First, health care methods.
1, nourishing yang
Although summer is the most vigorous season in a year, we can't forget the nourishment of yang in midsummer. Pay attention to adjust the difference between body temperature and room temperature, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large. It is advisable to keep the room temperature above 26℃. If you stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time, you should keep your joints warm and ventilate at any time to avoid various diseases caused by gluttony.
Step 2 stabilize your mood
When the weather is hot, people tend to feel irritable. Emotional fluctuation will lead to high blood pressure, heavy heart burden, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and other diseases.
In summer health care, we should pay attention to maintaining the heart and calm down, which can relieve the tension, make the mood comfortable, make the blood calm and calm down naturally.
3. Pay attention to food hygiene
Summer is the season of high incidence of digestive tract diseases. At this time, we must pay attention to food hygiene, eat moderately, and do not overeat; It should be light and nutritious, and eat more foods with heat-clearing and dampness-promoting effects, such as mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, red bean barley porridge and so on. You can drink cassia seed tea, barley tea, chrysanthemum tea and kudingcha. Proper; Try to eat less spicy and fried food.
Step 4 adjust your schedule
There are long sunshine hours in summer, so people should adjust their work and rest accordingly, go to bed early and get up early, and try to ensure more than 7 hours of sleep every day. Usually you can also supplement it by taking a nap. 1 hour nap is appropriate. It's best to lie flat, not sleep on your stomach.
5. Keep proper exercise.
The weather is very hot, and summer is really not suitable for strenuous exercise. Short walks, swimming, Tai Chi, etc. They are all the most suitable exercises in hot summer, which can calm down and relieve stress. It is best to choose exercise time in the morning and evening, and it is not too late to practice at night, so as not to affect sleep.
Second, health food therapy in summer
1, lotus seed
Summer is the season of labor, so eat lotus seeds. Lotus seeds are commonly known as lotus seeds to nourish the heart. Therefore, you can choose to eat more lotus seeds in summer.
Efficacy:
(1) Anti-cancer. The xanthosine oxide contained in lotus seeds has inhibitory effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
(2) lowering blood pressure. The amorphous alkaloid N-9 contained in lotus seeds has the effect of lowering blood pressure.
(3) Tonifying the heart and calming the nerves has a significant cardiotonic effect, while liensinine has a strong anti-calcium and anti-arrhythmia effect.
2. Strawberries
Early summer is also the time when strawberries will be on the market. At this time, eating more strawberries in season is also good for our health, which can help us eliminate toxins from the body.
Efficacy:
(1) nourishing and conditioning. Strawberry has a certain nourishing and conditioning effect on gastrointestinal tract and anemia.
(2) Reducing blood fat and preventing cancer. Strawberries can not only prevent scurvy, but also prevent arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. It can adsorb and prevent the absorption of carcinogenic chemicals in the body, and has the function of preventing cancer.
(3) Removing toxic substances can naturally and peacefully remove heavy metal ions from the body.
3. Duck eggs
Duck eggs are recommended as the first diet in summer, which can help you recover your strength and supplement other nutrients your body needs.
Efficacy:
(1) Clearing lung and reducing yin fire is suitable for people with cough due to lung heat, sore throat and diarrhea. Salted egg butter has the function of improving eyesight and nourishing eyes, and can also treat children's food retention. External use can treat burns and eczema.
(2) strengthening the body, promoting bone development and preventing anemia.
(3) Promote appetite, stimulate digestive organs, stimulate appetite, make nutrition easy to digest and absorb, and have the functions of neutralizing stomach acid, cooling and lowering blood pressure.
4. energy
It makes sense to eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. Eating ginger slices in summer can cure some winter diseases. But remember, ginger is best eaten in the morning, and it is not recommended to eat at noon and night.
Efficacy:
(1) Cool and refreshing, stimulating appetite. Ginger has the functions of excitement, sweating and refreshing in hot season; Ginger also has the function of strengthening the stomach and appetizing.
(2) appetizing and strengthening the spleen, heatstroke prevention and thirst quenching. Ginger has three functions: sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming stomach and stopping vomiting, and detoxifying.
(3) Prevention and treatment of abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea Scientists have found that ginger can play the role of some antibiotics, especially against Salmonella.
5. Sweet potato
Summer has arrived. Although sweet potatoes are usually baked in winter, they can also be eaten in summer. One is to eat, and the other is to stick dirty things on the intestinal wall to achieve the effect of clearing the intestine.
Efficacy:
(1) Anti-cancer, effectively inhibiting the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer.
(2) Relaxation and weight loss, eating sweet potatoes can effectively prevent sugar from transforming into fat, which is conducive to weight loss and bodybuilding.
(3) improve immunity. Sweet potato leaves have health care functions such as improving immunity, stopping bleeding, lowering blood sugar, detoxicating, and preventing and treating night blindness.
6. Mung beans
Mung beans suggest eating mung bean sprouts or drinking mung bean soup, both of which are good choices. The former can clear away poison, while the latter can relieve summer heat.
Efficacy:
(1) has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating qi to quench thirst, and promoting diuresis. It can not only replenish water, but also replenish inorganic salts in time to maintain the balance of water and electrolyte.
(2) Antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects. Some components in mung bean have direct antibacterial effect and can enhance the immune function of the body.
(3) Protect kidney, reduce protein decomposition, and protect liver and kidney.
7.bitter gourd
After entering the summer, when the weather is hot, there will naturally be the possibility of getting angry. Therefore, at this time, eating more bitter gourd can prevent getting angry. If you don't like bitterness, you can make it painless by cooking.
Efficacy:
(1) Momordica charantia has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, invigorating kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has certain curative effects on dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever, excessive miliaria, conjunctivitis and other diseases.
(2) Prevention of coronary heart disease. Bitter gourd has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane, preventing atherosclerosis, improving stress ability and protecting heart.
(3) Anti-cancer, the effective components in bitter gourd can inhibit the canceration of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutant cells.
8. Lettuce; lettuce
It is hot every day in summer, and there is a lot of gas in the body. At this time, to eat more ventilated things, lettuce is the first choice of nature. Eating lettuce can help you ventilate and get rid of the waste gas in your body.
Efficacy:
(1) diuresis and lactation, promoting urination and milk secretion. It has a certain dietotherapy effect on patients with hypertension, edema and heart disease.
(2) Anti-cancer can regulate the function of nervous system, which is very beneficial to patients with iron deficiency anemia. The hot water extract of lettuce has a high inhibitory rate on some cancer cells, so it can be used to prevent cancer.
(3) It can relieve constipation and detoxify, promote peristalsis of intestinal wall, dredge digestive tract and help defecation, and can be used to treat various constipation.
9. Coix seed
Coix seed has the effect of clearing heat and drying dampness. It's hot and dry in summer, and it's easy to get upset. At this time, eating some gingko barley porridge can clear away heat and make your body comfortable.
Efficacy:
(1) Strengthen the spleen and stomach and promote metabolism. Coix seed contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, which can promote metabolism and reduce the burden on the stomach. It can be used as tonic food for patients who are weak during or after illness. Regular consumption of coix seed food is also effective for chronic enteritis and dyspepsia.
(2) Whitening skin. Coix seed contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which is a beauty food. Regular consumption can keep skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne and spots, and improve skin color. It has a certain therapeutic effect on warts caused by virus infection.
(3) It is a commonly used diuretic for eliminating dampness, which is beneficial to detumescence, invigorating spleen, eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus.
10, lemon
Lemon is rich in vitamin C and is the most natural whitening agent. Vitamin c can effectively prevent the sun from burning the skin. Vitamin c can be added after exposure in midsummer or coming back from the seaside.
Efficacy:
(1) Promote fluid production to relieve summer heat and stimulate appetite. Although lemon food tastes sour and slightly bitter, it can't be eaten raw like other fruits, but lemon peel is rich in aromatic volatile components, which can promote fluid production and relieve summer heat, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen. Summer is hot and humid, and many people are very tired. After working or studying for a long time, you often have a bad appetite. Drinking a cup of lemon soaked in water, the fresh and sour taste makes people feel refreshed and can open their appetite.
(2) beauty beauty lemon contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and other nutrients, and is also rich in organic acids and citric acid. Lemon is a kind of high alkaline food, which has strong antioxidant effect and is very effective in promoting skin metabolism, delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation.
(3) Clearing heat and resolving phlegm, lemon can also resolve phlegm. Lemon peel has stronger expectorant effect than citrus. It is hot and humid in summer. If you don't pay attention to the diet, the internal dampness of the human body and the external dampness of the natural climate interact, and phlegm will be produced over time. So in summer, there is a lot of phlegm and my throat is uncomfortable. Adding warm water and a small amount of salt to lemon juice can successfully cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in the throat.
Several simple health-preserving methods and several summer health-preserving foods introduced above can not only make women not feel upset and dry in midsummer, but also get proper maintenance and become increasingly moist, so female friends may wish to refer to these five methods for summer health-preserving. In addition, we should remind everyone that it is peaceful to conform to nature. Although the air-conditioned room is cool and comfortable, we should stay in it as little as possible.