Qiju
Lie down at night and get up early to nourish the yang. How to raise yang before and after Dragon Boat Festival? Huangdi Neijing tells us that "you lie down at night and get up early, and you never tire of it for a hundred days". During the Dragon Boat Festival, the sunshine time is longer and the daytime time is longer, so you should stay up late and get up early in the morning. Lie down and raise yang in summer before 10: 30 at night. Get up early at about six o'clock, your mind will be clearer, you will be able to engage in activities that require high attention quickly, you will be less sleepy, and you will be more energetic. Noon is the time when the human body "combines yang", and rest at this time is conducive to the transformation of yin and yang in the human body. Health preservation in summer focuses on "nourishing the heart", and taking a nap is the best way to nourish the heart.
Drink to eat
Glutinous rice is a good food and has a good therapeutic effect. According to the analysis of medicinal properties in Materia Medica, glutinous rice is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. Eating zongzi wrapped in glutinous rice can invigorate qi and spleen, stimulate appetite and promote digestion.
Drinking realgar wine: killing snake venom, drying dampness and killing insects. The medicinal properties of realgar have long been recorded in Materia Medica. Realgar is pungent and warm, and has the efficacy of killing insects, eliminating dampness and killing insects.
Red bean porridge: spleen and blood, diuresis and dehumidification. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot and humid. Eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite and detoxify. Drinking adzuki bean porridge can induce diuresis, dispel dampness, nourish the heart and promote fluid production, which is especially beneficial to menopausal middle-aged and elderly women. Adzuki bean has stronger dampness-removing power, and there is a summer drinking method of boiling sugar water with adzuki bean and coix seed, with the purpose of benefiting summer heat and dampness.
move
Keep fit and prevent diseases. "Walking" is a simple and effective way of exercise, and Chinese medicine believes that "walking is the ancestor of 100-step exercise". Choose to exercise in the morning or evening to achieve the best state of "refreshing head, hot feet, sweating all over, and happy mood".
moxibustion
Chinese medicine believes that Folium Artemisiae Argyi tastes bitter, pungent and warm, and enters the spleen, liver and kidney meridians. Folium Artemisiae Argyi can dispel cold and dampness, warm channels and stop bleeding, and has the effects of restoring yang, regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold, and improving lung function. As the old saying goes, "A doctor doesn't need to come if his family has been in love for three years". The moxa heat generated by moxibustion materials made of mugwort leaves stimulates acupuncture points or specific parts on the body surface, and regulates the physiological and biochemical functions of human disorders by stimulating menstrual activities, thus achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases.
Acupoints for invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness: Xue Hai, Yinlingquan, Fenglong and Zhongwan.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival. Let's take active action!