Dashu health
1, medicinal porridge
Li Shizhen, a famous doctor, highly praised the health care function of medicated porridge. He said: "Eat a big bowl of porridge every day. If you are hungry, it will be ready when you are full of energy. The tonic is not fine, but it is extremely soft and greasy, which is compatible with the stomach. It is also the most wonderful diet. " Medicinal porridge is suitable for the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach function. Therefore, the ancients said that "porridge is the best in the world" and "two rice meals are better than a big bag of ginseng and astragalus".
"Six Books on Medicine" praised: "Japonica rice porridge is used in Kundan biochemical cultivation, and glutinous rice porridge is a wonderful product for warming stomach and nourishing qi". It can be seen that porridge is important to people. Medicinal porridge is beneficial to human body, but it is not omnipotent. According to everyone's different physique and diseases, we should choose the right medicine and cook porridge to achieve satisfactory results.
drink water
In summer, water is also an indispensable substance for human body. Due to the hot weather, the human body's water evaporates and consumes too fast, so it needs to be replenished in time. It is best to drink boiled water at ordinary times. You can also drink mung bean water, chrysanthemum tea and other herbal teas to relieve summer heat, drink more sugary salt water and sweaty tea, properly supplement salt and minerals, maintain the electrolyte balance of the body and avoid dehydration.
In midsummer, the sun's heat drops, the smoke is suffocating, the water vapor rises and the humidity is full. So in this season, there are more people who feel damp and evil. In traditional Chinese medicine, dampness is a yin evil, which tends to be downward, heavy and sticky, easily deterring qi movement and damaging Yang Qi. Dietotherapy and medicated diet should clear away heat and relieve summer heat.
Step 4 season
mung bean
Chinese medicine said: "Mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat, diuresis and acne. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", mung bean: "It can thicken the stomach, act as a pillow, improve eyesight, cure headache caused by head wind, relieve vomiting, cure acne poison and benefit swelling".
wax gourd
Chinese medicine believes that wax gourd is sweet, slightly cold and non-toxic. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis, quenching thirst, relieving vexation, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat. It is an ideal daily food for reducing fever and diuresis. Boiling soup with skin is more effective.
bitter gourd
Bitter gourd is flat in nature and bitter in taste, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and clear heart and improve eyesight. Traditional medicine believes that bitter gourd is born cold, cooked and warm. Raw food can clear summer heat, purge fire, relieve fever and relieve annoyance; Cooked food can nourish blood and liver, moisten spleen and kidney, clear away heat and relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, invigorate qi and strengthen yang, and also relieve fever, polydipsia, dysentery and miliaria. 1, preventing heatstroke
Try not to go out in hot weather, do not do outdoor physical exercise or engage in manual labor.
Step 2 prevent emotional heatstroke
During the summer heat, people are prone to "liver fire", which often leads to inexplicable upset, listlessness, loss of appetite and other problems, also known as "emotional heatstroke". Emotional heatstroke is very harmful to summer health and physical and mental health, especially to the elderly and infirm. Because of emotional disorder, it will cause myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia, elevated blood pressure and even sudden death. Remind patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases to avoid extreme emotions such as anger and anxiety, and try to be "calm and natural".
3, the amount of exercise should not be large.
Patients with chronic diseases in dog days, especially middle-aged and elderly people, are much more likely to have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents than young people. Middle-aged and elderly people should exercise in the high temperature in midsummer to avoid excessive physical exercise.
4. Pay attention to ventilation and heatstroke prevention, protect your mind, calm your heart and ensure your energy.
In the hot summer, in addition to combining work and rest, ensure adequate sleep, drink plenty of water, and pay special attention to diet conditioning. Specifically, we should pay attention to the following points. 1. Eat more bitter food. Bitter food can not only clear away heat, but also relieve summer heat and fatigue. Therefore, eating bitter foods such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat in summer can strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, not only keep the evil of damp heat away from you, but also prevent heatstroke, killing two birds with one stone. In addition, bitter food can also make people feel refreshed and relaxed, which is conducive to restoring energy and physical strength in hot summer, and alleviating or eliminating discomfort such as general fatigue and listlessness. 2. Increase the intake of foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis. Mung bean soup is a traditional folk food for relieving summer heat in China. People with weak spleen and stomach can safely eat it. In addition, lotus leaves, watermelons, lotus seeds and wax gourd also have good effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Lentils and coix seed have a good spleen-strengthening effect and are the best food for patients with spleen deficiency in summer. 3. Foods that benefit qi and nourish yin are essential. Summer is very hot, sweating a lot, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. People at this time are often "disease-free." Therefore, in addition to timely hydration, we should always eat some light foods that can replenish qi and nourish yin to enhance our physical fitness. Such as yam, jujube, sea cucumber, eggs, milk, honey, lotus root, fungus, soybean milk, lily porridge, chrysanthemum porridge and so on.