Insisting on drinking hot water in the dog days a few days ago will force out the cold that has penetrated into bone marrow for many years. Dr. Li Bo, from the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, told the reporter of Life Times that eating less cold and drinking more hot water in summer is correct in itself, but the theory that drinking hot water can force cold for many years has not been recorded in Chinese medicine.
In fact, for people with strong yang, it is no problem to eat a little cold food, but those who are physically weak are already afraid of the cold, and eating cold food is easy to have diarrhea. Those who are afraid of drinking cold water and are only used to drinking hot water should really pay attention to not eating cold drinks and drinking cold water in summer.
Combined with modern people's lifestyle, people generally have heating in winter and wear more clothes, so they are not easy to catch a cold. On the contrary, in hot summer, people are used to adjusting the air conditioning temperature too low and drinking iced drinks without restraint, which is the most likely to catch a cold. Especially when a large number of sweating pores are fully open, they suddenly enter the air-conditioned room, and cold pathogens are most likely to enter the human body from the skin, leading to the onset of the elderly and the weak in autumn and winter.
Therefore, "cold evil" must be based on everyone's physical condition and the degree of cold. Another way to introduce cold evil is to eat cold products.
The most puzzling thing in the above statement is "forcing out the cold door for many years." Li Bo emphasized that the focus of health preservation in summer is not to drive away the cold, but to emphasize timely health preservation and maintain the yang in the body.
On the one hand, nourishing yang lies in "nurturing"-Shu Da who promotes yang through diet and exercise; On the other hand, it is "prevention"-to prevent the yang from being suppressed and contained. Specific methods include eating some mutton isothermal food in summer, drinking a cup of hot tea quietly in summer, and exercising properly to make yourself sweat, which are all conducive to promoting the growth of yang, in line with the natural law of "summer dominates growth".