Many modern people believe that staying in an air-conditioned room in summer and avoiding the high temperature environment will prevent heatstroke. But in daily life, we will find that the more people who use air conditioners frequently, the more likely they are to suffer from heatstroke. Some people just stand in the hot sun for more than ten minutes, and they will have symptoms such as nausea and dizziness.
Chinese medicine believes that the key to prevent heatstroke is to reduce the accumulation of damp heat in the body, eat more hot food and drink some warm drinks, which can cure heat with heat and reduce the occurrence of heatstroke.
People who use more air conditioners are prone to heatstroke. Sweating in summer is an instinctive physiological activity made by the human body to regulate body temperature. Sweat will radiate the heat in the body and play a role in lowering the body temperature. In addition, sweating can promote the excretion of garbage toxins in the body and has the effect of detoxification.
Many modern people hate sweating in summer and like to stay in air-conditioned rooms with low temperature to reduce sweating, which actually violates the law of health preservation. In a low-temperature environment, the pores of the human body are closed, and the accumulated heat in the body cannot be dissipated, so the body's response to the external high temperature becomes slow, and it suddenly appears in a high-temperature environment, so it is difficult to quickly adjust the body temperature by sweating, so people who use air conditioners are prone to heatstroke.
The theory of TCM health preservation is based on the principle of treating heat with heat to prevent heatstroke, which holds that summer is a good opportunity to replenish yang, characterized by heat and divergence. Many health books point out that you should receive more sunlight in summer, which is very beneficial to promote the rise of yang.
From the aspect of preventing heatstroke, eating some hot things in the diet will help to improve the vitality of yang. From a modern point of view, it is to improve the body's ability to respond to environmental temperature and self-regulation. For example, drinking ginger soup in summer can play a role in sweating and cooling, and drinking red bean soup can play a role in dehumidification. Some Chinese patent medicines used to treat heatstroke, such as Shidishui and Zui Xiang Zhengqi Dripping Pills, all contain some aromatic ingredients to enlighten people.
Treating heat with heat should pay attention to supplementing body fluids. Sweating can help the human body to dissipate heat, but too much sweating and too little liquid in the body will lead to electrolyte disorder and easy heatstroke. Therefore, when using some sweating methods to dissipate heat, we should pay attention to supplementing body fluids. For example, when drinking ginger soup, you can add some salt and sugar to supplement the salt and sugar lost by sweating.
In addition, the hotter the climate, the more attention should be paid to drinking hot drinks, and try to avoid eating cold food or drinks, so as to avoid gastrointestinal diseases caused by cold of the spleen and stomach.