There are two principles for keeping in good health in dog days: one is to treat winter diseases in summer; The second is to make up in summer. As for dog days, there are many ways to maintain health: there are drugs such as dog days stickers and dog days moxibustion, tonic in dog days, and appropriate physical exercise.

Cure winter diseases in dog days and summer diseases.

Because the dog days are the hottest, the highest temperature and the most vigorous yang in a year, at this stage, drugs can easily penetrate into acupoints and meridians from the skin and reach the affected parts through meridians and qi and blood, so treating winter diseases in summer can often achieve the best results. Moreover, Geng day is related to lung gold (Geng day is gold, belonging to the large intestine meridian, and the large intestine meridian and the lung are in the exterior and interior), which is the best time to warm the lung meridian and get rid of potential cold evil.

Sanfujiu health

Dog-day moxibustion, a treasure of traditional Chinese medicine, is the most distinctive dog-day health care therapy in China, which is similar to modern preventive medicine. As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine advocated the treatment of "preventing diseases before they occur", which is the earliest preventive medicine in the world. The "dog moxibustion" of "treating winter diseases in summer" is the most representative method. This therapy is to make medicine cakes in the dog days when yang is the most abundant in a year, taking advantage of the opportunity of warming meridians in the human body to dispel cold, tonify deficiency and help yang. After dialectical analysis by experienced acupuncturists,

Health tonic in dog days

There is a folk tradition of "chicken on the head, dog on the second floor, turtle on the third floor and red date belly on the third floor". Koreans also have the tradition of eating ginseng chicken soup, dog broth and other tonics in dog days. Xuzhou people say that "a bowl of soup for Pengcheng sheep doesn't need a prescription from a doctor", which shows that there is a custom of tonic in different areas in the dog days. In dog days, we must grasp the characteristics of dog days: high temperature, high humidity, long days and relatively little sleep time. Tonifying should be combined with the actual situation of the individual, and it is best to make tonic according to the symptoms under the guidance of a doctor. If you take supplements at will, it may increase the loss of the human body and add fuel to the fire. If you have respiratory diseases such as asthma and tracheitis, don't be greedy for cold food in dog days. People with deficiency-cold constitution should eat less cold food, such as pears, watermelons and cold drinks.

Dog days, health, summer practice, dog days.

As the saying goes, "practice three or nine in winter and three volts in summer." This is a summary of the experience of long-term health preservation in ancient times. Modern medicine has proved that in hot weather, a kind of emergency protein will be produced in human body, which can resist the harm to human body in summer. It can be seen that the human body itself has the ability to adapt to different environments. Exercise in cold and summer can improve the body's ability to adapt to different environments. Therefore, the ancients believed that people who obtained health cultivation could "avoid cold and heat, and all kinds of poisons would not invade." However, to prevent heatstroke in summer, we should dialectically avoid the high temperature period. The doctor reminded that ordinary people should not advocate this kind of exercise, especially the elderly and infirm, or those who have lived in a suitable temperature environment for a long time and have low adaptability to different environments. Therefore, these people had better be in summer.

How to keep fit in dog days? Different people have different fitness methods in dog days! In short, choose the one that suits you, not blindly!

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Don't be greedy in summer.

Heatstroke prevention is the first problem that everyone thinks of. There are many melons and fruits in summer, especially watermelons, which can relieve the heat, but it is not advisable to eat more. Because of its cold nature, you can balance it with some brown sugar and ginger tea every day. Kelp and mung bean soup is an ideal food for clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Kelp can resolve phlegm and soften hardness, clear away heat and promote diuresis, relieve cough and asthma, while mung bean can clear away heat and detoxify, relieve summer heat, and make soup together is also very distinctive. The decoction for relieving summer-heat and benefiting qi composed of lotus leaf 10g, honeysuckle 6g and codonopsis pilosula 10g can clear away heat and relieve summer-heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst, which is also very good, but people who are weak and afraid of cold should eat less.

Chinese medicine believes that summer is the season with the highest yang, so it is suitable to eat more warm food to help yang rise. When yang is manifested, pores can be opened and sweat can be excreted unimpeded. Even if the summer heat is pressing, it can dissipate heat in time to avoid heatstroke. On the contrary, if you eat cold food for a while, your body's qi and blood will be hot, and when it is cold, it will condense, but it will block the heat dissipation channel and make you more prone to heatstroke.

Light food can keep you healthy.

In the aspect of food tonic, because it is hot in dog days, sweating a lot, and the days are long and the nights are short, the sleep time is short, so the energy consumption is very large, which needs reasonable diet to support. This is what is commonly called "tonic". This season is not suitable for eating too much meat and greasy. For the average person, it is more reasonable to eat three parts of meat and seven parts of vegetables.

In midsummer, abdominal distension and loss of appetite often occur. You can drink herbal tea with rich aroma to wake up the spleen, or you can use pork spleen and shredded ginger to stir-fry and steam it, which has the effect of strengthening the spleen and appetizing. Remove the heart and peel of Amomum tsao-ko, cut it into small pieces, put it in a stew pot with mutton, ginger and cooking wine, and stew it with water, which will help warm the middle warmer, dry the dampness, relieve depression and promote digestion; For those with stomach cold deficiency, pepper and pepper can be used to stew chicken kidney, which can warm the middle warmer, relieve pain and help digestion; Stewing grouper with Angelica sinensis and Astragalus membranaceus can replenish qi and blood and benefit essence, which is of great benefit to palpitation patients with deficiency of both qi and blood.