The ancient medical canon "Ling Shu Shun Qi is divided into four parts a day" says: "Spring produces summer, autumn harvests winter harvests, and qi is normal, so people should also respond." Each solar term has a different climate, so there are different health management methods for the human body.
The Classic Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Wenzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine reminds you that in the current period, you should pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling, strengthen the spleen and nourish the heart!
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Prevent heatstroke, relieve mood and avoid burnout.
"But the summer solstice is not hot", "The summer solstice is the starting point of midsummer, but it is not the hottest time. From the solstice of midsummer, after three "dog days", it entered the hottest dog days of the year.
The Yellow Emperor holds that in summer, "heaven and earth are in harmony, and everything is flashy". We should adjust our mood, ease our mood and avoid irritability and anger to adapt to the hot summer climate.
Pay attention to relieving summer heat and thirst on weekdays, and soak a cup of green tea or chrysanthemum tea and lotus leaf tea to replenish water and clear away heat and relieve summer heat.
You can listen to soothing music, concentrate on thinking or relax in a quiet environment, which not only helps to calm your mind, but also helps to ease your irritability and achieve a good state of "harmony with the spirit".
After the summer solstice, the temperature and humidity gradually increase, people sweat more, consume more physical strength, and often feel weak and listless.
You can get up early properly, have a good nap at noon, fall asleep before 1 1 every night, and take a nap at noon.
Exercise should be carried out in the early morning when it is cool, and it is forbidden to exercise in the hot sun. When the weather is sultry and the air humidity is high, outdoor activities should be reduced.
Choose swimming, Baduanjin, Tai Ji Chuan, jogging and aerobics. Take reasonable exercise to keep fit and prevent problems before they happen.
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Have a healthy temper, prevent dampness and evil, and avoid greed and coldness.
During the summer solstice, the qi and blood of human body stretch, and the function of spleen and stomach is relatively weakened. In most cases, light food that is easy to digest is more popular than greasy food, nourishing soup and big fish and big meat.
Pay attention to light cooking, less oil and salt, more cooking and less frying, and regulate the spleen and stomach.
Neijing says "nourishing yang in spring and summer". Keep warm moderately, try to reduce or avoid eating cold drinks, and protect the spleen and stomach yang.
As the weather gets hotter and hotter, people often wear too thin clothes, live in an air-conditioned environment with low temperature, and eat ice cream, iced watermelons and cold drinks unscrupulously.
These practices are easy to damage spleen yang, leading to dampness stagnation, and often appear chest tightness, nausea, diarrhea, loose stool, fatigue, loss of appetite, listlessness, limb fatigue, thick and greasy tongue coating and other manifestations. Some women will also be accompanied by symptoms such as irregular menstruation and increased leucorrhea.
Therefore, health care should pay attention to dehumidification and spleen strengthening.
Diet conditioning can eat some fragrant products that can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and it is advisable to use light and clear raw materials, such as cucumber, lotus root, tofu, rice kernel, yam, lotus seed, loofah, wax gourd, mung bean, watermelon, sugarcane and pear.
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Pay attention to diet, regulate rest and maintain the heart.
"Su Wen's Theory of Four Qi Regulating the Spirit" said: "Make ambition not angry, make Huaying put on a show, and let off steam. If love is outside, this summer gas is the way to grow. " According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the heart governs the blood vessels, and its beauty lies in the face, happiness in the heart, sweat in the liquid and qi in the summer.
Chinese medicine pays attention to nourishing liver in spring, heart in summer, lung in autumn and kidney in winter. Summer is an important time to nourish and protect the heart.
Heart fire belongs to fire, summer is hot, diet should be light, cold, irritating and greasy food should not be eaten more.
China is known as the "jiaozi Summer Solstice Day". The summer solstice is unbearable, and human nutrition is lost with sweat, which may lead to loss of appetite. You can properly choose pasta such as cold noodles. Cold noodles can reduce fire and stimulate appetite, while pasta can supplement nutrition such as starch, protein and B vitamins.
"Eat buds in spring, melons in summer, fruits in autumn and roots in winter." Cucumber, bitter gourd, wax gourd, loofah and watermelon are all good choices for relieving summer heat, appetizing, clearing fire and diuresis.
But we should also pay attention to "I don't want to be poor and cool in summer." Don't eat too much cold food, so as not to cut off the sun that produces hair, so it becomes a "wet" helper.
The heart is over the summer, and the five flavors are bitter.
Diet can be properly heat-clearing, such as bitter food such as bitter gourd, to avoid being too salty and sweet, or you can choose mung bean soup to cool off the heat.
However, it should be noted that people with cold constitution and weak constitution should not drink more alcohol and eat more heat-clearing food.