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What are the principles of summer solstice health care?
1. Go to bed late, get up early and take a nap at noon.

Summer is the season with the highest yang. Health care should conform to the characteristics of yang excess, pay attention to protecting yang, ensure that you take a nap for about half an hour every day, and let yourself have a good mental state all afternoon. The elderly and infirm should go to bed early and get up early, and try to keep 7 hours of sleep every day.

2. Have a light diet and eat more? Bitter?

Drinking porridge in the morning and evening can not only quench thirst, but also nourish the body. In terms of fruits and vegetables, apples, grapes, papaya, loquat and other peaceful fruits are suitable for people of all physiques; People with deficiency and cold constitution had better eat less cold fruits such as bananas, Sydney, watermelons and persimmons. Bitter food not only has a light diet, but also has the functions of eliminating dryness and dampness, cooling and relieving summer heat, and stimulating appetite. And you can eat more bitter vegetables, such as bitter gourd and coriander.

3. Adjust your breath and clear your mood

The high temperature in summer can easily make people fidgety or tired, so mental conditioning is very important.

In summer, you should be cheerful, cheerful, broad-minded and energetic. Just like everything needs sunshine to grow, you should have a strong interest in external things and cultivate an optimistic and outgoing personality, which is conducive to the ventilation of qi.

Avoid emotional ups and downs, temper for small things, so as not to aggravate or even induce heart disease.

4. Choose early morning or evening when the weather is cool.

Summer sports are best carried out in the early morning or evening when the weather is cool, and the venue should be chosen in places with fresh air such as rivers, lakes, parks and courtyards. Walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and radio exercises are the best exercise programs.

If you exercise too much, you will sweat profusely and sweat too much, which will not only hurt Yin Qi, but also Yang Qi, and it is easy to get heatstroke.

Sweating too much during exercise, you can drink light salt boiled water or mung bean brine soup appropriately. Be sure to take a few sips and stop for a while. Don't drink too much at a time, especially don't drink a lot of cold drinks, so as to avoid gastrointestinal spasm and even cause stomach pain.