Sun protection in summer benefits autumn and winter.
"Summer is the most vigorous season of human yang, and it is also the most fragile season." Jong Li pointed out that the summer climate is hot and humid, and high temperature and humidity are easy to damage the function of the spleen and stomach. If people don't pay attention to the protection of yang, they are too "greedy" in summer vacation and diet, which will lead to spleen and stomach dysfunction and symptoms such as not thinking about diet, fatigue and diarrhea.
Huangdi Neijing records that "summer is harmful to summer and autumn malaria", which means that summer is prone to heatstroke. If you are injured by summer evil, there may be no obvious clinical manifestations at that time, but in autumn, diseases such as malaria may appear in your body. Therefore, it is particularly important to pay attention to regulating various functions of the body in summer, and the key to keeping healthy in summer lies in "protecting yang in spring and summer", that is, encouraging people to regulate yang in summer to coordinate the functions of the five internal organs, so that diarrhea in autumn and cough and asthma in winter will be alleviated. People often say that "winter disease is treated in summer" is similar.
Symptomatic conditioning of differentiating cold and heat
Jong Li said that many patients thought they were feverish after symptoms such as oral ulcer and constipation, and took bezoar antidote or mung bean soup. As a result, their situation is getting worse, not better. After the doctor felt his pulse, the patient was not hot at all, but cold. This is because the symptoms of "heat" are not real heat, but inflammatory symptoms caused by virtual fire, which accounts for 80% in clinic. Therefore, for this kind of "deficiency syndrome" patients, drugs for clearing heat and reducing fire can not cure diseases, but "treat heat with heat and treat cold with cold".
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that there are nine kinds of human constitution, one is normal constitution, and the other eight are partial constitution. But in life, 90% of adults don't know what kind of constitution they belong to, and it is easy to have problems with diet aftercare. The disease was not cured, but aggravated. Therefore, it is very important to distinguish between cold and heat and tonic according to symptoms.
Jong Li believes that the concept of constitution is more complicated, so people don't have to fully accept and understand it. They can know whether they are peaceful, cold or hot through simple evaluation or diagnosis, and then be more targeted in their daily diet and aftercare. Generally speaking, peaceful people are normal people, with unbiased constitution and no special requirements for diet; People with cold constitution should pay attention to cold prevention and avoid catching cold, and avoid the intake of cold food and spicy food in summer. For people with hot constitution, it is necessary to properly clear away heat and fire. Cancer patients should "nourish Yang". Jong Li said that summer is a very critical period for cancer patients. As a wasting disease, many cancer patients often have insufficient blood gas's condition after a period of anti-tumor treatment, and their body yang drops, so they should pay more attention to "nourishing yang" in summer. Patients with digestive tract tumors (gastric cancer, intestinal cancer, liver cancer) mostly show poor spleen and stomach function after operation, clinically have symptoms of spleen deficiency and dampness, and may have oral ulcers and indigestion. For patients with digestive tract tumors, attention should be paid to diet and aftercare in summer. 70% of breast cancer diseases are related to patients' emotional factors. Many breast cancer patients are normal in other seasons. In summer, they will have symptoms such as irritability and insomnia, and their emotional irritability seems to be "uncontrollable". Jong Li said that this is actually closely related to the change of solar terms. In this regard, doctors will generally take appropriate drug intervention to make the disease recover as soon as possible. Many patients with digestive tract tumors and gynecological tumors should pay attention to emotional adjustment in summer. Living habits conform to the change of natural yang, staying up late and getting up early, so that the whole body can be smooth and avoid getting sick. Two misunderstandings of summer health care ◎ Misunderstanding 1: Eat more "bitterness" in bitter summer. In summer, when the sun is strong, people tend to be irritable, tired or even eat less and lose weight, which is often called "bitter summer". There is a folk saying that it tastes bitter in summer. Jong Li said, in fact, it is not correct to eat bitter food in summer. Jong Li explained that among the five flavors, bitterness corresponds to the heart, which can boost the heart. Heart fire is strong in summer, too much bitterness or eating too much bitter food will cause stomach discomfort and side effects such as nausea, vomiting or diarrhea; Heart-fire will spread through lung meridian, which will aggravate diseases such as cough and asthma. Jong Li believes that the principle of relieving fire in summer should be "reducing bitterness and increasing pungent", that is, eating less bitter food and more spicy food, such as radish, onion, ginger, garlic, etc., can avoid excessive heart-qi, and has the functions of invigorating lung-qi, promoting blood circulation and inducing resuscitation, and eliminating dampness. In addition, from the perspective of "nourishing the heart", summer is suitable for eating some foods with the functions of clearing the heart, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves, such as jujube kernels, lilies and wheat. ◎ Myth 2: Sweating in summer can detoxify many people love to eat hot pot in summer and feel very comfortable after sweating; Some people who are not in love sweating even eat spicy food for sweating; There are also some beauty institutions that play the beauty method of "sweating and detoxifying". Jong Li said that sweating too much in summer will damage the human body's yang, which is not good for health. Chinese medicine believes that "sweat and blood are homologous". A small amount of sweating can regulate body temperature, which is beneficial to the harmony of qi and blood. However, excessive sweating not only consumes body fluid and hurts blood, but also hurts yang, resulting in both qi and blood injuries and loss of heart support. After sweating, people will feel thirsty. If it is not replenished in time, it is easy to collapse. Some people get the cold treatment of "covering their sweat" in summer, which is even more undesirable. Summer colds should be mainly based on clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Avoid sweating and strenuous exercise in summer, and take a nap at noon to give your body and mind a full rest for half an hour.