Chinese medicine teaches you to nourish the spleen and stomach: it has entered June, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the tough summer is here. In the face of the hot weather in the next three or four months, everyone began to adopt different methods to prevent heatstroke and cool down. It's very hot in summer, so it's a good enjoyment to drink a can of frozen coke and bite off some popsicles in one breath. But some people eat without restraint, and the cold also enters the body. The damage to the body can't be made up by this refreshing. What did the ancients think of eating cold drinks in summer? In our opinion, it is normal to eat popsicles and drink cold drinks in summer. Whether to eat or not, why eating cold drinks will hurt your health, and see what the ancients thought. In Song Dynasty, Chen Zhi wrote the book "Pension and Family Care", which is the earliest medical book for the elderly in the world. He said: "The moon in midsummer is the most difficult to photograph. Yin Qi is insidious, the summer poison is steaming outside, he is interested in the wind, and he is willful to eat cold, so people suffer more violent venting. " Later, the Yuan Dynasty added this book as a New Book on Longevity and Pension. The book says: "When it is hot in summer, my stomach is burning, I am sweating all over, and my heart is thirsty. When I suddenly met with ice and snow, I tried my best to drink water. I was too cold to sleep and stayed still for a long time. If Qiu Lai is not malaria, it is dysentery. " It can be seen that it is human nature to drink cold water or even ice water in summer, which has been the case in China since ancient times. However, Chinese medicine practitioners in ancient China observed the problem of drinking cold drinks very early. The ancients believed that the yang in summer ran out of the body and the yang in the body was relatively reduced. Especially the spleen yang will be weaker than usual. At this time, if you eat cold drinks, your spleen and stomach will be cold, and then artificially lowering the body temperature will lead to disorder of body regulation. This disorder, first of all, is the disorder of the digestive system. The temperature is too low, and eating too many cold drinks will damage the spleen yang. If the human body itself is deficient in spleen yang, then eating cold drinks will lead to diarrhea, salivation and other symptoms of spleen yang deficiency. At this time, it is very easy to cause the invasion of external evils. Cold hurts the spleen, and the common manifestation is white and greasy tongue coating, ranging from abdominal pain and diarrhea to nausea and vomiting. Once or twice occasionally, enough children in Yang Can are physically resistant, but they often eat ice cream, cold drinks and cold watermelons. Then, even a healthy child, the spleen and stomach will be injured, and then the kidneys will be injured, and the child's physique will gradually deteriorate. Often catch a cold and get sick, grow slowly, be anorexic and picky eaters, and suffer from various chronic diseases, such as rhinitis and pharyngitis. Overeating iced drinks has many hazards: 1, leading to gastrointestinal diseases: excessive iced drinks, mild flatulence, severe indigestion or gastroenteritis and diarrhea. In ancient times, there was a precedent for emperors to cause gastrointestinal diseases because of binge drinking iced drinks. According to the Biography of the History of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Xiaozong suddenly fell ill because he drank too much ice water. In addition, it is also recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that Song Huizong suffered from spleen disease due to eating too much ice. 2. iced drinks cause "popsicle face". Iced drinks such as popsicles are very easy to stimulate young children's immature gastrointestinal tract, leading to a decrease in various digestive enzymes, gastrointestinal peristalsis disorder, stomach pain, loss of appetite, intestinal disorder, and finally turning the child's face yellow and dark, becoming a malnourished child with sallow complexion. Medical experts vividly call it "Popsicle Face". 3. Induce heatstroke and heart disease: If you drink a lot of ice drinks after strenuous exercise, although it will bring temporary comfort, you will feel that the human body is rapidly cooling down, but it will send information to the brain. The brain mistakenly thinks that the heat of the human body has been emitted, so it will order to stop the heat removal work including sweating. As a result, the pores of sweat glands are not smooth and it is difficult for the body to dissipate heat. Preheating and gathering in the body are more likely to induce heatstroke and some heart diseases. 4. Hypertension, coronary heart disease and other people are easy to induce cerebral hemorrhage: for patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis, if they eat a lot of iced drinks, they will suddenly stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, make the vasoconstriction rise, aggravate the condition and easily induce cerebral hemorrhage. How to strengthen the spleen after eating cold drinks: If children eat ice cream, it is not a big problem to eat it once or twice occasionally. If the child is weak and afraid of cold, or has diarrhea and abdominal pain after eating, it needs to be remedied in time, which can reduce various physical problems caused by cold invasion. The specific method is as follows: 1) Give the child ginger and brown sugar water: drink it the same day, and you can drink another cup the next morning. 2) Hot compress of perilla leaves or Jiang Shui: grab a handful of perilla leaves or three or five slices of ginger, bring to a boil with high fire, turn to low heat and cook for about 5 minutes, then put it in a hot water bottle. If you don't have a hot water bottle, you can use a fresh-keeping bag, then tie it tightly and wrap it with a towel (pay attention to the direction and don't let the water flow out). When the temperature is suitable, hot compress the child's abdomen. 3) Spleen-warming method: Overeating cold food in summer is easy to cause cold accumulation in the spleen and stomach and affect human function. 100 g of fried salt can be put into a thick gauze bag and placed on the third finger of the navel, which has the functions of warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and relieving pain; Or use 3 grams of cinnamon powder, long pepper powder 10 gram and galangal powder 10 gram, put them in gauze bags and apply them on the navel at night to warm the spleen and stomach and stop vomiting and diarrhea. 4) Huoxiang Zhengqi Water. Pogostemon patchouli Zhengqi Water takes Pogostemon patchouli as the monarch drug, which can dispel turbidity, regulate middle warmer, relieve exterior syndrome and dispel cold. Perilla frutescens and Angelica dahurica are minister drugs, which can disperse spices, help Huoxiang to dispel cold, and can also disperse dampness and turbidity. Pinellia ternata and tangerine peel are used as adjuvant drugs to eliminate dampness, reduce adverse reactions and stop vomiting; Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria are used for invigorating spleen, removing dampness, regulating middle-jiao and stopping diarrhea; Magnolia officinalis and belly skin are gasified and moist, and the swelling is removed; Finally, taking Glycyrrhiza as the guide, we can reconcile all kinds of drugs, relieve exterior syndrome and eliminate dampness, and regulate qi and middle energizer. How to cool off in summer: Is there really nothing suitable for baby to drink in such hot weather? Or what antipyretic drinks can replace these? The answer is yes. To really quench thirst, we call it quenching thirst by living body fluid. In other words, let your body produce that kind of body fluid, so that you are in that thirsty state. If you can't have this kind of food, you will always be what you eat, no matter how much ice you eat, no matter how many cold drinks you eat, you will still be thirsty after drinking it. So I feel thirsty in summer, drink a bowl of hot tea, boiled water and sour plum soup, keep my lips and teeth fragrant, and the body fluid under my tongue will come out, and my thirst will be gone. Only in this way can we really quench our thirst. Spleen injury in children in summer is harmful; Clinically, it is found that more and more children have allergic phenomena, such as allergic rhinitis and allergic cough, which are closely related to the cold diet and the damage of human yang. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that children's spleen is often deficient, which means that children's spleen and stomach are in the process of development and their functions are not strong, and the spleen is also called "the foundation of the day after tomorrow", which is in charge of the digestion, absorption and utilization of food and drinks by the human body, and the children's spleen and stomach are relatively delicate. At this time, using cold drinks and other cold things will damage the child's spleen and stomach, leading to spleen and stomach weakness, loss of appetite, abdominal pain, abdominal distension, loose stool and other problems. For healthy and strong children, it may not do much harm to eat cold drinks occasionally in hot summer, but for children with weak spleen and stomach, it is best to stay away from cold food such as cold drinks. Chinese medicine believes that spleen is the mother of lung and nourishes lung. Weak spleen and stomach will lead to weak lung qi, and Chinese medicine says that "cold drinks hurt the lungs." Eating cold not only directly hurts the spleen and stomach, but also hurts the lungs, making children prone to allergic diseases such as colds, coughs, rhinitis and even asthma. In life, we can also see some children cough immediately after eating cold drinks. Some children don't seem to see any harm in the short term after catching cold, but most of them will fall into cold in autumn and winter, and they are prone to cough or suddenly get rhinitis. Now, more and more children's allergies, allergic rhinitis and allergic cough are found clinically, which are closely related to the fact that the cold diet hurts the body's yang. The five main points of nourishing the spleen should be kept in mind: First, food likes warm and dry: the spleen likes dry and hates wet, and likes warm and hates cold, so it is necessary to eat some warm or dry food or Chinese medicine to nourish the spleen. For example, the spices commonly used in our kitchen are mostly warm and dry, so they also have the function of strengthening the spleen. Such as nutmeg, Amomum villosum, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, pepper, star anise, fennel, banksia rose, angelica dahurica, galangal, dried ginger and the like. The spleen governs the soil, so eat more rustic foods, such as sweet potatoes and yams that grow underground; Spleen likes warm and hates cold, so it needs warm food; Spleen color is yellow, so eat yellow food, millet yellow, the most nourishing spleen soil; Spleen morality is slowing down, and it takes sweetness to slow down the spleen. Second, incense into the spleen can wake up the spleen and dry it: incense into the spleen can wake up the spleen, incense can dry it, and it can also make the spleen comfortable. Cooking has the function of strengthening the spleen, such as frying peanuts and melon seeds. Furthermore, rice or pasta is baked into a semi-burnt and semi-paste, which is fragrant and can also replenish the spleen. When I was a child, I liked to eat tortillas or steamed bread baked brown by the pot. Maybe children are born to know that it strengthens the spleen. Push, the golden brown bread is burnt and crisp, which should be something for nourishing the spleen. Third, don't eat too much and catch cold: children should be careful not to eat too much and catch cold from an early age, including eating more fruits, cold drinks and cold water, because it will damage the spleen and yang. The best snacks for children are maltose and crispy rice. Some people worry that eating barbecue will get angry. I don't think we can eat food that has just been baked and is still hot, but we can wait until it cools to room temperature to avoid getting angry. People with spleen deficiency can insist on drinking ginger and brown sugar water in the morning, which will help warm the spleen and raise yang. 4. Spleen-invigorating traditional Chinese medicine and decoction: the spleen is middle earth, and the yang rises to the left as the cardinal. There are many traditional Chinese medicines and decoction formulas for invigorating spleen in past dynasties: Atractylodes rhizome and Wei Ping powder for invigorating spleen and drying dampness; Bushen Qushi has Poria and Sijunzi Decoction; There are tsaoko and Jianpi powder for strengthening the spleen. Warm spleen and dispel cold include dried ginger and Lizhong decoction; Spleen-invigorating and Qi-benefiting decoction includes Astragalus membranaceus and Buzhong Yiqi decoction. Ginseng, cassia twig and ginseng soup are used to tonify spleen. These are all prescriptions for rising yang and invigorating qi. Spleen governs transport and transformation. If spleen deficiency is weak, you often pull whatever you eat, and your face is sallow and emaciated. Pay attention to invigorating the spleen at this time. Spleen likes sweet and light, evil, fishy, spicy and turbid, so sweet and light can nourish spleen; Your temper is too weak, don't be spicy. This recipe can be used to strengthen the spleen: Poria cocos, Coix seed, Euryale euryales and yam each 30g, dried tangerine peel 10g, decocted in water, one dose per day. Or dry the medicine in the sun and grind it into fine powder, each time 15g, twice a day, and take it in warm rice porridge. Fifth, moxibustion has the function of warming yang, which is most suitable for invigorating spleen. Anyone with spleen deficiency can moxibustion the original point of spleen meridian Taibai. The main time of spleen meridian is from 9: 00 am to 1 1: 00 am, so it would be better if moxibustion can be done within this time. Spleen rises to clear and stomach falls to turbid, both of which are the axes of qi movement. Therefore, the rising of spleen should be accompanied by the falling of stomach, which can be combined with acupuncture at Zusanli, the point of stomach meridian. The spleen should be in the last month of summer, and moxibustion is most needed during the summer heat to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Sixth, the spleen is in the mouth, and the spleen and lips can receive grains. If the spleen is sick, the color of the lips will change, either yellow or dark, affecting the digestion and absorption function. According to the facial diagnosis, the spleen should be in the nose. Yellow nose must belong to spleen deficiency. According to the palm diagnosis, the middle of the palm and thenar correspond to the spleen. If it is dull, it is also the phase of spleen deficiency. Usually, careful conditioning and observing the changes of these parts by yourself can intuitively feel the sufficient changes of spleen yang.