"The heart is the master of the whole body", "All viscera and bones obey the heart, so they are kings" and "The heart hides the gods, so it is used by the gods", all of which illustrate the important position of the heart in the human body.
The "heart" of traditional Chinese medicine has both the "heart of flesh and blood", that is, the heart as an organ and the heart of the gods, which refers to the ability of people to accept and reflect external things and carry out consciousness and thinking activities. Yang-heat qi of the heart not only maintains its own physiological function, but also has a warming effect on the whole body. In China's ancient medical theory, man and nature are a unified whole, and the four seasons of Yin and Yang in nature change with each other, which is related to the functional activities of the five internal organs of human body. The heart belongs to summer, which means that the heart yang is the most vigorous in summer and needs more maintenance.
After the long summer solar term, people reduced their clothes and their clothes were thin. Even people who are usually in good health should be careful of exogenous colds. In this season, once sick, Chinese medicine does not easily use antiperspirants to avoid sweating. Older people should pay more attention to avoid stagnation of qi and blood and prevent heart attacks. During the long summer solar term, you should relax and keep a relaxed attitude, and don't hurt the sun because of sudden emotions. Eat a little onion in the morning and drink a little red wine after meals to keep your blood gas flowing. In terms of diet maintenance, this season should be based on low fat, low salt, multivitamins and light. Suitable diets include chicken breast with lotus leaf, houttuynia cordata mixed with lettuce, longan porridge and so on. It has the effects of nourishing the heart, clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and resolving phlegm, nourishing blood and calming the nerves.
2. Xiaoman health Xiaoman solar terms in late May, the temperature increased significantly. If you are greedy when sleeping, it will easily lead to rheumatism and wet skin diseases. In the health care of this solar term, we should vigorously advocate the health care concept of "prevention before illness". In the absence of any disease, we should also do all kinds of preventive work. This concept of health preservation emphasizes: "the holistic view of harmony between man and nature and the pathological view of keeping healthy qi and evil are not acceptable." The human body is an organic whole, and people are closely related to external environmental factors. Humans need to master the laws of nature, adapt to natural changes, and maintain the harmony of internal and external environment, so as to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and health care. According to the viewpoint of traditional Chinese medicine, the occurrence of diseases is related to both healthy qi and pathogenic factors. Pathogenic factors are the conditions that lead to diseases, but the lack of healthy qi is the internal cause and foundation of diseases. This is by no means to deny that external factors will play a leading role under certain conditions. Therefore, in the concept of health care, we should try our best to enhance the healthy qi of the body and prevent the invasion of evil spirits.
Xiaoman solar term is a high incidence period of skin diseases. Patients with skin diseases should pay special attention to diet conditioning. Their daily diet is mainly light and refreshing vegetarian food, and they often eat foods with diuretic and heat-clearing effects.
3. Health preservation in awning season comes from the vast territory of China, and the climate characteristics of the same solar term are also different. In the heading season, the rainfall increases and the temperature rises, and the south enters the rainy season. The air is very humid, and the weather is hot and humid. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival in China is mostly around the date of the mango seed, and there is a saying among the people that "you can't send zongzi without eating it". This tells people not to take off warm clothes after the Dragon Boat Festival to avoid catching cold. There is a proverb in Jiangxi, China: "When you plant a awn on the summer solstice, it needs someone to lead you away, someone to pull you, and someone to push you." A few short sentences reflect the common problem of people in summer-laziness. The reason is that the temperature rises in summer, the humidity in the air increases, and the sweat in the body can't be emitted smoothly, that is, heat steaming and dampness move, and damp heat permeates the air, and everything people touch and breathe can't be separated from damp heat. Therefore, the summer heat makes the pathogenic dampness more and more, making people sleepy and depressed. Therefore, in the rainy season, we should not only pay attention to sun protection and moisture prevention, but also pay attention to strengthening physical fitness to avoid seasonal diseases and infectious diseases, such as heatstroke, mumps and chicken pox. Because it is often rainy and rainy in the season of mango, the health care focus of mango should be determined according to the climatic characteristics of the season: in mental conditioning, you should keep a relaxed and happy state, don't be angry and depressed, and let your body freely publicize and vent; In daily life, you should go to bed late and get up early, and receive proper sunlight (avoid direct sunlight, and pay attention to heatstroke prevention), so as to conform to the fullness of yang, which is conducive to the operation of qi and blood and cheer up the spirit. In summer, the days are long and the nights are short. Taking a nap in the middle school helps to restore fatigue and is good for health. After planting awn seeds, it is hot at noon, and people are prone to sweating. Clothes should be washed and changed frequently. In order to avoid heatstroke, you should take a bath often after planting, which can make your skin loose and "yang heat" easy to vent. But it should be noted that don't take a shower immediately when sweating. There is an old saying in China, "You can't see wet when you sweat", and if you "can't see wet when you sweat, you will get acne". In terms of diet conditioning of mango seeds, health experts of all ages believe that the diet in summer and March should be supplemented.
"Lu Chunqiu" pointed out: "No food is thick and thick, and no wine is heavy and strong." Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty advocated that "everything should be sweet and light, and barley koji and japonica rice are better". He also said: "People who are good at keeping in good health often need to eat less meat and more rice." Zhu Danxi, a doctor in the Yuan Dynasty, said in "Rutan Tan": "Eat less meat and eat more whole grains, and the natural taste is harmonious." From the point of view of nutrition, light diet plays an irreplaceable role in health preservation. For example, vegetables and beans can provide the human body with essential nutrients such as sugar, protein, fat and minerals, and a lot of vitamins, which are indispensable in human metabolism and can prevent diseases and aging. Vitamin C in fruits and vegetables is also an important redox substance in the body, which can promote the absorption of oxygen by cells. It is an indispensable component in the formation of cells and some hormones. In addition, vitamin C can also inhibit pathological changes, promote the formation of antibodies and improve the body's disease resistance. Eating more fruits and vegetables can repair and maintain blood vessels to a certain extent, and can also transfer cholesterol deposited on blood vessel walls to the liver to become bile acids, which also plays a certain role in preventing and treating arteriosclerosis. Cellulose in vegetables is very important to keep human stool unobstructed, reduce the absorption of toxins, prevent premature aging and prevent the occurrence of rectal cancer caused by constipation.
In addition, while emphasizing dietary supplements, the diet should not be too salty or too sweet. Too salty diet, too much sodium ion in the body, and small activity in the elderly will increase blood pressure and even cause cerebrovascular dysfunction; Eating too many sweets is not good for human health. With the increase of age, the metabolic capacity of carbohydrates in the body gradually decreases, which is easy to cause the accumulation of intermediates such as sucrose, which can lead to hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia, and even diabetes in severe cases. It can be seen that diet is an extremely important means of health preservation and disease prevention. Therefore, in summer, the metabolism of the human body is vigorous, sweat is easy to leak out, gas consumption hurts body fluids, and it is appropriate to enter a diet that can dispel summer heat and replenish qi, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Due to the decline of physical function, the secretion of digestive juice is reduced in hot days, and the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are hardened to varying degrees. The diet of the elderly should be mainly tonic, supplemented by foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, protect the stomach and spleen, and reduce blood pressure and lipid. During menstruation or postpartum, although the weather is getting hotter, women should avoid eating cold products to prevent other diseases. Suitable diets include scrambled eggs with tomatoes, mushrooms, winter melon balls and medlar five-flavor drinks, which have the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, benefiting stomach, nourishing kidney yin and helping kidney yang.
4. Summer health care According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, summer is the season with the highest yang. Health preservation should conform to the characteristics of summer yang, and pay attention to protecting yang. Summer is very hot, so we should keep calm, cheerful, open-minded and full of energy. Just like everything needs sunshine to grow, we should have a strong interest in external things and cultivate an optimistic and outgoing personality, which is conducive to the ventilation of qi. On the contrary, you should not be lazy, bored, angry and depressed, which will hinder the operation of qi. Ji Kang's On Health Preservation has his own unique view on hot summer, which is considered to be hot. "pranayama meditation is more appropriate, often like ice and snow in the heart, and there is less heat in the heart, so you can't turn heat into heat. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. "that is,' calm, naturally cool', I am talking about mental conditioning in summer health.
During the summer solstice, people's daily life should return to normal. They should stay up late and get up early. When the weather is hot in summer, you will feel dizzy, chest tightness, palpitation, thirst, nausea and even coma if you sweat more. When arranging outdoor work and physical exercise, you should avoid the scorching sun and strengthen protection. Arrange lunch break reasonably: one is to avoid the hot trend, and the other is to relieve the feeling of fatigue. Taking a warm bath every day is also a fitness measure worth promoting, which can not only wash away sweat and dirt, but also make the skin clean and cool, which is conducive to summer heat and disease prevention, and can also achieve the purpose of exercising. Because the water pressure and mechanical massage in warm water bath can reduce the excitability of nervous system, dilate blood vessels on the body surface, accelerate blood circulation, improve the nutrition of skin and tissues, reduce muscle tension, eliminate fatigue, improve sleep and enhance resistance. In addition, summer is hot and vulnerable to wind, cold and dampness. It is not suitable for fan-type air supply when sleeping. In an air-conditioned room, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large, and it is not suitable for sleeping at night.
It is best to choose the summer solstice when the weather is cool in the early morning or evening, and the venue should be in places with fresh air such as rivers, lakes, parks and courtyards. Those who have the conditions can go to the forest and seaside for recuperation and vacation. Walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and radio exercises are the best sports, and it is not advisable to do excessive and strenuous activities. If you exercise too much, you will sweat profusely, which will not only hurt Yin Qi, but also easily lead to Yang Qi. During exercise, when sweating too much, you can drink light salt boiled water or mung bean brine soup properly, but you must not drink a lot of cold boiled water, not to mention punching and showering with cold water immediately, otherwise it will cause diseases such as cold-dampness arthralgia and yellow sweat.
It is also important to adjust your diet during the summer solstice. In the summer solstice, people are prone to excessive heart fire, and eating some bitter food helps to reduce heart fire. Summer is also the season of sweating. If you sweat more, you will lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be abnormal. Chinese medicine believes that at this time, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to consolidate the exterior and more salty taste to replenish the heart. Ancient health care also thought that diet should not be too cold, including summer solstice, because in summer solstice, the human body is actually in a state of external heat and internal cold, so it is not appropriate to eat more cold food, but it is acceptable to eat less. If you are greedy, it will definitely hurt your spleen and stomach and make people vomit. Watermelon, mung bean soup, dark plum and red bean soup have good effects of quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, but they are not suitable for ice consumption.
Suitable diets include lotus leaf Porridge, cold lettuce, buttered melon balls, etc. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, calming the heart and calming the nerves, tonifying deficiency and benefiting the spleen and stomach.
5. Health care in summer Summer is the busiest time of the year. At this time, the weather is already very hot. When busy, we must pay attention to the combination of leisure and heatstroke prevention. Drinking more water is a good way to relieve fatigue and metabolism. Water is a very important and indispensable thing in the human body, which can strengthen the body and prolong life. As the saying goes, "Man is made of water", which makes sense. Water accounts for about 70% of human body weight, and drinking cold boiled water is highly recommended by traditional health preservation methods. According to folk experience and experimental results, drinking a glass of fresh cold water every morning will lead to a miraculous longevity in a few years. Japanese doctors made a survey of 460 elderly people over 65 years old: among the elderly who insisted on drinking a cup of cold boiled water every morning for five years, 82% of them were ruddy, energetic, with loose teeth and could walk 10 km every day. Among these people, they have never been seriously ill. This shows that the importance of water to human body is absolutely true. July and August in the solar calendar are the hottest and wettest days of the year. People often say, "heat is in the dog days, and cold is in the three or nine days." The dog days usually appear after the summer solstice, between the light summer heat and the heavy summer heat, and there is an "autumn tiger" after beginning of autumn.
"Three volts" is from mid-July to mid-August. After the summer solstice, although the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer, the days are longer than the nights in a day. Every day, the ground absorbs more heat than it emits, and the temperature near the ground is getting higher every day. During the "three volts" period, the heat absorbed by the ground is almost equal to the heat released, and the weather is the hottest. After that, the heat absorbed by the ground began to be less than the heat emitted by the ground, and the temperature gradually decreased. Therefore, the hottest time of the year generally appears in the "three volts" from summer to the sun, which is divided into initial, middle and final volts. According to China's traditional calculation method, the third and fourth Geng days from summer to the future are the start dates of the first (head lying) and the middle (second lying) respectively, and the first Geng day after beginning of autumn is the first day before the third (third lying). Every day is an auspicious day with the word "Geng", such as Geng Zi and Geng Ugly ... such dates are published in (rural yearbook) every year. Because the third and fourth Geng days are the first days of initial lodging and intermediate lodging, and the interval between each Geng day is 10 day, the initial lodging time is 10 day, and the final lodging rule is 10 day. The incubation time is long or short, which may be 10 day or 20 days. Every year, the third Geng day after the summer solstice solar term appears in the morning and evening, so the number of days in the middle is different, so there is a difference of 30 days in some years and 40 days in some years.
6. Health care during summer heat. The summer climate is hot, hot and rainy, and summer heat and dampness are more likely to take advantage of it. Moreover, because of the high summer heat, the heart is more likely to be lost, especially for the elderly, children and the infirm, which is often difficult to resist summer heat and dampness, leading to heatstroke and other diseases. When there are obvious symptoms such as general fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, inattention, hyperhidrosis, numbness of limbs, thirst, nausea, etc. It may be a precursor to heatstroke. Once the above symptoms appear, the heatstroke victim should be immediately carried to a ventilated and cool place to rest, and it is best to give the patient some light salt boiled water or mung bean soup, watermelon juice, sour plum soup and so on. To prevent heatstroke in summer, we should pay attention to: reasonably arrange work and pay attention to the combination of work and rest; Avoid exposure to the hot sun; Pay attention to indoor cooling; Get enough sleep; Pay attention to food hygiene.
Summer heat is the season with the highest temperature and the strongest yang. In terms of health care, there is often a saying that "winter diseases are treated in summer", which means that some diseases that are prone to attack in winter should be treated in summer, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and joint pain, and summer is the best time to treat them.
Reasonable diet in summer weather and paying attention to the nutritional function of diet are effective guarantees to reduce diseases and prevent aging, so as to preserve health and prolong life. Diet conditioning in summer should be based on the climate characteristics in summer. Because of the hot summer climate, it is easy to hurt body fluid and consume gas, so you can often use some medicated porridge to nourish your body. Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist, especially praised medicated porridge for health preservation. He said: eat a big bowl of porridge every day, and you can cook it on an empty stomach, but it is not fine, very soft and greasy. It is compatible with the stomach and is the most wonderful diet. Medicinal porridge is suitable for the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach function. Therefore, the ancients said that "the porridge is the best in the world" and "a two-meter solar eclipse is better than a big bag of gods". "Six Books on Medicine") praised: "The glutinous rice porridge is the capital to raise Kundan. Glutinous rice porridge is a wonderful product for warming and nourishing the stomach. " It can be seen that porridge is important to people. Medicinal porridge is beneficial to human body, but it is not omnipotent. According to everyone's different physique and diseases, we should choose the right medicine and cook porridge to achieve satisfactory results. Suitable diets include eggplant, assorted vegetables, mung bean and pumpkin soup, bitter gourd and chrysanthemum porridge. It has the effects of clearing away heat, inducing resuscitation, relieving swelling and diuresis, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, stopping dysentery and detoxifying.
Key points of health care in autumn The six solar terms in autumn are the golden season for everything to mature and harvest, and it is also the season for thousands of trees to fall into English and flowers to wither.
At this time, the yang in nature is declining, the yin is cold, the rain is getting less and less, the weather is dry, the autumn wind is rustling, and the nature is cold and depressing. "yang disappears and yin grows, and heat goes to cold." The metabolic function of the human body turned from prosperity to decline and began to enter a low tide. The human body is vulnerable to external pathogens. Therefore, during the six solar terms in autumn, attention should be paid to avoiding the invasion of seasonal pathogens.
1. It is advisable to nourish yin in autumn and pay attention to prevent the loss of body fluid and qi. The sixth solar term in autumn is the season when yang disappears and yin grows. Summer has just passed the heat of six solar terms, the yang of the human body is gradually suppressed, and the yin essence is constantly flourishing. Therefore, people live in harmony with the autumn atmosphere and maintain the yin essence in the body. On the one hand, this is to adapt to the law of the gradual rise and prosperity of Yin Qi religion. People should conform to the trend of natural accumulation, collect Yin Qi, and condense essence, so as to nourish the five internal organs, resist diseases and prolong life. On the other hand, it also prepares for storing yin essence in the six solar terms in winter, and further lays the foundation for the growth of yang in the coming year, thus maintaining the balance of yin and yang in the human body. So don't damage the spirit of yin essence in the six solar terms in autumn, that is, people often say "nourishing yin in autumn and winter." The six solar terms in autumn should also prevent excessive strain and avoid the leakage of yin, because excessive strenuous exercise makes people sweat too much, leading to the loss of body fluid and qi.
2. Preventing dryness and protecting yin, nourishing the lungs is the first autumn. The heat is over, and the dryness is just right. Motherland medicine believes that dryness is the main qi of the six solar terms in autumn, which is called "autumn dryness". Its qi is clear and dry. Therefore, dryness hurts people and is easy to consume body fluids. The so-called "dryness wins dryness". When the body fluid is exhausted, there will be dryness, such as dry mouth, dry lips, dry nose, dry throat, dry tongue, dry stool, dry skin and even chapped skin.
The six solar terms in autumn should be in the lungs of the human body. The lungs control qi and breathe, communicating with the atmosphere through the nasal orifices and with the outside world through the sweat pores of the skin. Because the lungs are delicate, they "like moistening and hate dryness" and are vulnerable to external evils, especially in autumn. "dryness is easy to hurt the lungs", and it is easy to have a cough or dry cough without phlegm and dry mouth. Lung fluid injury is characterized by dry mouth, sore throat, dry eyes, nosebleed, dry cough with little phlegm, rough skin, dry stool and other symptoms. Therefore, in the autumn season, we should pay attention to nourishing the lungs, prevent autumn dryness from hurting the lungs, and make the lungs clear and breathe peacefully. This is the "way to raise income" in the six solar terms in autumn.
3. Be cautious in daily life and adjust your mood. In the six solar terms in autumn, the temperature turns from hot to cold and gradually turns cold. The temperature difference between day and night is large. People's daily life should also be adjusted at any time, go to bed early and get up early to avoid catching a cold. The lung dominates the muscle surface, and exogenous pathogens are most likely to invade the lung, inducing or aggravating respiratory diseases such as exogenous pathogens and cough and asthma, or becoming the bane of other system diseases. Therefore, clothing should be increased or decreased in time with the climate change in the six solar terms in autumn, so as to avoid catching cold and inducing diseases or aggravating the illness. However, moderate "autumn freezing" is very beneficial for human body to gradually adapt to cold weather changes and enhance its cold resistance. The so-called "cover up the autumn freeze" and "autumn is not busy adding clothes" is the truth.
Autumn six solar terms, leaves everywhere, everything withers, the autumn wind is chilly, coupled with the continuous autumn rain, it is easy to cause people's emotional instability, restless mood, people suddenly feel sad. The stimulation of bad emotions will affect human health, so we should maintain a quiet and peaceful mood, maintain an optimistic and positive mood, and "regulate qi and soothe the nerves" so that the upper and lower qi can penetrate the human body. This can improve the physiological function of the lungs and resist the invasion of autumn dryness and cold on the body. Therefore, in the six solar terms in autumn, it is very important to adjust your mood for health.