prescribe a diet
Diet conditioning, there is a saying that heart fire is in season in summer, and excessive heart fire inhibits lung gold (five elements view), so according to the relationship between five elements (summer is fire), 50% (summer is long), five internal organs (heart) and five flavors (bitter), there is a saying that "summer does not eat heart", and bitter things can also help heart qi and control lung qi. Summer is also the season of sweating. If you sweat more, you will lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be abnormal. Chinese medicine believes that at this time, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to consolidate the exterior and more salty taste to replenish the heart. "Su Wen? According to the time of the Law of Storing Qi, the heart governs the summer, "the heart is bitter and slow, and it is urgent to eat acid to collect it", "the heart is depressed, and it is urgent to eat salty to suppress it, and it is salty to supplement it, and it is sweet to diarrhea". That is to say, Tibetan gas is soft to salty to soft. From the perspective of yin and yang, Xia Yue's diet should not be too cold, including yin deficiency. For example, Ji said: "In summer, the heart is full of kidney failure. Although it is hot, it is not suitable for eating cold ice and snow, honey water, bean jelly and cold porridge. When you are full of cold, you will get cholera. "Heart flourishing and kidney failure, that is, external heat and internal cold. Because the outside is hot and the inside is cold, it is not advisable to eat more cold food, but it is ok to eat less. Too much greed will definitely hurt the spleen and stomach and make people vomit. Watermelon, mung bean soup and ebony bean soup have good effects on quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, but they should not be eaten chilled. According to the relationship between zang-fu organs and zang-fu organs in traditional Chinese medicine, "fire without kidney is Shui Han, and fire without kidney water is blazing. The heart must be nourished by the kidney, and the kidney must be warm with fire. "It is not difficult to see the important relationship between heart and kidney.
From the summer of the lunar calendar to the third Geng day in the future, it enters the dog days. At this time, the weather is hot, people lose their appetite and start to lose weight, which is "dry summer". People began to take time off for the summer, pay attention to dietary supplements, and the government stopped working. There are three fresh foods in Jiangsu's summer diet: amaranth, broad bean and almond on the ground, cherry, plum and Toona sinensis on the tree, sea silk, fish and salted duck eggs in the water. People in Hangzhou, Zhejiang like to eat black rice, which is said to commemorate Pang Juan in the Warring States Period. The folk song of Jiande, Zhejiang Province says: "long summer, food supplements." It shows that the summer solstice supplement began in the long summer. People usually eat boiled eggs with red dates and stewed chicken with astragalus to nourish their bodies and prepare for intense agricultural labor in autumn. Guangdong has the habit of eating dog meat. As the saying goes, "dogs can't hide from the sun in summer." On the solstice of summer, dogs are killed to make up for themselves, so that the dogs on that day have nowhere to hide, but they can't be slaughtered at home and can only be treated in the wild. There is a popular saying in Beijing that "cover your head with jiaozi, cover your head with noodles, and cover your head with pancakes and eggs". "Winter solstice jiaozi, summer solstice noodles".
Heatstroke prevention and health care recipes mainly focus on two aspects:
The first thing is to eat more cold food, cold food, fruits and vegetables. Ancient fighting tea and cold soup are excellent heatstroke prevention products. Suzhou Long Summer Festival drinks "seven teas" and children eat "cat and dog meals". At the same time, eat more bean jelly, sour plum soup and ice cubes. It shows that there were officials in charge of ice cubes and ice room equipment in Zhou Dynasty, who stored ice cubes in winter and ate them in summer. There was shaved ice in the Qing Dynasty. On the day of the long summer in the Qing court, the minister of civil and military affairs was given ice cubes. At this time, it is the melon season, and people sit under the melon shed to enjoy the cool and enjoy the watermelon. Watermelon and bitter gourd are both foods for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and they are important products in summer solstice. In addition, mosquitoes breed in summer, and there is a lot of rain, which makes them susceptible to intestinal diseases such as dysentery. Therefore, eating green onions and garlic in summer is a habit. According to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty, garlic has the effects of "dredging five internal organs, dredging orifices, dispelling cold and dampness, avoiding evil spirits, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and dissolving accumulated meat". In addition, summer in the pavilion is also a summer heatstroke prevention activity.
The summer climate is hot, and people's digestive function is relatively weak. Therefore, the diet should be light and not fat, sweet and thick, eat more miscellaneous grains to make your body catch cold, and don't overeat hot food to avoid helping heat; Eating melons and fruits in cold sex should be enough, not overeating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach; Products with strong flavor and high fat should be less than much, so as to avoid hot wind and stimulate the disease of boils.
Lotus leaf porridge:
[Ingredients] Lotus leaf 1 tablet (both fresh and dry), Poria cocos 50g, japonica rice or millet 100g, and appropriate amount of sugar.
[Practice] First, remove the dregs from the lotus leaf soup, add poria cocos, washed japonica rice or millet to the medicinal soup, cook it into porridge together, and add sugar before cooking.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, calming the heart and calming the nerves, stopping diarrhea and dysentery (also effective for cardiovascular diseases and neurasthenia).
Lettuce salad:
[Ingredients] 350g fresh lettuce, onion, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, salt and sugar.
[Practice] Wash and peel the lettuce, cut it into long strips and small pieces, put it in a plate, add refined salt and stir, marinate for 1 hour, decant, add monosodium glutamate and white sugar and mix well. Cut the onion into chopped green onion, sprinkle it on lettuce, add sesame oil when the pot is hot, pour it on chopped green onion when the oil is hot, and stir well.
【 Efficacy 】 Benefiting the five internal organs and dredging meridians.
Cream melon balls:
【 Ingredients 】 500g wax gourd, 20g condensed milk, cooked ham 10g, refined salt, fresh soup, sesame oil, water starch and monosodium glutamate.
[Practice] Peel the wax gourd, wash it and cut it into balls. After boiling in boiling water, pour in cold water to cool. Put the melon balls in a large bowl, add salt, monosodium glutamate and fresh soup, put them in a cage and steam for 30 minutes, then take them out. Put the winter melon balls back into the pot, pour the soup into the pot, add condensed milk to boil, thicken with water starch, pour the winter melon balls into the pot, sprinkle with sesame oil and stir evenly, and finally sprinkle with ham powder to serve.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving annoyance, tonifying deficiency and benefiting spleen and stomach.
Rabbit meat Jianpi decoction:
[Ingredients] 200g of rabbit meat, 30g of yam, 0/5g of medlar/kloc, 0/5g of dangshen/kloc, 0/5g of astragalus/kloc and 30g of jujube.
[Practice] Wash the rabbit meat and cook it with strong fire together with other ingredients. After boiling, simmer for 2 hours, and eat soup with meat.
[Efficacy] Spleen and qi.
In addition, scrambled eggs with tomatoes are also seasonal dishes in summer.
daily life
In order to adapt to the changes of nature, it is wise to stay up late and get up early. It is very hot in summer. If you sweat too much, you will feel dizzy, chest tightness, palpitation, thirst, nausea and even coma. When arranging outdoor work and physical exercise, you should avoid the scorching sun and strengthen protection. Reasonable arrangement of lunch break, one is to avoid the hot trend, the other is to restore the feeling of fatigue. Taking a bath with warm water every day is also a fitness measure worth promoting, which can not only wash away sweat and dirt, but also make the skin clean and cool, relieve summer heat and prevent diseases, and also play a role in exercising. Because water pressure and mechanical massage in warm bath can reduce the excitability of nervous system, dilate blood vessels on body surface, accelerate blood circulation, improve the nutrition of skin and tissues, reduce muscle tension, eliminate fatigue, improve sleep and enhance resistance. In addition, summer is hot and vulnerable to wind, cold and dampness. It is not suitable for fan-type air supply when sleeping. In an air-conditioned room, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large, and it is not suitable for sleeping at night.
sports
Exercise and recuperation is also one of the indispensable factors in health preservation. Summer exercise is best done in the early morning or in the cool night. The venue should be selected in rivers and lakes, parks, courtyards and other places with fresh air. People with conditions can go to forests and coastal areas for recuperation and vacation. Walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and radio exercises are the best sports, and it is not advisable to do excessive and strenuous activities. If you exercise too much, you will sweat a lot and sweat too much, which will not only hurt Yin Qi, but also Yang Qi. During exercise, when you sweat too much, you can drink light salt boiled water or mung bean brine soup properly, but you must not drink a lot of cold boiled water, not to mention using cold water to shower, otherwise it will cause diseases such as cold-dampness arthralgia and yellow sweat.