First of all, the diet should be light
The diet is mainly light, such as mung bean soup, red bean glutinous rice water and other foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, dispel dampness and diuresis, eat more and eat less spicy and greasy food; Nutrition should be balanced to ensure protein and energy intake; If the weather is hot and your appetite is poor, eat more fruits and vegetables to supplement vitamins. You can bear hardships. Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable and bitter buckwheat can relieve fever, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite. The weather is very hot, sweating a lot, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. Therefore, it is also essential to replenish qi and nourish yin. Yam, jujube, honey, lotus root and fungus are all good choices. After a cold, you can drink ginger tea to sweat and dispel the cold.
Second, nourishing the heart and "nourishing the spirit"
Chinese medicine believes that summer is hot, and it is easy to have a strong heart, and symptoms such as impatience, upset and insomnia appear. Therefore, we should pay attention to the aftercare of the mind in summer, so as to be calm and naturally cool. As the old saying goes, "Keeping quiet is the first priority of taking pictures." Huangdi Neijing requires "to make people's aspirations not angry". Anger will make your heart burn more vigorously, and exhausting kidney yin will make kidney yin lose money. Tao Te Ching also said: "Invisible desire keeps the mind from being chaotic". Too much desire leads to anger, and sexual life should be reduced.
Third, exercise should be moderate.
Don't sweat profusely during exercise, and don't bathe in cold water immediately after exercise, hoping to cool off temporarily. Because cold water will suddenly shrink the pores that are heated and expanded, so that the heat in the body cannot be emitted, which may easily lead to heatstroke and damage cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, strenuous exercise should be avoided in summer, and it is recommended to take a walk in the morning and evening. People often say that "dog days in summer" is not to let everyone exercise regardless of time, place and occasion. In summer, the human body consumes a lot of energy, so it is best to do some moderate exercise and pay attention to drinking a small amount of water many times.
Fourth, blowing air conditioning should be moderate.
It's too hot in the dog days, so air conditioning is essential for people, but when blowing air conditioning, be careful not to blow directly at the cervical vertebra, and don't enter the cold air-conditioned room directly when sweating, otherwise it will cause diseases; The air conditioning temperature should be appropriate, and it is recommended to be around 26 degrees Celsius; When blowing air conditioning, always open the window to ensure indoor and outdoor air convection and ventilation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind-cold can easily lead to stagnation of qi and blood, causing joint pain. After air conditioning was put into the world, summer was artificially turned into winter, and people crowded into air-conditioned rooms all day, so that "keeping dragons" in summer became "keeping Tibet" in winter. However, if you go against the sky and don't conform to the way of keeping in good health, it's like "going against it will be sad, malaria will occur in autumn, few people will get it, and you will be seriously ill in winter." In summer, you should go out properly and sweat for a long time. "Of course, people who are weak can't stand the heat in summer, especially now it's too hot in summer, so they can go out for exercise in the morning."
Five, drink water
When the body particularly wants to drink water, the organs of the body have been running at the limit, which means that it is very short of water. Especially in summer, this situation can easily lead to heatstroke and other situations. Therefore, it is best to develop the habit of drinking water regularly and replenish water regularly. Drinking ice water or cold drinks in summer will bring temporary comfort, but drinking a lot will lead to poor sweat pores, difficulty in heat dissipation, accumulation of residual heat, and easy to cause headaches and heatstroke. The correct way is to drink more warm water, which will not be hot, but also help to eliminate sweat in time and ensure good health.
Sixth, the law of work and rest
Going to bed late is not advocating staying up late in summer, but according to the characteristics of day and night changes in summer, I suggest you work and rest on time. Chinese medicine believes that "spring grows and summer grows". In summer, the human body is full of yang. If you often sleep late, it will violate the seasonal variation law of human yang. Not only will you not get a rest, but you will feel more tired.
Huangdi Neijing mentioned that it is necessary to "lie down at night and get up early" in summer. Some people rightfully stay up late, but it is not. "You must fall asleep before midnight, that is, before 1 1 at night, and it is best to sleep at noon." At midnight (from 23: 00 to the next day 1: 00), yin is the heaviest in a day. At this time, rest can nourish yin, have the best sleep effect and high sleep quality. Take a nap at noon (1 1 to 13) and rest for about 30 minutes, at most 1 hour. "Even if there is no condition for a nap, you should be' quiet', that is, in a quiet state, don't engage in activities or work, and let your body make a balanced transition."
Seventh, substitute tea.
People who go to work can choose to make a cup of tea, which is simple and convenient, and can also cool off the heat. A faint scent of tea can also relieve work pressure. The following two kinds of chrysanthemum tea are recommended: chrysanthemum 5g, perilla leaf 10g, cassia seed 15g, medlar 5g and hot water 1000ml. Dried tangerine peel Pu 'er tea: 3-5 shreds of dried tangerine peel or 2g pieces of dried tangerine peel, and 5g leaves of Pu 'er tea soaked in water, which is the most economical and healthiest drink, reducing fat and moistening lung.
Eight, winter disease is cured in summer.
Because dog days are the hottest, highest temperature and most exuberant yang in a year, at this stage, when people's skin is slack, choosing acupoint dog-day moxibustion or dog-day patch can easily penetrate from the skin into acupoints and meridians, and directly reach the affected area through meridians and qi-moving machines, so the best effect can often be achieved in treating winter diseases in summer. So what is winter disease? Winter disease generally refers to the following cold conditions: cold hands and feet, fear of wind and cold; Eating cold is easy to have abdominal pain and diarrhea; The secretion is thin, the face is white, and the tongue coating is white; The back is sour and uncomfortable; A cold is easy to catch a cold, cough, stuffy nose and sneeze.
Dog days moxibustion is to use the dog days with the most abundant yang in a year, and the yang in the human body is abundant. Moxibustion Moxibustion is used to treat the corresponding acupoints to warm meridians and dispel cold, tonify deficiency and help yang. There is also a baby, the principle of dog days sticking, that is, in the hottest dog days of the year, sticking drugs to warm and dispel cold at different acupoints can alleviate the onset of winter diseases.