Middle-aged and elderly people have poor adaptability to high temperature weather, and it is important to be calm and calm in summer. Specifically, try to keep an optimistic and cheerful attitude and avoid emotional stimuli such as being too happy, too angry, too frightened, too sad and too thoughtful. "

In addition, middle-aged and elderly people with qi stagnation should pay special attention to preventing "emotional heatstroke" in summer. Experts pointed out that some elderly people will have great emotional fluctuations when the weather is hot, such as irritability, nagging, excitability, low fever and thirst, restless sleep at night, or dull expression, depression and pessimism, silence and laziness, lack of food and so on. The abnormal performance of these emotions and behaviors may be caused by "emotional heatstroke".

"Paleness, sentimentality, depression, chest tightness and frequent sighing are all common manifestations of people with qi stagnation." Experts say that most people with this constitution belong to "stagnation of liver-qi", and the symptoms are particularly obvious in midsummer, so they should be conditioned by regulating qi and relieving depression, eliminating summer heat and dampness. "Chenpi has the characteristics of soothing the liver and relieving depression, aromatic dampness, promoting qi circulation and strengthening the stomach. Therefore, in summer, people with qi stagnation can not only maintain a cheerful, optimistic, peaceful and quiet mood, but also eat duck meat or dried tangerine peel, winter melon, chicken and pork. They can also eat some freshwater fish, add fragrant seasonings such as ginger, onion, dried tangerine peel, lobster sauce and garlic, and steam or stew and fry the four big fish. "

Nourishing the spleen: Eat a light diet and eat less iced food. In addition to "nourishing the heart", another health care focus in summer is "nourishing the spleen". In summer, spleen strengthening should keep a light diet, avoid eating greasy, irritating, barbecue and fried products, and pay attention to food hygiene, and do not eat rotten food to maintain good digestion and absorption function.

In addition, eat as little cold drinks and iced food as possible.