Summer health care
1, keep warm and avoid cold in your life, and eat less cold drinks. The summer heat is unbearable, and some people don't leave the electric fan and air conditioner all day, so cold air will invade the human body from the skin and pores, which will easily hurt the yang of the lungs, leading to the decline of immunity of the upper respiratory tract, and bacteria and viruses will easily take advantage of it. Others like to drink iced drinks and eat melons and fruits, which will damage the spleen and stomach, consume yang and cause various diseases. Therefore, keep warm and avoid the cold in summer, the air conditioning temperature should not be too low, and eat less cold food.
2, the diet should be "bitter and spicy", that is, eat less bitterness and eat more spicy. Sun Simiao, the "King of Medicine" in the Tang Dynasty, put forward in "Thousands of Women": "In the summer of seventy-two, it is necessary to keep suffering, increase suffering and nourish lung qi. "Heart fire is in season in summer, bitter food, although it has the effect of clearing away heat and purging fire, relieving asthma and diarrhea, will help the heart and control lung qi, so it is not recommended to eat more in summer. Because heart fire can block lung meridian, and pungent taste belongs to lung meridian, people can eat more pungent food such as onion, ginger and garlic in summer, which has the functions of dispersing stagnation and promoting circulation of qi, promoting blood circulation and dredging orifices, and can replenish lung qi.
3. Exercise reasonably and keep fit. Proper exercise can improve human immunity and resist various diseases. It's hot in summer, so don't exercise excessively. It is best to do outdoor sports in the early morning and evening when the weather is cool, and choose sports with little or moderate exercise, such as jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and swimming.
4. Massage acupoints. Sitting in the front chair before going to bed, your knees are naturally separated, your hands are on your thighs, your eyes are closed, your whole body is relaxed, and you will stay in your abdomen. Inhale in your chest, hold your hands in a hollow fist, and tap the acupoints in your chest dozens of times. Ask your family to pat your back and spine from bottom to top for about 10 minutes, which can relax the qi in your chest and have the effect of strengthening and nourishing your lungs.
5. Nourishing the lungs with qi: the lungs govern qi and breathe. Clear gas and turbid gas exchange in the lung, and the quality of inhaled gas has a great influence on the function of the lung. If you want to keep your lungs fresh, you must first quit smoking, avoid the harm of second-hand smoke, and don't stay in a dirty place for a long time. Conditional friends can often go to places with lush vegetation and fresh air, do exercise, take a deep breath, and expel the polluted air from the body through deliberate deep breathing.
6. Water nourishes the lung: the lung is an open system, which forms the channel of qi from the nasal cavity to the trachea and then to the lung. Water in the lungs can be lost with the discharge of qi. Dry air is more likely to take away water, causing damage to lung mucosa and respiratory tract. This is what Chinese medicine says, dryness and evil are easy to hurt the lungs. Therefore, timely hydration is an important measure for lung maintenance.
7. Food nourishes the lungs: Sugarcane, autumn pear, lily, honey, radish, black sesame, soybean milk, tofu, walnuts, pine nuts and other foods have the function of nourishing and moistening the lungs, and can nourish the lungs through diet. Friends with dry nose and mouth skin can eat more of the above foods, or they can make medicated diets according to their preferences. Such as lily honey soup: wash with 50 grams of fresh lily and decoct with 30 grams of honey once a day, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, moisten the intestines and relax the bowels; Stewed Pear in Chuanbei: 2 fresh pears, 5g of Chuanbei, ground and stewed with water, which can nourish yin and clear heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; Lily millet porridge: 5 grams of lily and 0/00 grams of millet/kloc, cooked once a day, can warm and replenish lung qi.
8. Nourishing the lungs with medicine: Chinese medicines such as Glehnia littoralis, Glehnia littoralis, Ophiopogon japonicus, Schisandra chinensis, Cordyceps sinensis and bird's nest. Both have the function of nourishing the lungs.
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9. Nourish the lungs with laughter: the lungs are sad and sad, and sad emotions are easy to damage the lungs. People with lung disease are also easy to be sad and sad. Laughing for the heart can overcome the sadness of lung gold. Smiling more can reduce your sadness. Laughter is also a kind of fitness exercise, which can enlarge the chest, increase vital capacity and stretch the chest muscles. This helps to spread lung qi, which is beneficial to the rise and fall of human qi. Laughing every day can relieve fatigue, relieve depression, broaden the chest and regulate qi, restore physical strength and stimulate appetite.
10. Exercise to nourish lungs: Proper exercise can improve lung function. According to your own conditions, you can choose appropriate sports, such as jogging, mountain climbing, kicking shuttlecock, skipping rope, practicing martial arts and sword dancing. To stimulate and exercise the body's ability to keep out the cold and prevent colds.
1 1. Houttuynia cordata is the best wild vegetable for clearing lung heat in summer. "Houttuynia cordata" is also called ear root (available in vegetable market). Eating at ordinary times has a good effect on clearing away lung heat and can be used to nourish the lungs. Can be used for acute and chronic respiratory diseases. Modern pharmacological experiments show that it has antibacterial, antiviral, immune-enhancing and diuretic effects. Clinical reports are widely used to treat upper respiratory tract infection, influenza, lung abscess, cancerous pleural effusion, lung cancer, cervical erosion, acute bacillary dysentery, acute icteric hepatitis, epidemic parotid gland and other diseases. An anticancer substance has also been isolated from Houttuynia cordata abroad. Besides being effective for gastric cancer, it also has a certain therapeutic effect on advanced lung cancer, choriocarcinoma, malignant mole and rectal cancer.
After-meal health 3 secret recipes for lifelong health.
Three things to do after a meal: rinse your mouth, rub your face and abdomen, and hesitate to walk.
Rinse your mouth to prevent dental diseases. Brine tea is a bosom friend.
As early as 2008, the Health Literacy of China Citizens-Basic Knowledge and Skills (Trial) issued by the Ministry of Health put forward "Brush your teeth every day and rinse your mouth after meals" in the section of "Healthy lifestyle and behavior". Rinse your mouth after meals, that is, rinse your mouth after meals to remove food residues in your mouth and maintain oral hygiene. Gargling after meals is more protective than brushing your teeth in the morning and before going to bed. However, in real life, after three meals a day, how many people really gargle after meals?
Perhaps some readers will ask, if there is a mouthwash specially used for gargling, is it better to use mouthwash after meals? Not necessarily. Zhou Junbo, director of the Department of Stomatology, Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, said that in addition to harmful bacteria, there are also beneficial bacteria in our mouth. Long-term use of mouthwash with bactericidal effect is likely to lead to imbalance of bacteria in oral cavity, which is not conducive to oral health. So what is the best water to rinse your mouth with after a meal? Generally speaking, it is best to gargle with salty boiled water and tea. In particular, green tea has high polyphenol content, strong free radical scavenging effect and certain antibacterial activity, and has a good inhibitory effect on Streptococcus mutans, the main pathogen of dental caries. It is recommended not to pour out overnight tea water directly, but to rinse your mouth after meals.
Rub your face and abdomen, strengthen your teeth, benefit your stomach and clear your intestines.
"After eating, rub your face and abdomen with your hands to let body fluids flow through." Body fluid here has two meanings: first, it refers to Shui Gu body fluid; All refer to saliva. The specific method of rubbing the abdomen after a meal is generally centered on the navel, rubbing the abdomen with the palm of your hand, slowly and gently massaging clockwise, and taking the slight heat of the abdomen as the degree. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that body fluid comes from water and nutrients in the diet. These substances are absorbed by the stomach, decomposed and digested, and then transmitted to the small intestine. They excrete turbidity through the small intestine, absorb nutrients from Shui Gu, and then transport them to the spleen. The dregs spread downward to the large intestine, and the large intestine absorbed the residual water in the dregs to form feces, which were discharged from the small ass. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that massaging the abdomen is a process to help Shui Gu's body fluids to be better digested, absorbed and excreted in the human body.
Rubbing your face with your hands is a well-known dry washing. Regular hand rubbing can make facial muscles move, accelerate the microcirculation of facial capillaries, and make facial skin more elastic and lubricated. The way to rub your face is simple: sit facing south after getting up and close your eyes for a while. The two palms rub against each other to generate heat, massage the face with the palm, stick it in the middle of the forehead, wipe the face down to the chin, and then wipe it up to the forehead from the side, and the face gradually becomes hot. Need to remind everyone that for people with high blood pressure, it is best to massage the face from top to bottom; People with low blood pressure should massage their faces from bottom to top.
Stumbling, leisurely, carefree.
Many readers and friends are a little puzzled when they see the words "walking and hesitating". Is it necessary to walk hesitantly? In fact, the hesitation here means "calm and natural".
It is generally appropriate to take a walk and exercise about 30 minutes after meals, which is helpful for digestion, promoting metabolism, preventing obesity and improving sleep quality. In addition, taking a walk before meals after getting up in the morning is beneficial to gastrointestinal peristalsis. Be careful not to take a big step. Too many steps will cause leg and hip muscles to ache and cause unnecessary damage. Generally speaking, the walking speed is: the elderly and the physically weak walk about sixty or seventy steps per minute; Long-distance walkers, men take eighty or ninety steps per minute, and women take seventy or eighty steps; If you are in good health, walk 120 or 30 steps per minute.