2020 Entry Time: July 2020 16, lasting until August 24, 2020.

The dog days are the hottest thirty or forty days in a year in the Central Plains. The dog days are calculated according to the lunar calendar, between the middle and late July and the early August of the solar calendar. The length of accommodation is not fixed every year, and the length of accommodation is also different. In short, from summer to the third "shift" day in the future, the first lodging is 10 day, the middle lodging is 10 day or 20 days, and the last lodging is 10 day.

The date of the dog days is from the summer solstice to the third Geng Day, which is the first lie, the fourth Geng Day to the fifth Geng Day is the middle lie, and the second Geng Day after the first Geng Day to beginning of autumn is the last lie. (Every Geng day is separated by 10 days) The number of summer days is not fixed. There are four Geng days from summer to beginning of autumn, with 65,438+00 days in midsummer, five Geng days and 20 days in midsummer.

In classical Chinese, V means latent. The "crouching" of "dog days" refers to "crouching evil", that is, the so-called "six evils" (referring to "wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire"). In summer, summer evil will gradually lurk in the depths of the body without being noticed. If summer evil is not removed, fire in autumn will kill gold and hurt lung qi, which will lead to the decline of people's immunity and diseases such as cold, cough and fever. After entering winter, these diseases will recur. "... autumn is sarcoidosis, and there are few harvesters in winter solstice, and the condition is serious. "

Therefore, it is clearly pointed out in Huangdi Neijing that if you love outside, you will be angry. Don't hide in an air-conditioned room for fear of sweating. Cold drinks can't dispel summer heat, but will hurt the spleen and stomach. You know, tea is the best drink to relieve summer heat. Although a cup of hot tea will sweat a little, it will be followed by a chill. You can't just look at the present, but look further.

Do you need moxibustion every day after sleeping?

Dog days moxibustion, under normal circumstances, can be moxibustion once a day, each moxibustion can be 30 minutes, and a week or so is a course of treatment. It should be noted that when doing moxibustion, we should pay attention to avoid burns. The skin should be kept at a certain position away from the body, not too close to avoid burns. Generally, it feels a little hot locally.

In terms of age, the application time of adults is 1-4 hours, and that of children is about 1 hour. In terms of physical fitness, if you feel itchy and tingling locally after applying the medicine, you can shorten the application time appropriately, and if there is no discomfort after applying the medicine, you can extend the application time to four hours or more. Ordinary children and patients with tender and thin skin can shorten the application time appropriately.

The following people are not suitable for moxibustion:

1, people with deficiency-cold disease are forbidden to stick.

Although the "three-volt patch" is suitable for the treatment of deficiency-cold diseases, there are also contraindications for such patients. For example, patients with diabetes, patients with severe symptoms of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, patients with tuberculosis, and patients with damp-heat stomachache are not suitable for "three-volt patch" treatment.

2, children, pregnant women can not stick dog days moxibustion.

Children under two and a half years old and pregnant women are not allowed to stick dog days moxibustion.

3, fever can not be affixed to the dog days moxibustion.

All diseases that belong to heat are not suitable for "dog days moxibustion" therapy, because all the traditional Chinese medicines used in this therapy are pungent and hot, and using hot drugs in hot weather is tantamount to "adding fuel to the fire". For example, patients with cough and asthma accompanied by yellow sputum, hemoptysis and fever, and those with hemoptysis in active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis cannot be treated with "dog days moxibustion". From the perspective of Chinese medicine, people with these diseases have a lot of "internal heat" in their bodies. If you use hot medicine again, the yang will be more abundant and the yin will be more deficient, which will not only aggravate fever and hemoptysis, but also be life-threatening.

4, special physique can not be affixed to the dog days moxibustion.

Patients who are extremely sensitive to medication, have serious cardiopulmonary dysfunction or have skin diseases such as bronchiectasis, special physique and contact dermatitis should not stick "dog days moxibustion".