Two "magic weapons" for clearing life and preventing dampness in summer.
Chinese medicine pays attention to "correspondence between man and nature", that is, the human body should adapt to the changes of natural environment and seasonal climate. Since the summer climate is so hot and humid, according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it should be "hot people are cool" and "wet people are dry". Therefore, the two "magic weapons" for health preservation in summer are "clearing life" and "preventing dampness and eliminating evil spirits".
Lead an honest and clean life: First, the mind is quiet, the summer heat is unbearable, and people are prone to sultry and restless. Therefore, first of all, let your mind calm down, have a peaceful mind, avoid being angry and prevent internal fire. Keep a peaceful mind. Second, the diet is light. In hot summer, the yang of human body is scattered outward, while the yang of internal organs is relatively insufficient, and the digestive function of spleen and stomach is relatively weakened. Therefore, the diet should be light, soft and digestible, and eat less greasy, sweet and spicy things.
Damp-proof evil: It is hot and rainy in summer, so people who have high humidity in the air, sweat clothes and feel damp evil are most likely to get sick. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness is yin evil, which is easy to hurt human yang. It is turbid and sticky, easy to suppress qi, and the disease is lingering and difficult to heal. Therefore, in the rainy season in summer, we must pay attention to prevent the invasion of damp evil. Keep the room ventilated and dry, and pay attention to drying clothes when they are wet.
Diet should not be greedy for "cold"
Drinking cold drinks is better than drinking hot tea: in summer, many people like to drink cold drinks to quench their thirst. However, experts say that the yang in the human body tends to diverge outward in summer, and the yang in the body is relatively insufficient compared with other periods. If you eat too much cold food at this time, it will seriously hurt the yang of the human body. In fact, summer "hot" tonics can dissipate heat. Compared with cold drinks, hot tea is more thirst-quenching. Usually after drinking hot tea, the skin will sweat slowly, and sweating can help the body dissipate heat. But drinking cold drinks only makes the mouth and esophagus feel cold for a short time, and then they will feel hot again soon.
It's better to soak in Jiang Shui than to eat cold dishes: in summer, many people eat cold dishes to relieve the heat. It doesn't matter if you eat something cold occasionally, but you should pay attention to the collocation. When eating cold dishes, you might as well cut some Jiang Mo and put it in the cold dishes to balance the cold air. Body heat in summer, gingerol in ginger can accelerate blood circulation, promote perspiration and lower body temperature, which is beneficial to heatstroke prevention and cooling in summer. In addition, eating ginger properly in summer can warm the stomach and stimulate appetite.
In short, in the process of health preservation in summer, we should pay attention to the use of two "magic weapons": cleaning life and eliminating dampness; Appropriate tonic, grasp the principle of "appropriate tonic, eat more tonic, timely tonic"; To prevent colds and diarrhea in summer, we can take advantage of the strong yang in summer and rely on the treatment of winter diseases in summer to prevent and treat diseases in winter.
(According to the old age, diet and health care of orientals, etc. )