1. Mung bean
When it comes to summer food, the first thing that comes to mind is mung beans. Chinese medicine said: "Mung beans are sweet in taste and cold in nature, and have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat, diuresis and acne. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", mung bean: "It can thicken the stomach, act as a pillow, improve eyesight, cure headache caused by head wind, relieve vomiting, cure acne poison and benefit swelling".
2. Duck meat
Duck meat is rich in protein. Eating duck meat in summer can not only prevent diseases, but also supplement the nutrients needed by the body. Especially for people who are physically weak, they have poor appetite in summer and occasionally have dry stools. As long as they eat duck meat, this symptom will be alleviated, and the phenomenon of poor appetite in summer can also be alleviated. Generally, duck meat can be stewed with lotus root or wax gourd. This dish is not only delicious, but also nourishing. It's the best dish in summer.
3. Coix seed
Coix seed is a sweet and slightly cold food. Eating coix seed in summer can clean up the wet poison in the body. When summer comes, people are prone to gastrointestinal problems. Once the digestive function declines, it will make people's physique decline. At this time, eating more barley can help our body's digestive system to be further strengthened, and it can also supplement the water that is missing after sweating a lot. After eating coix seed, the blood sugar energy in the body can be reasonably regulated. Therefore, it is very reasonable to choose coix seed as the daily staple food in summer.
4. Cucumber
Cucumber "smells sweet and cool, which can clear away heat and benefit water", so it is good to eat more cucumbers in hot summer. The water content of cucumber is 96%~98%, which is the highest among vegetables.
5. tea
Experienced health care doctors often instruct people to supplement potassium by drinking tea. Potassium is an important trace element in human body, which can maintain the normal function of nerve and its muscles and keep the normal movement of myocardium. Potassium is easily excreted with sweat, so tea with suitable temperature should be the first choice in summer.
6.wax gourd
Wax gourd has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Eat more wax gourd in summer to quench thirst and relieve summer heat and diuresis.
7.bitter gourd
Bitter gourd is flat in nature and bitter in taste, which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and clear heart and improve eyesight. Traditional medicine believes that bitter gourd is born cold, cooked and warm. Raw food can clear summer heat, purge fire, relieve fever and relieve annoyance; Cooked food can nourish blood and liver, moisten spleen and kidney, clear away heat and relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight, invigorate qi and strengthen yang, and also relieve fever, polydipsia, dysentery and miliaria.
8. crucian carp
If the temperature is humid in summer, you can cook some crucian carp soup to nourish your body. The biggest effect of crucian carp soup is to dispel dampness and stimulate appetite. It is most suitable for people with edema to drink crucian carp soup. Especially in summer, if the water accumulated in the human body for a long time cannot be discharged in time, it will do great harm to the body, and the high-quality protein and minerals contained in crucian carp will be absorbed by the human body in the shortest time. Whether children or pregnant women, or the elderly or people with poor physique, it is suitable to drink nourishing crucian carp soup in summer.
How to exercise in summer?
1. Skillfully use aromatic plants to relieve summer heat and dampness, such as fresh leaves of Pogostemon cablin, mint leaves and Eupatorium odoratum. , used for soup or porridge. But be careful not to overdo it, and don't use it as a method to treat diseases.
2. Use summer heat to relieve winter diseases: However, not all chronic diseases can be treated in summer, depending on personal physique. For example, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and other diseases with yang deficiency, people with these chronic diseases can make good use of summer heat to treat diseases, but if some patients with chronic fever are not suitable for this way to treat.
3. Drink more warm water to relieve summer heat: It should be reminded that some people drink too much water at a time to quench their thirst, but they don't know that this will increase the burden on the heart, make the blood concentration drop rapidly, and even cause palpitation, shortness of breath and sweating. Therefore, in the hot season, if you are thirsty, you should drink a small amount of water first, and then stop drinking for a while.
What should we pay attention to in summer health?
Using aromatic plants skillfully to relieve summer heat and dampness
The summer heat is just around the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the highest temperature in a year. At this time, it is often easy to lose heart, especially for the elderly, children and the weak, and it is often difficult to resist the heat and have problems such as heatstroke, such as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, inattention and sweating.
The best way to solve these symptoms is to arrange work reasonably and pay attention to the combination of work and rest; Avoid exposure to the hot sun; Pay attention to indoor cooling; Ensure adequate sleep; Pay attention to food hygiene. A correct diet can help the human body resist the invasion of summer and moisture. You can eat more melon, coix seed, poria cocos, yam and other foods. The best way is to cook porridge or soup with these ingredients.
If you already feel dizzy, you can also use aromatic plants to relieve dizziness. For example, fresh leaves of Pogostemon cablin, mint leaves and Eupatorium odoratum are used for cooking soup or porridge. Because the main function of fresh leaves of Pogostemon cablin is to fragrant turbidity, dispel summer heat and relieve exterior syndrome; The main functions of mint are dispelling wind and clearing heat, relieving sore throat and penetrating rash, soothing liver and purging heat, which can play a very good role. Experts also reminded that it is feasible to eat fresh patchouli leaves for health care in summer, but we should be careful not to overdo it and not use it as a method to treat diseases. In addition, patchouli and mint should not be fried for a long time. Take patchouli as an example. If cooked for a long time, the fragrance will disappear and the original effect will not be achieved. So it's best to put the porridge and soup in a few minutes before they are cooked.
Eliminating dampness in summer and relieving winter diseases.
The summer heat is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang throughout the year. In health care, it is often said that "winter disease is cured in summer", so it is the best time to treat those chronic diseases that occur every winter, especially in summer health care, which should be carefully nursed back to health and focused on prevention and treatment.
"But not all chronic diseases can be treated in summer, depending on personal physique." Experts said that the yang is strong in summer, and the treatment is to supplement the yang through moxibustion and other means to achieve the effect of conditioning. Under normal circumstances, those diseases that are prone to onset in winter, that is, diseases with yang deficiency, can be treated in winter and summer. For example, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and other diseases with yang deficiency, people with these chronic diseases can make good use of summer heat to treat diseases, but if some patients with chronic fever are not suitable for this way to treat.
Drink more warm water to relieve summer heat.
In summer, water is also a very important and indispensable thing to strengthen the body and prolong life. As the saying goes, "Man is made of water", which makes sense. Water accounts for about 70% of human body weight, and drinking boiled water is strongly recommended in the traditional summer heat-relieving health care method.
It should be reminded that some people drink too much water at a time to quench their thirst, but they don't know that this will increase the burden on the heart, make the blood concentration drop rapidly, and even cause palpitation, shortness of breath and sweating. Therefore, in the hot season, if you are thirsty, you should drink a small amount of water first, and then stop drinking for a while.
Medicine and food are the same as porridge, benefiting qi and clearing summer heat.
It is hot in summer, so you can nourish your body with porridge. Li Shizhen believes that "porridge and intestines and stomach are the best food". It is recognized by the medical profession that porridge can tonify yin, promote the growth of gastric juice, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and tonify deficiency, which is most suitable for nourishing people. Cooking porridge at a relatively low temperature for a long time can reduce the decomposition and damage to protein and fat and the loss of vitamins, and make some minerals dissolve in soup, thus making porridge more nutritious.
In the summer solar terms, typical "summer porridge" can choose mung bean lily porridge, watermelon Cui Yi porridge and glutinous rice red bean porridge. These ingredients have the effects of invigorating qi, clearing away summer heat, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach, and can help people spend the summer.
Medicinal porridge is suitable for the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach function. When you drink porridge in summer, you can put some herbs such as thumb yam and poria cocos, and the effect of eliminating dampness will be better.
Don't move "liver fire" to cool off the heat.
In addition, during the summer heat, people are prone to "liver fire", which often leads to inexplicable upset, listlessness, loss of appetite and other problems, also known as "emotional heatstroke". Emotional heatstroke is very harmful to summer health and physical and mental health, especially to the elderly and infirm. Because of emotional disorder, it will cause myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia, elevated blood pressure and even sudden death.
Experts remind that patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases must avoid extreme emotions such as anger and anxiety, and should try to be calm and calm.
"sauna day" fitness should take a walk
In summer, the weather is often sultry and humid, and the human body feels sultry, but even if you sweat, you can't reduce your fever, which is easy to get heatstroke. Therefore, first of all, we should avoid "sauna days" and try to go out as little as possible and have less activities in hot days. Even if you go out, you can't be exposed to the outdoors for a long time. In order to let the moisture in the body go out, we should try to take a walk and other low-intensity activities when the temperature is slightly lower in the morning and evening.
In addition, patients with a history of chronic diseases, especially middle-aged and elderly people, are much more likely to have cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents than young people. Therefore, middle-aged and elderly people should avoid running, equipment exercise and other sports that consume too much physical strength under the high temperature in midsummer.