1, go to bed late and go to bed early
Sleeping late does not advocate staying up late in summer, but according to the characteristics of day and night changes in summer, people are required to work and rest on time and get up at 6 or 7 in the morning. Chinese medicine believes that "spring is born and summer is long", and the human yang is in a strong state in summer. If you often sleep late, it will go against the seasonal change of human yang. Taking a nap is beneficial to the balance of qi and blood, and can replenish physical strength and improve work efficiency in the afternoon. Nap should not exceed 1 hour, and 30 ~ 60 minutes is appropriate.
Tip: It is better to get up at 6 am in summer, and take a healthy nap for 30 ~ 60 minutes. If it exceeds 1 hour, it will be counterproductive and may interfere with sleep at night.
2. Don't be too greedy.
Staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time can easily lead to the imbalance of body adjustment ability and various discomforts. Therefore, it is best to turn on the air conditioner less, especially for children, pregnant women and the elderly with arthritis, rheumatism and respiratory diseases. Even if it is turned on, the temperature should be 26 degrees Celsius to ensure that the indoor and outdoor temperature difference exceeds 7 degrees Celsius; Let the air conditioner blow upward, avoid blowing directly on the body, and protect the neck, back, abdomen, waist, legs and other parts.
Don't take a bath after sweating to avoid being attacked by wind, cold and humidity. Eating cold fruits and vegetables in summer is easy to cause gastroenteritis. When eating cold drinks, it is best to wait until the temperature of the food is close to the body temperature before swallowing it slowly, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, and the best time to eat is between noon and 3 pm, when the yang is the strongest. After a cold, you can drink ginger tea to sweat and dispel the cold.
Tip: Children, pregnant women and the elderly with arthritis, rheumatism and respiratory diseases should turn on air conditioning less.
3, appetizing diet
As soon as they enter the dog days, many people will be troubled by the "bitter summer", and their mouths will be dull and their appetite will be lost. Therefore, "appetizing" is the focus of summer health. Experts suggest that you can eat more bitter food in summer diet, and bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat can relieve fever, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite. However, bitter gourd is cold, and people with poor constitution and deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more.
In addition, it is very hot in dog days, sweating a lot, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. Therefore, it is also essential to replenish qi and nourish yin. Yam, jujube, honey, lotus root and fungus are all good choices. In addition, chicken and duck meat, lean meat and other meat products with flat or cool nature also have the effects of nourishing yin, nourishing stomach, strengthening spleen and tonifying deficiency.
Tip: Bitter gourd is cold, and people with poor constitution and deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more.