Key points of health preservation
In summer [1], most people get sick immediately, so there is a saying that "the debt will be repaid in June". However, there is a disease that lurks in autumn and will be very serious if it continues into winter! -This is the "heart disease", that is, the "summer qi" in Neijing.
Summer health
It should be, the way to grow up is also. On the contrary, it is sad. It is malaria in autumn and serious illness in winter. However, it must be pointed out that the "heart disease" mentioned here does not refer to the "cardiovascular disease" in modern medicine, but refers to the mental disease related to "consciousness and emotion" (the "heart" mentioned in ancient books is actually equivalent to the "god" that people often say today). According to the "five elements" theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the heart in summer is "fire"-"fire can kill gold", so it is easy to cause lung (gold) deficiency; It is kidney water that blocks the heart fire, but when the heart fire is strong, the heart fire is easy to resist the kidney water, so the kidney water is easy to lose money. For the average person, it is easy to prevent "lung deficiency and kidney deficiency" in summer, but whether the "heart" in a very prosperous position should be maintained is often taken lightly! It is also important to arrange rest time reasonably on weekdays. Don't stay up too late at night, get up around 6: 30 in the morning to exercise.
Health preserving principle
The first is to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Humidity is a great scourge in summer. In addition, the spleen and stomach function is low in summer, and there are often symptoms such as poor appetite, diarrhea, and white greasy tongue coating. Always take something that strengthens the spleen and promotes diuresis. Generally, products with the functions of invigorating spleen, aromatizing and eliminating dampness, lightly infiltrating and promoting diuresis are selected, such as Pogostemon rugosa, lotus seeds and Eupatorium odoratum.
The second is to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. In summer, the temperature is high, the summer heat is evil and people's hearts are strong. Therefore, some drugs with the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heart-fire and purging fire are often used to dispel summer heat, such as chrysanthemum, mint, honeysuckle, forsythia, lotus leaf and so on.
The third is to nourish the lungs and kidneys. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that according to the law of five elements, the heart is full of fire in summer, and the lung and kidney are weak, so it is necessary to pay attention to nourishing the yin of the lung and kidney. You can choose Lycium barbarum, Radix Rehmanniae, Lily, Mulberry, and drugs that use acid to collect lung qi, such as Schisandra chinensis, to prevent excessive sweating and damage body fluid.
The fourth is the treatment of winter diseases in summer. The so-called treatment of winter diseases in summer means that the human body and the outside world are full of yang in summer, and some diseases that are prone to occur in winter are treated by oral Chinese medicine combined with acupuncture and other external treatments. Frostbite in winter can be prevented if fresh sesame flowers are used to wipe the places that are prone to frostbite; Applying ointment to acupoints in winter can treat asthma and rhinitis.
Health psychology
Psychological adjustment method
There was no air conditioning in ancient times, so in summer, the heat was unbearable.
Nourishing the heart in summer
Love is particularly annoying; In summer, although modern people have the conditions to use air conditioners, they are also easily disturbed under the scorching sun. What's more, air conditioning is not everything. Only learning to adjust yourself is the best policy.
So how should we adjust ourselves? "Neijing" said well, it should be "lying at night and getting up early (staying up late is to adapt to natural yin deficiency; Getting up early is to conform to the fullness of yang. If you don't get enough sleep, you can take a nap properly. If you are bored one day, you won't be angry (don't get upset and lose your temper because you hate long days). Let Huaying become a show and vent her anger (full of energy, achieve the beauty that summer should have, and fully vent). If you love someone outside (just like you face the object you love, your feelings should be fully exposed and not concealed), this summer spirit will be cultivated (the way to grow up). The beauty is that the whole story is about "qi". The key to keeping in good health in summer is to make people "angry", and "exuberance" can be fully and normally "vented", but it cannot be "chaotic". Being upset is "chaos" or "rebellion", which will hurt "consciousness", such as malaria in autumn.
The living conditions of modern people have been greatly improved. In summer, on the one hand, you can objectively use the adjustment of diet and daily life for health care (which has been widely publicized in magazines), on the other hand, you can't ignore subjective meditation. In summer, you might as well do some relaxing activities: proper morning exercise, proper entertainment, proper summer rest, proper relationship between men and women ... In short, when you enter Xia Zhishi, you should first cultivate your "heart". Remember what Marx said: "A happy mood is better than ten doses of good medicine".
health foods
Heart-protecting food
In summer, there are poria cocos, Ophiopogon japonicus, jujube, lotus seeds, lilies, bamboo leaves and arborvitae seeds, all of which can nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. In terms of diet, we should eat more millet, corn, beans, fish, onions, potatoes, wax gourd, bitter gourd, celery, asparagus, pumpkin, bananas and apples. And eat less animal viscera, egg yolk, fat, roe, shrimp, etc. And eat less salty food [1], such as salted fish and pickles.
Hu Xin fruit
The following four common heart-protecting fruits in summer can be eaten more.
Watermelon: besides vexing and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. It is suitable for body fluid injury due to heat, polydipsia due to summer heat, dysuria, laryngitis and aphtha.
Cucumber: Piqing juice is crisp, tender and delicious, with a water content of about 97%, which is a good product for promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Fresh cucumber has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and also has obvious effects on dehumidification, moistening intestines and relieving pain. People with constipation should eat more in summer.
Peach: promoting fluid production and moistening intestines, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Suitable for polydipsia, blood stasis, poor stool, unfavorable urination, fullness and other symptoms. Take two tablets every day after lunch and dinner.
Pay attention to psychological adjustment
Bitter gourd: Bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, and the old melon gradually turns yellow and red, and the taste is sweet and flat. It can eliminate heat evil, relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, and people who are tired from work can eat more.
Drinking bone soup in summer is good for your health.
Whether bone soup is cooked well depends on the ingredients. Bone soup can delay aging. This is because the most nervous bone marrow is bone marrow, and both red blood cells and white blood cells in blood are formed in bone marrow. With the growth of age and the aging of the body, the efficacy of bone marrow in making red blood cells and white blood cells is gradually weakened, and the efficacy of bone marrow is low, which directly affects the efficacy of human metabolism. The collagen contained in bone soup can just enhance the human body's ability to make red blood cells and white blood cells. Therefore, for middle-aged and elderly people, drinking bone soup to regulate the body can slow down bone aging; Similarly, bone soup can also be beneficial to the bone growth of teenagers. [ 1]
Notes for editing this paragraph
Summer is mainly tonic. If some restaurants still recommend black-bone chicken soup and old hen soup to make up the soup at the same temperature, it will be counterproductive. Choose duck soup or pigeon soup. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, tonic should follow the principle of "four seasons and five supplements", that is, nourishing the liver in spring, strengthening the heart and strengthening the spleen in summer, moistening the lungs in autumn and tonifying the kidney in winter. For out-of-season foods, learn to balance cold and heat. If you want to eat mutton hot pot in summer, it is best to add some cool ingredients or side dishes to neutralize the warmth of mutton. [2]
The ancients said: "The art of being prepared for danger in times of peace must be based on food." What our ancestors said is very reasonable. Dietetic soup can help us spend summer and summer. Here are three kinds of light soups for your reference.
The study found that the elderly, children and the physically weak should not drink more mung bean porridge to relieve summer heat. According to the experiment, the content of protein in mung bean porridge is more than that of chicken. Old people and children have poor gastrointestinal function, so it is difficult to digest mung bean protein in a short time, which will lead to indigestion. Such people should eat less or not eat cold food.
In addition, people with weak spleen and stomach must not drink mung bean soup, but can drink porridge made of rice and millet mixed with mung beans, because rice and millet will nourish the spleen and stomach.
People with cold constitution and taking drugs are also not suitable for drinking mung bean soup. Because mung bean itself is cold, people with cold body will aggravate their illness and cause other diseases in severe cases. Moreover, mung beans also have the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, which will combine with the drugs taken by patients, decompose the properties of drugs and affect the therapeutic effect. [3]
Wax gourd and mung bean sauce
Folk proverb: drink mung bean soup in summer and cook tremella soup in winter. Mung bean syrup is the most classic summer drink. Mung beans have high medicinal value, and the content of protein is almost three times that of japonica rice. Li Shizhen called it "the best food in the world". Drinking mung bean soup in summer can prevent and treat heatstroke, red eyes, sore throat, miliaria, constipation, red urine, polydipsia and other symptoms, and it is not advisable to drink it often in dry season. Fresh wax gourd is sweet and light, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat; Mung beans are dry and sweet, which can cool and detoxify, relieve summer heat and benefit water; Sweet brown sugar can detoxify and moisturize the bath. The combination of three kinds of food can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also quench thirst, which is sweet and delicious.
Practice: 250 grams of fresh melon meat, 75 grams of mung beans and appropriate amount of brown sugar can be used each time. When making, wash the melon, peel the melon seeds, cut the melon meat into small strips, wash the dried mung beans, and remove the mung bean skin if possible. Then put the prepared mung beans into a casserole and add water to decoct. When the beans will be cooked into bean paste, add the chopped wax gourd, continue to cook for 20 minutes, and then add appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.
Kun bu hai ban Zhu spine soup
The spine of braised kelp is light and moist, and it has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving depression, promoting diuresis and removing annoyance. It is a laxative and nutritious drink in summer and wet period, and can also be used for the adjuvant treatment of hypertension, simple goiter and chronic cervical lymphadenitis.
Thallus laminariae is cold and salty, enters the lung and stomach meridians, and has the functions of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, softening hardness and lowering blood pressure. According to the theory of medicinal properties, it can "benefit water channels and eliminate facial swelling", and the book "Yu Li Yao Jie" says that it can "benefit water and remove dampness, break accumulation and soften hardness" and treat "swelling and pain of scrofula". Kelp is also cold and salty, and enters the liver and stomach meridians, which has the functions of clearing heat, softening hardness, clearing blood, diuresis, dispersing gallbladder, stagnation of qi and induration under the neck. Herbal Meng Jian also said that it can: "remove fullness and reduce swelling"; The spine of soybean pig is not only a drug introduction, but also can remove the coldness of kelp. Soybean is flat and sweet, which is not only beneficial, but also has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and relieving summer heat. Pig spine is flat and sweet, which has the function of nourishing yin and benefiting marrow. Combined into soup, it not only clears away heat and annoys, eliminates dampness and diuresis, but also nourishes.
Practice: wash kelp, kelp and soybeans and soak them slightly; Wash the pig's spine, break it with the back of a knife, then put it in a pottery jar with ginger, add 2500 ml of clear water and about 10 bowl of water, first boil it with strong fire, then simmer it with low fire for about two hours, and add appropriate amount of salt. This amount can be used by 2-3 people.
Stewed duck soup with American ginseng
The American ginseng in this soup is a tonic for summer heat injury, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, clearing fire and promoting fluid production; Duck is a kind of flesh and blood thing, which grows on the water all the year round. It can nourish yin and blood, benefit the stomach and produce fluid, and tonify it without dryness. It is especially suitable for people with damp heat and excessive deficiency fire, and is known as "the holy medicine for nourishing fatigue".
Longan meat is a good product for nourishing qi and beauty. Good at nourishing blood, calming the heart and improving intelligence. The combination of three kinds of food, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, calming the heart and nourishing blood and removing annoyance. This soup is very suitable for hot weather, feeling tired and weak, sweating too much, thirsty and listless.
Practice: 20 grams of American ginseng, 250 grams of duck meat and 0/2 grams of longan meat are used each time. When making, the American ginseng is washed first, sliced with a knife or broken into small particles for later use. Slaughter the duck, remove the hair and viscera, head, neck and feet, wash the blood with clear water, and then cut it into thick pieces with a knife for later use. Remove impurities from longan meat and wash it with clear water. After the above soup materials are prepared, put them into a soup pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook the soup from medium heat to slow heat for about 1 hour for 30 minutes, add salt to taste, and eat duck meat and longan meat when the soup is warm.
Healthy exercise
The amount of exercise in summer should not be too large or too intense. Appropriate use of moderate exercise, a small amount of sweating, to avoid excessive exercise, sweating too much damage to the heart yin. For those who still insist on exercising in summer, they can choose to practice Tai Ji Chuan, natural calisthenics and Tai Ji Chuan, which are suitable for both movements, moderate opening and closing, ups and downs, unbiased figure, healthy qi in the body, invincible wind and evil, and combined with natural yin and yang, which can be described as one of the best products for nourishing the heart in summer. Natural calisthenics are particularly beneficial to physical and mental health.
Many people think that Tai Ji Chuan's routines are complicated and difficult to learn. In fact, the routine is only a representative form, and the simple action of standing piles is quite particular. Eyes closed lightly, feet standing naturally, body straight, knees slightly bent, mind calm, upper deficiency and lower solid, feet taking root. Beginners can start with standing piles and then gradually learn simple movements. It is important to cooperate with breathing. Slow, deep, long and even breathing can not only eliminate anxiety, but also maintain the tiny blood vessels and meridians of the heart. Compared with Tai Ji Chuan, there are fewer rules for natural calisthenics. As long as you insist on moderate exercise, your body will naturally play a role in conditioning. [ 1]
Edit this healthy diet
Pay attention to sending and receiving food and eat according to the solar terms. Usually picky eaters need to pay attention. For health, diet is to meet the right time, the right place and the right person.
For example, there are differences between vegetables and fruits in the north and south, and eating fruits in different places can easily cause physical discomfort.
Health care is more inclined to Chinese medicine, but Baidu's entry is dogmatic, which is wrongly understood as necessary for health care. The biggest variable is that your own physical factors determine when to eat and what food is produced. Not what western medicine can do with this injection. Just like eating vegetables. During this period, everyone's enthusiastic pursuit of health is a heartbeat. Easily damaged.
Here are some small items that you can choose according to your own needs.
(1) Eat more melons: The temperature is high in summer, and the human body loses a lot of water, so it must be replenished in time. The water in vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious and bioactive water filtered by multi-layer biofilm. The water content of melons and vegetables is above 90%. All melons and vegetables have the function of lowering blood pressure and protecting blood vessels.
(2) Eat more cool vegetables: Eating some cool vegetables is conducive to promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, and detoxifying and relaxing bowels. Cucumber vegetables, except pumpkin, are warm, and others, such as bitter gourd, towel gourd, cucumber, melon, watermelon and wax gourd, are cool.
Healthy diet in summer
Vegetables tomatoes, celery and lettuce are all cold vegetables.
(3) Eat more "sterilized" vegetables: Summer is a season of frequent human diseases, especially intestinal infectious diseases. Eating more "sterilized" vegetables can prevent diseases. This kind of vegetables include: garlic, onion, leek, green onion and so on. These onion and garlic vegetables are rich in broad-spectrum fungicides, which can kill and inhibit various cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. Among them, the most prominent role is garlic, which is best eaten raw.
Folk saying: eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, and eat more ginger in summer. Ginger is a warm food, and eating more ginger in summer is conducive to the discharge of wet and cold.
5. Drink more red bean glutinous rice soup in summer, which can eliminate dampness and diuresis.
Summer diet should be low in fat, salt, vitamins and light. People sweat a lot and have poor appetite. You can use various nutritious health porridge to stimulate appetite and regulate your body. For example, eating porridge for breakfast and dinner and soup for lunch can not only quench thirst, relieve summer heat, but also nourish the body. Add some lotus leaves (called lotus leaf porridge) when cooking porridge, which tastes fragrant and slightly bitter in porridge. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and appetizing, dispelling summer heat, nourishing stomach and clearing intestines, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Add some mung beans when cooking porridge or soup with mung beans alone, which has the functions of relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and diuresis. Dry lentils soaked in rice and cooked into porridge can clear away heat and summer heat, eliminate dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. In addition, red bean porridge, mint porridge, black fungus porridge, kudzu root porridge and bitter melon porridge are all good foods in summer.
At the same time, we should pay attention to supplement some nutrients.
(1) Supplement sufficient vitamins, such as eating more fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, green peppers, wax gourd, watermelons, bayberry, wax gourd, peaches and pears;
(2) supplement water and inorganic salts, especially pay attention to the supplement of potassium. Beans or bean products, fruits and vegetables are all good sources of potassium. Eat more foods that clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as watermelon, bitter gourd, peach, dark plum, strawberry, tomato, cucumber, etc., which have a good effect of relieving summer heat;
(3) Appropriate supplementation of protein, such as fish, lean meat, eggs, milk and beans, is the best quality protein.
Fruit and its efficacy
1, strawberry
Strawberries have whitening and moisturizing effects; Eating in summer can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. In summer, the anger of heaven and man is often strong, and eating strawberries can play an inhibitory role, which is good for the skin or the body.
2. tomatoes
Balance skin pH, remove spots and whiten skin; A teaspoon of tomato sauce and a packet of sugar can be used to remove small spots on the surface.
3. Cherry
The fruit acid contained in cherry can promote the formation of stratum corneum and accelerate the metabolism of skin.
4. Natural moisturizing effect of citrus
The whole body of lime is very valuable, especially its seeds are more prominent. The viscous substance on its surface is mainly pectin, which is food fiber. Strong water absorption and moisturizing ability, with natural moisturizing effect.
In addition, flavonoids, catechins and other antioxidant substances in seeds can prevent the formation of dark spots on the skin surface, and citric acid and fruit acid contained in them can also remove excess keratin.