Twenty-four solar terms record: "Long summer, April Festival. Make a word to understand spring. Summer, holidays. At this time, everything is fake and big. " "False" means "big", which means that plants that germinate and grow in spring have grown up by this festival.
Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms, the beginning of summer, and a good opportunity to adjust health.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that health care in the long summer includes "mental health care" and "physical health care".
"Nourishing the Heart" in Long Summer Health Care
"Nourishing the heart" means flirting.
It's hot in summer, and the human body's yang leaks out, which makes it easy to be agitated. However, "summer qi communicates with the heart" and "the heart governs the blood and hides the spirit", so it is particularly important to keep a good mood in summer. The ancient naive theory also records that "nothing is indifferent, the true qi follows, the spirit is hidden inside, and the disease is safe."
It is suggested to sit quietly for a few minutes or dozens of minutes every day, so that the mind can be nourished and the air filled, and the human body function can be vigorously coordinated.
"Physical Support" for Long Summer Health Care
"Body care" is mainly about diet, living and adapting to cold and heat.
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The diet should be light, and you can eat more fresh seasonal foods with the functions of invigorating qi, nourishing heart, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, such as lily, lotus seed, lotus root, coix seed and white lentils. People with strong yang and hot constitution can also drink tea for clearing heat and relieving summer heat: 2g honeysuckle, 2g chrysanthemum, 2g mint 1g and 2g lotus leaf. It is not advisable to eat food that is too cold.
Be careful of life.
Living should be "lying down and getting up early at night". The ancients made it at sunrise, and the day entered and rested, following the laws of nature. Modern people, especially young people, often stay up late and like to sleep late in the morning. Over time, it will lead to physical decline and increase the risk of illness.
Suitable for cold and hot.
"Yang in spring and summer, Yin in autumn and winter", the weather is hot in summer and the pores are open. Especially after sweating, you can't turn on the air conditioner or enter the air-conditioned room immediately, so as to avoid cold pathogens invading the human body and catching a cold, or even cold pathogens invading the bones and muscles, leaving the root of rheumatism. In summer, the air conditioning temperature should not be too low, and 25-28 is appropriate.
Long summer eating customs
In Zhejiang, people have had the custom of eating black rice in the long summer since the Tang Dynasty. People believe that in the long summer, eating black rice on this day can protect themselves from diseases during the period of plowing and sowing.
Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice, which is made by soaking glutinous rice in black rice leaf juice and steaming. It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, relieving cough and tranquilizing mind, improving eyesight and blackening hair, and is suitable for dietotherapy and nourishing for people with physical weakness.
"the practice of black rice"
Chop fresh black leaves to get juice, and soak glutinous rice in black leaf juice overnight. Take out the soaked glutinous rice, steam it in a cage, add white sugar, salad oil and lard, mix well, put it in a baking tray and compact it. After cooling, cut into cubes, and the fragrant black rice will be freshly baked.
"Anti-aging and Antioxidant Black Rice Leaves"
Zhejiang is one of the main producing areas of Vaccinium bracteatum. Vaccinium bracteatum leaves are flat and slightly sour. Vaccinium bracteatum leaves have antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, hypoglycemic, anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects, and improve retinal function. Their extracts have the functions of preservatives, colorants and mediators.
Modern research shows that Vaccinium bracteatum Berry is rich in antioxidants-anthocyanins and flavonoids. Oxygen free radicals can destroy DNA molecules and induce cancer, while antioxidants can neutralize free radicals generated during metabolism, slow down the aging of protein and DNA, and inhibit the growth of cancer cells, thus achieving the effect of preventing cancer.
In addition, Vaccinium bracteatum juice contains natural melanin, which can relax blood vessels, improve blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis and diabetes, so it has high medicinal value.
How to eat black rice
Eating black rice is also divided into salty party and sweet party. Now black rice can be added with different accessories according to personal preference. Add some sugar to the sweet one and stir it. Different people have different views on salty food. You can mix mustard tuber or dried radish.
Some people are even more open-minded and use three kinds of ingredients-pickles, dried plums and fried dough sticks. Some people also wrap fried dough sticks and pickles with sugar to make black rice "salty and sweet".
Taboo of black rice
Do not eat those who are damp and hot and have excessive phlegm fire; People with fever, yellow cough, jaundice and abdominal distension should not eat it; Diabetic patients, people with weak spleen and stomach, the elderly, children and patients should be careful to eat.
Contributed by Hangzhou Cancer Hospital and Tonglu County Health Bureau.
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