How to maintain your health during the Dog Days
The Dog Days are the hottest period of the year, and are a good time to cure winter diseases in the summer. The following are some summer supplements for your health during the Dog Days: Dog Days Tie, Dog Days Moxibustion and tonics, let’s take a look at how to maintain health during the dog days of summer.
There are two principles to be followed in maintaining health during the Dog Days: first, treating winter diseases in the summer; second, nourishing the body during the Dog Days. As for the ways to maintain health during the Dog Day, there are even more diverse methods: there are medicines such as Sanfu patching, Sanfu moxibustion, Sanfu tonic, and appropriate physical exercise.
Dog Day Health Preservation: Winter Diseases and Summer Treatment
Since Dog Day is the hottest period of the year, with the highest temperature and the strongest yang energy, at this stage, human skin To relieve diarrhea, choose acupoints for application. The medicine is most likely to penetrate into the acupuncture points and meridians from the skin, and can directly reach the diseased area through the meridians and blood. Therefore, the best results can often be achieved when treating winter diseases in summer. Moreover, Geng Day is related to Lung Metal (Geng Day is metal and belongs to the large intestine, and the large intestine and the lungs are related to the exterior and interior). It is the best time to warm the yang energy of the lung meridian and dispel the internal cold evil.
Sanfu moxibustion for health preservation during the dog days
Sanfu moxibustion is the treasure of motherland’s medicine. Sanfu moxibustion is the most distinctive Futian health therapy in traditional Chinese medicine, and it has similarities with modern preventive medicine. As early as thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine advocated the therapy of "not treating the existing disease but treating the disease before it". It was the earliest preventive medicine in the world. "Sanfu moxibustion", which "treats winter diseases in summer", is the most representative method. This therapy is to take advantage of the dog days of the year when the yang energy is the most abundant, when the yang energy in people's bodies is relatively abundant, and use traditional Chinese medicine that can warm the meridians, dissipate cold, replenish deficiency and boost yang to make medicinal cakes, and analyze them through syndrome differentiation by experienced acupuncture doctors. Finally, select the corresponding acupoints for moxibustion treatment.
Sanfu Tie of Sanfutian Health Preservation
Sanfu Tie is a kind of plaster, the size of a bank card, usually used in groups of four. It is believed that it can be used to treat and prevent certain diseases that occur in winter (such as rhinitis, tracheitis, pharyngitis, asthma, etc.) in the summer when the head falls on the lunar calendar on certain parts of the back. For different diseases, four pieces of plaster are generally applied. Stick them together on different locations on the back and leave them on for eight hours before taking them off. Choosing to apply it in the dog days of summer is based on the theory of "winter diseases are treated in the summer" of traditional Chinese medicine. For serious diseases that are prone to occur in winter, such as bronchial asthma and allergic rhinitis, it is best to apply it on the hottest days of the year (these three days are the yang energy of the human body). The most popular), applying pungent, warming and dispelling cold medicine to different acupoints on the back can reduce the symptoms of winter asthma attacks.
Futian tonic for Sanfutian health
Folks have "Toufu chicken, Erfu dog, Sanfu turtle and red date belly". Koreans also eat ginseng chicken soup, dog meat soup and other supplements in Futian. Traditionally, people in Xuzhou say, "A bowl of soup for Fuyang in Pengcheng does not require a prescription from a miracle doctor." It can be seen that there are customs of tonic during the dog days in different regions. To supplement and maintain health during the Dog Days, you must grasp the characteristics of the Dog Days: high temperature, high humidity, long daylight hours, and relatively little sleep time. Supplementing should be based on the actual situation of the individual, distinguishing between deficiency and excess, and symptomatic supplementation. It is best to take supplements under the guidance of a doctor. If you supplement at will, it may aggravate the body's loss and add fuel to the fire. Patients with asthma, bronchitis and other respiratory diseases should not be greedy for cold food during the dog days. People with weak constitution should eat less cold food, such as pears, watermelon, cold drinks, etc.
The dog days of health preservation include practicing the dog days of summer
As the saying goes, "Practice the dog days of winter and practice the dog days of summer." This is a summary of the experience of long-term health cultivation in ancient times. Modern medicine has proven that in hot weather, the human body produces an emergency protein that can resist the damage caused to the human body in summer. It can be seen that the human body itself has the ability to adapt to survive in different environments. Exercising the body in severe cold and heat can improve the body's ability to adapt to different environments. Therefore, the ancients believed that people who have gained health and fitness can "not avoid cold and heat, and are immune to all poisons." However, when practicing in the summer, you must dialectically avoid high temperature periods to prevent heat stroke. Doctors remind: This kind of exercise method is not suitable for ordinary people, especially the elderly and frail people, or people and children who live in a suitable temperature environment for a long time. The ability to adapt to different environments is low, so it is better for these people to escape the heat in the dog days.
Attachment: What to eat during the Dog Days to maintain health
There are many proverbs in the Ming Dynasty about what to eat during the Dog Days to maintain health. There has always been a saying in the north that "the first one is dumplings, the second is noodles, and the third is pancakes and eggs." , Southerners eat different things during the three days of dog days. To give a few examples: Shanghai "wontons and tea on the first day of the dog days", Hangzhou "ham and ham and two days of chicken on the first day and eat gold and silver hooves on the three days of dog days" in Nanchang, "chicken and duck on the first day and two days of dog days" in Nanchang, Hunan and Jiangxi are adjacent to each other, and they are also eating chicken. Shanghainese like to make big wontons and eat them on a daily basis. They still eat big wontons when they are in bed, which shows their thrifty folk customs.
Eating pasta to maintain health during the dog days in the north
Among the three types of pasta, dumplings, noodles, and pancakes, pancakes are cooked in the best way. Dietary common sense holds that pancakes do not need to be boiled or washed, and the loss of various soluble vitamins and minerals is minimal. Both dumplings and noodles need to be boiled, and the soluble nutrients in them, such as vitamins B1, B2, folic acid, niacin, potassium, and some magnesium, etc. will dissolve into the noodle soup, and the dissolved nutrients are larger than those lost by heat. Health experts point out that the elderly often remind their children and grandchildren not to forget to drink the dumpling soup when eating dumplings. If the noodle soup is not too salty, it is best to use "original soup and original food". In this way, "the fertilizer and water do not fall into other people's fields", all the nutrients are collected in the stomach, and water is replenished along with it.
Southerners eat chicken to maintain health
There is some scientific basis for eating chicken to maintain health during the dog days. Folk proverb goes: "Eat a chicken during the ups and downs, and you will be in good health for a year." In the dog days of summer, people consume more physical energy and must supplement their nutrition appropriately. When roasting chicken, you can add an appropriate amount of ginger. Ginger is warm in nature and can adjust the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the human body in summer, allowing the human body to adapt to the external environment and play a role in removing moisture and strengthening the body.
How do Koreans maintain health during the Dog Days
Not only us, but Koreans also pay special attention to nourishing during the Dog Days. The theory is to "heat with heat" so that the human body can absorb rich nutrients. Thereby resisting the heat damage. Traditional Korean tonic foods during the dog days include: ginseng chicken soup, dog meat soup, and aquatic products such as loach and octopus.
How to maintain health during the dog days of summer? The above article introduces you to the method of maintaining health during the Dog Days. During the Dog Days, you can apply Sanfu patches and moxibustion during the Dog Days. In addition, you should also exercise appropriately to prevent heatstroke.
Drink more porridge and soup to replenish electrolytes
Sufficient water-containing food should be provided, and more importantly, various minerals lost during sweating should be replenished, especially sodium and potassium.
Ordinary sweet drinks only contain sugar and water, but cannot provide electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc., and do not contain vitamins. Therefore, do not rely solely on sweet drinks to quench your thirst. Instead, you should eat as many fruits and vegetables as possible. You should also prepare nutritious porridge soups and summer-relieving drinks at home, especially bean soup and bean porridge, which are best for supplementing potassium, magnesium, etc. Minerals are most helpful. Green tea, flower and fruit tea, sour plum soup, etc. are also better choices.
When drinking soup, pay attention to small amounts and multiple times, because drinking too much may cause sudden large amounts of sweating and loss of appetite. Drinks just taken out of the refrigerator must be left at room temperature for a while before drinking to avoid sudden contraction of gastrointestinal blood vessels and even spasm.
Milk, eggs and beans are indispensable.
In high temperatures above 35°C, the human body will lose a large amount of protein through perspiration, and at the same time, protein decomposition in the body will also increase. Especially in sultry weather, people often lose their appetite and do not like to cook, so it is easy to suffer from insufficient protein intake. Relying on snacks, drinks and cold drinks cannot provide enough protein. I suggest: In summer, make sure you have 1 cup of yogurt or milk, 1 egg or salted duck egg, plus a serving of soy products or a bowl of bean porridge every day, and eat some lean meat and fish regularly to supplement iron.
Vegetables, fruits and grains supply vitamins
In summer, more vitamin C and vitamins B1 and B2 are lost from sweat every day. Lack of these vitamins can make people feel tired and have reduced resistance. Work efficiency decreases. According to measurements, the requirement for water-soluble vitamins in hot weather is more than twice that of usual times. A good way to supplement vitamin C is to eat more vegetables and fruits; good foods to supplement vitamin B1 are beans such as mung beans, red beans, and lentils, as well as whole grains such as corn, barley, and oats; good sources of vitamin B2 are milk and green leafy vegetables. ;