Small full solar term means entering the rainy season with heavy precipitation, and the rain begins to increase, which often leads to continuous and large-scale heavy precipitation. Xiaoman, like rain, Grain Rain, light snow and heavy snow, are solar terms that directly reflect precipitation. The following is the traditional food and health care points I have compiled for you, hoping to help you.

What traditional food does Xiaoman eat?

1. Eat wild vegetables

Eating wild vegetables is the custom of Xiaoman. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Zhou Shu: Bitter vegetable show on the day of Xiaoman. The Book of Songs: Take pains, under the sun. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Take it for a long time, feel at ease and benefit qi, intellectual fit and be resistant to old age. In medicine, bitter herbs are often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up. Bitter weeds are all over the country, and they are called Patrinia in medicine. Bitter bitter herb is astringent in bitterness and sweet in astringency, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol needed by human body, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.

2. wheat cake

Since ancient times, it has been said that Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, because there are many silkworms in the south, and Xiaoman is an important time node for young silkworms to hatch and mulberry leaves to grow, so more attention is paid to "offering sacrifices to the silkworm god". At this time, people will use rice flour or flour as raw materials to make wheat cakes and wheat cakes shaped like cocoons and enjoy them together, hoping for a bumper harvest of cocoons.

3. Bitter gourd

Momordica charantia is a good food in summer, and it is rich in nutrients, mainly containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients. Immature tender fruits are used as vegetables, and ripe fruit pulp can be eaten raw, cold, fried meat and roasted fish, which is crisp and refreshing and has a unique flavor. Momordica charantia has the effects of stimulating appetite, helping digestion, removing heat and pathogenic factors, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Momordica charantia contains protein in addition to bitter quinine. It is found that protein can stimulate immune cells and has anti-cancer effect.

4. Lycium barbarum seedlings

Lycium barbarum seedlings are also called Lycium barbarum tips. Chinese medicine believes that the whole plant of Lycium barbarum seedlings is cool, sweet and bitter, and has the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing yin and improving eyesight. It is suitable for treating fever due to yin deficiency, thirst, hand and foot heart fever, liver and kidney deficiency, dry eyes, toothache due to deficiency of fire, etc.

5.dandelion

Taraxacum mongolicum, also known as Veronica, Dictyophora flavescens, etc., is a whole grass with roots of Taraxacum mongolicum, a compositae plant, which is widely distributed throughout the country. Dandelion is a nutritious vegetable, which mainly contains protein, fat, carotene, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dandelion is sweet, bitter and cold, and enters the liver and stomach meridians, which has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, stopping diarrhea, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver, invigorating stomach and lowering blood pressure.

Key points of health care in xiaoman solar terms

1, diet: clearing away dampness and heat, light vegetarian.

In Xiaoman season, the key point of health care is "heat and humidity prevention". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "summer heat carries more dampness", that is to say, the qi of summer heat is most likely to invade the human body together with dampness.

To prevent heat and damp, we should give priority to a refreshing and light vegetarian diet, and often eat foods with the function of clearing away heat, such as melon, bitter gourd, towel gourd, lotus root, tomato, watermelon, pear and other fruits and vegetables, which have the function of clearing heat and purging fire, and can also supplement vitamins and protein needed by the human body.

In addition, drink plenty of water, preferably warm water, which can promote metabolism and internal heat discharge. In addition, Neijing also holds that "all dampness and swelling belong to the spleen". Therefore, in order to get rid of dampness, it is suggested that citizens should eat more foods that can not only get rid of dampness but also strengthen the function of the spleen and stomach, such as yam, corn, water chestnut and coix seed.

2, dressing: should be loose, don't expose the navel.

After the small fullness, the temperature gradually rises, so the dress should be loose and comfortable, which is not only convenient for activities, but also ventilated and cool, which is conducive to heat dissipation. Generally speaking, the smaller the body area covered by clothing, the faster the body temperature will be lost, but in hot summer, don't mistakenly think that the more exposed you wear, the cooler you will be.

Because only when the outside temperature is lower than the skin temperature, the exposure will have a cool feeling. When the outside air temperature is higher than the skin temperature, the exposed area should not exceed 25% of the total surface area of the human body, otherwise the thermal radiation will invade the skin and become hotter.

In hot summer, it is a good choice to wear short fir, short skirt and shorts. In addition, the opening of summer clothes should not be too thin, and it is better to open it to facilitate ventilation and heat dissipation. It should be reminded that women who love to wear navel-revealing clothes and suspenders should avoid catching cold in their abdomen and shoulders when entering and leaving air-conditioned places, so as not to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, scapulohumeral periarthritis, neck-shoulder syndrome and other diseases.

3. Sleep: ensure sleep and keep warm.

After a small full day, the temperature rises obviously and the rainfall increases, but it will still be cooler in the morning and evening, and the daily temperature difference is still large, especially after the rain. Therefore, we should pay attention to adding clothes at the right time, especially when sleeping at night, and keep warm to avoid catching a cold and catching the wind. At the same time, we should conform to the principle that yang dissipates yin in summer, get up early and go to bed late, but we should ensure the sleep time to keep energetic.

At this time, the sunshine is getting longer, so you can get up early and go to bed late. In order to ensure sleep time and keep energetic, you can take a nap in stages at noon and after dinner. It is better to sleep for half an hour to one hour at noon, but not for too long. If you sleep after dinner, it is better to sleep for 15 to half an hour.

Some people will take a nap at their desks or desks at noon. In fact, this is not conducive to eliminating fatigue. Because when the human body is in sleep, the muscles of the whole body relax, the blood circulation slows down, and the blood supply to the head decreases. If sitting posture is adopted, people will feel dizziness, tinnitus, weak legs, blurred vision, pale face and other symptoms of cerebral ischemia and hypoxia after waking up. In addition, resting on the table will press the eyeball and increase the intraocular pressure, which is easy to induce eye diseases.

4. Bathing: Take a bath frequently and take a cold bath carefully.

At this time, the temperature rises, and the human body is prone to sweating. The public should take a bath frequently, but the water temperature should not be too high, because this will irritate the skin, wash away the protective sebum, and make the skin drier and vulnerable.

When taking a bath, adjust the water temperature to about 35 degrees Celsius, which is close to the body temperature. Be sure to dry it after taking a shower, and it is best to apply talcum powder after drying it.

After Xiaoman, many people like to take a cold bath because the weather is getting hotter. Although it is good to take a cold bath, it is not suitable for everyone. For example, people with weak constitution or suffering from hypertension and arthritis should not take a cold bath to avoid harm to their bodies.

Xiaoman diet principle

Xiao man ku Yan Cai

In ancient China, Xiaoman was divided into three stages: "A bitter vegetable show; Second, wait for the grass to die; Wait for the wheat to arrive in autumn. " In Zhou Shu, there is a saying that "the bitter vegetables show on the day of Xiao Man". Nutrition experts say that bitter vegetables contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, various inorganic salts, vitamins and other nutrients, which can clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify, and have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on furuncle, vomiting blood, nosebleed, constipation and colds.

Xiaoman sees "three delicacies"

Cucumber, garlic, cherry

Chinese medicine believes that cherry is warm and sweet and slightly sour; Entering the spleen and liver meridians has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, expelling wind and dampness, whitening the skin, removing wrinkles and spots. "The deputy director of the Nutrition Society and the director of the Nutrition Department focused on" tasting "cherries. Cherry can nourish skin, improve immunity, prevent cardiovascular disease, and prevent cancer. It is rich in carotene, which helps to maintain normal visual function, promote children's growth and development, maintain the integrity of epithelial cells and prevent respiratory infections and diarrhea.

Xiaoman should eat mulberry in season.

Eating mulberry often can nourish skin, delay aging, improve eyesight and relieve eye fatigue and dryness; Improve the visual function of cataract and diabetic blindness; Can improve immunity, protect cardiovascular function and prevent arteriosclerosis. It is suitable for anemia, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, premature graying, blurred vision and nocturnal emission.

Don't eat ginger, it is easy to hurt yin.

In Xiaoman season, due to the obvious characteristics of heat and humidity, all foods that affect yin and body fluid and help fire generate heat should not be eaten more. For example, ginger is warm and dry, which is easy to hurt yin, so it is not suitable to eat more. For patients with excess heat in the body, or suffering from hemorrhoids and hypertension, it is especially necessary to avoid eating; Pomegranate is easy to help fire and produce phlegm, so it is not suitable for eating. Patients with constipation, urethritis and diabetes should not eat more.