1, principles of health care in summer
1 Live, rest and nourish
Nourishing yang in summer is important to nourish the heart. In the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine also believes that "summer qi and heart qi are interlinked", so it is necessary to "recharge your batteries" for health preservation, such as going to bed early and getting up early to avoid sweating. Sweating too much is easy to hurt yang.
After the weather turns hot, people are prone to emotional irritability, fidgeting and poor sleep. And people's minds are easily influenced. So how to avoid fidgeting? First of all, we should pay attention to mental conditioning and maintain a happy mood; Secondly, avoid sudden happiness and sadness and maintain a calm and harmonious state. Chinese medicine has long said that "the heart should be nourished in summer", so it is necessary to maintain physical and mental pleasure and smooth mood in summer to prevent diseases caused by excessive heart fire.
2 diet to prevent getting angry
Hot weather can lead to a series of symptoms such as irritability and insomnia. Summer heat is easy to produce internal heat to the body, so "fire prevention" has become the first principle of summer health preservation.
You can eat more food to clear away heat and toxic materials in midsummer. In traditional Chinese medicine, herbs that can clear away heat and reduce heat are: mint, lotus leaf, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, forsythia and so on. Diet should be light and easy to digest, and eat less greasy and spicy food. Semen Phaseoli Radiati, Semen Nelumbinis, Folium Nelumbinis, Rhizoma Phragmitis, and Lentils can be added. Cook porridge with japonica rice and eat it after cooling. This medicated porridge has the function of invigorating stomach and relieving summer heat. Eating more fruits and vegetables at ordinary times can provide vitamin supplements. It's best to eat more melons, including watermelon, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber and wax gourd.
Eat more bitter.
Chinese medicine believes that most bitter vegetables have the function of clearing away heat. Therefore, nutritionists suggest that bitter food, such as bitter vegetables and bitter gourd, can play a role in relieving fever, dispelling summer heat and eliminating fatigue. Eating bitter gourd soup or bitter gourd vegetables in summer can reconcile the spleen and stomach, eliminate fatigue, refresh the mind, and have a certain preventive effect on heatstroke and gastrointestinal diseases. Sowthistle is also a vegetable with the same origin of medicine and food, which has the functions of cooling and detoxifying, disinfecting and expelling pus, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, and preventing and treating gastroenteritis. When eating bitter vegetables, wash its roots and leaves, fry them and make soup. Its taste is bitter and fragrant, and it is a delicious food for relieving summer heat and appetizing, and has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on enteritis and dysentery. You sweat a lot in summer, so you might as well drink something bitter. Beer, green tea and kudingcha are all good choices.
4 heatstroke prevention and cooling
The weather is hot in summer, and air-conditioning fans are the best electric appliances to reduce fever. For people who are afraid of heat, it is most comfortable for the air conditioner to have a fan on. But for joint patients, summer is the best way to avoid cold, because too cold environment is more likely to cause lesions. Therefore, in summer, joints should pay attention to the moderate use of air conditioners and fans and use them as little as possible.
It's too hot outside in summer. To avoid being exposed to the sun for a long time, you need to go out and take the best heatstroke prevention measures. You can prepare some heatstroke prevention drugs at home, such as Ren Dan, Huoxiang Zhengqi series (water, liquid, pills, capsules), ten drops of water, essential oil, etc. For people who often stay in air-conditioned rooms, pay attention to hydrating and drinking more water. In order to avoid too dry skin.
5 Ensure adequate sleep.
In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, the temperature is high, the metabolism of human body is vigorous, the consumption is also large, and it is easy to get tired. Therefore, it is of great significance to keep enough sleep in summer to promote health and improve work and study efficiency. In order to ensure adequate sleep, we must first have a regular daily life; Secondly, pay attention to the ventilation and coolness of the bedroom; Third, we should keep a calm mind and strive to be "calm and natural"; Fourth, we should have a proper nap time. Taking a nap in summer can relax the brain and body system, which is beneficial to work and study in the afternoon and is also a powerful measure to prevent heatstroke.
2, summer health porridge recommended
1, chrysanthemum porridge
Material: chrysanthemum10g, stem rice10g.
Method: grind chrysanthemum, and add water to the stem rice to make porridge. When the porridge is ready, add chrysanthemum powder and cook it slightly for breakfast and dinner.
Efficacy: This porridge can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Regular consumption can relax people's limbs and cheer them up.
2. Mint porridge
Ingredients: fresh mint 30g, glutinous rice 50g.
Method: Put the mint soup in another place and let it cool. Stems and rice are boiled with water. After the porridge is cooked, add a proper amount of mint soup and rock sugar and cook for a while. It can be served in summer afternoons.
Efficacy: This porridge has the effect of clearing away heat and counting.
3. Mung bean porridge
Ingredients: mung bean, japonica rice100g.
Methods: Wash a proper amount of mung beans, soak them for half a day, and cook them into porridge with straw, which can be eaten as breakfast and dinner. This kind of porridge is suitable for hot summer, so it is an ideal summer food.
4. Lotus root porridge
Materials: lotus root100g, glutinous rice100g.
Method: Wash lotus root and slice it, and add appropriate amount of glutinous rice into porridge.
Efficacy: This porridge can nourish the mind and recuperate the spirit together.
5, Hu Aishan glutinous rice porridge
Raw materials: 30g of yam.
Method: break the yam, put it in a pot and cook for 10 minute, then add 40g of coix seed and 50g of stem rice, and cook together to make porridge.
Efficacy: This porridge can strengthen the spleen and kidney, benefit qi and eliminate dampness.