There are two principles for keeping in good health in dog days: one is to treat winter diseases in summer; The second is to make up in summer. As for dog days, there are many ways to maintain health: there are drugs such as dog days stickers and dog days moxibustion, tonic in dog days, and appropriate physical exercise.

Winter disease treated in summer

Because the dog days are the hottest, the highest temperature and the most vigorous yang in a year, at this stage, drugs can easily penetrate into acupoints and meridians from the skin and reach the affected parts through meridians and qi and blood, so treating winter diseases in summer can often achieve the best results. Moreover, Geng day is related to lung gold (Geng day is gold, belonging to the large intestine meridian, and the large intestine meridian and the lung are in the exterior and interior), which is the best time to warm the lung meridian and get rid of potential cold evil.