1, depression must be prevented in summer.
After summer, it is late autumn. In this season, in addition to the cold weather, vegetation withering can be seen everywhere, and people are often easily moved by this scene and feel sad. Traditional Chinese medicine also has the saying that "autumn should be in the lungs, and the ambition is to worry." If you encounter unhappy things at this time, it is very easy to cause people's depression, thus suffering from "autumn depression."
2. You need to let go of your mood in summer.
Studies have shown that people's emotions will affect the secretion of hormones, enzymes and other substances in the body. When you are in a happy mood, you will secrete more beneficial hormones and enzymes, thus adjusting blood flow and nerve cell excitability to the best state conducive to physical and mental health. If you are depressed, the secretion of these beneficial substances will be disrupted, leading to visceral dysfunction and even causing stomach cramps, hypertension, coronary heart disease and other diseases.
3. It should be closed in summer.
As one of the five senses of human body, eyes and ears are the main organs that God receives external stimuli, and their functions are dominated and regulated by God. If your eyes are clear and your ears are quiet, you will maintain a kind of self-restraint air and your heart will not work. If your eyes are impatient, you will be tired and worried. As the saying goes, "close your eyes and rest your mind", Chinese medicine advocates that everyone should sit quietly with their eyes closed for 30 minutes every day in midsummer, and close their eyes naturally, because "if you don't look around, God will return to your heart, which is the foundation of peace."
You need to meditate and focus on summer.
From the point of view of health preservation, the spirit is precious and chaotic, the thoughts are precious and chaotic, and the thoughts are concentrated and scattered, so as to keep the peace of mind in summer, which is similar to the method of nourishing the heart and nourishing the nature advocated by Taoist Lv Dongbin, that is, "being quiet to nourish the qi and less to nourish the spirit" is the key to conditioning the mind in summer, which can avoid autumn dryness.
5. What can I eat in summer?
(1) Duck
The traditional dietary custom of Nanjing people is to eat ducks in summer. Ducks, especially the duck in the cooked area of Jiangning Lake in Nanjing, are the most sought after. It is reported that the ducks there are sweet and cold, fat and thin. If there is no time, the old Nanjing people will go to the deli to buy half a duck to go home; People who are free will stew "radish old duck pot" at home or make "braised duck pieces" for their neighbors. This is what the saying goes, send ducks in summer to save everyone.
People in Hangzhou are used to dividing ducks into old ducks, young ducks and big ducks. As far as nutrition is concerned, old ducks have more lean meat, less water, better relative taste and nutrition, and are suitable for boiling soup to relieve summer heat, while meat ducks are mostly used to make roast ducks and sauced ducks. Here is a tip on how to distinguish an old duck from a young duck: an old duck generally has uniform hair, hard mouth and feet, yellow and black colors and hard bones to the touch. In addition, the same size, the old Abby Mallard duck is heavier.
(2) Longan
When the "summer heat" comes, the "summer heat" is over. Old Fuzhou no longer drinks herbal tea after the heat, but eats more things that "replenish qi" and "replenish blood". Old Fuzhou used to eat longan, peeled and soaked in porridge.
It is reasonable to drink less herbal tea and eat more longan after the hot summer. At this time, pay attention to "invigorating qi" and "enriching blood" and avoid eating cold food; At the same time, longan is warm, beneficial to the heart and spleen, tonifying qi and blood, and has the effect of invigorating qi, which is beneficial to eat in this solar term; However, the diet should not be too rigid, and it is not stipulated that this solar term must eat longan porridge. Many people can eat like this at ordinary times, which is good.
(3) White meatballs
In addition, another food that old Fuzhou eats in summer is white meatballs. White meatballs are actually dumplings. The method is simple. Knead glutinous rice flour into small particles, cook soup, add some sugar and taste sweet, which can not only supplement carbohydrates, but also solve the problem of greasy mouth in summer.
Glutinous rice has the function of nourishing yin, and you can drink glutinous rice porridge in autumn. Glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, and enters the spleen, kidney and lung meridians, which can nourish the healthy qi of human body, and has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, promoting fluid production and stopping sweating. After eating, the whole body is hot, which plays a role in keeping out the cold and nourishing. Eating some glutinous rice food properly in autumn will have a good nourishing effect on the body.
(4) Herbal tea
The custom of decocting medicinal tea in summer has been popular since the Tang Dynasty. In summer, every household has the habit of frying herbal tea. First go to the drugstore to make a prescription, and then cook tea at home, which means that eating something "bitter" in autumn is quite beneficial to clearing away heat and fire, resolving food stagnation and removing lung heat.
If you feel thirsty before and after the summer heat, make tea with Ophiopogon japonicus or Dendrobium. Ophiopogon japonicus or Dendrobium is dry and cold, which helps to relieve summer heat and nourish yin; Drinking Sydney with honey and Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae has the functions of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting fluid production and moistening lung, and is also suitable for people with qi deficiency. But you should drink less herbal tea in summer, because the heat is not serious at this time, and herbal tea is too bitter and cold, which is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach and is not good for the lungs and kidneys.
(5) Sour plum soup
In the sixties and seventies of last century, there were tea stalls selling sour plum soup in the streets and alleys of Wenzhou city, so there was a proverb that "sour plum soup is extinct in midsummer". Making sour plum soup is very simple. Soak dried plums in boiling water at night and add rock sugar. After cooking and cooling, put it into a wooden ice bucket with a cover to reduce its temperature. It tastes sour and sweet, sweet and slightly salty, and tastes good.
The organic acid content in dark plum is very rich, which can effectively inhibit lactic acid, relieve fatigue and remove harmful substances from aging blood vessels. Therefore, drinking sour plum soup in summer and solar terms can refresh the mind, promote fluid production and quench thirst, and revitalize muscles and blood vessels. In addition, when eating too much meat, drinking sour plum soup can also help balance the pH value in the body.
The most important thing for health after summer is to nourish the lungs, and "white food" such as tremella, yam, white radish, lily, white peony and pear is the easiest to enter the lungs. It is recommended to eat more and eat less spicy food.