In hot summer, the weather becomes sultry. Entering the dog days, heat and humidity come together. Many people think that the yang of the human body is the most vigorous at this time, so "yang fire" should be suppressed, but this is actually a misunderstanding. In summer, although the yang is outside, it is empty inside, and evil spirits are more likely to take advantage of it. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the maintenance of yang in summer health.

In summer, Yang is the strongest and the weakest.

Four seasons health preservation is the essence of TCM health preservation. Adjusting the body's diet and mood according to the changes of the four seasons can achieve the purpose of preventing diseases and preserving health.

Although summer is the most vigorous season of human body's yang, it is also the most easily damaged season. In summer, the sun is often the most abundant on the ground and the most empty underground. So do people. In summer, the yang is active on the body surface and empty inside, which is what Chinese medicine says. If you are greedy for cold hair, eat too cold, stay up late and overwork, it is easy for evil spirits to take advantage of it.

Summer evil consumes body fluid, and dampness evil hurts yang.

Summer is the main spirit of summer. According to the principle of "wind, cold, summer heat, dampness and fire dryness", Chinese medicine believes that summer is yang evil, and its nature rises and dissipates, which is easy to consume qi and hurt body fluids. However, if the body fluid is injured too much, it will exceed the limit of physiological compensation, which will inevitably consume vitality, resulting in a series of symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breath and laziness. Summer in the south is hot and rainy, with high air humidity. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness is yin evil, which is harmful to human yang. Because it is turbid and heavy, it is easy to block the air flow. Therefore, after being attacked by the evil of summer heat and dampness, the disease is lingering and difficult to heal.

This is like the most obvious damage to the spleen and stomach function of human body caused by hot, humid and hot weather. If people are too greedy during summer vacation and eating, it will lead to spleen and stomach dysfunction, poor qi movement, anorexia, fatigue, diarrhea and other symptoms. Therefore, in summer, there is a state of burnout, laziness and no food, which is probably because it hurts the yang.

Summer helps the sun, and autumn and winter benefit.

Since Yang is easily injured in summer, it is natural to support Yang. Even if Yang is not injured, supporting Yang has a certain health care effect on health preservation and can prevent diseases that have not yet occurred.

If you neglect Fuyang in summer, you will get sick in autumn and get worse in winter. On the other hand, if we can protect the human body's yang in summer, we can lay a healthy foundation for health care in autumn and winter. Huangdi Neijing says that "summer is harmful to summer, and autumn malaria", which means that if summer is injured by summer evil, there may be no obvious clinical manifestations at that time, but in autumn, the human body may have diseases. On the contrary, if the body yang is fully recuperated in summer to coordinate the functions of the five internal organs, symptoms such as diarrhea in autumn and cough and asthma in winter will be alleviated accordingly. This is similar to what Chinese medicine often says, "Winter disease is treated in summer".

Traditional moxibustion can support yang.

In daily life, in addition to being greedy and nurturing more, you can also use traditional Chinese medicine "special moxibustion to support yang", which mainly includes moxibustion, fire moxibustion and natural moxibustion.

Tianjiu

Based on the theory of "treating winter diseases in summer" and "nourishing yang in spring and summer" in traditional Chinese medicine, natural moxibustion stimulates local skin redness, congestion and even foaming with drugs, thus stimulating meridians and regulating qi and blood, and achieving the purpose of preventing and treating diseases. It is usually carried out in dog days. In dog days, the temperature is high, the yang in the human body rises, the meridians are accessible, the blood is full, and the energy is vigorous. At this time, by applying special drugs to specific acupoints, it is easiest to guide drugs to penetrate from the skin into acupoints and meridians, thus achieving the effects of warming meridians, dispelling cold, dredging collaterals and promoting blood circulation.

Fire moxibustion

This method combines the advantages of moxibustion, fire therapy, external use of traditional Chinese medicine, massage and acupoint, and is based on the traditional Chinese medicine theories of fire as yang, moxibustion warming yang, meridian supporting yang and so on. Through moxa sticks, wine to support yang, fire therapy and other methods. , in the human body belongs to the Yang meridian and Ren Du two arteries and acupoints for dialectical treatment. After burning the moxa stick, smoking, ironing or warming the acupoints on the body surface can dredge the yang meridian, stimulate the yang of the human body and regulate the functions of the viscera.

Traditional moxibustion

The raw material of moxibustion is wormwood. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a pure yang plant, which has the effects of diminishing inflammation, removing blood stasis, relieving asthma, relieving cough and calming the nerves. Traditional moxibustion brings the medicinal properties of wormwood to the diseased parts of human body through acupoints and meridians by fumigation and burning, so as to dredge meridians, warm yang and dispel cold, thus eliminating pathogenic factors. The near infrared rays released during moxibustion are also stronger than far infrared rays in adjustment. Generally, moxibustion at points such as Qihai, Guanyuan, Mingmen and Zusanli can be selected to nourish yang. Traditional moxibustion can also be done at home, but pay attention to safety.