According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, summer is the season with the highest yang. Health preservation should conform to the characteristics of abundant yang in summer, and pay attention to protecting yang. It's hot in summer, so you should keep calm, cheerful, broad-minded and full of spirit, and have a strong interest in external things, just as everything needs sunshine for growth. It is necessary to cultivate an optimistic and extroverted personality in order to facilitate the ventilation of qi. On the other hand, you should not be lazy, bored, angry or depressed. Summer is also the season of sweating. If you sweat more, you will lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be abnormal. In addition, the diet during the summer solstice is equally important. This solar term is easy to get angry, so eating bitter food will help reduce the anger. Chinese medicine believes that at this time, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to consolidate the exterior and more salty taste to replenish the heart. Ancient health experts also believed that the diet should not be too cold, including the summer solstice. Because in the summer solstice, the human body is actually in a state of external heat and internal cold, so it is not appropriate to eat more cold food. Eating less is ok, but gluttony will definitely hurt the spleen and stomach and make people vomit. Watermelon, mung bean soup and dark plum can quench thirst and relieve summer heat, but they should not be eaten chilled. During the summer solstice, it is best to choose rivers, lakes, parks, courtyards and other places with fresh air to relax and exercise. You can take a walk, jog and practice Tai Ji Chuan. It is not advisable to do excessive strenuous exercise. Excessive exercise leads to sweating. Hyperhidrosis not only hurts yin, but also hurts yang. Tips for health care in summer solstice: Eating more "bitter" food in summer solstice can promote gastric acid secretion and increase gastric acid concentration, thus increasing appetite. Bitter food can also refresh you. Bitter food contains certain theobromine and caffeine, which can refresh the mind, make people feel comfortable and relaxed after eating, and make people relax from the hot and irritable psychological state in summer, thus restoring energy. Eat some bitter food all year round, especially in summer, especially after the summer solstice and when summer comes. In life, it is difficult for ordinary people to associate suffering with compensation. In fact, bitter food contains amino acids, vitamins, alkaloids, glycosides, trace elements and so on. It has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, refreshing and anti-fatigue functions. Eating bitter food in summer can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and increase appetite. You sweat a lot in summer, so you might as well drink something bitter. Beer, green tea and kudingcha are all good choices. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, summer is the season with the highest yang. Health preservation should conform to the characteristics of abundant yang in summer, and pay attention to protecting yang. It's hot in summer, so you should keep calm, cheerful, broad-minded and full of spirit, and have a strong interest in external things, just as everything needs sunshine for growth. It is necessary to cultivate an optimistic and extroverted personality in order to facilitate the ventilation of qi. On the other hand, you should not be lazy, bored, angry or depressed. Summer is also the season of sweating. If you sweat more, you will lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be abnormal. In addition, the diet during the summer solstice is equally important. This solar term is easy to get angry, so eating bitter food will help reduce the anger. Chinese medicine believes that at this time, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to consolidate the exterior and more salty taste to replenish the heart. Ancient health experts also believed that the diet should not be too cold, including the summer solstice. Because in the summer solstice, the human body is actually in a state of external heat and internal cold, so it is not appropriate to eat more cold food. Eating less is ok, but gluttony will definitely hurt the spleen and stomach and make people vomit. Watermelon, mung bean soup and dark plum can quench thirst and relieve summer heat, but they should not be eaten chilled. During the summer solstice, it is best to choose rivers, lakes, parks, courtyards and other places with fresh air to relax and exercise. You can take a walk, jog and practice Tai Ji Chuan. It is not advisable to do excessive strenuous exercise. Excessive exercise leads to sweating. Hyperhidrosis not only hurts yin, but also hurts yang. Tips for health care in summer solstice: Eating more "bitter" food in summer solstice can promote gastric acid secretion and increase gastric acid concentration, thus increasing appetite. Bitter food can also refresh you. Bitter food contains certain theobromine and caffeine, which can refresh the mind, make people feel comfortable and relaxed after eating, and make people relax from the hot and irritable psychological state in summer, thus restoring energy. Eat some bitter food all year round, especially in summer, especially after the summer solstice and when summer comes. In life, it is difficult for ordinary people to associate suffering with compensation. In fact, bitter food contains amino acids, vitamins, alkaloids, glycosides, trace elements and so on. It has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, refreshing and anti-fatigue functions. Eating bitter food in summer can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and increase appetite. You sweat a lot in summer, so you might as well drink something bitter. Beer, green tea and kudingcha are all good choices. Bitter food mainly includes the following kinds. Bitter vegetables: They are rich in vitamins, minerals, mannitol, choline, tartaric acid and other ingredients, and have the functions of cooling and detoxifying, disinfecting and expelling pus, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, and preventing and treating gastroenteritis. It has a strong inhibitory effect on staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli and leukemia cells, and is a vegetable with homology of medicine and food. When eating bitter vegetables, wash its roots and leaves, fry them and make soup. Its taste is bitter and fragrant, and it is a delicious food for relieving summer heat and appetizing, and has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on enteritis and dysentery. Bitter gourd: cold and bitter, rich in protein, fat, phosphorus, iron, carotene, carbohydrates, momordicin and so on. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, detoxicating, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Fresh bitter gourd tea has a certain effect on heatstroke and fever. Modern medicine has found that there is an active protein in bitter gourd, which can effectively promote immune cells in the body to kill cancer cells and has a certain anti-cancer effect. In addition, it also contains substances similar to insulin, which can significantly lower blood sugar. Celery: Sweet, bitter and slightly cold, it has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, calming the liver and cooling the blood. Regular consumption has a good auxiliary effect on cough with excessive phlegm, toothache and eye swelling. Celery can also lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Beer: made from barley and hops by yeast fermentation. Rich in amino acids, protein, sugar, minerals and other ingredients beneficial to human health, it is known as "liquid bread". Its refreshing and delicious bitter taste has the effects of helping digestion and nourishing the body. Drinking beer in moderation can strengthen the stomach, improve eyesight, dissipate heat, quench thirst, lower blood pressure, relieve cough, induce diuresis, calm down, eliminate fatigue and restore energy. Lettuce: It is bitter and sweet, slightly cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, purging fire and detoxifying, benefiting qi and broadening chest. It is effective for patients with chest diaphragmatic fever, expectoration, chest distress, loss of appetite, and constipation. For children, it can also help long teeth to change teeth. Luffa: it tastes bitter and sweet, and has the effects of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, cooling blood and detoxifying. Luffa is cool and slightly cold, and the melon meat is fresh and tender. It can be used to cook soup or stir-fry meat, and has the effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Traditional Chinese medicine health care in summer solstice: self-made medicinal drinks, drinking health. In hot summer, drinking a cool and delicious Chinese herbal beverage for heatstroke prevention and cooling can not only promote fluid production to quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve annoyance, but also achieve the effects of fitness, disease prevention and appetite stimulation. Here are several kinds of heatstroke prevention drinks prepared with traditional Chinese medicine. Hawthorn and Ophiopogon japonicus drink: 30g of hawthorn and 30g of Ophiopogon japonicus are decocted in water and cooled before drinking. The beverage has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, promoting salivation, quenching thirst, nourishing yin and clearing heat. Cold drink of cassia seed: cassia seed 15 ~ 30g, decocted in water, and drunk after cooling. The beverage has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind, clearing away heat, clearing liver-fire, improving eyesight, inducing diuresis and relaxing bowels. It is suitable for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, constipation and pinkeye, and has certain curative effect on preventing and treating acute conjunctivitis in summer. Chrysanthemum honey drink: 50 grams of dried chrysanthemum, 2000 ml of water in the pot, heating and boiling, adding 250 grams of honey, stirring and dissolving, cooling and drinking. This drink can clear liver, improve eyesight, strengthen spleen and moisten intestines. Cui Yi rock sugar drink: appropriate amount of Cui Yi (watermelon peel) is peeled, and the light green and crisp parts are cut into pieces, boiled with water, cooled, added with appropriate amount of rock sugar, dissolved, frozen in the refrigerator, and drunk after about 1 hour. This kind of drink is refreshing and delicious, which can dispel the summer heat and get rid of troubles. Mume mint beverage: Mume 10g, mint 3g, boiled with water, cooled, added with appropriate amount of sugar, and drunk after stirring. After drinking, the head is refreshing, the whole body is comfortable and the appetite is increased. Yin Hua Jiedu Drink: 20g of Yin Hua, 2000ml of water, boil, add some honey, and drink after cooling. The beverage has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels. Summer solstice seasonal health exercise: some people are greedy for cold, and they always hide in air-conditioned rooms with extremely low temperature in summer to avoid the pain of hot summer. I don't know that air conditioning brings coolness to people, but it also brings negative effects. Due to closed doors and windows, indoor air pollution and lack of oxygen indoors; Coupled with the constant temperature environment, its own heat generation and heat dissipation regulation function is out of balance, which will make people suffer from the so-called air conditioning disease. What many people may not expect is that a fan can also be used as a fitness exercise. It is good for the elderly to shake their fans in summer. Human limbs are controlled by the intersection of left and right brains. The left brain dominates the right limb and the right brain dominates the left limb. Leisure fans are operated by left and right hands in turn, which can not only promote the flexibility of fingers, wrists and elbow joints, exercise the muscle strength of limbs, but also effectively increase the blood flow in both hemispheres of the brain and the flexibility of cerebral vessels, thus enhancing the function of brain cells, reducing the occurrence of cerebrovascular diseases, strengthening the brain and improving intelligence. Shake the fan outdoors at night, get together with old friends, sit around with family and have tea to cool off the heat. When the summer heat disappears a little, you can go into the house and sleep peacefully, which is also conducive to sleep. This article is taken from the twenty-four solar terms "Eat like this"/Wang (chief physician)/gold nugget culture.