1, what are the dog days?
The dog days lie between the hot summer and beginning of autumn, and it is the hottest, humid and sultry day of the year. The dog days are calculated according to the lunar calendar, between the middle and late July and the early August of the solar calendar.
2. Emotional health
The dog days are extremely hot, and people are prone to "liver fire", and there are symptoms of "emotional heatstroke" such as upset, listlessness, loss of appetite, impatience and anxiety. At this time, health care should pay attention to a clean heart. The hotter, the calmer, and avoid emotional stimulation.
3. Diet and health
Eat more food for heatstroke prevention and dampness elimination.
It is hot and rainy in the dog days, which easily leads to the accumulation of summer heat and dampness, chest tightness, tasteless diet, dizziness and heavy limbs. You can eat more mung beans, wax gourd, kelp, coix seed, gordon euryales and other foods. Thereby relieving summer heat, clearing away heat, eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen.
4. Eat more foods that benefit qi and nourish yin.
In dog days, the human body sweats a lot, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt the yin. In addition to replenishing water in time, we should eat more foods that benefit qi and nourish yin to enhance our physical fitness. Yam, red dates, sea cucumbers, eggs, milk, honey, lotus roots and fungus are all good products for summer tonic.
5, appropriate v should not move
In dog days, the human body lacks vitality, and it is easy to lose vitality when it is active, which leads to the invasion of foreign evils and illness. Therefore, you should be quiet and nourish your vitality at this time. Suitable sports include yoga and Tai Chi.
6. Cure winter diseases in summer
Dog days are the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang throughout the year, and there is often a saying that "winter diseases are treated in summer" in health care. For those chronic diseases that are prone to attack in winter, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and rheumatism, this is the best time to treat them.
7. Healthy recipes in dog days
(1) Fried Lily with Yam and Watermelon
Ingredients: 200g yam, 0/50g watermelon/kloc-0, fresh lily.
Practice: Peel and dice yam, dice watermelon, and blanch yam and fresh lily respectively. Heat oil in the pan, add onion and ginger, stir fry, add diced yam and lily, add salt to taste, add diced watermelon and stir fry quickly, thicken with water starch and pour sesame oil.
Efficacy: This dish has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.
(2) Lotus leaf stem coix seed porridge
Ingredients: lotus leaf stem 30g, willow leaf 3g, coix seed 15g, lentil 20g.
Practice: add 3 bowls of water to the pot, add all the ingredients and fry until the porridge is thick.
Efficacy: Eating this porridge often has the effects of dispelling summer heat, strengthening spleen and diuresis.
8, dog days should pay attention.
(1) Beware of cervical cold.
It is hot and natural. Many families turn on the air conditioner for a long time, and the cervical vertebra blows against the air conditioner, which will cause pathological changes of surrounding soft tissues, form chronic inflammation of muscles and subcutaneous tissues, and cause persistent neck spasm, back pain and other consequences. It is suggested that the indoor air conditioning temperature should not be lower than 25℃, and the shoulders should not directly face the air conditioning. If the temperature can't be adjusted by yourself, you can put a shawl on your shoulder and take a hot bath at night.
(2) Drinking water should not be too fast
Because of the high temperature, the speed of water shortage will also accelerate, and many people are used to drinking water in big gulps. If you drink water too fast, the water will quickly enter the blood, be absorbed in the intestine, dilute the blood, increase the blood volume, and have a bad heart. Especially people with coronary heart disease will have chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms, which may seriously lead to myocardial infarction. Therefore, drinking water in summer should not be too fast, and it should be small for many times. Drink only 100~ 150 ml every time, the body will absorb it better, and you can't be greedy for cold. /kloc-Warm water above 0/0 degree is the best for your health.
(3) Pay attention to eye protection.
In the scorching sun, the eyes are the most vulnerable organs. Experts remind that eyes like cold and fear heat. If you don't pay attention to sun protection, it is easy to age ahead of time and cause various eye diseases. If you want to go out from 10 to 4 pm, you'd better wear sunglasses, a hat or an umbrella. Dark brown and light green sunglasses have the best anti-ultraviolet effect; You can eat more eye-catching foods, such as longan, yam, carrots, red dates and so on. Bacteria multiply quickly in summer, so rub your eyes as little as possible; Washing your face with running water can reduce eye diseases.
(4) soaking feet in hot water-eliminating dampness and evil spirits.
After entering the dog days, many people will feel weak, sleepy, sore, sweaty and sticky, sometimes they feel no appetite when eating, it is difficult to digest after eating, and their stomachs swell 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.