Fu Tian paojiao health
In summer, many residents ignore hot water to soak their feet, and some even like to wash their feet with cold water, or simply put their feet under the cold water faucet, which makes them feel comfortable and convenient. In fact, hot water soaking feet in summer, especially in dog days, has a better effect.
Many people think it is more appropriate to soak their feet in cold autumn and winter. In fact, it is equally important to insist on soaking feet in hot summer. Chinese medicine believes that "soaking feet in summer can dispel summer heat and dampness". Experts say that summer heat and humidity are heavier, and moisture is easily blocked in the spleen and stomach, which makes people feel depressed and lose appetite. Because the foot is one of the densest acupoints in the human body, soaking the foot with warm water can really better * * * the meridians and invigorate the function of the human viscera.
Especially people with poor spleen and stomach are more suitable for soaking feet in summer. If the spleen and stomach are good, it will not be so easily attacked by moisture. In summer, the humidity is very heavy, so there are often symptoms such as no appetite, no food, always sleepy, bad mood and no spirit. Soaking feet can relieve these symptoms.
Traditional Chinese medicine suggests that soaking feet in summer does not need sweating to play its role, which is the biggest difference from soaking feet in winter. The best time is ***2 1-22 ** Every night before going to bed, the water temperature is 40℃-45℃, and the foot soaking time should not be too long *** 15-20 minutes * *. It's best to soak your feet in a deep barrel, preferably to your knees.
It should be noted that patients with severe heart failure, myocardial infarction, panel injury or hypertension should not soak their feet. 30 minutes before and after meals is not suitable for soaking feet. It is not easy for menstrual women to soak their feet. If they feel dizzy during foot bath, they should stop foot bath immediately.
Soak your feet in dog days and add some "materials" to relieve fatigue.
The sunshine is the most abundant in dog days. Soaking feet with hot water can clear the meridians, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, dredge the meridians and promote diuresis. If you want to clear away heat and cool blood, you can soak your feet with salt. Because Chinese medicine believes that salt has the effects of clearing fire, cooling blood and detoxifying.
Put some tea leaves in when soaking feet, and use tea leaves to deodorize feet. Like overnight tea, you don't have to pour it out. You can soak your feet with it before going to bed the next day. You don't have to worry about waste. It can also cure foot odor.
If it is uncomfortable to be blown by air conditioner, it is a good choice to soak your feet with ginger, especially for people with symptoms such as cold, cough and sore throat. At the initial stage of discomfort, soaking feet with ginger is generally effective twice.
Adding proper amount of white vinegar can increase the elasticity of the panel, make the panel smooth, eliminate rheumatism and improve the symptoms such as fear of cold; It can sterilize and help to eliminate mold, tinea pedis and board disease. Adding a proper amount of rice wine can make you sweat, thus discharging acidic substances from your body and relieving fatigue.
For people with weakness of limbs, lethargy and loss of appetite, 20g of Clematis, 20g of Atractylodes lancea, 0g of Atractylodes lancea15g and 0g of Atractylodes macrocephala15g can be added into hot water, and the effect will be better.
In summer, you can also soak your feet in the water fried with Pogostemon. Take 30-50g of Pogostemon cablin, put it into 2000ml of water, fry it with strong fire for 40min, and then fry it with slow fire to1000ml. After taking the juice, add 2000ml of water and fry it to 1000ml. Put the two decoctions into a basin and soak your feet. The degree of the potion is that the feet are soaked. At the same time, in the process of soaking and washing feet.
Dog days foot bath formula: add 20 grams of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Dipsacus asperoides 15g and Lycopodium japonicum (30g) in foot bath water can invigorate qi, strengthen tendons and bones, and are suitable for middle-aged and elderly friends with osteoporosis. People who are prone to cold hands and feet can add 15g cassia twig in water to warm the meridians and dredge the collaterals.
Prunella vulgaris 30g and Alisma orientalis 15g should be added for hypertension. Prunella vulgaris clearing liver and purging fire, Alisma orientalis promoting diuresis and removing dampness. For patients with varicose veins, 20 grams of Angelica sinensis and 25 grams of Achyranthes bidentata can be added. These two drugs can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dredge channels and activate collaterals.
When soaking feet, you should also pay attention to the following points: you can't soak your feet immediately after meals, so as not to affect digestion; When soaking feet, the indoor environment should be quiet and comfortable, and the room temperature should be moderate. Don't blow directly and relax. The water temperature should be kept warm, too cold can easily cause a cold, and too hot can burn the panel, especially for diabetics.
Futian healthy diet therapy
1, brown sugar Jiang Shui
Ingredients:100g brown sugar, 20g ginger.
Practice: Wash and slice ginger; Boil a pot of boiling water, add ginger slices and brown sugar, and cook for 30 minutes.
Nutritional value: there has always been a folk saying that "radish is eaten in winter and ginger is eaten in summer". Eating it in summer will generate yang, dispel dampness and detoxify, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Drinking brown sugar and Jiang Shui in dog days conforms to the scientific principle of combining yin and yang for health preservation.
2, three bean soup
Ingredients: mung bean, red bean, black bean and brown sugar.
Practice: Wash three beans and soak them in cold water for half an hour; Put three beans in the pot, add some water, and the boy will stew them; After about 40 minutes, the beans are fragrant and soft, and then add a proper amount of brown sugar.
Nutritional value: As early as ancient times, it was recorded in the "Outline" that soup was cooked every day and eaten with children. In case of pox, also use this soup to drink; Mash it and apply it, and its poison will disappear. Three bean soup has the effect of detoxification and reducing fire, and it is one of the best recipes in dog days.
3, bitter gourd scrambled eggs
Ingredients: one bitter gourd and one egg.
Practice: Wash bitter gourd, slice it, beat the eggs into a bowl and stir them into egg flowers; Stir-fry bitter gourd with proper amount of oil. When bitter gourd changes from dark green to light green and becomes soft, add egg flowers; Stir-fry for another two minutes, and add appropriate amount of salt and monosodium glutamate.
Nutritional value: Eating bitter food in summer has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving fatigue, helping people spend the summer healthily.
4. Chinese yam ribs
Ingredients: 300g of yam, 350g of ribs and a little chopped green onion.
Practice: Wash all the ingredients, and wash the ribs with boiling water to remove the fishy smell and bloodshot; Put some water in the pot and stew the ribs. After the water boils, add the chopped yam. Stew for about 20 minutes, the soup turns white and the fragrance is scattered. Add the right amount of salt and chopped green onion.
Nutritional value: It is hot and humid in dog days, people sweat a lot, and trace elements such as potassium and calcium are seriously lost, which is easy to hurt yin and consume gas. At this time, you should eat foods that replenish blood and qi, nourish yin and strengthen the spleen. Chinese yam ribs are excellent nourishing yin ingredients and have the effect of supplementing calcium.
Health taboo in dog days
1, avoid eating cold food at night.
People who have a short summer night, are older, or have a weak constitution often have cold stomachs and indigestion, such as lettuce and melons. It is forbidden in summer, so you should pay special attention to eating this kind of food at night. Also be careful not to eat meat, noodles or anything cold and sticky at night, or you will see bloating, vomiting and diarrhea.
2. Avoid drinking tea on an empty stomach
Excessive drinking of tea, especially on an empty stomach, can easily lead to consumption of yang. If you are a salty person, the salty taste will cause tea to enter the kidney, extinguish the kidney yang of the lower jiao, and make people prone to joint pain due to hand and foot pain, and diarrhea, impotence, dysmenorrhea and other diseases due to deficiency and cold of the lower jiao. Therefore, drinking tea in summer should be two or three cups after meals, and stop drinking immediately when you are hungry.
3. Avoid taking a bath in cold water
Taking a bath in cold water is the favorite way for many young and middle-aged men to cool off, but the weather is hot in summer, and people's pores and muscles are in a state of venting. Therefore, cold air can easily invade the human body, leading to the loss of yang. There are visible symptoms such as cold hands and feet, hamstring twitching, blurred vision in both eyes, and even unexplained fever syndrome. At the same time, even if you take a hot bath, you should pay attention to shelter from the wind after taking a bath, especially for children.
4. Avoid lying in a cold place at night.
Chinese medicine believes that "the head is the meeting of all yang" and the head is the gathering place of human yang. Lying and blowing cold air at night will easily lead to the loss of yang, which will be exhausted and die if it lasts for a long time. Therefore, we modern people should pay special attention not to sleep at night and turn on the air conditioner all night. This habit can easily lead to colds, facial paralysis, joint pain, abdominal pain and diarrhea, which is very serious to the body. Don't fan the wind to cool down after the child falls asleep, otherwise it is prone to diseases such as hand and foot convulsions, mouth congestion and arthralgia, and people often don't know its harm. The so-called deep love is very harmful.