Diet is the foundation of health preservation and the basic condition for human beings to maintain life. In order to make people live a healthy, happy, energetic and intelligent life in summer, we should be careful not to be satisfied with filling our stomachs, but to understand life from the perspective of "harmony between man and nature".

Let the human body adapt to the changes of the four seasons, arrange a reasonable diet, ensure the absorption of necessary nutrients in different seasons, maintain normal physiological functions, and truly achieve the purpose of health preservation, longevity and elimination of diseases.

Summer diet, it is important to nourish the yang.

Yang Qi, Chinese medicine generally refers to human kinetic energy activities. Chinese medicine believes: "Yang qi, defending the exterior and consolidating the foundation." That is to say, yang has a protective effect on human body, which can make people healthy and strong, enhance their resistance and avoid the invasion of six evils in nature.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the treatment of winter diseases in summer. In dog days, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Asari, Semen Sinapis Albae, Ramulus Cinnamomi and other traditional Chinese medicines are ground into fine powder and applied to the points of Beishu, Gao Gui and Dingchuan to treat chronic bronchitis and emphysema in the elderly, all of which can achieve satisfactory effects. If it can be combined with oral medicine for invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney, the curative effect will be better.

The meaning of "nourishing yang" in Chinese medicine includes the meaning of nourishing kidney yang, which is the root of yang, so the ancients should pay attention to "following the root" in spring and summer to truly achieve the purpose of nourishing yang in summer.

By extension, people with chronic yang deficiency can adopt this method of "winter sickness and summer tonic" and give food appropriately in spring and summer, such as leeks, mustard greens, onions, peppers and ginger. Or choose fresh fruits such as litchi, bayberry, peach, apricot, longan and jujube; Or use yang-tonifying drugs to regulate and maintain, often can receive miraculous effects.

Summer aphrodisiac should eat less cold drinks.

It is very hot in summer, and people like to eat cold food and drinks. But raising yang requires eating less cold drinks in summer.

Because in summer, the pores of human skin are loose, and there is much heat dissipation, which consumes the yang in the body. If you are greedy for cold drinks and your yang is damaged, you will have abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough and asthma.

Therefore, the amount of cold drinks and cold food should be properly controlled in summer diet, and the speed of eating should not be too fast.

People with weak spleen and stomach, or children, should be temperate in particular. Of course, if you are healthy, eating some cold foods in summer can play a role in clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

Usually, men with weak yang qi should take drugs to warm and replenish yang qi when the yang qi is strong in summer.

Second, learn to avoid summer and humidity in summer.

In summer, we don't have to master many TCM terms. It is important to pay attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation. Harmony between man and nature? .

According to the characteristics of summer, it is different from other seasons, especially in many places, showing the climate characteristics of hot and humid evaporation. The temperature is high, the rain is heavy, the humidity is high, and it is humid and sultry. It is usually called long summer, and people are most likely to get sick because of the humidity in summer.

Especially in the south, it is humid, hot and humid. There are choices in diet. If the summer heat is heavy, you should choose a cold one. If eating watermelon is wet, it is necessary to eat wet food, such as bitter gourd, red beans, lotus seeds and coix seed, which has obvious dehumidification effect.

Third, know how to drink ginger tea in summer to tonify spleen and strengthen yang.

In summer, people often only know how to drink herbal tea to cool off the heat, but they don't know how to drink ginger tea to tonify spleen and strengthen yang.

In summer in the south, humidity is often high in many places, so we should know how to get rid of damp heat, not be greedy for cold, use less cold water, not eat too many cold drinks and sweat too much.

Let the accumulated heat in the body go out. For example, you used to cook mung bean soup to relieve summer heat, but now you'd better put half mung bean and half red bean. Solid and red beans can strengthen the spleen and remove dampness.

In the south, drinking herbal tea in summer is very common. But Chinese medicine says that the yang of the human body is in a state of venting in summer. At this time, drinking too much herbal tea is easy to damage the spleen and stomach yang and reduce appetite. This will cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Summer is the most vigorous time for human metabolism, sweating a lot and opening pores. If you are greedy for cold, blow air conditioning after sweating, or the air conditioner is too cold, these will damage the yang of the human body.

Fourth, women especially protect their navel feet.

In summer, many girls love beauty and like to show their backs and umbilicus, which is contrary to TCM health preservation.

In an air-conditioned room, it is best not to go barefoot. The yin pulse of human body gathers the heart. The soles of the feet are the easiest to catch cold. Why in summer, wearing a little thicker shoes won't feel hot. If you don't pay attention to the warmth of your feet, it will affect your blood circulation.

When the weather is very cold, wearing warm shoes can obviously enhance the ability to keep out the cold. Cold starts with the feet, and warming the feet warms the body. At first, some people were afraid of cold. In summer, they should pay more attention to keep their feet warm and wear sandals barefoot.

Fifth, balance the yin and yang of the human body, and don't forget the meridian sleep.

Huangdi Neijing said: "Xia San month, ... lying at night and getting up early, never tire of watching." The summary of "Tips for Make-up Health" is: "It is advisable to get up early in spring and summer, sleep in autumn and winter, and crow early after the death of Yan."

According to the natural laws of spring, summer, autumn and winter, summer is the most vigorous season for all things to grow, so we should pay attention to "growing up" in summer health care. Get up earlier in summer than in other seasons. When is the appropriate time to get up early?

The ancients thought it was inappropriate to get up before the cock crowed, that is, it was best to get up between 5 am and 6 am. So when is the best time to sleep?

Because the summer climate is hot, you can wait until the summer heat dissipates and people's breath is relatively peaceful before going to bed. The time is a little later than other seasons, but it should not be too late. It's usually around 1 1 in the evening. Meridian sleep advocated by the ancients is very suitable for health preservation in summer.

Sixth, a healthy diet is essential in summer.

Understand life from the perspective of "harmony between man and nature", let the human body adapt to the changes of the four seasons, arrange a reasonable diet, and ensure that the essential nutrients of the human body are absorbed in different seasons to maintain normal physiological functions.