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Content: Professor Cheng Yuqing's "Traditional Chinese Medicine and Essential Oil for Health-Using Oil in Summer"

Summer refers to going to beginning of autumn three months before the long summer, which is the season with the highest yang in a year. Under the high temperature in summer, people are prone to drowsiness, irritability and sultry. In order to adapt to the changes of climate and environment, people need to make corresponding adjustments in daily life, diet, exercise and sleep to keep healthy and energetic. This is summer health. Excerpt from the summer health classic "Xia San Month", which is a beautiful show. Heaven and earth blend together and everything is gorgeous. I lie down at night and get up early. I am insatiable about the sun, so that my ambition will not be angered, and Huaying will become a show, so that my anger will be vented. If I love it outside, this summer should be the way to grow up. "-"Huangdi Neijing "summer health:

0 1 meditation, nourishing the heart and preventing depression and anger

02 heatstroke prevention and cooling to prevent heatstroke

Go to bed late and take a nap early.

A light diet should be digested.

Exercise moderately to protect body fluid and qi.

Winter disease is cured in summer.

Meditate and nourish your heart, prevent depression and anger, and nourish your heart in summer. Summer is the season with the most abundant heart yang. Summer is steaming and burning, which makes people sleepy, irritable and sultry. It is necessary to nourish the heart in summer. Summer health care focuses on mental adjustment, maintaining a happy and stable mood, and avoiding great sadness and joy, so as not to add fuel to the fire. Calm people and cool themselves, which can achieve the purpose of health preservation.

1. Recommended essential oils: lemon, lavender, mint, Roman chamomile, sedative compounds, etc.

2. How to use:

Aromatherapy: 2 drops of lavender and 2 drops of mood-calming compound respectively, and 2 drops of lavender and mood-calming compound respectively in the aromatherapy device before going to bed; 2 drops of mint and 2 drops of Roman chamomile, smell them in the car or indoors during the day, or smell them in your hand.

Daub: two essential oils, tranquilize mind and Roman chamomile 1-2, are daubed on temples, Zhongshan points and Jiquan points. When taken orally, 1 is added with lemon and mint respectively, and then is added with drinks or warm water for drinking.

Heatstroke prevention 1. Wear sunglasses, sun hat and sunscreen before going out to prevent ultraviolet radiation. (Sunscreen formula: 10ml empty ball bottle, 2 drops of Hawaiian sandalwood, permanent flower and lavender essential oil, filled with fractionated coconut oil. For those with dry skin, put 50g of fragrance-free emulsion into a glass or porcelain jar and use it up within two weeks. )

2. Patchouli and peppermint essential oils should be carried with you. Pepper mint is cool and sweaty, which can instantly calm fear, anger and excitement. It is a must-have item for the Qing department in summer.

3. If you live in an air-conditioned room for a long time, your life is simple, or if you are greedy for cold and drink cold, it will cause yin and summer heat. You need patchouli and ginger to dispel cold and relieve exterior symptoms, dispel summer heat and damp.

Yang's "summer heat" is the main qi in summer, which is transformed from fiery heat and only occurs in summer. At this time, the evil of summer heat can dissipate Yang Qi and body fluids, leading to excessive sweating, loss and injury of body fluids, dry lips, yellow urine and upset, which is the most common heatstroke phenomenon in summer. A cup of mint and lemon.

In fact, the syndrome of yin deficiency and summer heat is catching cold in the sky. Symptoms such as body heat, headache, anhidrosis, aversion to cold, joint pain, abdominal pain and diarrhea, and limb paralysis all belong to yin and summer heat. Zhang Jingyue, a famous doctor in the Ming Dynasty, pointed out: "Anyone who suffers from yin heat is also cold because of heat ... This is the so-called yin and heat, because they suffer from cold in summer." -Pogostemon cablin and ginger go to bed at 0: 00, get up early and take a 20-minute nap at noon, which can supplement the yang of the human body.

Aromatherapy during the day: wild orange and citrus are fresh and refreshing;

Aromatherapy at night: lavender, calm mood, quiet air and vetiver to relieve mood.

A light and digestible diet is light: eat easily digestible food, not too greasy food; Black pepper, fennel, cinnamon and ginger can help digestion. If it is usually hot, you can choose: basil and lemon. Basil has the functions of eliminating dampness, promoting digestion, promoting blood circulation, detoxicating and promoting qi circulation.

Summer health-dietotherapy combined with mung bean tremella soup (add lemon 1 drop for hot people): longan lotus seed and red bean soup: you can add lemon 1 drop to prevent getting angry. Add your favorite essential oil, such as lemon, mint, ginger, orange and pepper. According to your usual preferences). Tremella lotus seed soup (spleen strengthening).

Moderate exercise protects body fluids, the temperature is high in summer and the human body consumes a lot, so keep the amount of exercise low; Supplement physical strength before exercise to prevent low calorie intake and lead to physical exhaustion. Make lemon and mint drinks. Before and after exercise, in addition to the essential oils of frankincense, soothing, holly and marjoram, cypress essential oil with astringent properties can also be added to prevent excessive sweating during exercise. Hydrate, drink water after exercise, and avoid drinking a lot of water at a time.

Treating winter diseases in summer is to treat some cold diseases that are easy to occur or aggravate in winter with the help of the solar terms with the strongest yang in summer. In the dog days of summer, when the yang in nature and human body is at its peak, the self-healing power is the best. Warming and nourishing yang qi, dispelling cold and pathogenic factors, promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals in time can enhance the vitality of the body, enhance the ability of the body to resist diseases and pathogens, and help eliminate the evil of yin and cold, thus achieving the purpose of treating winter diseases in summer.

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Recommended essential oils for summer health-13v: ginger essential oil, patchouli essential oil, cinnamon essential oil, pepper essential oil, clove bud essential oil, frankincense oil, thyme essential oil, sandalwood essential oil and vanilla essential oil. These essential oils flow through the lungs, spleen, stomach, intestine, heart and kidney.

Usage: aromatherapy or acupoint massage (under the guidance of a professional doctor)

Q&A: Winter cough: Zanthoxylum bungeanum, ginger and fennel stick to Dazhui. Joint pain: click massage. Quchi point is humid: ginger, patchouli and fennel are used for damp heat: the tongue coating is thick and yellow; Pogostemon cablin, cardamom and ginger are used for cold and dampness: the tongue is white and greasy (with large temperature and heat essential oil, ginger and fennel).

Soak your feet. Don't soak your feet with ginger at night. You can soak your feet earlier. Liver fire: lemon family, painted with permanent flowers, Roman chamomile and lavender.

Head care: lemon, mint, Roman chamomile. Jiquan point: (liquid nest), Roman chamomile, tea tree. An Ming: Apply a wind point before going to bed (from the back of the ear to the back of the wind pool point, use citrus essential oil, incense and smell.