1 Soaking feet with hot water Many people will feel weak limbs, drowsiness, soreness, sweating and sticky discomfort after entering the dog days. Sometimes I feel that I have no appetite when I eat, and my stomach swells all day. Zhang Shiqing, deputy chief physician of Tuina Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that the root cause of all this is moisture, and a good way to deal with moisture is to soak feet with hot water. After entering the dog days, most people will ignore the good habit of soaking their feet in hot water. In fact, the hotter the weather, the heavier the humidity, and the more necessary it is to soak your feet with hot water. Yang is the most abundant in dog days. Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate the six meridians of the foot, such as the stomach meridian of the foot Yangming and the bladder meridian of the foot Taiyang, thus playing the role of invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness, dredging collaterals and diuresis. For most people, it is enough to soak their feet with hot water of about 40℃ in dog days. For people with weakness of limbs, lethargy and loss of appetite, 20 grams of Radix Clematidis (eliminating dampness), Rhizoma Atractylodis 15 grams (dredging menstruation) and Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 15 grams (invigorating spleen) can be added into hot water, and the effect will be better.

2 eat loofah, eat loofah the next day and compete with ginseng. This is because loofah also contains saponins contained in ginseng, which is very suitable for eating every other day to relieve summer heat and prevent dryness. The newly bought green loofah, whether made into clear soup, ribs or chicken soup, can remove oil to relieve boredom and greatly increase people's appetite. It's hot, and cold towel gourd is the best. Choose tender towel gourd with dark color, peel and cut into strips. Do cold towel gourd without soy sauce, vinegar and monosodium glutamate, only a little salt and sesame oil, so as to highlight the original flavor of towel gourd. The entrance is cold, tender, crisp and juicy, and the fragrance is overflowing.

3 Mutton Soup Many people think that beef and mutton is only a good tonic in winter, and it is easy to get angry in summer. In fact, this view is a misunderstanding of the nourishing nature of beef and mutton. China pays attention to the "three-cause principle" (that is, adapting to the time, adapting to local conditions, and adapting to people). The key to the use of food and medicine is to benefit from physique, climate and region. Eating beef and mutton and drinking mutton soup in dog days can strengthen the body, nourish yin and replenish qi. Therefore, there is also a saying that "a bowl of mutton soup in dog days does not require a doctor to prescribe a prescription". In addition, eating beef and mutton in summer is very necessary for supplementing nutrition. Eating mild beef and mutton can not only supplement rich nutrition, but also nourish heat with heat, expel toxic moisture in winter and spring through perspiration.

It is most suitable to turn on the air conditioner at 26℃ in dog days. More and more people suffer from respiratory diseases in summer, which is related to people staying in air-conditioned rooms for a long time. Nasal congestion, runny nose, headache, insomnia and endocrine disorders are all typical symptoms of so-called air conditioning disease. One of the most important reasons for air conditioning is the excessive temperature difference between indoor and outdoor. Although the human body has a certain ability to regulate body temperature, this ability is limited. It is difficult for the human body to quickly adjust from the hot outdoor to the cool indoor, resulting in a series of uncomfortable reactions, such as dizziness, fatigue, general malaise, listlessness, and decreased immune function. Experts suggest that the indoor and outdoor temperature difference should not be too large, generally around 8℃ to 10℃. Although there may be hot weather above 38℃ in summer, the temperature is below 35℃ for most of the day, so the indoor temperature is about 26℃. And generally open the air conditioner for two or three hours, and open the window for air in about half an hour.