No matter how hot it is in summer, you can't be greedy for a moment.
In hot weather, activities should be reduced, especially avoiding long-term activities in high temperature environment or scorching sun. Generally speaking, don't go out after 9 am or before 4 pm on sunny days.
Don't get hot enough to catch a cold in summer. For example, spending the night in the open air or being too cold may lead to the evil of summer heat and cold. When you feel cold indoors, you must stand up and move your limbs and body to speed up blood circulation.
Sun protection | Don't be a "superficial" person.
When you go out, you should take protective measures, such as playing a sunshade, wearing a sun hat and sunglasses, and it is best to apply some sunscreen.
You can go for a stroll at night, but you need to bring cool oil and toilet water to prevent mosquito bites.
Dampness | Pay more attention to moistureproof while preventing heatstroke.
Summer is hot and humid, and people often feel headache, so they are prone to depression, burnout, chest tightness and poor appetite. When summer and dampness invade the human body, symptoms such as tasteless diet, dry mouth, dizziness and heavy limbs may appear. Summer and dampness take advantage of it, and the elderly, children and the weak are prone to lose heart and heatstroke.
Countermeasures: Cardamom boiled water to drink: Cardamom has a good heat-clearing and dampness-removing effect. Boil the whole nutmeg with rock sugar. The boiled cardamom water is not only fragrant, but also sweet. It is a cool drink that does not hurt the spleen and stomach. You can drink some in dog days.
Invigorating qi | scientific nap to resist the high temperature in midsummer
Advocate active rest. On the premise of not being tired, you can choose to do proper exercise in the morning or evening.
A scientific and reasonable nap. It is advisable to take a nap for about an hour. Don't "take a nap against the wind" at the draught or outlet, let alone "take an upright nap" lying at the table or leaning against the chair. These abnormal naps often do more harm than good to human health.
Dog days also need to pay attention to diet, eat more sweet and sour, eat more cold dishes and so on.
Eat more sweet and sour food.
Dog days cookbook. In hot summer, people like cold drinks and drink plenty of water, so that moisture invades the human body, while external moisture enters the body, making water wet and invigorating the spleen, lifting the spleen and stomach, causing digestive dysfunction, stagnant water and loss of appetite. Humidity in summer is very bad for spleen, and bitter food has the effect of purging dryness, so it is not advisable to eat more.
Therefore, it is advisable to eat more sweet and cold or sweet and cold in daily diet. And summer returns to the heart, but the heart likes cold and should be sour, so eat more acidic food in summer. For example, you can often eat some wheat products, such as plums, peaches, olives, pineapples, celery and so on.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of heaven and man and the complementarity of yin and yang. Therefore, in summer, people should eat more sour and sweet food and try not to eat spicy and warm food. It is also necessary to avoid eating too many cold drinks, which will harm the healthy qi in the human body and induce diseases.
Eat more cold salad.
In cooking, cold salad and stir-fry are the best ways to eat in summer, which can retain the nutrition of vegetables to the greatest extent; With proper amount of vinegar, sauce, onion, ginger, garlic and mustard, it can promote appetite and digestion, inhibit bacteria, reduce blood fat and regulate blood pressure.
Eat more mutton.
Eating mutton in dog days, a common winter tonic, is actually very particular. Nowadays, people are too greedy for cold, with cold drinks one after another and air conditioners blowing all day.
At this time, diseases also came, such as cold drinks stimulating the gastrointestinal tract, causing gastrointestinal dysfunction, and air conditioning will bring pain to muscles and joints all over the body. Eating some warm mutton at this time is conducive to dispelling the cold that stays in the body and dredging the tendons. If you blow the air conditioner all night and feel headache in the morning, eating mutton in your diet will relieve it.
Eat more bitter gourd
Bitter taste of bitter gourd is the key and essence of nutrition. Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd tastes bitter, and has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, clearing heart, relieving vexation, invigorating spleen and appetizing, invigorating qi and relieving fatigue, and benefiting kidney and diuresis. If you find yourself with prickly heat, you can add bitter gourd to the table.
Eat more lotus leaves
Hangzhou famous cauliflower chicken, wrapped in lotus leaves and burned. The fragrance of lotus leaves is very attractive, and eating them in dog days can stimulate appetite. It can also be used to make mung bean soup, and put a little when cooking mung bean soup to enhance the function of relieving summer heat.