1. Long summer is coming: keep healthy and raise your heart. It is wise to restrain anger in hot weather.

Experts pointed out that the long summer is traditionally considered as the beginning of summer. At this time, the temperature has obviously risen, and the average temperature in most parts of the country is around 18-20℃, which is the mid-spring and late spring season of "all kinds of red and purple contend for wild things"; When summer comes, thunderstorms increase and plants enter the peak season, which is an important solar term.

Connecting with the heart in summer is beneficial to the physiological activities of the heart. Therefore, we must adapt to the changes in this solar term and maintain our hearts. Experts said that at this time, the elderly should pay attention to avoid blood stasis and prevent heart attacks.

2. Pay attention to heart maintenance: do more quiet things.

With the hot and dry weather, our hearts will become restless. Therefore, in hot weather, we should "abstain from dryness and anger" and maintain a balanced mentality. Eat less spicy food when it is convenient to eat. Eat more light food such as yam and seafood. It can not only clear away heat and prevent heatstroke, but also stimulate appetite.

Chinese medicine believes that the heart yang is the most vigorous in summer. When the temperature rises in summer, people tend to be irritable, lose their temper and have low immune function. Especially for the elderly, myocardial ischemia, arrhythmia and hypertension caused by anger are easy to aggravate, and even sudden death occurs. Therefore, at the turn of spring and summer, we should adapt to the change of weather, do a good job of self-regulation and pay attention to heart maintenance.

Experts say that in the "long summer" season, we should do a good job in "mental health" and do more quiet things, such as painting, calligraphy, listening to music, playing chess, planting flowers and fishing.

3. Pay attention to tonifying the kidney and helping the liver: eating more is good for nourishing.

For human viscera, the liver qi gradually weakens and the heart qi gradually increases in the long summer. At this time, the diet should increase acid and reduce bitterness, tonify the kidney and help the liver. Ensuring normal gastrointestinal function and resisting the invasion of summer heat is an important part of summer health preservation. After the long summer, the spirit of the sun is rising and the weather is getting warmer. Eating more greasy or easy-to-get-angry food will cause fever inside and outside the body, and it is prone to acne, oral ulcer, constipation and other diseases. In order to solve the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach at this time, the diet should be light, add more water, and eat more digestible foods rich in vitamins.

One of the important ways to keep healthy in summer diet is to eat more thin food. Like drinking porridge. Porridge can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. In addition, more vitamins should be added, such as light absorption, wax gourd, tomatoes and so on.

4. Adjust according to the season: go to bed late and get up early for lunch break.

Because it gets dark late and dawn early after the "long summer", people often go to bed late and wake up early, which leads to lack of sleep and often take a nap during the day. According to experts, from 13 to 15, the temperature is the highest in a day. People sweat easily, sweat more and dissipate heat, and a large amount of blood is concentrated on the body surface, so the blood supply to the brain is relatively reduced. After lunch, the blood supply to the digestive tract increases, and the blood supply to the brain is less, which makes people feel depressed and sleepy easily.

Therefore, according to the change of solar terms, we can go to bed and get up early than in the Spring Festival Evening in winter to adapt to the change of yang excess and yin deficiency in nature. But siesta should be increased, especially for the elderly, who have the characteristics of fake sleep and need siesta more. People who are not used to taking a nap at noon should listen to music or close their eyes, and it is best not to work overtime.

Generally speaking, the lunch break should be half an hour to one hour, and the time should not be too long. Don't get up in a hurry after waking up, and then lie down for 10 minutes to get up. Don't be greedy when sleeping, avoid sleeping in the air, and prevent getting sick from catching cold and catching cold.