After entering Xiaoman, the temperature rises, and people often like to use cold drinks to cool down, but excessive cold drinks can lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases. Eating a cold diet at this time is likely to cause gastrointestinal discomfort and abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Because children's digestive system is underdeveloped and the visceral function of the elderly is gradually declining, this situation is more likely to occur in children and the elderly. Therefore, we should pay attention to avoid eating too much cold food in our diet. In addition, the weather is not only hot, but also sweaty and rainy. The diet should be based on a refreshing and light vegetarian diet, and often eat foods with the functions of clearing away dampness and heat, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, such as adzuki bean, coix seed, mung bean, wax gourd, cucumber, day lily, cress, water chestnut, auricularia auricula, carrot, tomato, watermelon and yam.

Three principles of health preservation in xiaoman solar terms

Xiaoman solar terms health principle one: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

Because the human body consumes more body fluids in summer, we should pay attention to clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst in summer, and pay equal attention to damp and heat during this period, so we should pay more attention to clearing away heat and promoting diuresis in daily life. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that long summer belongs to the spleen in the five internal organs, and it should also be supplemented. According to the viewpoint of TCM health preservation, excessive dampness is not good for the spleen, so it is appropriate to eat more sweet and cold or sweet and cold in daily diet. However, it should be noted that because bitter food has the functions of diarrhea, dryness and astringency, it is not advisable to eat more. Summer is hot, people like cold drinks and drink a lot of water, which makes moisture easily invade the human body. When external dampness enters the interior, it will make the water wet and strengthen the spleen, cause the spleen and stomach to rise and fall, and hinder the transport and transformation function, thus causing the accumulation of water and loss of appetite. Therefore, in summer, we should often eat foods that are beneficial to water conservancy and dampness, so as to strengthen the spleen and stomach and restore the ascending and transporting function of the spleen, which is beneficial to water conservancy and dampness.

Xiaoman solar terms health principle 2: clearing away heat and summer heat, clearing away heat and detoxifying.

Chinese medicine believes that summer is summer heat, which belongs to the five internal organs and the heart, and is suitable for clearing and replenishing. However, if you are cold, you should eat sour food. For example, you can often eat some wheat products, and you can eat more pork, plums, peaches, olives, pineapples and so on.

Xiaoman solar terms health principle three: spleen and stomach, qi and yin.

The hot weather in summer increases people's consumption. On the one hand, there is an urgent need to supplement nutrition and body fluids. On the other hand, due to the influence of summer and humid climate, it is easy to lead to deficiency of vital qi in the spleen and stomach and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Therefore, in diet, we should take soup, soup, fruit juice and other foods with rich and light soup, which can stimulate appetite and be easy to digest, in order to achieve the purpose of health care. At the same time, eat less or not eat greasy, rich and fried foods, and the amount of food eaten per meal should not be too large. It should be based on the principle of a small amount of meals. If some people have the symptoms mentioned above, such as summer onset, summer injury, summer dampness, heatstroke and so on. Then, according to the viewpoint of TCM health preservation, pay attention to pertinence, treat meals based on syndrome differentiation, or tonify spleen and lung qi deficiency, or both qi and yin deficiency.