1. Principles of health care in summer
1. Living quietly and nourishing the heart
It is important to nourish the heart in summer. In the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine also believes that "summer qi and heart qi are interlinked", so health care should be "rested", such as going to bed early and getting up early to avoid sweating. Too much sweat is easy to hurt yang.
When the weather turns hot, people are prone to emotional irritability, restlessness, poor sleep, etc., and people's minds are also easily affected. So how to avoid restlessness? First of all, we should pay attention to mental recuperation and maintain a happy mood; Secondly, avoid sudden happiness and sadness, and keep a state of calm and harmony. Traditional Chinese medicine has long said that "it is advisable to nourish the heart in summer", so it is necessary to maintain physical and mental pleasure and smooth mood in summer to prevent diseases caused by excessive heart fire.
2 diet to prevent getting angry
High temperature weather will lead to a series of symptoms such as irritability and insomnia, and summer heat is easy to cause internal heat to the body, so "fire prevention" has become the first principle of health preservation in summer.
In midsummer, you can eat more food that can clear away heat and toxic materials. In traditional Chinese medicine, the herbs that can clear away heat and reduce fire are: mint, lotus leaf, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, forsythia and so on. Diet should be light and digestible, and greasy and spicy food should be eaten less. You can add mung beans, lotus seeds, lotus leaves, reed roots, lentils, etc. into japonica rice and cook porridge together, and eat it after cooling. This medicated porridge has the functions of strengthening the stomach and relieving summer heat. Usually eat more vegetables and fruits, which can provide vitamin supplements. It's best to eat more melon foods, including watermelon, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber and wax gourd.
3 Bitter taste should be eaten more
Chinese medicine believes that most vegetables with bitter taste have the function of clearing away heat. Therefore, nutritionists suggest that eating bitter food such as bitter vegetables and bitter gourd often in summer can play a role in relieving fever, dispelling summer heat and eliminating fatigue. Eating bitter melon soup or bitter gourd dishes in summer can reconcile the spleen and stomach, clear fatigue, refresh the mind and have a certain preventive effect on heatstroke and gastrointestinal diseases. Sowthistle is also a vegetable with the same origin of medicine and food, which has the functions of cooling and detoxifying, disinfecting and expelling pus, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, and preventing and treating gastroenteritis. When eating bitter vegetables, wash its roots and leaves, stir-fry it and make soup. It tastes bitter and fragrant, and it is a delicious food to relieve summer heat and stimulate appetite, and it has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on enteritis and dysentery. You sweat a lot in summer, so you might as well drink something bitter. Beer, green tea and kudingcha are all good choices.
4 prevent cooling and heatstroke
In summer, the air-conditioning fan is the best electric appliance to relieve fever. For those who are afraid of heat, the air conditioner is the most comfortable with the fan on. But for joint patients, summer is the best way to avoid cold, because too cold environment is more likely to cause lesions. Therefore, in summer, joints should pay attention to the moderate use of air conditioners and fans, and use them as little as possible.
The weather outside is too hot in summer, so to avoid being exposed to the sun for a long time, you need to go out and take the best heatstroke prevention measures. You can keep some heatstroke prevention drugs at home, such as Rendan, Huoxiang Zhengqi series (water, liquid, pills, capsules), ten drops of water, essential balm and so on. For people who often stay in air-conditioned rooms, they should pay attention to hydration and drink more water. In order to avoid the skin being too dry.
5 Ensure adequate sleep
In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, the temperature is high, and the human body has vigorous metabolism, high consumption and easy fatigue. Therefore, it is of great significance to keep enough sleep in summer to promote health and improve work and study efficiency. In order to ensure adequate sleep, we should first have a regular daily life; Secondly, we should pay attention to the ventilation and coolness of the bedroom; Third, we should maintain a calm state of mind and strive to "be calm and cool naturally"; Fourth, we should have a proper nap time. Summer nap can relax the brain and body systems, which is beneficial to work and study in the afternoon and is also a powerful measure to prevent heatstroke.
2. Recommended health porridge in summer
1. Chrysanthemum porridge
Ingredients: 1g of chrysanthemum and 1g
Method: grind chrysanthemum, add water to the stem rice to cook porridge, add chrysanthemum powder when the porridge is ready, and eat it when it is slightly cooked, which can be used for breakfast and dinner.
Efficacy: This porridge can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Regular consumption can relax people's limbs and refresh their minds.
2. Mint porridge
Ingredients: fresh mint 3g, glutinous rice 5g
Method: Put the mint decoction in another place and let it cool. Add water to the stem rice to cook the porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add a proper amount of mint decoction rock sugar, and then boil it for a while. It can be served in the summer afternoon.
efficacy: this porridge has the effect of clearing away heat and counting.
3, mung bean porridge
Ingredients: appropriate amount of mung beans, 1g
Method: wash appropriate amount of mung beans, soak them for half a day, and cook them with the stem rice into thin porridge, which can be eaten as breakfast and dinner. This porridge is suitable for hot summer, so it is an ideal summer food.
4. Lotus root porridge
Ingredients: lotus root 1g, glutinous rice 1g
Method: Wash lotus root and slice it, and put a proper amount of glutinous rice into the porridge.
efficacy: this porridge can nourish the mind and recuperate the spirit.
5, yam coix seed porridge
Ingredients: yam 3g
Method: break yam, put it in a pot and boil it with water for 1 minutes, then add 4g of coix seed and 5g of stem rice, and boil it together to make porridge.
efficacy: this porridge can strengthen the spleen and kidney, benefit qi and eliminate dampness.