The most uncomfortable thing about the long summer is that it is hot and wet, so many people will be easily emotional, irritable and naturally harmful to their health. "Huang Di Nei Jing Wen Yin Yang Xiang" said: "Fire produces bitterness, bitterness produces heart, heart produces blood, and blood produces spleen. The heart governs the tongue, the tongue is hotter than the sky, the fire is on the ground, the pulse is in the body, and the heart is hidden. " Because summer is full of fire, summer is closely related to the cardiovascular system. Therefore, we should pay attention to the aftercare of the mind.
Xing, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that in summer, the days are long and the nights are short, so sleep should follow the law of "lying at night and getting up early" and conform to nature. If you don't get enough sleep at night, you'd better take a nap to make up for it. Chinese medicine advocates sleeping at noon, especially in summer. Its main principle is "sleep at noon and take a nap at noon". It is from 1 1 at night to 1 in the morning. At this time, the yin is the most abundant and the yang is the weakest. If you often stay up late and work after school, and your liver doesn't get enough rest, you are listless. Noon is 1 1 to afternoon 1. At this time, the yang is the most abundant and the yin is the weakest. After lunch, people feel sleepy most easily. At this time, you can take a nap in line with heaven, relieve tension and fatigue, and effectively help everyone calm down.
Long summer belongs to the earth in the five elements, corresponding to the spleen of the five internal organs of traditional Chinese medicine. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness most, so summer is also the high season of spleen and stomach diseases, which is prone to symptoms such as loss of appetite and diarrhea. Sun Gang, deputy director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, reminded that it is not advisable to eat a large number of cold fruits and vegetables to avoid damaging the spleen and stomach. It is necessary to adjust the diet in time to ensure nutrition and not increase the burden on the spleen and stomach. You can eat some miscellaneous grains porridge, such as Poria cocos and Coix seed porridge, yam porridge and so on. , can play a role in invigorating qi and spleen, clearing away heat and summer heat, and promoting diuresis. Because too sweet will hurt the spleen, so we should strictly control the intake of cakes and sugary drinks.
Eliminate summer heat and dampness, light diet, and skillfully use diet therapy.
It is easy to sweat in hot weather, which will damage the human body's qi, because there is a saying in Chinese medicine that "qi will sweat off." Excessive sweating can make people dizzy, chest tightness, flustered, thirsty, nausea, and even coma due to heatstroke. Pay attention to heatstroke prevention and cooling at this time. Usually, you can eat watermelon and melon properly and drink mung bean soup to relieve the heat. Du Changming, director of the dermatology department of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, reminded that you should wear a sun hat and an umbrella when going out to avoid staying in the scorching sun for too long. Sweating clothes should not be worn for a long time to avoid heatstroke in summer and cause skin diseases. It is not advisable to exercise for a long time in summer, so as not to cause too much harm to the body.
It is hot in summer, and with the loss of a lot of sweat, more potassium will be lost in the body. If it is not supplemented, it may cause hypokalemia, and in severe cases, it may lead to fatigue, dizziness, headache, loss of appetite, listlessness and other symptoms. Eating some fruits in summer helps to supplement potassium, such as bananas and oranges. In addition, vegetables with high water content, high potassium and low sodium are also suitable for eating more. For example, zucchini, also known as wogua and pumpkin, accounts for 73% of edible parts and 94.9% of water, which is close to cucumber, and is an expert in fruit and vegetable hydration. Like many fruits and vegetables with high potassium and low sodium, zucchini is also a good food choice for patients with hypertension and coronary heart disease. Every100g of zucchini contains 92mg of potassium and 5mg of sodium, and also contains a certain amount of trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, iron and selenium.
Protect Yang Qi, cure winter diseases in summer, and keep fit.
When it is hot, people's instinctive reaction is to seek cooling, but if the temperature drops too much, it will also hurt the sun. For example, drinking cold drinks, blowing air conditioners and eating iced watermelons in summer will hurt the yang. So don't be greedy in summer, especially in diet.
The dog days lie between the hot summer and beginning of autumn, and it is the hottest, humid and sultry day of the year. This is also the most difficult period in the "bitter summer". Many citizens who like Chinese medicine will seize this time to preserve the yang in summer and treat winter diseases.
Yan Yanfeng, director of the Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that "treatment of winter diseases in summer" belongs to external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, among which application therapy is the most widely used. Drugs are generally applied to specific acupoints, which have the functions of strengthening the body resistance, eliminating pathogenic factors, dredging collaterals, promoting blood circulation, warming meridians and dispelling cold. , so that the human body is full of yang, enhance cold resistance, and connect meridians and qi and blood. According to individual constitution, taking drugs such as benefiting lung, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney can help human yang, correct deficiency-cold constitution, make qi and blood run smoothly, and make Shui Gu's subtle transmission normal, thus achieving the goal of radical cure. In dog days, Yang is the most vigorous in nature. At this time, acupoint application should be carried out according to the situation to absorb the yang into the human body, which is helpful to enhance the body's resistance and prevent "winter disease". It has the advantages of simplicity, convenience, cheapness and convenience for inspection.