People in damp heat constitution also need to eat some foods that nourish yin, such as walnuts, black sesame seeds, rabbit meat, duck meat, white gourd, lettuce, lily, laver, pigeon eggs and other negative foods.
Some foods that tonify the kidney, such as black beans, medlar, black sesame, kelp and fungus, are also suitable.
Summer is also a season of sweating, which is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. You can properly choose some medicated diets that benefit qi and nourish yin, clear away heat and promote diuresis, such as Shashen yam porridge and Shashen old duck soup.
Fruit should eat loquat, banana, carambola, watermelon and so on. And drink more mung bean soup, but it is not suitable for cold drinking.
Eat less cherries, lychees and peaches.
Drink less herbal tea. Although herbal tea has the function of clearing away heat and drying dampness, it will gradually hurt Yang Qi, and it will be more difficult to adjust his constitution to qi deficiency, yang deficiency and phlegm dampness.
Although drinking beer in summer is the most enjoyable, it is the most humid and hot in the wine, so it is best to ban alcohol.
Animal fat and fishy-smelling fish are all foods that promote fluid production and help moisture.
In the hot season, excessive strenuous activities can easily lead to sweating, which not only hurts Yin Qi, but also damages Yang Qi. Therefore, the appropriate exercise is itchy exercise such as walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and radio exercises. The focus of exercise is to stretch the joints and increase the flexibility of the body. Because the rigidity and stagnation of bones and joints are not conducive to the drainage of liver and gallbladder. Physique is more difficult to adjust if it is wet.
Experts pointed out that if you sweat too much during exercise, remember not to drink a lot of cold water immediately, and you can't punch and shower with cold water immediately, which may easily cause diseases such as cold-dampness arthralgia and yellow sweat. It is best to drink some light salt boiled water or mung bean brine soup.
Try not to stay up late. If you must stay up late, you must guarantee four things: 1. Get up early (before 9 o'clock); 2. Ensure a balanced breakfast; 3. Make up sleep at noon, about an hour; 4. Exercise for about an hour in the evening. In addition, if you start using air conditioners and summer sleeping mats, enough is enough.
In summer, the temperature is close to human body temperature, and the main ways of heat dissipation are sweating and evaporation, so "removing heat with heat" is a better health care method. Wiping your face and body with a hot towel can not only wipe sweat, but also promote skin ventilation and adapt to the rhythm of human body cooling, while using a cold towel is easy to shrink pores and is not conducive to cooling.
In hot summer, you should adjust your breathing and keep calm, so that you won't feel hot.
Autumn and winter are a good time to nourish. At this time, chrysanthemum, lotus plumule, Longjing and Ilex kudingcha can be soaked in honey, or boiled water such as mint leaves, bamboo leaves, cassia seeds, fresh cogongrass rhizome, fresh reed rhizome and mulberry leaves can be used instead of tea. Also, you can order some traditional Chinese medicine health tea for conditioning, and the effect is better.