Take a hot bath in dog days:
Remember not to take a bath in the dog days. Taking a hot bath with the right temperature can relax pores and facilitate the discharge of moisture. After taking a shower, you should be more careful not to be greedy. But the bath temperature should not be too high.
This is because, generally speaking, the temperature in the human body is 40℃, so bathing with warm water at 40℃ is the best way to eliminate fatigue. If the water temperature is too high, it will consume more heat, but it will make people more uncomfortable; When the water temperature is too low, the blood vessels contract, making it difficult to eliminate fatigue. In dog days, the water temperature can be lowered appropriately, not lower than 35℃.
Second, soak your feet in dog days.
Yang is the most abundant in dog days. Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate the six meridians of the foot, such as the stomach meridian of the foot Yangming and the bladder meridian of the foot Taiyang, thus playing the role of invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness, dredging collaterals and diuresis.
Many important meridians of the human body originate from the foot, go up and run through the whole body. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to conforming to nature, nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter. The sultry weather in summer often makes people feel tired and sleepy, especially office workers, whose work pressure is very great. You can soak your feet with warm water properly before going to bed, which can dredge the meridians and regulate human functions. Convenient and simple, it can also eliminate fatigue, relieve stress and improve sleep.
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The following are the most important things to do in dog days:
1, don't be greedy.
In summer, you can't stand it. You can drink cold boiled water at room temperature, but don't drink ice water. Ice water can relieve the temporary heat, but instead make the cold and damp accumulate in the body. If you can insist on not eating cold drinks in dog days, even if you don't go to "treat winter diseases in summer", more than half of the ills in your body can be cured. Especially for people who are particularly afraid of cold and have cold hands and feet in winter, we should pay more attention to this.
Remember not to take a shower, but take a hot bath with the right temperature to relax the pores and facilitate the discharge of moisture. After taking a shower, you should be more careful not to be greedy.
When sleeping, it is best not to use bamboo mats, but to use cool fabrics such as linen and silk as bedding.
2. Eat more seasonal fruits and vegetables
You can eat more seasonal vegetables such as loofah and wax gourd in your diet. It is worth mentioning that loofah contains ginsenoside, which is very suitable for dog days, relieving summer heat and preventing dryness.
There are many kinds of fruits in summer, especially watermelon, which can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, but it is not advisable to eat more. Because of its cold nature, it is best to use ginger tea isothermal food to balance its cold nature.
3. Drink water before exercise.
Drink water before exercise in the morning and choose to stay away from the wooded and sunny open area for about 40 minutes. In addition, exercise after fasting should be avoided.
4, winter disease and summer cure dog days stickers
In this special season of dog days, you can also use the concept of "treating winter diseases in summer" in traditional Chinese medicine, and choose the "dog days patch" that suits you to treat respiratory system and pain diseases, so as to reduce the incidence rate in winter.
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