Soft drinks, fruit juice, cola and other drinks contain more saccharin and electrolyte, which will cause bad stimulation to the stomach and affect digestion and appetite. If you drink a lot, it will increase the burden on liver and kidney and affect the function of liver and kidney. So drink less drinks and drink more water.
Old and infirm people have little activity and relatively little water content in their bodies, so they should supplement about 2500 ml of water every day. Drinking 500 ml of water on an empty stomach in the morning can not only flush the gastrointestinal tract, but also dilute the concentrated blood and reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases. After drinking water for half an hour, the water has entered the blood circulation, and it will be more fragrant to eat at this time. According to John, a doctor of physiology in the United States, the study found that boiling water at 20℃ to 25℃ is very similar to water in biological cells, which is easily absorbed by the human body and has a fast metabolism speed, and can increase the amount of hemoglobin in the blood, which not only enhances the immune function of the human body, but also promotes dehydrogenase activity in the body, removes lactic acid in muscles in time and eliminates fatigue. Soymilk and light tea are also good drinks to replenish water in midsummer.
In summer nights, some people like to sleep on brick floors or terrazzo floors in order to cool down, which is called "ground air conditioning". However, due to cold masonry, strong air permeability and moisture accumulation, arthritis and various internal injuries are easily caused by cold and dampness.
Not suitable for "sudden cooling". After returning from the hot summer, some people like to take a cold bath to "cool down quickly" in order to get rid of sweat and heat as soon as possible. However, because people absorb a lot of heat in the sun, this will make the pores of the whole body close quickly, and the heat cannot be emitted, which will stay in the body and cause a high fever. At the same time, it will also cause insufficient blood supply due to the rapid contraction of cerebral capillaries, which will make people dizzy and even cause shock. Therefore, it is not advisable to wash it immediately after returning from the summer heat. A better way is to wash the parts, such as hands and face, so that the sweat will gradually recede and take away a lot of heat from the body, and then take further cooling measures.
The temperature is high in summer, and the fast pace of city life makes people feel nervous and depressed. Headache and dizziness have become an "urban disease" with high incidence in summer. According to reports, headaches are generally divided into tension headaches, migraine headaches and headaches related to other neurological or organic reasons. Among them, tension headache is the most common in cities, accounting for about 80% to 90% of the total headaches. Whenever I have a headache, many people will choose a negative attitude of forbearance, thinking that it will pass after a while. Experts pointed out that this idea is wrong. Headache is often a sign of many diseases, so we should find out the source of the disease in time and prescribe the right medicine, so we should not be careless.
Doctors suggest that in order to prevent headaches, we should pay attention to arranging regular work and rest time when it is hot every day in summer; Air-conditioned rooms should keep the air fresh and ventilated frequently; At the same time, avoid staying in high temperature, strong light or noise for a long time. Once you have a headache, you should change to a cool and quiet environment and take medicine under the guidance of a doctor.
In hot summer, about 16% people will have emotional and behavioral abnormalities, especially middle-aged and elderly people. Medically, it is called "summer mood disorder", which is mainly manifested as: irritability, temper tantrums, bad mood, eccentric behavior and so on. Modern medical research shows that the occurrence of "summer affective disorder" is closely related to temperature, sweating, lack of sleep time and diet. When the ambient temperature exceeds 30℃ and the sunshine time exceeds 12 hours, the incidence of emotional disorder increases obviously. Coupled with excessive sweating, electrolyte metabolism disorder in human body affects brain nerve activity, leading to abnormal mood and behavior. The ancient idea of keeping in good health in summer: "Breathing and meditation are always like trillion snow in the heart". People often say that peace of mind is natural and cool, which is scientifically justified. In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and because of the heat, I usually sleep late, so I may not get enough sleep at night. You can take a nap at noon and take a nap to supplement it. Taking a nap is good for health and helps to improve work efficiency. The researchers found that taking a nap can balance the secretion of hormones in the body and reduce the incidence of myocardial infarction by about 30%. Some people try to stay cool and sleep by the tuyere or electric fan. Some people leave the air conditioner on all night, which makes them feel comfortable at that time. But after falling asleep, their skin and muscles are slack, sweat pores are still expanding, and it is easy to catch a cold. Sleep quality is very important to relieve the "bitter summer".
Midsummer night sleep time is short, the old, the weak and the sick should go to bed early and get up early, and try to keep about 7 hours of sleep every day. After getting up in the morning, in the rising sun, do outdoor sports to adapt to the growth of the sun. The temperature is the highest at noon, so a proper nap can make up for the lack of sleep time at night. According to scientists, taking a nap in hot summer can reduce the incidence of cerebral hemorrhage and coronary heart disease.
Pay special attention to food hygiene in summer. Because of the high temperature, leftovers are easily contaminated by bacteria, and it is best not to. If you eat it, you must also go through high temperature treatment, and the fruit you eat raw should be washed and peeled. When cooking cold salad, the dish must be washed clean, and it is best to blanch it with boiling water; Knives and boards for cutting cooked food should be separated from those for cutting raw meat and lettuce; Put some garlic paste and vinegar in the cold salad, which can not only increase appetite, help digestion, but also sterilize and detoxify and prevent intestinal infectious diseases. When making cold drinks, use cold boiled water instead of raw water. In summer, it is best for the elderly not to eat the food on the street stalls to avoid food poisoning.
In summer, people's nerves are often in a state of tension, and indigestion and loss of appetite often occur. Eat more light and digestible foods, such as bean products, eggs, milk, chicken, fish, fresh vegetables, melons and fruits, and eat less greasy food. In summer, human body loses more water and salt, so you can drink some light salt water in moderation, but don't drink too much water. Drinking mung bean soup, red bean soup and rice tea regularly can not only prevent heatstroke and clear heat, but also detoxify and stimulate appetite. Drinking tea with health care function often has the effect of relieving summer heat and refreshing. Common health teas are: salt tea, chrysanthemum tea and so on.
Chinese medicine believes that bitter food should be eaten properly all year round, especially in summer. The famous bitter gourd is cold and bitter, and it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Fresh bitter gourd tea has a certain effect on heatstroke and fever. Modern medicine has found that there is an active protein in bitter gourd, which can effectively promote immune cells in human body to kill cancer cells, and has a certain anti-cancer effect. In addition, it also contains substances similar to insulin, which has a significant hypoglycemic effect and is recommended by nutritionists and doctors as an ideal food for diabetic patients. Loofah is also good. Luffa is bitter and sweet, cool and slightly cold, and the melon meat is fresh and tender. It can be used to cook soup or stir-fry meat, and has the effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. There are also bitter vegetables, which are rich in vitamins, minerals, mannitol, choline, tartaric acid and other ingredients. It has the effects of clearing away heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, and has a strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli and leukemia cells. Ordinary celery also has obvious medicinal effects. Celery tastes bitter and slightly cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, calming the liver and cooling the blood. Regular consumption has a good auxiliary effect on cough with excessive phlegm, toothache and eye swelling. Celery can also lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Decocting fresh celery with water, or boiling fresh celery with boiling water and wringing juice have obvious curative effect on patients with hypertension, coronary arteriosclerosis and heart disease. Lettuce is also a good dish in summer. Lettuce tastes bitter and sweet, slightly cold, and has the functions of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, purging fire and detoxifying, benefiting qi and broadening chest. It is helpful for patients with chest and diaphragm irritation, cough with excessive phlegm, loss of appetite, milk obstruction, and dysuria.
In addition, although Kuding tea is not food, it has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, sterilizing and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, refreshing brain, improving eyesight and intelligence, reducing weight, preventing cancer and radiation, promoting blood circulation and lowering cholesterol, and is a good medicine for cooling liver and dispersing blood, relieving pain and diminishing inflammation.
1, the best condiment-vinegar:
Summer is cool and hot, sweating a lot, and being jealous can increase the concentration of gastric acid, help digestion and absorption, and promote appetite. Vinegar also has strong antibacterial ability, which can kill Staphylococcus pyogenes in a short time. It can prevent intestinal infectious diseases such as typhoid fever and dysentery. In summer, people are prone to fatigue, drowsiness and discomfort. Being jealous will quickly relieve fatigue and maintain abundant energy.
2, the best vegetable-bitter vegetables:
High temperature and humidity in summer often make people listless, tired and weak, chest tightness and dizziness, loss of appetite and emaciation. At this time, it is of great benefit to eat hard food. Chinese medicine believes that the reason why people are unhappy in summer is because the summer heat is wet, which not only hurts kidney qi but also sleepy spleen and stomach. Bitter food can balance the body function through its functions of invigorating qi, strengthening kidney, strengthening spleen and drying dampness. Modern scientific research has also proved that Sophora alopecuroides is rich in alkaloids, amino acids, picroside, vitamins and minerals, and has the functions of relieving summer-heat, relieving fever, relieving restlessness, refreshing and invigorating the stomach. Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, lettuce, celery, dandelion, lotus seed and lily are all good choices.
3, the best soup-tomato soup:
Drinking tomato soup in summer can not only get nutrition, but also replenish water, killing two birds with one stone. Tomato soup (cooked and cooled) contains lycopene, which has certain anti-prostate cancer and heart protection effects, and is most suitable for men to drink.
4, the best meat-duck:
Don't think that you can still make up for it by eating only light food in summer. The key is to choose the right supplement. I recommend duck meat to you here. Duck meat is not only rich in nutrients such as protein, which is badly needed by human body in summer, but also can prevent and treat diseases. The secret is that ducks are waterfowl, and their nature is cold. According to the treatment principle of "heat is cold" in traditional Chinese medicine, it is especially suitable for people with low fever, physical weakness, less food, dry stool, edema and other internal heat in summer. Stewed ham and sea cucumber with duck meat, the stewed duck juice is conducive to nourishing the yin of the five internal organs; Duck meat and glutinous rice porridge have the functions of nourishing stomach, enriching blood and promoting fluid production, which is of great benefit to physical weakness after illness; Stewed duck with kelp can soften blood vessels, lower blood pressure and prevent arteriosclerosis, hypertension and heart disease. Stewed ducks and bamboo shoots can cure hemorrhoid bleeding.
5, the best drink-hot tea:
In summer, drinks are essential. The first choice is not all kinds of cold drinks, nor beer or coffee, but very ordinary hot tea. Tea is rich in potassium (the average content of potassium per 100g of tea is green tea 10.7mg and black tea 24. 1mg), which can quench thirst and relieve fatigue. According to the experiments of British experts, the cooling capacity of hot tea is much higher than that of cold drinks, and it is the best in summer drinks.
6, the best nutrient-vitamin E:
Vitamins can make you spend the summer safely, and the "best" crown belongs to vitamin E. German scientists emphasize that people will encounter three major dangers in summer, namely strong sunshine, ozone and fatigue, and vitamin E can minimize these three dangers. Malt, bran bread, walnut sauce, dairy products and other foods are rich in vitamin E, which can be arranged in summer. If necessary, you can also take pills of vitamin E, 15-60mg per day is enough.
7, the best sport-swimming:
The best exercise in summer is swimming. Swimming can not only exercise hands, feet, waist and abdomen, but also benefit internal organs such as heart, brain, lungs and liver. It is particularly beneficial to blood vessels and is known as the "vascular body". In addition, because the heat consumed in water is obviously higher than that on land, swimming can also reduce excessive weight and achieve the effect of bodybuilding.
8, the best color-red:
Many people think it is best to wear white clothes in summer, but in fact it is better to wear red clothes. The secret is that red visible light has the longest wavelength, which can absorb a lot of ultraviolet rays in the sun, protect the skin from harm, and prevent the skin from aging or even cancer, while other colors (including white) have a weak effect. As for fabrics, blended T-shirts are the best, and the best blending ratio is 33 cotton and 67 polyester.
9, the best cool "facilities"-fans:
From the point of view of fitness, cooling "facilities" are the best fans. Although the fan is an antique, its fitness effect is incomparable to any other modern cooling equipment. Fan shaking is a kind of exercise, which can exercise limbs (if you consciously switch to left-handed fan shaking, you can also get the effect of activating the right brain, developing the potential of the right brain and preventing stroke). At the same time, fans got the most comfortable wind.
10, the best health care measures-sleeping time:
The sunshine is long in summer, early in the morning and late in the evening. Therefore, people's daily life and schedule should be adjusted accordingly. It is better to go to bed late and get up early, and get up and sleep as regularly as possible. "Timing" is the requirement of the internal biological clock. If it can be timed all the year round, it can create a "dynamic stereotype" and make the body have the best adaptability and predestination. In summer, we should set ourselves a strict time to get up and go to bed, and never violate it for no reason, even on rest days.
The best bedtime in summer is 22: 00-23: 00, and the best waking time is 5: 30-6: 30. The hot weather in summer can easily affect people's sleep, but once they get into the habit of getting up regularly, it is easier to eliminate the interference of climate on sleep. When they wake up naturally and comfortably in the morning, the biological clock in the body will not "go wrong" and various physiological rhythms will run safely.
The summer heat is also the season with the most thunderstorms. There is a proverb called "The East cannot walk without dripping water", which means that if there is lightning in the East in the summer afternoon, it won't rain here. If lightning is in the west, the rain will come soon, and it's too late to hide.
People often refer to the thunderstorm in summer afternoon as "northwest rain" and describe it as "summer rain over the ridge of fields" and "summer rain over the back of cattle", which vividly shows that thunderstorms are often sunny when it rains here, just like the poem of Liu Yuxi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: "The east rises and the west sets, and the road is clear when it is not sunny."
Summer climate is hot, hot and rainy, summer heat and dampness are easy to take advantage of, summer heat is pressing, and the heart is easy to lose, especially for the elderly, children and the weak, which often leads to summer heat and heatstroke. When you have obvious symptoms such as general fatigue, dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, inattention, hyperhidrosis, numbness of limbs, thirst, nausea, etc. This is mostly a precursor to heatstroke.
Once the above symptoms appear, the patient should be immediately moved to a ventilated place to rest, and given some light salt boiled water or mung bean soup, watermelon juice, sour plum soup and so on. Methods to prevent heatstroke in summer: arrange work reasonably and pay attention to the combination of work and rest; Avoid exposure to the hot sun; Pay attention to indoor cooling; Get enough sleep; Pay attention to food hygiene. Conditional people should often take some prescriptions for removing turbidity and damp heat, such as Pogostemon cablin, fresh leaves of Eupatorium odoratum 10g, talc 30g, stir-fried malt 30g, licorice 3g, and decoct with water instead of tea. You can also take some pills and ten drops of water in the hot summer season.
The summer heat is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang. In health care, people often say that "winter diseases are treated in summer", so it is the best time to treat those chronic diseases that occur every winter, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and joint pain. Friends with the above-mentioned chronic diseases, especially in summer, should be carefully nursed back to health, focusing on prevention and treatment.
Take chronic bronchitis as an example, it can be taken orally or externally. The specific method is: take Jinkui Shenqi Pill and Zuogui Pill, twice a day, each time 1 capsule, for one month. For external application, 20g of white meson, 0g of Rhizoma Corydalis15g, 0g of Asari12g and 0g of kansui10g can be selected, ground into fine powder and mixed with ginger juice, and divided into six parts. One part is coated on oiled paper or plastic film, with a diameter of about 5 cm each time, and is stuck on points such as Shu Fei, Xinshu and Shu Ge on the back or lungs. Generally, it lasts for 4 to 6 hours. If it feels hot, you can take it off in advance. If you feel itchy locally or feel warm and comfortable, you can stick it for a few hours. It should be noted that sticking it once in dog days (dog days in summer), three times a year and three years in a row can enhance the nonspecific immunity of the body and reduce the allergic state of the body. This combination of internal and external treatment can effectively eradicate or relieve symptoms.
In summer, using the nutritional function of diet to preserve health and prolong life is an effective guarantee to reduce diseases and prevent aging. Summer diet conditioning is based on summer climate characteristics. Because of the hot climate in summer, it is easy to hurt body fluid and consume gas, so porridge can often be used to nourish the body. Huangdi Neijing has the saying that "medicine can be removed and food can follow" and "grains, meat, fruits and vegetables can be eaten and nourished".
Li Shizhen, a famous doctor, especially advocated medicated porridge for health preservation. He said: "Eat a big bowl of porridge every day. If you are hungry, it will be ready when you are full of energy. The tonic is not fine, but also soft and greasy, and is compatible with the stomach. It is also the most wonderful diet. " Medicinal porridge is suitable for the elderly, children and people with weak spleen and stomach function. Therefore, the ancients said that "porridge is the best in the world" and "two rice meals are better than a big bag of ginseng and astragalus". "Six Books on Medicine" praised: "Japonica rice porridge is the foundation of biochemical nourishing Kundan, and glutinous rice porridge is a wonderful product for warming and nourishing stomach and benefiting qi."
Medicinal porridge is beneficial to human body, but it is not omnipotent. According to everyone's different physique and diseases, we should choose the right medicine and cook porridge to achieve satisfactory results.