"Dog days" belong to the long summer, and "fat, sweet and thick" is also a taboo for health care in dog days. If you eat too greasy, too sweet and too greasy at this time, it will easily hinder the spleen and stomach and increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. In particular, you should not eat anything too cold in dog days, so as not to cause abdominal pain and diarrhea, and even other diseases are more likely to occur in autumn and winter. The "dog days" diet should be light. You can eat some white gourd, lotus leaf and watermelon peel to clear away heat and damp, and you can also cook soup with some cardamom and perilla leaves to play the role of aromatic dampness.

In the suburbs of Shanghai, there is a tradition of "eating sheep", that is, eating mutton after sleeping. There is also a local saying that "a bowl of soup for sheep needs no prescription". Eating mutton in dog days has a certain health foundation. Traditional Chinese medicine has the tradition of treating winter diseases in summer in dog days, and the main methods are dog days sticking, dog days moxibustion and dog days tonic. Among them, eating mutton is a kind of "three volts". If the human body is cold in the first place, eating mutton to get rid of cold in dog days can get twice the result with half the effort.

However, "eating sheep" is not suitable for everyone. People who are hot, easy to get angry, and prone to carbuncle, furuncle and furuncle are not suitable for "treating winter diseases in summer" including "tonic in three volts", so don't try it at will. We should also control the amount of "eating sheep". Take people with cold hands and feet in winter as an example. It is suggested to eat one kilogram to one and a half kilograms of mutton per volt in the dog days. Generally, these three days are a good time for tonic.