Yesterday was a long summer. In April, the bucket refers to the southeast and the dimension is long summer. Since then, everything has grown up, hence the name Long Summer.

The long summer is healthy

From long summer, the days are long, the nights are short, and the days are long and cloudy. It is advisable to go to bed late and get up early.

In summer, the yang is soothing and nourishing, and the sun is shining. Exercise properly and make your body sweat properly.

Care should be taken to protect Yang Qi. "In May, Yang Qi was outside, and his stomach was weak and cold, while Yang Qi was weak and could not win the cold, so he wanted to dress again." Therefore, as the saying goes, "Yang in spring and summer, Yin in autumn and winter." Health preservation in summer is mainly to nourish yang. In summer, I often eat cold food, which first hurts spleen yang, and spleen yang deficiency hurts kidney yang for a long time, forming spleen and kidney yang deficiency. Therefore, we should avoid "greed for coolness", cold food, air conditioning, summer sleeping mats and so on. Gave all the damage to Yang.

After the long summer, the temperature is high and it is easy to sweat. Sweat is the liquid of the heart. Don't exercise too much and sweat too much, so as not to be sad and cloudy. After exercise, liquid should be properly supplemented, and some food and medicine materials with the functions of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis can be supplemented, such as lotus leaf and coix seed.

Heaven and man correspond. Heart belongs to fire, corresponding to summer, scorching sun, heart and summer gas are interlinked, and heart yang is also the most vigorous at this time.

According to the theory of health preservation, summer is hot, "it is better to adjust your breath and meditate, often like ice and snow in your heart and less heat in your heart." You can't turn heat into heat and then turn it into heat. "

After the long summer, hot weather is easy to disturb the mind, and it is easy to have symptoms such as irritability. Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate the heart, meditate and pay attention to emotional adjustment. American ginseng, chrysanthemum, mint, lophatherum gracile, lotus leaf and honeysuckle can clear away heart fire, remove annoyance and nourish heart; Jujube, lotus seed, arborvitae seed, American ginseng, etc. Patients with upset, irritability, insomnia and neurasthenia can take it.

Long summer emphasizes nourishing the heart. Massage Daling, Neiguan and Laogong points every day to calm the nerves and clear away heat and fire.