1, four principles of summer health preservation
(1) Strengthening the spleen and eliminating 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.
(2) Clearing away heat and relieving 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.
(3) Nourishing lung and kidney
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.
(4) Treating 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.
2. Summer health food supplies
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.
Here are some small items that you can choose according to your own needs.
(1) Eat more melons.
The summer temperature is high, 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 and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling toxin 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.
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.
3. Healthy Sleep in Summer
1, keep the bed clean and tidy
It is hot in summer, and bacteria are easy to breed. Keeping the bed clean and tidy can not only make people have a good sleeping environment, but also have a good sleeping mood.
2. Pay attention to the temperature and humidity of the dormitory when sleeping in summer.
Generally, the comfortable temperature is 20-23℃ and the relative humidity is 50%-70%. Below 20℃, people will feel cold, above 23℃, people will feel hot, showing that it is difficult to fall asleep and even lift the quilt. Besides, the dormitory is well ventilated.
3. Pay attention to the choice of bedding.
Bedding has a great influence on sleep quality, and the bed and quilt should be moderate in hardness. Pillows and cushions play an important role in all bedding. The pillow should not be too high. Repeated use of cotton cloth pillows in hot summer will cause prickly heat on the head and neck, and the pillows soaked with sweat will not be washed and aired in time, and the smelly sweat will make people dizzy. In summer, it is advisable to use straw mats finely woven by natural plants, bamboo mats made of porcelain and bamboo unique to China, and cool pillows made of bamboo.
Step 4 take a nap
For many people who can't sleep well at night, a timely nap can be used as compensation. But the best nap time is about 1 hour, not too long.
4. Summer health sports goods
(1) It is not advisable to do morning exercises too early, so as not to affect sleep.
(2) The human body consumes a lot of energy in summer and needs to control the intensity when exercising.
(3) Don't use cold drinks to cool down after exercise. Some people are used to eating cold drinks after exercise. In fact, eating cold drinks when your body temperature is high will hurt your stomach. Warm and light salt water is the best drink after exercise.
5. Health diseases in summer.
(1) hot and cold
Sweating in hot weather consumes a lot of energy, and most people have poor appetite in summer. If there is not enough nutrition to supplement in time, the human body's resistance will drop and it is easy to catch a cold.
In addition, in order to cool off, some people like to punch with cold water or take a cold bath when sweating. Blow into the electric fan while sleeping; Turning on the air conditioner indoors for a long time leads to a large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor, which is easy to cause a cold in summer.
High temperature will consume a lot of body fluids. Pay attention to drinking boiled water, a small amount and many times. Generally, it is advisable to drink 300 ml to 500 ml at a time. If necessary, you can drink some light salt boiled water.
And sleep is also very helpful for treating summer colds. At least 8 hours of sleep should be guaranteed, and a hot bath at night can help you fall asleep. If you can't sleep well at night, you can take a nap at noon.
In addition, the diet must be reasonable. You can eat more foods with high vitamin content such as tomatoes and cucumbers, and eat more lean meat to increase protein's intake.
(2) Bacillary dysentery
Intestinal diseases occur frequently in summer, and bacillary dysentery is one of the most common intestinal infectious diseases, which is not only related to the reproductive activities of flies, but also related to the gastrointestinal dysfunction caused by people's preference for cold food in hot days. Mosquito infection is also an important way of intestinal infection in summer. For example, malaria is spread by mosquito bites.
Therefore, in summer, it is best not to eat the food of the day until the next day, because hot weather is easy to deteriorate food and bacteria are easy to breed. Open fruits, such as watermelons, should be eaten at one time or sealed with plastic wrap, and then stored in the refrigerator, even if stored in the refrigerator, it is best not to exceed 24 hours.
Also, braised dishes are popular in summer, but if people who cook braised dishes don't pay attention to hygiene, people who eat them are also susceptible to germs, so it's better to eat less.
(3) Bacterial food poisoning
Every summer, especially in July and August, there is a high incidence of food poisoning, and food poisoning incidents in various places this year have aroused widespread concern. In summer food poisoning, bacterial food poisoning is more common. This is mainly because the climate is hot, bacteria are easy to multiply, and people who eat food contaminated by bacteria are easy to get sick. There are many pathogens that cause food poisoning, such as Escherichia coli and Vibrio.
The symptoms of bacterial food poisoning are mostly chills, fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, which can occur collectively. Severe cases can also cause dehydration, blood pressure drop, acidosis, and even shock.
Countermeasures: Strictly clean cookware, utensils and food, and separate raw and cooked food; Raw garlic can be added to the cold salad for sterilization; Try not to eat rotten leftovers, the food should be fully heated, and don't eat it if it is left for too long. Once the symptoms of poisoning are found, you should immediately stop eating food that may cause poisoning, ask the emergency center for help, and keep the food well so that it can be provided to the health department for quarantine.
(4) heatstroke
In hot summer, the human body sweats more, while the water in the elderly is less than that in the young, and the physiological response is slower, so summer is the easiest to dehydrate. "
Dehydration "will thicken the blood, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for the elderly suffering from hypertension, hyperlipidemia or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases". Blood transfusion to the brain will be blocked and slowed down, and the probability of stroke will naturally increase. In terms of prevention, the first thing to pay attention to is hydration. Old people should always drink water when they are not thirsty. "Family members of patients with a history of stroke should always pay attention to their symptoms. Generally speaking, dizziness, headache, numbness, weakness, frequent yawning and so on. Are precursors to a stroke. When these symptoms are obvious, you must go to the hospital for treatment, and you must not treat them as a common cold or fatigue.
Heatstroke prevention should be timely and appropriate, the diet structure should be scientific and reasonable, and eat more cold food, such as bitter gourd, preserved eggs and lotus seeds. It is more important to be prepared to protect drugs.
6. What do you eat in summer to relieve the heat?
1, eat watermelon
Watermelon can be called "the king of midsummer", which has the effects of diuresis, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. High water content and a certain amount of potassium can not only refresh and quench thirst, but also supplement potassium to prevent the loss of potassium caused by sweating, resulting in muscle weakness and fatigue.
2, eat melon seaweed soup
Wax gourd has the effects of diuresis, detumescence, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat; Kelp is rich in minerals such as calcium and potassium, which can supplement calcium and potassium lost due to excessive sweating. When the body temperature of hypertensive patients is high, blood pressure is easy to rise. Eating more winter melon and seaweed soup is also conducive to stabilizing blood pressure.
Step 3 eat raw bitter gourd
Bitter gourd is cold and bitter, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and removing summer heat. Eating raw bitter gourd in summer can not only relieve summer heat, but also reduce fire and prevent acne caused by sultry weather.
Step 4 eat loofah
Luffa is cold, which can clear away heat and disinfect, dredge meridians, and eliminate phlegm and dampness. Use loofah, almond and chicken feet to boil soup, which can cool off the heat and get rid of dampness. Summer prickly heat, if you take loofah juice orally, can cool blood and detoxify.
5, drink mung bean porridge
Mung bean is cold and sweet, with the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing fire and relieving summer heat, which is very suitable for summer consumption. When drinking mung bean porridge in summer, it is best to put rock sugar, so that the effect of relieving summer heat will be better.