Hot summer is the high incidence season of gastrointestinal diseases, and it is easy to cause gastrointestinal diseases if you don't pay attention to hygiene in summer.
It is easy to be greedy in summer, and people are too greedy for cold food to cool off the heat. They are too partial to food because of their poor appetite. Besides diet, they should be careful not to use air conditioners and electric fans excessively, and they must arrange their daily life reasonably.
Our sense of taste will become very poor in dog days, so how should we adjust it in dog days?
First, what should I pay attention to in the dog days?
1, eat more pasta
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter diseases are treated in summer, and after summer, the stomach is full of cold pathogens. "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" "In May, the yang is on the exterior, the stomach is cold, the yang is weaker than the stomach, and it cannot overcome the cold, so I want to dress again. May is an evil month, and June also touches the edge of the evil month, so it should also be "evil". This is superstition. Grinding new wheat into flour and cooking soup will make you sweat. The new grain is rich in nutrition, and sweating can drive away diseases. It is scientific to eat soup cakes in June.
According to Wei Chunqiu, when you eat soup cakes and wipe your sweat with a towel, your face is delicate, and people realize that your skin is white, not pink. The "soup cake" here is hot soup noodles. Why eat hot noodles on a hot day? Liang Zongwu of the Southern Dynasties wrote in the Chronicle of Jingchu: "It is evil to eat soup cakes in June. "
2. Mung bean soup
Mung beans are cool and sweet, and have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, quenching thirst and strengthening the spleen. Mung bean, also called green adzuki bean, is a common coarse cereal. Mung beans are different from soybeans. Soybean is a kind of food with balanced nutrition, which contains protein, fat and carbohydrates, while mung bean has a relatively high proportion of carbohydrates, while protein has a medium proportion and a small proportion of fat. In addition, it is rich in dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals.
At the same time, because mung beans are rich in vitamins and minerals, they can also quickly replenish electrolytes lost by the body and ensure electrolyte balance. The second function of mung bean soup is bacteriostasis. The results show that the extract of mung bean skin has obvious inhibitory effect on staphylococcus, and the flavonoids contained in mung bean also have certain antibacterial and bactericidal effects. In addition, mung bean soup also has the effects of regulating blood vessels, assisting in lowering blood lipid and lowering blood pressure.
Although mung bean soup has many functions, it is not suitable for everyone. For the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach, protein contained in mung beans is difficult to digest in a short time. There are people who are taking medicine, so it is not advisable to drink mung bean soup, because mung beans have the function of detoxification, which is easy to affect the curative effect.
3. Cucumber
Cucumber meat is crisp and tender, and its juice is sweet. It has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, expelling toxin and caring skin, and whitening and caring skin. Cucumber contains cucumber acid, which can promote human metabolism and expel toxins from the body. Vitamin C contained in it has the functions of improving immunity, resisting oxidation, resisting tumor, whitening skin, keeping skin elasticity and inhibiting melanin production. It contains vitamin B 1, which is beneficial to improve the function of brain and nervous system. Has the functions of calming nerves and adjuvant treatment of insomnia.
Cucumber is the main course in summer. In hot summer, it is the choice of many people to have a bowl of noodles with slag sauce with some shredded cucumber or a cucumber cold dish for dinner. Root cucumber is cool and sweet, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production. Can be used for treating body heat, polydipsia, toxic ulcer due to heat, jaundice, heat stranguria, reddish yellow urine, etc.
4. Bitter gourd
Bitter gourd, also known as "cold melon", is a good vegetable to cool off the heat. It is nutritious, and has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, lowering blood sugar, caring skin and preventing cancer. The summer heat is getting stronger and stronger, and it is best to eat bitter gourd. Some people can't stand the bitter taste of bitter gourd. In fact, they can fry with other vegetables or marinate with salt for a while.
Momordica charantia has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, invigorating kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has certain curative effects on dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever and miliaria.
Bitter gourd can also prevent scurvy, protect cell membrane, prevent atherosclerosis, improve the body's stress ability and protect the heart. Its effective components can inhibit the canceration of normal cells, promote the recovery of mutant cells, and have certain anti-cancer effects, such as lowering blood sugar, lowering blood fat and beautifying.
5, loofah
Luffa is a kind of vegetable, which is flat, cool and sweet, and belongs to liver, lung and stomach. Its efficacy and function are as follows:
(1) Luffa has the effects of clearing away heat, cooling blood, resolving phlegm and relieving summer heat, and it is better to eat in hot summer.
(2) Luffa has the function of dredging meridians and can help pregnant women to promote lactation, and its effective part is mainly Luffa or its vascular bundle;
(3) Luffa contains starch, calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein, carotene, vitamin C and other nutrients. Eating more food in summer can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, eliminate phlegm, cool blood and detoxify, induce diuresis and stop bleeding, dredge channels and activate collaterals, and has certain curative effect on heatstroke, eczema, cough, hematuria and hematochezia.
Step 6 drink tea
Chrysanthemum and honeysuckle, appropriately increase the daily drinking water.
Second, the second is from the sports aspect.
China has a saying: "Practice for three or nine days in winter and three days in summer". Many people want to take advantage of the hot weather to exercise, hoping to lose more fat. First of all, we determine that the increase of ambient temperature will be beneficial to the effect of reducing fat. But the reality is that we don't recommend you to exercise in hot weather.
Because it is hot in summer, you should exercise moderately and try not to do that kind of intense long-term exercise, which is especially easy to hurt your yin.
If you practice dog days in summer, I suggest you go to the gym and air-conditioned room to avoid health problems caused by high physical exertion.
Third, winter disease is cured in summer?
The dog days are the time when the skin temperature is the highest. At this time, the pores are open, and the meridians and qi and blood are unobstructed, which is conducive to the absorption of drugs. In dog days, some drugs for warming yang and tonifying kidney can be introduced into the body by acupoint injection and application.
At present, treating winter diseases in summer is highly sought after by white-collar office workers, but some people who are allergic to ointment and glue should use it with caution. They should go to regular hospitals to buy three-volt stickers and use them under the correct guidance of doctors. Remember not to buy from small vendors to avoid damaging your health.
Not everyone is suitable for the treatment of summer disease and winter disease, so who is? For example: patients with gastrointestinal diseases, asthma, chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Finally, it is suggested that patients suffering from gastrointestinal diseases for a long time should pay attention to conditioning their bodies in the dog days to avoid the recurrence of gastrointestinal diseases. If you have obvious discomfort, you should go to the hospital in time.
I have many years of experience in TCM diagnosis and treatment. If you have any questions, ask me. I'm Dr. Wang, a Chinese doctor.