First, health care methods
1, nourish the yang
Although summer is the most vigorous season of the year, we can't forget the nourishment of yang in midsummer. Pay attention to adjust the difference between body temperature and room temperature, and the temperature difference between inside and outside the room should not be too large. It is advisable to keep the room temperature at 26℃ or above. If you stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time, you should pay attention to the warmth of your joints and ventilate at any time to avoid all kinds of diseases caused by greed.
2. Stabilize your mood
When the weather is hot, it is easy for people to feel irritable. Emotional fluctuations will cause blood pressure to rise easily, heavy heart burden, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and other diseases to attack easily.
Summer health care should pay attention to the maintenance of the heart, calm down, can ease the tension, make the mood comfortable, qi and blood gentle, calm down naturally cool.
3. Pay attention to food hygiene
Summer is the season of high incidence of digestive tract diseases. At this time, we must pay attention to food hygiene, and diet should be moderate, not gluttonous and excessive; It is advisable to be light and nutritious, and eat more foods with the function of eliminating heat and promoting diuresis, such as mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, red bean and barley porridge, etc. You can drink cassia seed tea, barley tea, chrysanthemum tea, kudingcha, etc. properly; Try to eat less spicy and fried food.
4. Adjust your schedule
There are long sunshine hours in summer, so people should adjust their work and rest accordingly, go to bed early and get up early, and try to ensure more than 7 hours of sleep every day. Usually, it can also be supplemented by taking a nap. It is advisable to take a nap within 1 hour. It is best to lie flat instead of sleeping on your stomach.
5. Maintain proper exercise.
The weather is very hot, and summer is really not suitable for too intense exercise. Short-distance walking, swimming, Tai Chi, etc. are the most suitable exercises in the hot summer season, which can play a role in calming down and relieving stress. It is best to choose exercise time in the morning and evening, and it is not too late to practice in the evening, so as not to affect sleep.
Second, summer health food therapy
1, lotus seeds
Summer is the season of toil, so eat lotus seeds. Lotus seeds are commonly known as lotus seeds to nourish the heart. Therefore, in summer, you can choose to eat more lotus seeds.
Efficacy:
(1) Anti-cancer. Huangxinsunine oxide contained in lotus seeds has inhibitory effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
(2) Lowering blood pressure. The amorphous alkaloid N-9 contained in lotus seeds has the effect of lowering blood pressure.
(3) Tonifying the heart and calming the nerves, which has a significant cardiotonic effect, while liensinine has a strong anti-calcium and anti-arrhythmia effect.
2. Strawberries
In early summer, it is also the time when strawberries are going out of the market. At this time, eating more strawberries in season is also good for our health and can help us remove toxins from our bodies.
Efficacy:
(1) Nourishing and conditioning. Strawberries have certain nourishing and conditioning effects on gastrointestinal tract and anemia.
(2) Lowering blood fat and preventing cancer. Strawberry can not only prevent scurvy, but also prevent arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. It can adsorb and prevent the absorption of carcinogenic chemicals in the body and has the function of preventing cancer.
(3) Removing toxic substances can naturally and peacefully remove heavy metal ions in the body.
3. Duck eggs
Summer diet is the first to recommend duck eggs, eat duck eggs, help you recover your physical strength and supplement other nutrients your body needs.
Efficacy:
(1) Clearing lung fire and reducing yin fire, suitable for people with lung heat cough, sore throat and diarrhea. Salted egg butter has the effect of improving eyesight and nourishing eyes, and can also treat children's food accumulation. External application can treat burns and eczema.
(2) strengthen the body, promote bone development and prevent anemia.
(3) Promote appetite, stimulate digestive organs, stimulate appetite, make nutrition easy to digest and absorb, and have the functions of neutralizing stomach acid, cooling and lowering blood pressure.
4. Ginger
It makes sense to eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. Ginger slices eaten in summer can cure some winter diseases. But remember, ginger is best eaten in the morning, and it is not recommended to eat at noon and night.
Efficacy:
(1) cooling and refreshing, stimulating appetite, ginger has the functions of excitement, perspiration, cooling and refreshing in hot season; Ginger also has the function of strengthening stomach and stimulating appetite.
(2) Stimulating appetite, strengthening spleen, preventing heatstroke and relieving emergency. Ginger has three functions: sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, warming stomach and stopping vomiting, and detoxifying.
(3) Prevention and treatment of abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, scientists have found that ginger can play the role of some antibiotics, especially against Salmonella.
5, sweet potato
Summer is here. Although sweet potatoes are usually roasted in winter, you can also eat some sweet potatoes in summer. One is to be full, and the other is to stick the dirty things on the intestinal wall to achieve the effect of clearing the intestines.
Efficacy:
(1) Anti-cancer, effectively inhibiting the occurrence of colon cancer and breast cancer.
(2) To relieve constipation and lose weight, eating sweet potatoes can effectively prevent sugar from turning into fat, which is conducive to weight loss and bodybuilding.
(3) Improve immunity. Sweet potato leaves have health care functions such as improving immunity, stopping bleeding, lowering blood sugar, detoxicating, and preventing and treating night blindness.
6. Mung beans
Mung bean suggests that you can eat mung bean sprouts or drink mung bean soup, both of which are good choices. The former can clear poison, while the latter can relieve summer heat.
Efficacy:
(1) has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, benefiting qi, quenching thirst and diuresis, not only supplementing water, but also supplementing inorganic salts in time to maintain the balance of water-liquid electrolyte.
(2) Antibacterial and bacteriostatic effects. Some components in mung beans have direct bacteriostatic effects, which can enhance the immune function of the body.
(3) Protect kidney, reduce protein decomposition, and protect liver and kidney.
7. Bitter gourd
After entering summer, when the weather is hot, there will naturally be the possibility of getting angry. Therefore, at this time, eating more bitter gourd can prevent getting angry. If you don't like bitterness, you can make it not bitter by cooking.
Efficacy:
(1) Momordica charantia has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, nourishing blood and benefiting qi, invigorating kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has certain effects on treating dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever, excessive miliaria, conjunctivitis and other diseases.
(2) Prevention of coronary heart disease. Bitter gourd has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane, preventing atherosclerosis, improving stress ability and protecting heart.
(3) Anti-cancer, the effective components in bitter gourd can inhibit the canceration of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutant cells.
8. Lettuce
It's hot every day in summer, and there is a lot of gas in the body. At this time, to eat more ventilated things, lettuce is the natural first choice. Eating lettuce can help you ventilate and let out the waste gas in your body.
Efficacy:
(1) diuresis and lactation, promoting urination and milk secretion. It has a certain dietotherapy effect on patients with hypertension, edema and heart disease.
(2) Anti-cancer, which can regulate the function of nervous system, is very beneficial to patients with iron deficiency anemia. The hot water extract of lettuce has a high inhibitory rate on some cancer cells, so it can be used to prevent and fight cancer.
(3) catharsis and detoxification, promoting peristalsis of intestinal wall, dredging digestive tract, and helping defecation, which can be used to treat various constipation.
9. Coix seed
Coix seed has the effect of clearing away heat and removing dampness. In summer, the weather is hot and dry, and it is easy to get upset. At this time, eating some gingko coix seed porridge can clear away the heat and make the body comfortable.
Efficacy:
(1) Invigorate the spleen and stomach and promote metabolism. Coix seed contains various vitamins and minerals, which can promote metabolism and reduce gastrointestinal burden. It can be used as a tonic food for patients who are weak during or after illness. Regular consumption of Coix seed food is also effective for chronic enteritis and dyspepsia.
(2) Whitening skin. Coix seed contains a certain amount of vitamin E, which is a beauty food. Regular eating can keep the skin shiny and delicate, eliminate acne and spots, and improve skin color. And it has a certain therapeutic effect on wart caused by virus infection.
(3) It is a commonly used diuretic for eliminating dampness, which is beneficial to reducing swelling, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus.
10, lemon
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which is the most natural whitening agent. Vitamin C can effectively prevent the sun from burning the skin. After exposure in midsummer or coming back from the seaside, vitamin C can be added additionally.
Efficacy:
(1) Produce body fluid to relieve summer heat and stimulate appetite. Although lemon food tastes sour and slightly bitter, it can't be eaten raw and fresh like other fruits, but lemon peel is rich in aromatic volatile components, which can produce body fluid to relieve summer heat, stimulate appetite and invigorate spleen. The summer heat and humidity are heavy, and many people are tired. After working or studying for a long time, they often have a poor appetite. Drinking a cup of lemon soaked in water, the fresh and sour taste makes people feel refreshed and can open their appetite.
(2) In beauty beauty, lemon contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and other nutrients, and is also rich in organic acids and citric acid. Lemon is a highly alkaline food with strong antioxidant effect, which is very effective in promoting skin metabolism, delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation.
(3) Clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, lemon can also resolve phlegm. The expectorant effect of lemon peel is stronger than that of citrus. The weather is hot and humid in summer. If you don't pay attention to your diet, the internal dampness of the human body and the external dampness of the natural climate interact with each other, and phlegm can be produced after a long period of stagnation. Therefore, there are many phlegm in summer, and the throat is uncomfortable. Adding warm water and a small amount of salt to lemon juice can smoothly cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in the throat.
The above introduction of several simple health-preserving methods and several summer health-preserving foods can make women not only not feel upset and dry in midsummer, but also be properly maintained and increasingly moist, so female friends may wish to refer to these five methods for summer health-preserving. In addition, we should remind everyone that it is peaceful to conform to nature. Although the air-conditioned room is cool and comfortable, we should try to stay in it as little as possible.