1, there are four misunderstandings in summer.
The temperature is high in summer, and many people are greedy for cold. Although they can enjoy the coolness for a while, they don't know that it is harmful to their health. The following ways are the most common misunderstandings of cooling off summer heat.
Myth: Eat more cold food.
In hot summer, eating cold food is the most commonly used method to relieve summer heat, especially ice cream, cold drink and iced watermelon, because it is cool and refreshing. Many people have a bad appetite in summer and often take a big iced watermelon instead of dinner. Experts pointed out that watermelon itself is cold, people generally eat more at a time, and the loss of human yang is also greater.
Experts believe that in summer, the human body's yang tends to spread outward, and the yang in the body is relatively insufficient compared with other periods. If you eat too much cold food at this time, it will cause serious damage to people's yang. Experts remind that too much cold food makes the body gather too much cold, which easily leads to illness in autumn and winter.
Myth 2: Rest is too greedy.
On summer nights, many people stroll in the street with bare arms; Sleep with the air conditioner on all night; Even feel too hot in bed, just spread a mat on the floor. These are common behaviors of people. But many people don't know that these behaviors can easily make the body cold and damage the yang. In summer, when people sleep, their basal metabolism slows down, their thermoregulatory function declines, and their body resistance weakens. At this time, turning on the air conditioner and sleeping on the floor will make it easier for cold pathogens to enter the body, so don't blindly pursue coolness.
Myth 3: Take a bath immediately after exercise.
Proper exercise in summer can expel some "cold evil" and "wet poison" from the body, but the hot air and sweat after exercise are often unbearable. Many young people will take a bath to cool down, but this will let more "cold evil" enter the body. Experts say that it takes a process for the human body to adapt to the temperature. From high temperature to low temperature, the human body will be stimulated, not to mention taking a bath with cold water. Punching with cold water or even washing feet after exercise will make wet and cold enter the body. In addition, don't blow the air conditioner immediately after exercise, because doing so will also aggravate the dampness and coldness in the body.
Myth 4: Different groups of people need special care.
In summer, we often find such a problem: when a family eats the same food, the elderly and children may suffer from indigestion and cold in the spleen and stomach, while other family members are not serious. Sometimes air conditioning is also blown at home, and women are more likely to catch a cold than men. Experts believe that people's physical fitness is different, so their ability to resist the cold is different. Generally, the young and middle-aged people have a relatively heavy yang, while the elderly and children have a slightly poor physique and are vulnerable to "cold evil". For women, due to special physiological reasons, "cold evil" and "moisture" will often harass them. Therefore, people with weak constitution and insufficient yang are more likely to catch a cold, and they should be more careful about cold pathogens invading the body.
2, cold in summer is easy to hurt the yang.
Summer is a fire and the climate is hot. It is the season when everything flourishes, and it is also the period when the human body has the highest yang and vigorous metabolism. In summer, the yang of the human body radiates outward, including yin. According to the principle of "conforming to nature" in traditional Chinese medicine, yang should be preserved at this time. It is not advisable for many people to use "cool" to fight "hot", because Yang is the firepower on which the human body depends and can promote human metabolism.
Even in summer, if you don't pay attention to keep warm, cold pathogens will invade your body, and your body will have obvious cold symptoms, such as listlessness, slow metabolism, sweating, body cold, cold limbs, easy to catch a cold, diarrhea, stomachache, intestinal diseases and so on. There are also some diseases that do not attack immediately but lurk in the body, leaving their roots in autumn and winter.
3. Learn to be "too hot" in summer.
Chinese medicine says that keeping in good health should conform to the season. In summer, it's hot when it's hot, and it's sweaty when you sweat. Therefore, we should follow the law of sun growth and adopt the "insulation" method of heating with heat.
Summer keeps Yang away from cold evil.
Pay attention to eating less cold and raw food in the diet. As the saying goes, "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor's prescription." In summer, ginger and other foods should be used to warm up the cold, and it is better to take ginger and brown sugar together. And don't stay in a closed air-conditioned room for a long time. Also be careful not to wash your hair and feet with cold water, and avoid getting wet in rainy days, because cold water hurts the spirit of the sun the most.
You should soak your feet in hot water in summer.
Because feet are the second heart of human body, soaking feet with hot water can provide energy. Experts say that "heat promotes blood circulation and cold coagulates blood". Soaking feet with hot water can make qi and blood run smoothly, increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, and enhance metabolism. The water temperature is 42℃ ~ 45℃, which is warm and comfortable.
Take a hot bath often.
Because taking a bath with hot water dilates the capillaries of the body, it is beneficial for the body to expel heat and toxins, which can supplement the yang. The water temperature is generally controlled at around 30℃. In addition, you can also wipe your face and body with a hot towel, which is not only easy to remove dust and dirt, but also can sweat to cool down, make your skin breathable and make people feel cool and comfortable.
Drink hot tea to relieve summer heat in summer.
In hot summer, a cup of hot tea can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, because hot tea is beneficial to sweat secretion by sweat glands and can achieve the effect of heat dissipation. Moreover, tea can improve the transport ability of the spleen and stomach and send water to the whole body. Although the popular cold drinks in summer can relieve the summer heat immediately, they only solve the hot air at that time and temporarily cool the human body, but they can't really quench their thirst.
Exercise in summer is essential.
Exercise in summer can accelerate metabolism in the body and help to sweat. Experts believe that sweating should be controlled in summer, because according to Huangdi Neijing, the weather in summer is leaking, and exercise is an important way to sweat. Exercise can also strengthen heat adaptation, improve the body's function of regulating body temperature, and prevent heatstroke and some common heat syndromes. However, experts specially reminded that summer exercise time is very important. Don't choose the noon when the sun is the most poisonous, because sweating will hurt blood. It is generally recommended to choose the morning, because the human body's yang in the morning is relatively weak, and exercise can supplement the yang at this time. It should also be noted that you should choose jogging, Tai Chi, aerobics and other less strenuous exercise methods.
In addition, women need "hot care" more. Women's thermal adaptability is worse than men's, especially women with cold constitution, so we should pay more attention to keep warm. Women's yang is insufficient, so they use blood. Women should pay more attention to tonifying yang, because qi can produce blood. Therefore, in summer, women should pay special attention to keep warm, eat less cold food, blow less air conditioners, exercise more and take steam baths to achieve the purpose of sweating and detoxification.
4. Precautions for eating cold drinks in summer
1, the time to eat cold drinks is particular.
You can have a cold drink in summer. For example, it is not advisable to drink cold drinks on an empty stomach before or just after meals, otherwise it will easily hurt the stomach. Generally speaking, it is advisable to drink it 30 minutes after a meal or after a nap, and it is better to drink cold drinks with ice around 3 pm. At this time, the human body has the strongest yang, which is not easy to hurt the human body.
2, every time you eat cold drinks, you must master the amount.
It's very hot outside, so eating an ice cream can refresh you instantly, but it's best not to exceed two at a time; It is advisable to control the cold drinks at about 150 ml each time, and the bottled drinks at 1 time should not exceed half a bottle.
3, drink cold drinks slowly, and the speed should be "slow"
It's so cool to have a cold drink when you go out in a sweat. However, it should be noted that cold drinks are very irritating to the gastrointestinal tract. In order to avoid harm to the body, it is best to savor the cold drink carefully and drink it slowly, so that it will stimulate the gastrointestinal tract less. After eating solid ice, you can put it in front of your mouth, and then slowly swallow it after the ice melts close to your body temperature, so as not to excessively stimulate the cerebrovascular, throat and respiratory tract.
Don't drink cold drinks immediately after sweating.
When the temperature is high in summer, you will sweat a lot when you walk, especially after activities. Don't drink cold drinks at this time, otherwise it will be easy to "sweat", which will lead to poor ventilation of sweat pores, difficult heat dissipation of the body, and accumulation of residual heat, which will easily lead to heatstroke.
Don't drink cold drinks that have been stored in the refrigerator for too long.
In order to get a cold drink in time, many families keep all kinds of drinks in the refrigerator. But you should know that the refrigerator is not a safe, and ordinary household refrigerators can't effectively kill some germs. Therefore, it is best to eat cold drinks as soon as possible. If they are kept in the refrigerator for too long, the quality and safety will be reduced. Besides, don't put the melted ice cream back in the refrigerator.