solar term
As the name implies, summer heat is hotter than summer heat, and it is also the highest temperature in the whole year. The sun is scorching, but sudden thunderstorms are commonplace. Easy to overheat and heatstroke, greedy and cold will catch a cold. Do not eat more ice and cold drinks. The most timely thing is to eat some light but nutritious beans and fruits, which can help supplement more water, salt and vitamins. After the summer heat, the weather will slowly transition to autumn, and it is necessary to adjust your physical condition in time.
At this time, health advocates a good sleep in the middle of the night. Midnight sleep means falling asleep at midnight and noon. Midnight is from 23:00 to the next morning 1:00, which is the heaviest time of the day. Sleeping before midnight is good for nourishing yin. Noon is 1 1 to 13. The hot summer is in midsummer, which is the longest day of the year. Noon in hot summer is the peak of the day. Working too long during the day may lead to drowsiness and inefficiency. The best solution is to take a nap for a quarter of an hour to half an hour at noon or between eyes closed, which can effectively relieve physical and mental fatigue in the afternoon and improve work efficiency.
prescribe a diet
Diet: Because of the hot summer climate, it is easy to hurt body fluids, so you should eat porridge to nourish your body. There is a saying in the solar terms that "old ducks can make up for summer heat", and duck meat is the most suitable meat to eat in summer. Duck meat is slightly cool, which has the function of nourishing yin and tonifying deficiency. Old ducks are more precious. Old ducks that have laid eggs for more than a year are served with dried ham and bamboo shoots, soup, and finally with baby dishes. They are delicious, fresh and nourishing. It used to be a way for big families to eat. According to the treatment principle of "heat causing cold" in traditional Chinese medicine, it is especially suitable for people with heat in the body, such as low fever, physical weakness, loss of appetite, dry stool and other diseases.
Food: banana, bitter gourd, wax gourd, duck, edamame, soybean and tofu. It is advisable to eat edamame among vegetables. In summer, the human body is prone to sweat, and sweat will take away some potassium, which is easy to make people sleepy, tired and lose appetite. Soybean has a high potassium content. Regular consumption in summer helps to make up for the loss of potassium caused by excessive sweating, thus relieving fatigue and loss of appetite. In addition, edamame is rich in dietary fiber, which can prevent and relieve constipation in children. Bananas are suitable for fruit, and the pulp contains high potassium, which can well supplement the potassium lost by sweating in summer and relieve a series of symptoms of heatstroke and summer vacation.
The Han nationality has the custom of "drying ginger and burning incense", and there is also a saying among the people that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer". In summer, bacteria are extremely active in growth and reproduction, which easily pollutes food and causes acute gastroenteritis. You can eat some ginger, or take dried ginger and tea with boiling water, which can prevent and treat diseases. In summer, if you feel cold and catch a cold because of gluttony, you can drink some ginger juice at this time to help discharge the cold in your body.
Customized snacks
Cao Xian, also known as Cao Xian, can be made of dried stems and leaves. In Guangdong, it is called Xiancao, which is a summer dessert.
The usual food is 33,354 grains of rice.
On the Great Summer Festival, Putian people have the custom of eating litchi, mutton and rice grains, which is called "Great Summer". People say that eating rice grains can "replenish vitality". Litchi and mutton are often given as gifts to relatives and friends in summer. Litchi contains glucose and vitamins and is rich in nutritional value. Eating fresh litchi can nourish the body. Soak fresh litchi in cold well water, and then
In hot summer, due to the hot and humid weather, human metabolism is vigorous, and physical consumption will be much greater than other seasons. Coupled with short days and nights, lack of sleep and other reasons, some people's resistance will decline at this time. Usually, people with weak constitution are more likely to have symptoms such as general weakness, loss of appetite, dry mouth, listlessness and gradual weight loss. In severe cases, there may even be symptoms such as low fever, dizziness, chest tightness, nausea and poor sweating. This is what Chinese medicine calls summer, commonly known as bitter summer.
In hot summer, in addition to combining work and rest, we should ensure adequate sleep, drink plenty of water, and pay special attention to diet conditioning. Specifically, we should pay attention to the following points:
1. Eat bitter food properly.
Bitter food can not only clear away heat, but also clear away summer heat and fatigue. You can eat bitter food such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat in summer. It can strengthen spleen, stimulate appetite and prevent heatstroke.
2. Dietotherapy focuses on clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis.
Mung bean soup is a traditional folk food for relieving summer heat in China. Except for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and weak constitution, they can eat with confidence.
3. Eat more foods that benefit qi and nourish yin.
Summer is very hot, sweating a lot, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. At this time, people are often sick and weak. Therefore, in addition to replenishing water in time, we should always eat some light foods that can replenish qi and nourish yin to enhance our physical fitness. Such as yam, jujube, sea cucumber, lotus root, fungus, soybean milk and so on.
High temperature in summer
Agricultural proverb: in hot summer, it rains cats and dogs, and there is no frost for a hundred days.
"Rotten grass is a firefly, moist and hot, and it goes on rainy days."