Principles of health care for the elderly in long summer:
First, sit still in summer.
Quiet is peace, even for 5 minutes, it will have an effect. Old people should sit quietly in the shade or indoors every day. It only takes 30 minutes. You can also listen to melodious music and watch beautiful pictures, or go fishing and hit Tai Ji Chuan.
Second, be abstinent.
Be less greedy, and you will be less worried. Chinese medicine thinks? Too happy and too sad? Therefore, the elderly should be good at adjusting their emotions, especially not exultation and sadness.
Third, close your eyes more in summer.
Close your eyes when you have time. Closing your eyes can help the elderly get rid of other thoughts.
Fourth, enjoy the cool in summer and sweat less.
Sweating in summer, sweat is the liquid of the heart, sweat and blood are homologous, sweating is easy to be sad. In addition, the high temperature in summer and the large blood distribution on the body surface are likely to lead to symptoms of cardiac and cerebral ischemia in the elderly. Moreover, sweating in summer can easily lead to an increase in blood viscosity, so it is necessary to reduce the intensity of activity in summer, avoid sweating too much, and drink a little light salt water appropriately. However, when it is time to sweat, the elderly should not hold their breath and sweat, and the room should not be air-conditioned for too long.
It is indispensable to nourish the heart and soothe the nerves in summer. Poria cocos, Ophiopogon japonicus, jujube, lotus seeds, lilies, bamboo leaves and arborvitae seeds can all play the role of nourishing the heart and calming the nerves.
Fifth, summer should be slow.
In summer, the weather is hot, the blood circulation is accelerated, and the heart is easily overburdened. So in summer, you should nourish your heart slowly and don't get tired. Only when the heartbeat slows down first can breathing slow down. When resting, you should slow down the pace of life, so that your heart will slow down, your breathing frequency will decrease, and the pace of life activities will also slow down, so that your heart can rest.
Matters needing attention in long summer health care:
1 You should work hard in summer.
The deficiency of heart blood is mainly due to the deficiency of heart blood, which leads to dizziness and fatigue, pale face, pale lips and nails, and weak pulse. You can eat chicken blood, duck blood, pig blood, jujube, donkey-hide gelatin or stewed angelica. In summer, the elderly should have enough sleep and keep a happy mood. In summer, the elderly are prone to physical and mental fatigue and listlessness. They just want to lie in bed, eat, participate in social activities and stay at home. Under such circumstances, the elderly should go out, socialize more, travel more or enjoy the scenery in the park. Should they change? Bitter summer? Enjoy the summer.
Both? Heart yang? Re-raise Heart yin?
Old people should be good at nourishing heart yang and heart yin in summer. Heart yang deficiency is the development of heart qi deficiency, which refers to the weakening of heart function, manifested as palpitation, chest tightness, shortness of breath, aggravation after exercise and hyperhidrosis. If you don't pay attention to maintenance, the heart yang will be insufficient, and you will be flustered and wheezed, with chills and cold limbs, chest pain and suffocation, pale face, pale tongue, white and slippery fur and weak pulse.
People with symptoms of deficiency of heart-qi or deficiency of heart-yang should avoid sweating in summer, so as not to feel sad. Ginseng (2? 3 grams), American ginseng (3? 5 grams) soaked in water, or take Shengmai Yin (Ginseng or Radix Codonopsis, Radix Ophiopogonis, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis) oral liquid.
Yin deficiency of the heart refers to the condition that the yin and blood of the heart are insufficient and the heart cannot be nourished. Because blood belongs to yin, heart yin deficiency will cause some symptoms of insufficient blood. The main feature of heart-yin deficiency syndrome is yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, which is manifested by five hearts (chest, heart, palm and foot), dry throat, insomnia, palpitation, red tongue and rapid pulse.
People with insufficient heart yin need to pay attention to less fatigue, less sweating and eat more products that nourish heart yin, such as 3 grams of American ginseng and 3 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus. 5 grams, longan meat 5? 10 people soak in water, or eat rock sugar jujube millet porridge, or eat lily lotus root powder tremella lotus seed soup.