Summer is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang in a year. Nature is a hot and humid scene, and the human body is sweating with heat.
For health care in summer, Chinese medicine has the saying that "nourishing yang in spring and summer". However, some people have misunderstood this and think that spring and summer should be warm and yang. In fact, "nourishing yang" should mean "nourishing yang", which means that you don't forget to keep in good health during the yang season. So, how to keep fit in summer? First of all, pay attention to the schedule. It's very hot in summer, evening and early morning. Middle-aged and elderly people can go to bed late and get up early. In addition, it is best to take a nap in the afternoon in summer, which plays an important role in eliminating fatigue.
You sweat a lot in summer, so you must pay attention to hydrating and drinking more water. Don't wait for thirst before drinking water. After getting up in the summer morning, middle-aged and elderly people had better drink some water first to supplement the water consumed at night. In addition to normal summer meals, the daily drinking amount of middle-aged and elderly people should be kept at 1500~2000 ml.
Moderate exercise in summer. Summer exercise for middle-aged and elderly people is best carried out in the cool time of early morning or evening. This place can be a park, a lake or a shady place under a tree. Take a walk, jog, play Tai Ji Chuan or play Baduanjin. Moderate exercise of limbs can keep blood flowing.
In summer, you should eat light and digestible fruits and vegetables and drink plenty of water. Soup is essential every day. Pay attention to the increase of melons and vegetables. You can make soup or drink mung bean soup when it is cold. Mung bean is a good summer food, which can clear the heart. When you are free, you can cook some mung bean water and porridge, which is of great help to dispel summer heat.
In summer, the temperature is high and the humidity is high, so it is helpful to eat bitter vegetables. Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, lettuce and celery are all good in summer. Drinking chrysanthemum tea and all kinds of herbal tea can cool down and refresh yourself, which is helpful for summer.
It seems natural to be cool in summer. However, after the development of modern science and technology, although air conditioners and electric fans can easily relieve summer heat and reduce heatstroke, the anti-season diseases of catching cold in summer are gradually increasing, and "hot cold" may take longer to cure than winter cold. This is because "when you are angry", the climate that should not appear at this time belongs to evil, and evil can make people with insufficient disease resistance sick.
Chinese medicine believes that "fever and sweating" can dredge meridians, activate internal organs, improve spirit and restore physical strength. Modern research believes that sweating can regulate nerves, dilate peripheral small blood vessels and improve microcirculation system. Therefore, sweating is a physiological function of human excretion and body temperature regulation. Sweating in summer is the embodiment of human body adapting to the environment. You can't stay in an air-conditioned room all day, for fear that sweating will reduce the adaptability of the human body to the environment and diseases will occur over time.
Sweating is a function of the body. Chinese medicine believes that sweating is a way to detoxify in summer. There are two ways to detoxify the human body: one is urination, and the other is sweating. Sweating is the most effective way to detoxify. Only in summer can you sweat naturally all year round. It will be beneficial to human metabolism, meridian balance and immune system health.