Principles of summer health preservation
1, adjust your breath and tidy up your mood.
The high temperature in summer can easily make people fidgety or tired, so mental conditioning is very important. In summer, you should be cheerful, cheerful, broad-minded and energetic. Just like everything needs sunshine to grow, you should have a strong interest in external things and cultivate an optimistic and outgoing personality, which is conducive to the ventilation of qi. Avoid emotional ups and downs, temper for small things, so as not to aggravate or even induce heart disease.
2. Exercise in the early morning or evening when the weather is cool.
Summer sports are best carried out in the early morning or evening when the weather is cool, and the venue should be chosen in places with fresh air such as rivers, lakes, parks and courtyards. Walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and radio exercises are the best exercise programs. If you exercise too much, you will sweat profusely and sweat too much, which will not only hurt Yin Qi, but also Yang Qi, and it is easy to get heatstroke.
Sweating too much during exercise, you can drink light salt boiled water or mung bean brine soup appropriately. Be sure to take a few sips and stop for a while. Don't drink too much at a time, especially don't drink a lot of cold drinks, so as to avoid gastrointestinal spasm and even cause stomach pain.
3. Go to bed late, get up early and take a nap at noon
Summer is the season with the highest yang. Health care should conform to the characteristics of yang excess, pay attention to protecting yang, ensure that you take a nap for about half an hour every day, and let yourself have a good mental state all afternoon. The elderly and infirm should go to bed early and get up early, and try to keep 7 hours of sleep every day.
4. Have a light diet and eat more? Bitter?
Drinking porridge in the morning and evening can not only quench thirst, but also nourish the body. In terms of fruits and vegetables, apples, grapes, papaya, loquat and other peaceful fruits are suitable for people of all physiques; People with deficiency and cold constitution had better eat less cold fruits such as bananas, Sydney, watermelons and persimmons. Bitter food not only has a light diet, but also has the functions of eliminating dryness and dampness, cooling and relieving summer heat, and stimulating appetite. And you can eat more bitter vegetables, such as bitter gourd and coriander.
Common sense of summer health care
Supplement salt and vitamins.
In summer, the human body sweats a lot, and sodium chloride loses a lot. Pay attention to supplementing salt while replenishing water. Drink some salty boiled water every day to keep the acid-base balance and osmotic pressure in the body relatively stable. Nutritionists also suggest that it is best to supplement vitamin B 1, vitamin B2 2 mg and calcium 1 g every day in high temperature season, which can reduce the consumption of sugar and tissue protein in the body and is beneficial to human health. Therefore, we should eat more foods rich in the above nutrients in summer, such as watermelon, cucumber, tomato, beans and their products, animal liver, shrimp skin and so on. You can also drink some juice.
Wear light clothes
Dark clothes will absorb sunlight and make people's body temperature rise and dry; At the same time, mosquitoes have the habit of blackening, and dark colors are easy to attract mosquitoes, especially black.
Blessed word? Bitter? Zhonglai
Alkaloids contained in bitter food have pharmacological effects such as relieving summer heat, promoting blood circulation and relaxing blood vessels. Eating some bitter food in hot weather can not only clear the heart, relieve annoyance and refresh the mind, but also stimulate the appetite, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach. Bitter gourd: Take its immature fruit as a dish. The mature pulp can be eaten raw, cold, fried and grilled fish. It is fresh and refreshing and has a unique flavor. Bitter gourd has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and pathogenic factors, eliminating fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight. In addition, bitter foods such as bitter vegetables, tea, coffee, etc. can also be selected as appropriate. It should be noted that eating bitter food should not be excessive, otherwise it may cause nausea, vomiting and other symptoms.
Pay attention to itchy skin.
When traveling in summer, when the skin is itchy and dry due to the sun, you can apply a small amount of ointment such as Fusong. Don't burn it with hot water or wash it with alkaline soap, so as not to irritate the skin and aggravate the symptoms.
Drink plenty of water
Drink seven or eight cups of boiled water every day, and you can add some honey to the water. In summer, people's physical energy consumption is particularly fast, and honey can quickly replenish the energy needed by the human body. Water is an indispensable part of human body. Organs, muscles, blood, hair, bones and teeth all contain water, and water loss will be more in summer. If you don't replenish water in time, it will seriously affect your health, make your skin dry, increase wrinkles and accelerate human aging. Like honey water, mineral water, herbal tea, milk and apple juice are all ideal thirst-quenching drinks.
Yang Yang
Huangdi Neijing? Su Wen? According to the cloud in the Theory of Four Temperaments and Spirits, Xia San Moon is a beautiful place, and everything is flashy. Going to bed at night and getting up early, the sun is never tired, which can make people angry, make Huaying put on a show and vent his anger. If they like outdoor, this summer's gas should be the way to keep healthy. ? In hot summer, many people will suffer from air conditioning disease. People turn on the air conditioner all day long, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor can reach more than ten degrees. In addition, a large number of cold drinks with ice will definitely hurt Yang. Therefore, we should pay attention to the living environment not to be too humid, not to eat too much frozen and cold food, not to adjust the air conditioning temperature too low at night, preferably above 26 degrees, and not to spend the night in the open air and cold places.
Dietary tonic
In the aspect of diet nourishing, the principle of nourishing and strengthening the spleen, removing summer heat and removing dampness is adopted in hot days. Fat, sweet and hot products should not be eaten, and light and nourishing food should be chosen. Sweet, cool and moist foods: wheat, sorghum, highland barley, tofu, white lentils, black sesame seeds, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, asparagus, spinach, wax gourd and watermelon. Foods for invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and invigorating qi: spinach, lotus root, water bamboo, tomatoes, carrots, eggs, apples, milk, grapes, lotus seeds, mulberries, clams, geese, herring, crucian carp, silver carp and barley flour. Foods for clearing away heat and dampness, clearing away heat and toxic materials: mung bean, broad bean, adzuki bean, soybean, raw radish, eggplant, Chinese cabbage, celery, water chestnut, coix seed, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, wax gourd, bitter gourd, chrysanthemum, lotus leaf and tea.
Potassium supplementation
Sweating more in summer, and more potassium ions are lost with sweat, leading to hypokalemia, which will cause fatigue, dizziness, headache, loss of appetite and other symptoms. The most effective way to prevent potassium deficiency in hot weather is to eat more foods containing potassium. Fresh vegetables and fruits contain more potassium, so you can eat more strawberries, apricots, lychees, peaches and plums. Vegetables include green onions, celery, edamame, etc., and are also rich in potassium. Tea also contains more potassium. Drinking more tea in hot weather can relieve summer heat and supplement potassium, killing two birds with one stone.