Chinese medicine believes that the performance of health lies in the balance of yin and yang in the human body. Summer solstice is the most prosperous season in Yang Qi among the 24 solar terms. Yang Qi of the human body runs smoothly, qi and blood emerge on the body surface, and a large amount of body fluid leaks out, so it shows an increase in sweating. "Sweat and sweat are of the same origin", the heart governs the blood vessels, "sweat is the liquid of the heart", and in summer, it is connected with the heart-qi, so the increase of sweat is easy to lead to the dispersion of the heart-qi, so the health care from summer to the sun should focus on nourishing yang and protecting yin, which is also conducive to the treatment of winter diseases in summer.
The temperature is high and the heat is unbearable in summer. Many people have poor appetite, poor sleep quality, dizziness and headache, lethargy and fatigue, and even some people who are weak will feel sick and vomit.
If you can't raise yang and nurse vaginal fluid at this time, you will find that many ailments and pains will fall in love with you inexplicably in autumn and winter. But at this time, how to raise yang and protect yin is a difficult problem for most people.
Then, according to the weather, how should we spend the summer solstice? Learn these three kinds of teas and three kinds of avoidance to help you spend a beautiful summer solstice and a smooth summer!
I'd like to introduce these three kinds of tea: loose leaf tea, summer solstice dark plum drink and Pinellia ternata Prunella vulgaris.
One, three-leaf tea, clear yang and heat.
During the summer solstice, the sunshine lasts the longest, and the yang is easy to accumulate in the body, which leads to a bad mood and an unnamed fire. So how do you disperse Yang trapped in the body?
You can drink three-leaf tea:
Ingredients: Lophatherum gracile, lotus leaf and mint leaf.
Usage: Soak in 500 ml thermos cup for 20min, which can be used for one day.
Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis.
Among them, Lophatherum Bambusae has the functions of clearing away heat, benefiting water, relieving annoyance and clearing heart. Mint leaves dissipate heat, clear the head, make people refreshed, and lotus leaves clear away heat and promote diuresis. If you like sweets, you can add some honey or osmanthus.
Second, drink dark plum in summer to balance yin and yang.
On the solstice of summer, the yang is the most abundant, but the yin is growing. Too much yang consumes yin and body fluid, which makes yin insufficient and easily affects people's spirit and appetite. So how should the summer solstice replenish Yin to achieve the balance of Yin and Yang?
In summer, you can drink solstice dark plum drinks:
Materials: Mume Fructus, Fructus Crataegi, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Glycyrrhrizae Radix and honey;
Usage: Except honey, put several kinds of medicinal materials into two liters of water, boil with strong fire and cook with low fire for 20 minutes. After filtering the residue, add some honey.
Among them, ebony can stimulate appetite, promote fluid production and nourish yin; Raw hawthorn helps digestion; Raw licorice nourishes qi and yin; Chenpi regulates qi and appetizes; Honey moistens dryness. Dark plum beverage from summer solstice has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and nourishing yin.
Third, Pinellia ternata, traffic yin and yang.
During the summer solstice, Yin and Yang begin to alternate, which makes it easy to toss and turn at night. This is because the yang is too strong to enter the Yin meridian, making people unable to sleep.
Drink Pinellia ternata and Prunella vulgaris:
Pinellia ternata was born in summer solstice, which has the effects of eliminating dampness, relieving cough and resolving hard mass, while Prunella vulgaris has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and resolving hard mass, but it withers in summer solstice. The combination of the two can well reconcile Yin and Yang, and calm insomnia caused by the incoherence of Yin and Yang. Take Pinellia ternata and Prunella vulgaris, cook and eat.
Reminder: There are many reasons for insomnia. Prunella vulgaris plus Pinellia ternata is only effective for insomnia caused by yin-yang disharmony.
In addition, the high temperature in summer will have some negative effects on the human body, which is easy to cause harm. Health care from summer solstice should follow the "three taboos" to keep the body healthy and stable.
First, avoid catching a cold.
There is a saying in Huangdi Neijing: "Cold prevails and evil spirits are sad." Chinese medicine believes that in summer, in order to dissipate heat, people's skin pores are opened and drained, and they are most likely to feel the evil of cold, rheumatism and damp heat and suffer from diseases.
Avoiding the cold mainly includes:
1. Prevention of abdominal cold:
1) Pay attention to eating warm food as much as possible, not greedy for cold drinks and cold food, and try to eat less food at night, especially for the elderly, whose intestines and stomach are fragile;
2) Remember to cover your stomach when you sleep;
3) Eat a little ginger for three meals. As the folks say, "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without the doctor prescribing medicine" is reasonable. But when eating ginger in summer, we should pay attention to these points: the temperature is high in summer and the food is easy to deteriorate. Therefore, if you want to eat ginger, I suggest eating it now and cooking it overnight. Secondly, it's hot in summer, and people get angry easily. Ginger is not recommended for patients with exogenous heat, internal heat due to yin deficiency or phlegm-dampness constitution.
2, to prevent the body from catching cold:
To prevent the body from catching cold, it is mainly to use electric fans and air conditioners correctly; No matter how comfortable the air-conditioned room is, don't wait too long in it. If people stay in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, they are prone to dizziness, sneezing and runny nose. If you wear too little, it will also cause joint pain, numbness in the neck and shoulders, and even cause a cold.
Therefore, we should pay attention to the time of turning on the air conditioner in summer, the temperature should generally not be lower than 26 degrees, and we should also pay attention to increasing or decreasing clothes. Remember to go out often to breathe fresh air and exercise your muscles!
3. Prevent colds in the head and feet:
Don't wash your hair, feet and bath with cold water in summer. Be sure to take a bath with warm water, and dry the clothes as soon as possible after washing, otherwise it will easily catch a cold and aggravate the cold and dampness in the body. Cold and humidity can be very torturous in autumn and winter.
Second, avoid high temperature in summer.
There is a cloud in Huangdi Neijing: "The nature of hot weather and fire is summer heat." At high temperature, people are prone to disorder of thermoregulation mechanism, causing "heatstroke". If not treated in time, it will also lead to dysfunction of the central nervous system, such as confusion, mania, coma and so on.
Main measures that should be paid attention to in summer vacation:
Don't go out around noon, especially to avoid exposure;
② Avoid strenuous exercise and physical exertion;
(3) The nature of fire and summer heat leads to excessive sweating and serious loss of body fluid. So drink plenty of water to prevent the loss of body fluids. Often take heatstroke prevention products, such as watermelon, mung bean soup, green tea, etc.
(4) With the help of natural wind, fans, air conditioners, etc. Cold drinks should not be overdone, otherwise it is easy to suffer from gastrointestinal diseases.
Third, avoid humidity.
After the summer solstice, the air humidity increases, the spleen function of human body decreases, the excess water vapor in the body can not be transported normally, and the water vapor stays and gets wet. This is what we usually call the reason why there is moisture and heavy moisture in the body. Therefore, we should not only pay attention to summer vacation, but also pay attention to moisture prevention in summer.
There is a saying in Huangdi Neijing: "When moisture comes, soil wins, cold water is affected by evil, and kidney disease is born." The solstice in summer is also the season of wet soil.
Main methods to avoid humidity:
1. Keep away from humid environment and keep indoor dry;
2. You can eat more spicy products in your diet, such as green onions, peppers, mung beans, millet, chicken and peaches. Appropriate amount, provided that you protect your stomach.
3. Dampness and evil over the spleen are prone to spleen deficiency. You can use Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese yam and Coix seed to cook porridge, or you can use Coix seed, white lentils and Chinese yam to stew soup, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing.
4. Dehumidification of air conditioning equipment.
In addition, in order to spend the summer smoothly, everyone should prepare cool oil, Huoxiang Zhengqi water and so on. , often used for heatstroke prevention and cooling, in case of emergency.