Summer is the extreme period when yang grows and yin disappears. Summer is the master of growth, everything is prosperous, and the heart needs to be used. Health care should be based on nourishing the heart. Drain water (if you sweat, you will sweat), because summer belongs to yang, and yang dominates the outside, so you sweat a lot. On the contrary, you will be sad, and you will get phlegm syndrome (respiratory disease) in autumn, which will reduce your adaptability to autumn. The so-called recipients are few.

Generally speaking, summer (especially in dog days) is not suitable for tonic. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. When it comes to "tonic", people will think of chicken, duck, fish, ginseng and other foods and other nourishing Chinese medicines. These are warm foods or traditional Chinese medicines, which ordinary people really can't accept in the hot season. However, according to the traditional theory of health preservation, tonic can be divided into four types: flat tonic method, clear tonic method, warm tonic method and heavy tonic method, and the clear tonic method should be selected in summer.

Summer is mostly summer heat, and summer evil consumes the most energy and hurts yin. Therefore, summer tonic should choose traditional Chinese medicine with the effect of benefiting qi and nourishing yin. Such as American ginseng, sun-dried ginseng, Adenophora adenophora, lily, Ophiopogon japonicus, Dendrobium, etc. Here are some medicated diets suitable for summer.

1, Yiqi Yangyin Summer Tea: Raw materials: 5g of American ginseng, 5g of medlar, 5g of chrysanthemum and 5g of raw licorice. Soak in cold water for half an hour and decoct in water twice for the whole family to drink. Eat the same day.

2, lily lotus seed porridge: choose 20 g lily, 25g lotus seed, 7 red dates, and appropriate amount of rice. Soak it in cold water first, then boil it in a conventional way and take it in the morning and evening.

3. Rich bean old duck pot: Choose fresh Dendrobium candidum 10~20g, Ophiopogon japonicus 10 g, Chinese yam 10g and Lycium barbarum 10g, wash an old duck, stew it in a casserole, eat meat and drink soup.

Sanxitang Chinese Medicine Museum has all kinds of secret scented tea and nourishing medicated diet for everyone to choose from.

In addition, the high temperature and sweating in summer consume a lot of body fluids and various nutrients, and the body is prone to feel thirsty and weak. This is the performance of consuming qi and damaging yin, which will affect the function of spleen and stomach, cause loss of appetite and decrease digestive function. At this time, besides relaxing and stretching, it is particularly important to eat more fruits and delicious food. Such as radish, beer, rose, lotus root, fennel, hawthorn, orange and so on.