In the hot summer, in addition to combining work and rest, ensure adequate sleep, drink plenty of water, and pay special attention to diet conditioning. Specifically, we should pay attention to the following points.

Eat more bitter food.

Bitter food can not only clear away heat, but also relieve summer heat and fatigue. Therefore, eating bitter foods such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat in summer can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, not only keep the evil of damp heat away from you, but also prevent heatstroke, killing two birds with one stone. In addition, bitter food can also make people feel refreshed and relaxed, which is conducive to restoring energy and physical strength in hot summer, and alleviating or eliminating discomfort such as general fatigue and listlessness.

Increasing heat and relieving summer heat

Intake of food for invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis. Mung bean soup is a traditional folk food for relieving summer heat in China, and it can be safely eaten by people with deficiency of spleen and stomach and physical weakness. In addition, lotus leaves, watermelons, lotus seeds and wax gourd also have good effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Lentils and coix seed have a good spleen-strengthening effect and are the best food for patients with spleen deficiency in summer.

Foods that nourish qi and yin are essential.

It's very hot in summer, sweating a lot, and it's easy to consume gas and hurt yin. People at this time are often "disease-free." Therefore, in addition to timely hydration, we should always eat some light foods that can replenish qi and nourish yin to enhance our physical fitness. Such as yam, jujube, sea cucumber, eggs, milk, honey, lotus root, fungus, soybean milk, lily porridge, chrysanthemum porridge and so on.

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Prevent heatstroke

Try not to go out in hot weather, do not do outdoor physical exercise or engage in manual labor.

Prevention of emotional heatstroke

During the summer heat, people are prone to "liver fire", which often leads to inexplicable upset, listlessness, loss of appetite and other problems, also known as "emotional heatstroke". Emotional heatstroke is very harmful to summer health and physical and mental health, especially to the elderly and infirm. Because of emotional disorder, it will cause myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia, elevated blood pressure and even sudden death. Remind patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases to avoid extreme emotions such as anger and anxiety, and try to be "calm and natural".

The amount of exercise should be small.

Patients with chronic diseases in dog days, especially middle-aged and elderly people, are much more likely to have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents than young people. Middle-aged and elderly people should exercise in the high temperature in midsummer to avoid excessive physical exercise.

Attention should be paid to opening the window for ventilation and heatstroke prevention, protecting the mind, calming the mood and ensuring full energy.