Winter disease treated in summer
Because the dog days are the hottest, the highest temperature and the most vigorous yang in a year, at this stage, drugs can easily penetrate into acupoints and meridians from the skin and reach the affected parts through meridians and qi and blood, so treating winter diseases in summer can often achieve the best results. Moreover, Geng day is related to lung gold (Geng day is gold, belonging to the large intestine meridian, and the large intestine meridian and the lung are in the exterior and interior), which is the best time to warm the lung meridian and get rid of potential cold evil.
Dog days moxibustion
Dog-day moxibustion, a treasure of traditional Chinese medicine, is the most distinctive dog-day health care therapy in China, which is similar to modern preventive medicine. As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine advocated the treatment of "preventing diseases before they occur", which is the earliest preventive medicine in the world. The "dog moxibustion" of "treating winter diseases in summer" is the most representative method. This therapy is to make medicine cakes in the dog days when yang is the most abundant in a year, taking advantage of the opportunity of warming meridians in the human body to dispel cold, tonify deficiency and help yang. After dialectical analysis by experienced acupuncturists,
Xingyun tonic
There is a folk tradition of "chicken on the head, dog on the second floor, turtle on the third floor and red date belly on the third floor". Koreans also have the tradition of eating ginseng chicken soup, dog broth and other tonics in dog days. Xuzhou people say that "a bowl of soup for Pengcheng sheep doesn't need a prescription from a doctor", which shows that there is a custom of tonic in different areas in the dog days. In dog days, we must grasp the characteristics of dog days: high temperature, high humidity, long days and relatively little sleep time. Tonifying should be combined with the actual situation of the individual, and it is best to make tonic according to the symptoms under the guidance of a doctor. If you take supplements at will, it may increase the loss of the human body and add fuel to the fire. If you have respiratory diseases such as asthma and tracheitis, don't be greedy for cold food in dog days. People with deficiency-cold constitution should eat less cold food, such as pears, watermelons and cold drinks.
Summer training is dog days.
As the saying goes, "practice three or nine in winter and three volts in summer." This is a summary of the experience of long-term health preservation in ancient times. Modern medicine has proved that in hot weather, a kind of emergency protein will be produced in human body, which can resist the harm to human body in summer. It can be seen that the human body itself has the ability to adapt to different environments. Exercise in cold and summer can improve the body's ability to adapt to different environments. Therefore, the ancients believed that people who obtained health cultivation could "avoid cold and heat, and all kinds of poisons would not invade." However, to prevent heatstroke in summer, we should dialectically avoid the high temperature period. The doctor reminded that ordinary people should not advocate this kind of exercise, especially the elderly and infirm, or those who have lived in a suitable temperature environment for a long time and have low adaptability to different environments. Therefore, these people had better be in summer.