Five "cleanness" of summer health preservation

Keep your mind quiet. With steaming heat, people tend to be sultry, irritable, sleepy and irritable. So this season, people should not be angry, in case of endogenous heart fire.

Diet should be light. The diet should be light, soft and easy to digest, and eat less high-fat, thick-flavored, spicy and irritated things. You can drink some cool drinks, such as sour plum soup and chrysanthemum tea, or add mung beans, lentils, lotus seeds and lotus leaves to japonica rice to cook porridge and let it cool. Here, I recommend a kind of porridge for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat: Erdou lotus porridge. The specific method is: lotus leaf 1 slice, after washing, boil soup to get juice, 2 mung beans, 25 grams of white lentils and lotus seeds, 0/00 grams of japonica rice/kloc-0, and cook porridge with lotus leaf juice.

Clothes should be fresh. In summer, sunshine is stronger, air humidity is higher, and people sweat more. You should choose clothes with good moisture absorption and heat dissipation performance, plain color and loose style. Generally speaking, the texture is light and soft, and the colors are white, beige and pink blue.

The room should be cool. When the indoor temperature is low in the morning and evening, open the doors and windows for ventilation. At noon, the outdoor temperature is higher than the indoor temperature. Close the doors and windows and close the curtains.

Entertainment should be quiet. You can't travel long distances in June, so you should live in seclusion nearby. In the morning, with the first ray of sunshine and fresh air at dawn, you can take a walk in the lush garden, exercise, go to the old and welcome the new. In the evening, if you walk by the river or the lake, the cool breeze will calm you down and relieve the heat.

Eat more of this kind of food.

Professor Lan Lin from the Department of Internal Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine suggested that vegetables, melons, beans and other light fruits and vegetables should be given priority in summer, supplemented by meat. Meat should be lean meat, duck meat, quail meat, pigeon meat, fish, crab and shellfish. Avoid eating food that is too cold and frozen, and don't eat food that is too hot and spicy. Dietotherapy can properly eat the following foods:

1. Bitter food

Lan Senlin reminded that summer is hot and humid, and eating bitter food helps to strengthen the spleen and clear away heat and increase appetite. Modern research also shows that many bitter foods, such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, lettuce, celery and lotus seeds, as well as alkaloids, amino acids, picrorhiza, vitamins and minerals contained in beer, tea, coffee and cocoa, all have pharmacological effects of diminishing inflammation, reducing fever, promoting blood circulation and relaxing blood vessels. Eating more in summer can not only relieve summer heat and refresh, but also stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach.

2. Sweet and sour food

In summer, the human body sweats a lot, so you can choose to eat tomatoes, vinegar, purslane, olives, bayberry, plums, dried plums and other foods that can stimulate the body to quench thirst, strengthen the stomach and promote digestion. In addition, because the function of the spleen and stomach is relatively slow in summer, the appetite is relatively reduced, so eating more light food is helpful for appetizing and strengthening the spleen. If you eat too much fat supplements, it is easy to hurt your spleen and stomach and affect your digestion and absorption of nutrients.

3. Spleen-invigorating, aromatic and dampness-removing food

In summer, you can also choose to eat American ginseng, Adenophora adenophora, Dendrobium, Chinese yam, duck, crucian carp, Radix Rehmanniae, lotus leaf, Pogostemon cablin, Eupatorium odoratum, dried tangerine peel, mint, Paederia, white radish, mung bean, coix seed, white lentil, wax gourd, watermelon, Smilax glabra and lalang grass rhizome. Help strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, relieve summer heat and stimulate appetite. Modern pharmacological research shows that most foods with fragrant smell can stimulate the sense of smell, taste and gastric mucosa, thus promoting the secretion of gastric juice and enhancing appetite; Foods that strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis can induce diuresis and discharge accumulated water in the body.

Learn more about healthy diet —— Try "spiced tea" to relieve summer heat and dampness

In the hot summer, interested neighborhoods may wish to learn how to make "spiced tea" from Li Yingqiong, the head of the pharmacy department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and a Chinese pharmacist.

Materials: honeysuckle 10g, chrysanthemum 10g, Sophora japonica 10g, kapok 15g, frangipani 10g, and appropriate amount of sugar (1~2 people).

Practice: First soak five kinds of flowers for 5~ 10 minutes, then add a proper amount of water and cook with the soaked flowers and water, and then cook with low fire for about 20 minutes after boiling; After cooking, filter out the flowers with a strainer, leaving only soup; According to personal taste, add appropriate amount of sugar, stir well, and drink after warming.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling summer heat and removing dampness, and helping to prevent summer monsoon colds.

Sugar friends make 8 preparations for the summer vacation.

1. Prevent dehydration. Many sugar friends dare not drink more water even if they are thirsty, which is a big misunderstanding. In fact, sweating in summer is easy to dehydrate, and sugar friends are more likely to dehydrate when blood sugar is out of control. The higher the blood sugar, the more urination. Therefore, people who love sugar should drink more water, such as boiled water, mineral water, sugar-free iced tea, lemonade and other decaffeinated drinks.

2. Beware of heatstroke. Patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease are more prone to heatstroke. Symptoms of heatstroke include dizziness or fainting, profuse sweating, muscle spasm, cold and moist skin, headache, rapid heartbeat and possibly nausea. If any of the above symptoms appear, sugar friends should immediately move to the shade and drink more cold water, fruit juice or sports drinks. See a doctor if necessary.

3. Time practice. Sugar friends must choose the right time and place for summer exercise. For example, if you choose an air-conditioned gym, it is best to exercise moderately in the morning or at night when the temperature is relatively low.

4. Eat reasonably. Sugar friends should not eat too many cold drinks and fruits in summer, otherwise it will easily lead to gastroenteritis or high blood sugar. Bitter gourd and onion are known as "hypoglycemic fighters", so eating more is beneficial.

5. Check blood sugar at least 4 times a day. When sugar friends are unwell in summer, it is best to check their blood sugar four times a day.

6. Skin care. Diabetic patients whose condition is difficult to control are more prone to skin problems such as ulcers in different degrees. Because of sweating more in summer, male sugar friends are more prone to candida infection in groin and other parts, while female sugar friends are prone to urinary tract infection. It is best to choose loose cotton clothes.

7. Foot protection. In summer, there are many opportunities to go barefoot and sweat on your feet, which is more likely to cause foot trauma, mold and bacterial infection. Therefore, sugar friends should try to let their feet breathe more. Wash your feet often and keep them dry. Check your feet regularly for infection.

8. Keep insulin in a dry and cool place. Don't put insulin in a place where the temperature is too high or too low. If you don't put it in the refrigerator, don't directly bask in the sun, and don't put it in the storage box next to the dashboard of the car.

Synthesized from People's Daily-Life Times and Guangzhou Daily

(Editor: Yuan Hanling, Luo Yu)