Twenty-four solar term records: "long summer, April Festival. Set up a word to understand spring. Summer, vacation. Everything is false and big at this time. " "False" means "big", which means that the plants that germinate and grow in spring have grown up by this festival.
Long summer is the seventh of the 24 solar terms, the beginning of summer, and a good time to adjust health.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that long summer's health care includes "mental health care" and "physical health care".
"Heart-nourishing" of long summer's health preservation
"Heart-nourishing" means flirting.
It is hot in summer, and the human body's yang leaks out, which makes it easy to be agitated and uncomfortable. However, "summer qi passes through the heart" and "the heart governs blood and hides the spirit", so it is particularly important to maintain a comfortable mood in summer. "The Theory of Ancient Naivety" also records that "nothing is indifferent, the true qi follows it, the spirit is kept inside, and the illness is safe".
It is suggested to sit quietly for a few minutes or dozens of minutes every day, so that the mind can be nourished and full of air, and then the function of the human body can be vigorous and coordinated.
Long summer's "body support" for health preservation
"Body care" is mainly about diet, careful living and adapting to cold and heat.
Diet sparingly
The diet should be light, and you can eat more fresh seasonal foods with the functions of invigorating qi, nourishing heart, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, such as lily, lotus seed, lotus root, coix seed and white lentils. People with strong yang and hot constitution can also drink heat-clearing and summer-relieving tea: 2g of honeysuckle, 2g of chrysanthemum, 2g of mint 1 g and 2g of lotus leaf. It is not advisable to eat food that is too cold.
Careful living
Living should be "lying at night and getting up early". The ancients made it at sunrise, and the day entered and rested, following the laws of nature. Modern people, especially young people, often stay up late and like to sleep late in the morning. Over time, it will lead to physical decline and increase the risk of disease.
Suitable for cold and heat
"Nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter", the weather is hot in summer, and the pores are open. Especially after sweating, you can't turn on the air conditioner or enter the air-conditioned room immediately, so as to avoid cold pathogens invading the human body and catching a cold, or even cold pathogens invading the muscles and bones, leaving the root cause of rheumatism. In summer, the air conditioning temperature should not be too low, and 25-28 is appropriate.
Long summer food customs
In Zhejiang, people have had the custom of long summer eating black rice since the Tang Dynasty. People believe that eating black rice on this day in long summer can protect themselves from diseases during the period of ploughing fields and planting seedlings.
Black rice is a kind of purple-black glutinous rice, which is made by soaking glutinous rice in black rice leaf juice and steaming it. It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, relieving cough, calming nerves, improving eyesight and blackening hair, and is suitable for dietotherapy and tonic for the physically weak.
"the practice of black rice"
Chop fresh black leaves to get juice, and soak glutinous rice in black leaves juice overnight. Take out the soaked glutinous rice, steam it in a cage, add white sugar, salad oil and lard, mix well, put it in a baking tray and press it tightly. After cooling, cut it into cubes, and the fragrant black rice will be freshly baked.
"Black rice leaves with anti-aging and anti-oxidation"
Zhejiang is one of the main producing areas of Vaccinium bracteatum. Vaccinium bracteatum leaves are flat and slightly sour. Vaccinium bracteatum leaves have anti-oxidation, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, hypoglycemic, anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects, and improve retinal function. Their extracts have the functions of preservatives, colorants and mediators.
Modern research shows that Vaccinium bracteatum Berry is rich in antioxidants-anthocyanin flavonoids. Oxygen free radicals can destroy DNA molecules and induce cancer, while antioxidants can neutralize the free radicals generated during metabolism, slow down the aging of protein and DNA, and inhibit the growth of cancer cells, thus achieving the effect of cancer prevention.
In addition, Vaccinium bracteatum juice contains natural melanin, which has the functions of relaxing blood vessels and improving blood circulation, and can prevent arteriosclerosis and diabetes, so it has high medicinal value.
"How to eat black rice"
Eating black rice is also divided into salty party and sweet party. Now black rice can be added with different accessories according to personal preferences. Add some sugar to the sweet one and mix it. Different people have different opinions about the salty one. You can mix mustard tuber or dried radish.
Some people even have their brains wide open and use three kinds of ingredients-pickles, dried prunes and fried dough sticks. Some people also wrap fried dough sticks and pickles and add sugar to make black rice "salty and sweet".
Taboo of black rice
Anyone who has excessive damp-heat and phlegm-fire will not eat; People with fever, yellow cough, jaundice and abdominal distension should not eat; Diabetic patients, people with spleen and stomach weakness, the elderly, children and patients should eat carefully.
Contributed by Hangzhou Cancer Hospital and Tonglu County Health Bureau
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