Health knowledge in late spring and early summer
1. Moderate cold protection in spring
Spring covering is an effective measure to prevent spring cold, and moderate spring covering is a scientific method to maintain human yang. Especially in the morning and evening, the clothing cover should be thicker and thicker, and the key point is to cover the lower body. Maintaining Yang Qi can enhance resistance, avoid the invasion of cold pathogens, and effectively prevent various infectious diseases. Old people with hypertension and heart disease need cold protection, warmth and aphrodisiac to prevent stroke or myocardial infarction. However, there should be a certain degree of spring coverage. 15℃ is the critical temperature of the spring sleeve. If it exceeds 15℃, you should reduce your clothes and stop covering. If you cover it again, it will easily lead to spring fire.
2. Don't sweat when exercising.
Late spring and early summer are the best exercise time. Follow the principle of "no sweat, no dirt", find a lakeside garden and do some outdoor activities to keep Yang strong. It's best to warm your hands after waking up, do simple facial work, knock on your teeth, pull your ears and stretch your limbs. This is also a very necessary morning exercise, which can help dispel the internal heat. Long-term persistence will also have the effect of bright ears and rosy complexion.
3. Be careful of spleen and stomach damage
To protect the spleen and stomach, it is best to eat more thin food, porridge and soup, which can quench thirst, relieve summer heat and nourish the body. In addition, fresh vegetables and fruits should be supplemented with enough vitamins, water and inorganic salts. Among the foods, the foods for clearing heat and promoting diuresis are watermelon, bitter gourd, peach, ebony, strawberry, tomato, cucumber and mung bean. , have a certain summer effect. It is best not to eat the food taken out of the refrigerator in a hurry, but to eat it at room temperature for a period of time, and not to eat too much at a time, especially for the elderly, children and people with chronic gastritis and indigestion.
4. Drink plenty of water to detoxify and maintain the liver.
Many toxins in the human body are excreted by water at the same time. The cold and dry body in early spring needs a lot of water. In fact, drinking plenty of water has many benefits to human body, not only can replenish body fluids, enhance blood circulation and promote metabolism, but also can promote the secretion of glands, especially digestive glands, pancreatic juice and bile, so as to facilitate digestion, absorption and waste elimination and reduce the damage of metabolites and toxins to the liver.
5. Have a light diet and avoid sweetness and spicy food.
When the weather turns hot, people's gastric acid secretion decreases. Once they drink too much water, their stomach acid will be diluted, which will weaken their digestive function. Therefore, Chinese medicine will suggest that the diet should be light. You should also eat more nutritious and light food. Don't eat greasy, fried and hot food. Usually eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less spicy food. You can also eat more light, refreshing and digestible foods, such as mung beans, lentils, loofah, coix seed, wax gourd and lotus seeds, which are all good choices. Moreover, for friends with heavy "moisture", you may wish to drink some bean porridge and barley porridge to remove moisture.
Healthy fruit in late spring and early summer.
1, cherry
Cherry is the freshest and most nutritious fruit in early summer. Cherry is very effective in enriching blood, regulating qi and beautifying face. Traditional medicine has widely recorded the medicinal value of cherry: "Cherry tastes sweet and astringent, can adjust middle qi, and eat more beauty beauty"; It has the effect of "treating human deficiency, invigorating qi and moistening skin".
Cherry is warm, and people with fever and cough should not eat it; Cherry nucleolus contains cyanosides, which produce hydrocyanic acid after hydrolysis. Be careful when taking medicine. Those with ulcer symptoms, those who get angry, eat carefully; People with diabetes should not eat it.
2. pineapple
Pineapple is a bright spot in the fruit market in early summer. Pineapple is a tropical fruit. Its rich vitamins can not only dilute facial spots, make the panel moist and transparent, but also effectively exfoliate, promote skin metabolism and make the panel healthy. Pineapple contains almost all the vitamins needed by human body, 16 natural minerals, which can effectively help digestion and absorption. The secret of pineapple weight loss lies in its rich juice, which can effectively hydrolyze fat.
To clean the peel, scaly whiskers and diced fruit, slice the pulp and soak it in salt for a few minutes before eating. Consumers with periodontitis, gastric ulcer and oral mucosal ulcer should be careful to eat pineapple, because pineapple is an acidic fruit, and patients with gingival mucosa and stomach diseases will also have gastric acid reflux, and allergic reactions will occur if they eat more.
3.mango
At present, when mango is on the market, the precursor carotene of vitamin A contained in mango is particularly high, which is rare in all fruits. Secondly, the content of vitamin C is not low. Minerals, protein, fat, sugar, etc. It is also its main nutritional component. The dietary fiber contained in mango helps to remove wastes and poisons in the digestive tract, which is beneficial to the growth of beneficial bacteria in the intestine and protects the digestive system. In addition, mango is also rich in potassium, and potassium deficiency will cause imbalance of body fluids and constipation.
When mango is not ripe, the pedicel will ooze white juice, which may be the cause of allergy. In any case, people with cough due to deficiency cold, itchy throat and white phlegm should avoid eating to avoid itchy throat. Asthma patients should also fast according to the doctor's advice. If you are allergic to mango, rinse off the mango juice left on your mouth with cold water at the first time, and then apply it to the allergic part with a towel soaked in cold water. You can also buy oral antiallergic drugs in hospitals or pharmacies.
4. Summer orange
Summer orange ripens from mid-February to early April every year, and is rich in vitamins, trace elements and other essential substances for human body. Its skin is thin, smooth, bright orange-red, the meat is crisp and tender, slag-melting, sweet and slightly sour, with less juice and more stones, pleasant aroma, unique flavor and excellent taste. It has the effects of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, moistening lung, relieving cough, resolving phlegm, regulating qi, promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, lowering blood pressure, caring skin, strengthening brain, sobering up, and relieving fatigue.
Eating oranges in large quantities may cause abdominal pain, diarrhea and even bone diseases. Therefore, you can't eat more than four oranges a day. It should be noted that eating too many oranges or other foods rich in carotene will make your panel yellow. If you don't want to be a "yellow-faced woman", you must resist its sweet and sour temptation!
5. Loquat
Loquat germinates in autumn, blooms in winter and bears fruit in spring, Xia Guo. It absorbs the dew of the four seasons and the aura of heaven and earth. It ripens in late spring and early summer, when fruits are scarce. Its pulp is soft and juicy, sweet and sour, delicious, delicious, nutritious, and has medical efficacy, which is deeply loved by people.
Loquat is very particular about its selection and consumption. Choose a fruit with orange peel, complete villi, large and symmetrical head behind the ear, which tastes good. In addition, the ripe loquat peel and the stalk of the head are easy to remove, but there are many hairs and stolen goods at the tail, so it must be cleaned before eating. Note that fresh loquat is not easy to preserve, so don't buy too much at a time.