Neijing, a classic of traditional Chinese medicine, points out: "Summer and March are a beautiful month, with heaven and earth connected and everything flashy. You lie down at night and get up early, and you never tire of sunbathing, so that your ambition will not be angry, Huaying will be beautiful and your spirit will be vented. If you love the outside, this summer spirit should be the way to grow up. "
1. conform to the characteristics of exuberant sun be the spirit in summer, cheer up, don't be bored, and try to make yourself interested in external things to vent your anger and avoid stagnation.
2. Adjust your mood, and don't be impatient and angry because of complexity, so as not to help others and hurt their sense of righteousness. Without the will to be angry, the venting of qi is peaceful and pleasant, which makes people's thoughts calm and their hearts refreshing and harmonious. A person should not be grumpy, jumping up and down when something happens, being hot and generating heat, so as to prevent the endogenous fire in the heart and make the mind naturally calm and cool. In the season of steam consumption in summer summer, if you can adjust yourself to such a state of mind, you will naturally be cool, healthy and live a long life.
Second, the daily aftercare:
In summer, when the fire is strong, it is hot and warm, so people should go to bed late and get up early, conform to nature and maintain yang.
1. In summer, the days are long, the temperature is high, and the sleep time at night is short, so it is necessary to take a proper nap to maintain abundant energy.
2. In summer, the body is most prone to rheumatism, because steaming outside on a hot day makes you sweat and your pores open. Therefore, it is necessary to scientifically arrange work and study time, combine work and rest, prevent the sun from being exposed, and pay attention to indoor cooling measures to make the living room environment as ventilated and cool as possible.
3. In terms of clothes, because it is hot and sweaty, clothes should be thinner, and clothes should be washed and changed frequently. Wearing wet clothes and sweaty clothes for a long time will irritate the skin and cause many diseases.
4. The room should be cool, and the indoor temperature is low in the morning and evening. Doors and windows should be opened for ventilation. At noon, the outdoor temperature is higher than the indoor temperature. Close the doors and windows and close the curtains. A cool environment will make people feel calm and safe. Although it is sultry and difficult to sleep, you should also avoid using the fan as a window, or sleeping on the floor, cooling the bed, or the air conditioning temperature is too low, or shirtless.
5. Old people adapt to the characteristics of summer and try to avoid laziness and boredom psychologically; Emotionally, peaceful and cheerful, avoid hot and dry; In life, we should not only prevent heatstroke and heat, but also prevent greed and cold; It is advisable to go to bed late and get up early in work and rest (you can make up your sleep in the afternoon according to your personal situation).
6. When going out or working, do a good job of protection, such as wearing a sun hat and an umbrella. The preventive measure is to avoid direct exposure to the hot sun as much as possible.
Third, exercise nursed back to health:
The summer climate is hot, which consumes a lot of human body. If you exercise in the sun for a long time, it may lead to heatstroke.
1. Exercise should be done in the early morning or in the cool night. Don't climb mountains, seek seclusion. It's best to go for a walk in the park, riverside, lakeside, or yard, where the vegetation is lush, and go to the old and welcome the new.
2. You should choose riverside or lakeside as the exercise place. An elegant environment will calm your heart like water, make you feel dreamlike happiness, cleanse your boredom and relieve the summer heat.
3. Choose appropriate sports, such as Tai Ji Chuan, Taijijian, aerobics, radio exercises, jogging, walking, etc. Swimming in rivers, lakes and seas is more refreshing, conducive to regulating emotions and improving health.
Fourth, diet aftercare:
In Xia San, the climate is hot, with yang outside and yin inside, and the digestive function of the human body declines. Paying attention to diet and health care is beneficial to summer.
1. Give priority to foods that are mild and anti-inflammatory, soft and easy to digest, and eat less foods that are high in fat, strong in flavor and spicy. A light diet can clear away heat, prevent heatstroke, stop sweating, replenish water and stimulate appetite.
2. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as watermelon, tomato, cucumber and celery. Not only can meet the required nutrition, but also can prevent heatstroke. Staple food should be light, such as mung bean porridge, lotus seed porridge and lotus leaf porridge. Wash and peel melons and fruits, wash cold dishes and add a little garlic and vinegar, which can not only stimulate appetite, promote digestion, but also sterilize and detoxify. Cause disease. Vinegar can not only promote fluid production and stimulate appetite, but also inhibit and kill germs and prevent gastrointestinal diseases. Food nursed back to health should focus on clearing heat and relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi.
3. Choose cool drinks, such as sour plum soup and chrysanthemum tea. There are also mung bean soup, red bean soup and so on. , help the body to dissipate heat, supplement water, salt and vitamins, and play the role of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
4. Drink tea to relieve summer heat. Tea contains many vitamins, protein, minerals, alkaloids, volatile oil and so on. Drinking it can refresh, help digestion and relieve fatigue. There is a saying that drinking tea in summer is better than cold drinks.
5. Pay attention to food hygiene. Summer is a period when bacteria and molds multiply, and food and tableware are easily polluted. Therefore, attention should be paid to disinfection in diet, raw and cooked anvil and chopping board should be separated, and purchased cooked food should be processed and heated before eating.
V prevention and health care:
Summer is characterized by "heat", so it is restrained by "cool" and driven by "clear". Therefore, the key to keeping in good health in summer lies in "clearing".
1. Combing hair has the functions of dredging qi and blood, expelling wind, improving eyesight, promoting hair growth and promoting sleep. The health book "On the Essentials of Health Preservation" points out: "In Xia San, comb your hair one or two hundred times a day to naturally dispel wind and improve your eyesight." Su Dongpo, a writer in the Song Dynasty, said: "Comb your hair for more than a hundred times, and lie down until dawn." It can be seen that the health experts of past dynasties paid special attention to the health care function of combing hair.
2. Be sure to keep medicine and medicated diet to clear the fire;
Daochi Powder or Niuhuang Wei Qing Pill can clear heart fire, prevent and treat oral ulcer, dry mouth, short and red urine, irritability, etc. Making tea with lotus seed porridge, Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Ophiopogonis can clear heart fire, prevent and treat low-grade night sweats, palpitation, insomnia, forgetfulness and dry mouth. Make tea with jujube porridge, Radix Adenophorae and Radix Ophiopogonis to eliminate dry cough or hot flashes, night sweats, fever in hands and feet and insomnia. Make tea with gardenia and lophatherum gracile to eliminate symptoms such as epigastric discomfort, bitter taste and dry stool caused by excessive stomach fire. Pear juice, sugarcane juice, honey, etc. Prevention and treatment of anorexia, constipation and abdominal distension caused by stomach deficiency fire. At the same time, some pills and ten drops of water are always available to clear away the heat in summer.
3. Prevention of enteritis in refrigerator. The food in the refrigerator is easy to pollute Yersinia (Yersinia widely exists in milk, meat, fish, poultry, vegetables and other foods, and grows and breeds at a low temperature below -4℃), which may cause enteritis. So the food in the refrigerator should be cooked separately and cooked again before eating.
4. Prevent air-conditioning diseases. Due to the high temperature in summer, the air conditioner should not be turned on too low. For example, from summer to late autumn, the upper respiratory tract will suddenly be attacked by cold air, which is easy to make people catch a cold, make bronchial reflex spasm, and cause cough and asthma. Use air conditioning as little as possible. Don't go straight into the air-conditioned room as soon as you enter the room. It's best not to use air conditioning when an electric fan can be used.
5. Skin disease prevention. In summer, due to the hot weather, it is conducive to the reproduction and growth of various fungi and bacteria. In addition, people in summer are prone to sweating and their skin is prone to moisture. If it is not wiped and kept dry in time, fungi will invade our skin and cause beriberi. Contact with people or animals suffering from tinea and public appliances will be contagious, which is closely related to human resistance.
Vegetables, low-calorie and low-fat foods are not easy to get fat.