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Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to nature and harmony between man and nature. Traditional Chinese medicine keeps in good health in four seasons, and yang is kept in spring and summer. Tonifying yang is the most basic principle of health preservation in summer. Summer is the season with the highest yang in a year, and the climate is hot and full of vitality. For people, this is a period of vigorous metabolism. Being too greedy in summer is easy to hurt the sun's spirit, so Chinese medicine especially emphasizes that we should not be too greedy in summer, otherwise it may cause some corresponding diseases. Chinese medicine suggests starting from these aspects in terms of health preservation.
1. Health-preserving diet and fire prevention in summer
Hot weather can lead to a series of symptoms such as irritability and insomnia. Summer heat is easy to produce internal heat to the body, so "fire prevention" has become the first principle of summer health preservation.
You can eat more food to clear away heat and toxic materials in midsummer. In traditional Chinese medicine, herbs that can clear away heat and reduce heat are: mint, lotus leaf, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, forsythia and so on. Diet should be light and easy to digest, and eat less greasy and spicy food. Semen Phaseoli Radiati, Semen Nelumbinis, Folium Nelumbinis, Rhizoma Phragmitis, and Lentils can be added. Cook porridge with japonica rice and eat it after cooling. This medicated porridge has the function of invigorating stomach and relieving summer heat. Eating more fruits and vegetables at ordinary times can provide vitamin supplements. It's best to eat more melons, including watermelon, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber and wax gourd.
Second, the daily rest of summer health
Nourishing yang in summer is important to nourish the heart. In the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine also believes that "summer qi and heart qi are interlinked", so it is necessary to "recharge your batteries" for health preservation, such as going to bed early and getting up early to avoid sweating. Sweating too much is easy to hurt yang.
After the weather turns hot, people are prone to emotional irritability, fidgeting and poor sleep. And people's minds are easily influenced. So how to avoid fidgeting? First of all, we should pay attention to mental conditioning and maintain a happy mood; Secondly, avoid sudden happiness and sadness and maintain a calm and harmonious state.
Chinese medicine has long said that "the heart should be nourished in summer", so it is necessary to maintain physical and mental pleasure and smooth mood in summer to prevent diseases caused by excessive heart fire.
Third, summer fitness exercise should avoid eating cold drinks immediately.
In summer, a little exercise will make you sweat. Many people like to eat cold drinks and iced drinks immediately after exercise, which is very refreshing and thirst-quenching. In fact, this has a great impact on the health of the body, because if you eat cold drinks immediately after exercise, it will do great harm to the liver and lungs. Qi and blood are boiling, and the functions of lung and liver are active, which will damage the yang of human body immediately after catching cold.
There is a saying in Chinese medicine that "cold drinks hurt the lungs", so it is best to drink cold drinks in a relatively stable state after exercise, but not too cold. People with deficiency-cold constitution had better eat less cold drinks, because it is easy to cause stomach pain and other diseases.
Fourth, how to prevent heatstroke and cool down in summer health
The weather is hot in summer, and air-conditioning fans are the best electric appliances to reduce fever. For people who are afraid of heat, it is most comfortable for the air conditioner to have a fan on. But for joint patients, summer is the best way to avoid cold, because too cold environment is more likely to cause lesions. Therefore, in summer, joints should pay attention to the moderate use of air conditioners and fans and use them as little as possible.
It's too hot outside in summer. To avoid being exposed to the sun for a long time, you need to go out and take the best heatstroke prevention measures. You can prepare some heatstroke prevention drugs at home, such as Ren Dan, Huoxiang Zhengqi series (water, liquid, pills, capsules), ten drops of water, essential oil, etc. For people who often stay in air-conditioned rooms, pay attention to hydrating and drinking more water. In order to avoid too dry skin.