang, there is relatively more rain. If the humidity is too heavy, the spleen and stomach will be trapped and the transport capacity will be reduced. Spleen governs transport and transformation, life activities can be continued, and essence, qi, blood and body fluid can be transformed and enriched, all of which depend on the subtlety of Shui Gu's spleen and stomach transport and transformation. If the spleen and stomach function is abnormal, Shui Gu's subtle movement and body fluid movement will be abnormal, and the viscera can't get the nutrition of essence, qi, blood and body fluid, which leads to its abnormal function. Therefore, people often feel unbearable heat, dry mouth, thick and greasy tongue coating, loss of appetite and fatigue in summer. "Spleen and stomach theory" holds that "everything is born of spleen and stomach weakness." Therefore, in the "sauna days", it is particularly important to remove dampness and regulate the spleen and stomach.
Anti-summer
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After entering, as the weather gets hotter, some people will have symptoms such as chest tightness and discomfort, loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, listlessness, thin stool, slight fever and sweating, and their weight will also be reduced. This is what people often call a bitter summer.
The bitterness of bitter summer mainly comes from the bitterness of the spleen and stomach. In dog days, it is hot and sweaty, which consumes a lot of heat energy, so the transportation and transformation burden of spleen and stomach is heavier than other seasons. If the external moisture is trapped in the spleen and stomach again, its transport function will be affected, and the Shui Gu essence needed by the human body will not be effectively supplemented, which will aggravate the symptoms of bitter summer, leading to abdominal distension, thick tongue coating, tasteless food, thirst, fatigue and lethargy. At the same time, the heat in summer can also cause bad mental symptoms. Zhang Shengsheng said that from the perspective of Chinese medicine, the liver belongs to wood and the spleen belongs to soil. On the one hand, liver can overcome soil, and liver depression will affect spleen soil, and spleen soil will also affect liver wood. The spleen and stomach are not good, and the subtle influence of Yunhua Water Valley is affected. The liver wood can't be effectively nourished and supplied, and it is easy to be in a bad mood and have a bad temper, while the liver controls emotions, which explains why some people are prone to irritability for no reason in summer.
Zhang Shengsheng told reporters that if you want to be more bitter in summer, you should pay attention to two aspects. First of all, you should start with diet. You shouldn't eat too much at every meal. Eating too much will increase the digestive burden, leading to the decline of spleen and stomach transport and transformation ability. You should also eat less greasy food, properly clean up the accumulation of spleen and stomach, and make the spleen healthy and harmonious. You can choose some foods that can dispel summer heat, dampness and strengthen the spleen, such as mung beans, watermelons and raw barley. Secondly, life lies in the high temperature in summer, the human body's own consumption increases, the body reserve is relatively weak, and it is easy to get tired and unwilling to exercise. However, moderate exercise is helpful to digestion of spleen and stomach and increase appetite. Therefore, it is suggested that the time should be controlled around 20 minutes to reduce the intensity appropriately, and swimming, walking, boxing and non-confrontational ball games can be chosen.
Don't be greedy for cold because of the heat.
Avoid overeating.
In summer, yang is distributed, including yin, and qi and blood are correspondingly vigorous and active on the body surface. People tend to pay too much attention to the comfort in front of them and avoid heat and get cold. In Huangdi Neijing, people are actually warned to pay attention to protecting the yang in the body in summer, because sweating is too much and the pores are open, at this time, the body is vulnerable to external evils. If you stay in an air-conditioned room all the time, or stay in a place that is too humid, resulting in insufficient qi and the invasion of external evils such as summer heat and cold, you should pay special attention to covering your abdomen when you get rid of the summer heat and enjoy the cool.
The temperature is high in summer, and people tend to overeat. Iced drinks, ice cream, iced watermelons, etc. I can't wait to eat everything cold, but overeating will suddenly drop the temperature in the gastrointestinal tract, slow down local blood circulation, reduce blood flow and affect the absorption of nutrients in the gastrointestinal tract. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, overeating cold things is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, leading to spleen deficiency and cold, and spleen deficiency will reduce the absorption capacity of transportation and transformation. The maintenance of human life activities depends on the nourishment of Shui Gu essence and body fluid produced by the spleen and stomach, and the physiological functions of heart, lung, liver and kidney depend on the support of temper and its subtle substances. The function of spleen qi transport is normal, the four viscera are nourished, and the function is normal, so the human body will be healthy, and it is not easy to recover. Our reporter Hou Xiaoming
Summer porridge
◎ Mung bean porridge: Mung bean is cold and sweet, with the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing fire and relieving summer heat, which is very suitable for summer consumption. The practice of mung bean porridge is very simple. Put mung beans in a pot, add water, bring to a boil with high fire, and simmer for about 40 minutes. After the mung beans are crisp and rotten, add rice and cook over medium heat until the rice grains bloom and the porridge soup is sticky. After cooling, add rock sugar and stir to eat.
◎ Raw Coix seed porridge: Raw Coix seed is raw Coix seed and mature Coix seed, which has the functions of eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, relaxing muscles and tendons, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus. They are usually sold in supermarkets. Cooking raw coix seed into porridge is not only a good health care product in summer, but also helps to smooth the skin and reduce and eliminate pigmentation spots.
◎ Lotus leaf porridge: 2 pieces of fresh lotus leaves, decoct the soup to remove residue, add japonica rice 150g to cook porridge, and add a little sugar. Regular consumption has the effects of clearing heat, heatstroke prevention, diuresis, lowering blood pressure and lowering blood fat.
◎ Chen Pizhou: Wash the dried tangerine peel, shred it, decoct it in water to get juice, add rice and cook it into porridge, or grind the dried tangerine peel, 3-5g each time, put it into the cooked porridge and cook it into porridge. It has the effects of regulating qi, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, abdominal distension, anorexia, loose stool, cough with excessive phlegm, fullness of chest and diaphragm, etc.
◎ Hawthorn porridge: First, put the hawthorn into a casserole and fry it into thick juice, remove the residue, and then add japonica rice and white sugar to cook porridge. Hawthorn porridge has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting digestion and removing blood stasis, but remember not to eat on an empty stomach.