Adjust your mind in summer. Calm your mind and naturally cool down.
Huangdi Neijing and Lingshu Linglan Secret Code say, "The heart is the king, and God is not there." This sentence compares the heart in the five internal organs to the king of a country, controlling the thoughts and emotions of the human body.
Summer and heart belong to fire in the five elements. According to the view of correspondence between man and nature in TCM, the natural fire in midsummer and the internal fire in the body can influence each other. The scorching sun is easy to upset people; And the restless mood will make people feel more difficult to stop the fever. Therefore, in midsummer, it is necessary to "make the heart not angry", clear the heart without desire, indifferent to nothingness, and let the experience rest in peace.
Summer diet-don't forget "sour and salty products"
What to eat in summer? Chinese medicine believes that summer diet should be warm, cool and temperate, and care for the spleen and stomach. In summer, the heart, spleen and stomach are the most fragile organs, so we should pay special attention to the diet of these three organs. You can eat coix seed, Euryale ferox and yam to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. "Huangdi Neijing" also puts forward that "the heart governs midsummer, the heart is bitter and slow, and it is urgent to eat acid; If you want to be soft, eat salty food to soften it. " This sentence tells us that you can also eat sour or salty food to nourish your heart in summer. The reason is that it is easy to sweat in summer, and excessive sweating will lead to insufficient heart qi and deficiency of both qi and liquid. For this reason, we can selectively eat sour products, such as ebony and Schisandra chinensis, instead of tea. They can not only replenish qi, but also promote fluid production and quench thirst.
It is easy to get angry in summer. Chinese medicine believes that salty taste enters the kidney and has the effect of tonifying the kidney. You can regulate the heart fire by tonifying kidney water, so the heart fire is not easy to be too strong. In addition, salty products can also supplement the lack of sodium due to sweating, thus ensuring the balance of water and electrolyte in the human body.
Stay at home in summer-it can eliminate dampness, evil spirits and prevent diseases.
Dampproof in summer is also a way of life described in Huangdi Neijing. It is recorded in the book that "wet people get hurt first." Dampness always harms the human body from the lower body. Such as common beriberi and lower limb ulcer. Therefore, in midsummer, the bedroom must be ventilated, moisture-proof and heat-insulated. If the room is too humid and the air is dirty, not only the furniture and clothes will be moldy and hairy, but also the yang of the human body will be damaged. Studies on children's rheumatism in some countries have proved that more than 50% of children are caused by living in damp houses.