Summer is also the most suitable season for nourishing the heart. How can we nourish our hearts and achieve inner peace? The summer heat is coming, here are some tips for everyone!
Knowledge of health preservation in light summer heat 1. The diet is light.
Summer diet should not be too full, usually seven or eight points full, but we must pay attention to a comprehensive and balanced nutritional mix, not picky eaters, partial eclipse. Some people have a bad appetite because of the weather, so they can eat lightly.
Suitable for summer consumption are: white gourd, white radish, tomato and other foods that can dispel dampness and dredge silt and help improve gastrointestinal function; It is advisable to eat more freshwater fish and less red meat in summer. You can drink cassia seed tea, barley tea, chrysanthemum tea, kudingcha, mung bean soup and other drinks.
Adjust mood
In summer, the weather is hot, and the mood is easy to fluctuate and get excited, which leads to the increase of blood pressure and aggravates the burden on the heart. Diseases such as angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and heart failure are easy to attack. In addition, the incidence of stroke in summer is also quite high, which needs attention. It is worth mentioning that excessive emotional fluctuation can also lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction, and respiratory diseases such as asthma are also closely related to emotions.
3. Remove damp heat again
Summer is hot and humid, and people often feel headache, so they are prone to depression, burnout, chest tightness and poor appetite. For patients with respiratory diseases, more attention should be paid to maintenance in summer to prevent cough and recurrence of tracheal diseases. For people in damp heat constitution, the palms and soles of the feet often feel hot. Under the interaction of moisture and hot air, they are prone to constipation, and their stools look yellow and smelly.
Diet should be light and easy to digest. Eat more foods that can clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge and red bean porridge. Cooking soup with wax gourd, lotus leaf and coix seed is also a cool drink to clear away damp heat. At the same time, pay attention to adjust the indoor humidity and open more windows for ventilation.
Proper sleep
In summer, the days are long, the nights are short, and the temperature is high at night, which causes some people to have a bad rest at night. According to Chinese medicine, is that right? Yin and yang imbalance? , will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, such as hypertension patients tend to increase blood pressure, angina patients increase the frequency of attacks. Ensure adequate sleep. Only in this way can we maintain the normal operation of various functions of the body. Adults are advised to get 7 hours of high-quality sleep every day.
meditate
As the old saying goes, right? Calm, cool and natural? During the hot summer, you should control your mood swings. When you are upset, you can listen to lyrical and gentle music to cultivate your body and mind.
Depression is easy to hurt the liver. Do something you like in your spare time and forget all the pressure. Psychological suggestion plays a great role in regulating emotions. When you are upset, imagine a happy picture in your mind, such as an endless grassland.
Meditation is also an excellent way to close your eyes for 20 minutes every day, put your thoughts behind you and guide yourself to imagine positive things.
Key points of light summer health care 1 daily health care
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the human body is full of yang in summer, which has the function of protecting the body surface and resisting external evils. Only when we protect our Yang Can, can we be healthy. The summer climate is hot, and the human body consumes a lot of energy. Do you want to follow at this time? How quiet is it to move less? The principle of keeping in good health, so as to avoid excessive yang leakage. Work and rest regularly every day. In addition to ensuring adequate sleep, we should also pay attention to the combination of work and rest. Be sure to master the intensity when exercising to avoid excessive intensity.
Don't sit for a long time
As the saying goes:? There are no stones in winter and no wood in summer. ? Summer solar terms, high temperature and high humidity. Wood placed in the open air for a long time, such as wooden chairs and benches in residential areas or parks, is exposed to rain and contains more water. The surface looks dry, but as soon as it is exposed to the sun, the temperature will rise and moisture will be emitted. If people sit on it for a long time, it may induce diseases such as hemorrhoids, rheumatism and arthritis. Therefore, it is not advisable to sit on wooden benches and chairs for a long time in summer.
2 Healthy diet
As the saying goes? Trivolt fever? Summer solar terms are just around long summer, so we should pay attention to clearing away heat and summer heat in our diet. You should eat more soup or porridge made of lotus leaves, Smilax glabra, lentils, Coix seed, Polyporus and Alisma orientalis, and eat more fruits and vegetables such as watermelon, cucumber, loofah and wax gourd. Some people also sum up the diet of the summer festival as? Three flowers, three leaves, three beans and three fruits? . ? Sanhua? Refers to honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and lily, which are sold in pharmacies and are suitable for brewing into tea, which is a good summer product; ? Loose leaves? Refers to lotus leaves, bamboo leaves and mint leaves, which can also be bought in pharmacies and are also suitable for brewing; ? Three beans? Refers to mung beans, red beans and black beans. What is the name of Chinese medicine? Summer fire extinguisher? , can clear away heat and reduce fire; ? Three fruits? It refers to watermelon, bitter gourd and wax gourd. Let's focus on bitter gourd. Chinese medicine theory holds that bitterness can clear away heat? . Momordica charantia is bitter and cold, and belongs to spleen, stomach, heart and liver meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has a certain curative effect on dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever, excessive miliaria and conjunctivitis. In addition, the content of vitamin C in bitter gourd is very high, which has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane, preventing atherosclerosis, improving stress ability and protecting heart. At the same time, the effective components in bitter gourd can inhibit the canceration of normal cells, promote the recovery of mutant cells, and have certain anti-cancer effects. The high-energy lipid in bitter gourd, namely momordicin, is called? Fat killer? Its special ingredients can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharide by about 40% ~ 60%, and can be used to lose weight.
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