One: Eat more cold food.
In hot weather, eating cold food is the most commonly used method, especially ice cream, cold drink and iced watermelon, because it is cool and relieves summer heat. Many people have a bad appetite in summer and often take a big iced watermelon instead of dinner. Experts pointed out that watermelon itself is cold, people generally eat more at a time, and the loss of human yang is also greater.
Experts believe that the human body's yang is outward divergent, and the human body's yang is relatively insufficient compared with other periods. If you eat too much cold food at this time, it will cause serious damage to people's yang. Experts remind that too much cold food makes the body gather too much cold, which easily leads to autumn and winter.
Misunderstanding 2 of eating cold food: rest is too greedy.
On summer nights, many people wander around the street with bare arms; Sleep with the air conditioner on all night; Even feel too hot in bed, just spread a mat on the floor. These are all human behaviors. But many people don't know that these behaviors can easily make the body cold and damage the yang. In summer, when people sleep, their basal metabolism slows down, their thermoregulatory function declines, and their body resistance weakens. At this time, turning on the air conditioner and sleeping on the floor will make it easier for cold pathogens to enter the body, so don't blindly pursue coolness.
Myth 3: Take a shower immediately after.
In summer, some "cold pathogens" and "wet toxins" can be excreted properly, but the heat and sweat after exercise often make people, and many young people will take a bath to cool down, but this will let more "cold pathogens" enter the body. Experts say that it takes a process for the human body to adapt to the temperature. From high temperature to low temperature, people will suffer from * * *, not to mention taking a bath with cold water. Punching with cold water or even washing feet after exercise will make wet and cold enter the body. In addition, don't blow the air conditioner immediately after exercise, because doing so will also aggravate the dampness and coldness in the body.
Myth 4: Different groups of people need special care.
In summer, we often find such a problem: when a family eats the same food, the elderly and children may suffer from indigestion and cold in the spleen and stomach, while other family members are not serious. Sometimes air conditioning is also blown at home, and women are more likely to catch a cold than men. Experts believe that people's physical fitness is different, so their ability to resist the cold is different. Generally, the young and middle-aged people have a relatively heavy yang, while the elderly and children have a slightly poor physique and are vulnerable to "cold evil". For women, due to special physiological reasons, "cold evil" and "moisture" will often harass them. Therefore, people with insufficient yang are more likely to catch a cold, and they should be more careful about cold pathogens invading the body.
Cold in summer is easy to hurt yang.
Summer is a fire and the climate is hot. It is the season when everything flourishes, and it is also the period when the human body has the highest yang and vigorous metabolism. In summer, the yang of the human body radiates outward, including yin. According to the principle of "conforming to nature" in traditional Chinese medicine, yang should be preserved at this time. It is not advisable for many people to use "cool" to fight "hot", because Yang is the firepower on which the human body depends and can promote human metabolism.
Even in summer, if you don't pay attention to keep warm, cold pathogens will invade your body, and your body will have obvious cold symptoms, such as listlessness, slow metabolism, sweating, body cold, cold limbs, easy to catch a cold, diarrhea, stomachache, illness and so on. There are also some diseases that do not attack immediately but lurk in the body, leaving roots in autumn and winter.
It is easy to hurt the sun in summer, so learn to be "too hot".
Chinese medicine says that keeping in good health should conform to the season. In summer, it's hot when it's hot, and it's sweaty when you sweat. Therefore, we should follow the law of sun growth and adopt the "insulation" method of heating with heat.
Summer keeps Yang away from cold evil.
Pay attention to eating less cold and raw food in the diet. As the saying goes, "Eating radish in winter and ginger in summer does not require a doctor's prescription." In summer, ginger and other foods should be used to warm up the cold, and it is better to take ginger and brown sugar together. And don't stay in a closed air-conditioned room for a long time. Also be careful not to wash your hair and feet with cold water, and avoid getting wet in rainy days, because cold water hurts the spirit of the sun the most.
You should soak your feet in hot water in summer.
Because feet are the second heart of human body, soaking feet with hot water can provide energy. Experts say that "heat promotes blood circulation and cold coagulates blood". Soaking feet with hot water can make qi and blood run smoothly, increase the blood velocity and flow of feet, and enhance metabolism. The water temperature is 42℃ ~ 45℃, which is warm and comfortable.
Take a hot bath often.
Because taking a bath with hot water dilates the capillaries of the body, it is beneficial for the body to expel heat and toxins, which can supplement the yang. The water temperature is generally controlled at around 30℃. In addition, you can also wipe your face and body with a hot towel, which is not only easy to remove dust and dirt, but also can sweat to cool down, make your skin breathable and make people feel cool and comfortable.
Drink hot tea to relieve summer heat in summer.
In hot summer, a cup of hot tea can relieve summer heat and quench thirst, because hot tea is beneficial to sweat secretion by sweat glands and can achieve the effect of heat dissipation. Moreover, tea can improve the transport ability of the spleen and stomach and send water to the whole body. Although the popular cold drinks in summer eased the summer heat, they only solved the hot air at that time and cooled the human body temporarily, but they could not really quench their thirst.
Summer sports.
Exercise in summer can accelerate metabolism in the body and help to sweat. Experts believe that sweating should be controlled in summer, because according to Huangdi Neijing, the weather in summer is leaking, and exercise is an important way to sweat. It can also strengthen heat adaptation, improve the function of regulating body temperature, and prevent heatstroke and some common heat syndromes. However, experts specially reminded that summer exercise time is very important. Don't choose the noon when the sun is the most poisonous, because sweating will hurt blood. It is generally recommended to choose the morning, because the human body's yang in the morning is weak, so it can be supplemented at this time. It should also be noted that you should choose jogging, Tai Chi, aerobics and other less strenuous exercise methods.
In addition, women need "hot care" more. Women's thermal adaptability is worse than men's, especially women with cold constitution, so we should pay more attention to keep warm. Women also use blood, and women should pay more attention to tonifying yang, because qi can produce blood. Therefore, in summer, women should pay special attention to keep warm, eat less cold food, blow less air conditioners, exercise more and take steam baths to achieve the purpose of sweating and detoxification.