After the long summer, the weather gradually turns hot, and the plants grow to a lush period, which is theoretically beneficial to the physiological activities of the human heart. The heart plays a leading role in every organ of the human body, delivering oxygen and nutrition to the whole body. In summer, it is easy to be irritable, and irritability will accelerate the heart rate and increase the burden on the heart. Especially people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are more likely to get sick. Therefore, nourishing the heart in summer is particularly important.
First, the function of the heart.
1. The hidden god in my heart
As one of the five internal organs, the heart is the foundation of human life and the main activity, and occupies the primary position in the five internal organs. Huangdi Neijing said: "The heart is the monarch and the god is outside." The god of the human body is hidden in the heart, so ancient people don't say "heart", just say "heart". What is that "God"? Huangdi Neijing has a definition of "God": "Two spirits strive for God." The so-called "second essence" refers to yin and yang, and the function produced by the interaction of yin and yang is called "spirit" That is, after a person's heart is enriched, it is the gods scattered outside. Chinese medicine believes that "God" refers to people's spiritual thinking activities. The expression of seven emotions is human emotional activities, which are based on the essence of the five internal organs, but are unified and controlled by the heart. Therefore, the thinking spirit of the heart has a certain regulatory effect on the emotional spirit and plays a leading role in the process of emotional illness. Only when the brain is injured first, or the mental activity is unbalanced, the five internal organs will be injured separately.
2. Heart governs blood vessels
Now when it comes to "blood", we all think that bright red liquid is blood, but in Chinese medicine, the definition of blood is like this: "Zhongjiao takes juice from qi and turns red when it changes, which is called blood." "Moderate jiao" refers to the spleen and stomach, "taking qi and juice" means that people can change a thing by eating the essence of food, "change" refers to a movement process, and "red" is equivalent to a verb. Red is originally red, and here red represents the image of cloth delivery. This sentence means that people produce an energy after eating, which can be radiated. This is called "blood". This "blood" has a verb meaning, that is, when people eat, the essence of Shui Gu can also be distributed everywhere, and this is blood. Second, peace of mind is natural and cool.
Summer belongs to fire, and summer's heart is in season, and the corresponding viscera is "heart", which makes people feel hot and restless, but as long as they keep a peaceful mind and an open-minded mind, their hearts will naturally emit a little coolness. The "heart" for nourishing the heart in summer is not the concept of "heart" in modern medicine, but the whole nervous system and even mental and psychological factors of "god" including heart. To cultivate one's self-cultivation in summer, we must first calm down. Even as the saying goes, "be calm and cool naturally", abstinence and repose are beneficial to the maintenance of the mind. Listening to melodious music, watching beautiful pictures, or fishing, playing Tai Ji Chuan and other slow sports are all conducive to adjusting the spirit and maintaining a good mood. There is a scientific basis for the phenomenon of calm and natural cooling. As long as you keep your mind calm and open-minded, there will naturally be coolness coming out of your heart. Because when the mood is calm, people's sympathetic nerve excitability decreases, so the secretion of adrenaline and norepinephrine also decreases, so the metabolism of old friends slows down, people's heart rate also slows down, and manic fever will also be alleviated. Therefore, peace of mind is naturally cool. You can do some quiet things, such as painting, planting flowers, calligraphy, fishing, playing chess and so on. In terms of diet, we should pay attention to a light diet with low fat and salt, which is conducive to heart maintenance. Therefore, from the beginning of summer, we can adjust our mood, combine work and rest, and supplement nutrition in time, so as to spend the summer safely.
Third, nourish the heart and be afraid of getting angry.
"Nourishing the heart" not only conforms to the concept of keeping in good health in summer in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, but also has very obvious practical significance because high temperature can easily make people nervous and fluctuate psychologically and emotionally in summer. In addition, high temperature reduces the immune function of the body, and patients are likely to have myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia and elevated blood pressure. Even healthy people may have emotional irritability. Therefore, nourishing the heart is also a good way to prevent emotional ups and downs and even prevent diseases.
How did Emperor Taizong Li Shimin die? Angered by his daughter. One day in June, veteran Weichi Gong and Cheng's wife came to the hall to meet with you, exposing the truth that Princess Gaoyang defrauded the imperial edict, forced her to divorce her sister-in-law, abused her father-in-law and forced her to die. Li Shimin knew that he was cheated by his daughter, which killed the veteran who participated in the change of Xuanwu Gate and helped him ascend to the throne. He deeply regretted it. I asked Princess Gaoyang to plead guilty, and the princess refuted me. In a rage, I felt unbearable chest pain and suffocated to death.
Obviously, Li Shimin's sudden death is "sudden cardiac death" with angina pectoris as the main manifestation. He became ill in less than an hour and died before he could be rescued.