Chinese medicine believes that the human body and nature are interlinked. The dog days are the hottest time of the year, that is, when the yang in nature is the most vigorous. At this time, the human body can supplement its own yang with the help of the yang in nature. Some patients have yang deficiency, such as spleen-stomach yang deficiency and kidney-yang deficiency. These diseases caused by yang deficiency can be maintained by health care in dog days.
The so-called "nourishing yang in spring and summer" and "treating winter diseases in summer", in dog days, the blood vessels in the human body are in a state of expansion and the skin is slack, so drugs are most likely to penetrate into acupoints and meridians from the skin, and directly reach the lesion site through meridians and qi and blood. Therefore, people who have cold hands and feet in winter, are afraid of cold and like warmth, and summer is the most effective.
The popular three-day patch also uses the principle of nourishing yang in dog days to treat diseases caused by extremely insufficient yang. In addition to using dog days stickers, you can also eat mutton, do dog days moxibustion and scrape, all of which are effective. But not everyone is suitable, and it is necessary to find a suitable therapy according to the actual situation.
If you are afraid of heat in dog days, you can drink cold water at room temperature and keep in good health simply. Forming the habit of taking a hot bath can eliminate dampness and evil spirits. The air conditioner should be turned on at 26 degrees. In two or three hours, the window will be opened for ventilation.
It is said that "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", and eating ginger after squatting is the best time. It is hot in summer, and the yang in the body is weak. Warm ginger soup can not only make up for the deficiency of yang in the body, but also help to dispel cold and detoxify.
Hot summer is more suitable for "light exercise", that is, an exercise regimen with less physical energy consumption, low technical requirements and loose time requirements. Half an hour's exercise is appropriate, and brisk walking, yoga, light gymnastics, Tai Ji Chuan and ballroom dancing are all good "light sports".
Don't eat cold drinks, cold dishes and many foods that hurt yang just because the weather is very hot and people feel very hot.
Don't drink too much Huoxiang Zhengqi water. It is not a panacea, nor can it cure heatstroke. People with allergies and severe heatstroke, the elderly, pregnant women and infants should not drink Huoxiang Zhengqi water. Don't mess with it.
First-class medical care means that man and nature should live in harmony. This Chinese medicine is called the correspondence between man and nature. If this can be done, there will naturally be no major problems in the body. Make good use of this dog days, which is not too long, and raise your yang, and you can avoid diseases caused by insufficient yang in winter.