Lu You wrote in Time Rain: "When it rains, all the fields are planted with rice seedlings. Every family is beautiful in wheat and rice, and the songs are long everywhere. " It depicts the sunny days before and after the awn planting in the north, which is the wheat harvest season and the plum rain season in the south, just suitable for transplanting rice. Panicle seed is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms and the third solar term in summer. According to Chinese medicine, when the sun in the sky meets the yin in the earth, the ear seeds come and midsummer comes.

The awn seed season is characterized by rising temperature, increasing precipitation and hot and humid climate, so the sweat in the body can't spread freely from here. In a hot and humid climate, people will inevitably feel tired and depressed, and laziness can be said to be synonymous with people in this solar term. Rainy and wet, cold and wet are easy to invade the body and suffer from rheumatism. In addition, we should also prevent hand, foot and mouth disease, heatstroke, chicken pox, mumps, summer colds and other diseases.

In the hot summer, how to maintain it to prevent disease and keep fit?

0 1, lunch break

In summer, the days are long and the nights are short. You can take a nap for 30~60 minutes at noon, which helps to relieve physical fatigue and be full of energy.

02. Change it frequently.

After awning, the weather is sultry, bacteria are easy to breed, metabolism is accelerated at high temperature, and sweating is also a high incidence of skin diseases. Changing clothes frequently can keep the skin clean and fresh, and naturally improve the skin resistance.

03, medicated bath

Bathing is a very good way to relieve summer heat, and loose skin is easy to release yang heat. You can choose several simple prescriptions for family medicated bath:

1. Ten drops of medicated bath: Ten drops of medicated bath are mainly composed of camphor, dried ginger, rhubarb, fennel and cinnamon. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and relieving summer heat. Adults add 3-4 twigs to the bathtub, and children halve them. Ten drops of medicated bath also has excellent effect on children's newborn prickly heat.

2. Five-branch decoction medicated bath: Five-branch decoction contains cassia twig, Sophora branches, willow branches, peach branches and mulberry branches, which are equally packed into gauze medicated bags, soaked in 10 times of water for 20 minutes, decocted for 30 minutes, and then poured into bath water for bathing. Once a day if possible, it has the functions of removing filth, dispersing the atmosphere and nourishing blood.

Don't take a bath for too long, the water temperature is too hot. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweat is produced by body fluid, so-called "blood and sweat are homologous", and blood is produced by the heart, that is, "sweat is the fluid of the heart". Excessive sweating, sadness, and easy to cause palpitations.

Summer is connected with the heart, and sweating in summer is easy to make the heart loose. Therefore, Chinese medicine has the theory of "nourishing liver in spring, regulating heart in summer, nourishing lung in autumn and benefiting kidney in winter".

04, long summer nourishing the heart

The heart belongs to fire, and the same spirit seeks for it, corresponding to summer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the heart governs the gods, and nourishing the heart focuses on nourishing the gods. Therefore, avoiding mental impetuousness and emotional out of control, paying attention to calmness, optimism and openness, keeping the spirit inside, and forming a virtuous circle of "calmness, harmony, harmony and perfection" is the fundamental law of nourishing the heart. You can choose cultural and sports activities that are beneficial to emotional adjustment and cultivation. Playing chess, singing and dancing, calligraphy, fishing and sports are all good choices.

Bitter foods such as lotus seeds, lilies, bitter melons and kudingcha can be supplemented appropriately.

Note: Chinese medicine pays the most attention to balance, and it is not enough to be too bitter. Too much bitterness can easily damage lung qi.

According to the law of five elements, the spleen and stomach should be properly maintained in summer, and sour taste should enter the spleen. Diet is mainly tonic, regulating the spleen and stomach, and eating sour food such as vinegar and ebony properly.

The best drink in summer is sour plum soup, which can not only clear away heat and produce fluid, but also astringe yin and stop sweating.

Watermelon is cool, and it has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and diuresis to relieve annoyance. Regular drinkers should eat more because of body heat, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should eat less.

Red bean and barley porridge can nourish the spleen and stomach, and also clear away heat and promote diuresis. For those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, Coicis Semen and Semen Phaseoli can be fried until there is no oil fragrance.

05, moxibustion

There is a folk tradition of picking mugwort leaves in May to eliminate evil and filth, or making them into sachets to wear with you. Moxibustion has the functions of relieving depression, eliminating dampness and strengthening yang, which is especially suitable for health preservation in summer. As the saying goes, "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter" helps to warm the stomach and nourish qi. Here, I recommend some safe and healthy acupoints for moxibustion and massage. Choose three or four acupoints to hang moxibustion for 5-20 minutes each time.

Quchi: bend the elbow, the lateral end of the elbow transverse stripes, and the midpoint of the connecting line between the ulnar flank and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus.

Function: It is the key to clearing both exterior and interior, with the functions of dispelling wind and dissipating heat, relieving exterior and eliminating pathogenic factors, and can also adjust the peristalsis speed of the stomach in two directions.

Red dragon: the anterolateral leg, 8 inches above the lateral ankle tip, outside the mouth, 2 fingers away from the tibia.

Yinlingquan: the depression of the lower back of the medial leg and the medial tibia.

Function: resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness.

Guanyuan point: anterior midline, 3 inches in the middle and lower umbilicus.

Function: It is the strength of health care.

Mingmen point: on the posterior median line, at the depression under the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra, opposite to the umbilicus.

Function: The center of human vitality is the place where vitality "stays".

Finally, Dr. Mai should remind everyone to adjust their work and rest, pay attention to diet care and spend the summer easily.

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