Summer is also the most suitable season for nourishing the heart. How can we nourish the heart and achieve peace of mind? The summer heat is coming, so here are some tips for everyone!
Knowledge of light summer heat 1. Light diet
Summer diet should not be too full, usually seven or eight points full, but we must pay attention to a comprehensive and balanced nutritional mix, not picky eaters, partial eclipse. Some people are affected by the weather and have a poor appetite, so they can eat a little lighter.
Suitable for summer consumption are: white gourd, white radish, tomato and other foods that can eliminate dampness and dredge silt and help improve gastrointestinal function; It is advisable to eat more freshwater fish and less red meat in summer. You can drink cassia seed tea, barley tea, chrysanthemum tea, kudingcha, mung bean soup and other drinks.
Step 2 Adjust your mood
It is hot in summer, and the mood is easy to fluctuate and get excited, which leads to the increase of blood pressure and aggravates the burden on the heart. Angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, heart failure and other diseases are easy to attack. In addition, the incidence of stroke in summer is also quite high, which needs attention. It is worth mentioning that excessive emotional fluctuation can also lead to gastrointestinal dysfunction, and respiratory diseases such as asthma are also closely related to emotions.
3. Re-remove damp heat
Summer is hot and humid, and people often feel heavy head and brain pain, so they are prone to depression, burnout, chest tightness and bad appetite. For patients with respiratory diseases, more attention should be paid to maintenance in summer to prevent the recurrence of cough and tracheal diseases. For those with damp-heat constitution, palms and soles often have a sense of fever, and under the interaction of moisture and hot air, constipation is easy, and stools look yellow and smelly.
The diet should be light and easy to digest. Eat more foods that can eliminate heat and promote dampness, such as mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, red bean porridge, etc., and cook soup with white gourd, lotus leaf and coix seed, which is also a cool drink with clear damp heat. At the same time, pay attention to adjust the humidity in the room and open more windows for ventilation.
Step 4 sleep properly
In summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and the temperature is high at night, which causes some people to have a bad rest at night. According to Chinese medicine, is that so? Yin and yang imbalance? , will increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension patients tend to increase blood pressure, angina pectoris patients increase the frequency of attacks. Ensure enough sleep. Only in this way can we maintain the normal operation of various functions of the body. It is recommended that adults ensure 7 hours of high-quality sleep every day.
Step 5 meditate
As the old saying goes, right? Calm and cool naturally? You should control your mood swings during the summer heat. When you are upset, you can listen to lyrical and gentle music to cultivate your body and mind.
Being depressed is easy to hurt the liver. Do something you like in your spare time and forget all the pressure. Psychological suggestion plays a great role in adjusting mood. When you feel upset, imagine a pleasant picture in your mind, such as an endless grassland.
Meditation is also an excellent way to close your eyes for 20 minutes every day, put your thoughts behind you and guide yourself to imagine positive things.
Key points of summer heat preservation 1 daily life preservation
From the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the human body is full of yang in the summer, which has the function of protecting the body surface and resisting external evils. Only by protecting one's own yang can the human body be healthy and sound. The climate is hot in the summer, and the human body consumes a lot of energy. Should we follow it at this time? How quiet is it to move less? The principle of keeping in good health, in order to avoid the sun be the spirit leaked too much. Work and rest should be regular every day. In addition to ensuring adequate sleep, we should also pay attention to the combination of work and rest. When exercising, we must master the intensity to avoid excessive intensity.
Don't sit for a long time
As the saying goes:? No stone in winter, no wood in summer. ? During the summer solar term, the temperature is high and the humidity is high. Wood that has been left in the open air for a long time, such as wooden chairs and benches in residential areas or parks, is exposed to rain and contains more water. The surface looks dry, but when it is exposed to the sun and the temperature rises, it will emit moisture. If people sit on it for a long time, it may induce diseases such as hemorrhoids, rheumatism and arthritis. Therefore, it is not appropriate to sit on wooden benches and chairs for a long time in the summer.
2 diet health
As the saying goes? It's hot in three volts? The summer solar term is just around the beginning of the summer, so we should pay attention to clearing heat and dispelling summer heat in our diet. We should eat more soup or porridge made of lotus leaves, Smilax glabra, lentils, coix seed, polyporus and Alisma orientalis, and eat more vegetables and fruits such as watermelon, cucumber, loofah and wax gourd. Some people also summarize the diet of the small summer solar terms as? Three flowers, three leaves, three beans and three fruits? . ? Sanhua? Refers to honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and lily, which are sold in pharmacies and are suitable for brewing into tea, which is a good summer product; ? Sanye? It refers to lotus leaves, lophatherum leaves and mint leaves, which can also be bought in pharmacies and are also suitable for brewing; ? Three beans? Refers to mung beans, red beans and black beans, which Chinese medicine calls? Summer fire extinguisher? , can clear away heat and reduce fire; ? Three fruits? It refers to watermelon, bitter gourd and wax gourd. Let's focus on bitter gourd. Chinese medicine theory holds that: Bitterness can clear away heat? . Bitter and cold in nature, Momordica charantia belongs to spleen, stomach, heart and liver meridian, and has the effects of clearing away heat and summer-heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has certain effects on treating dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever, excessive miliaria and conjunctivitis. In addition, the content of vitamin C in bitter gourd is very high, which has the functions of preventing scurvy, protecting cell membrane, preventing atherosclerosis, improving stress ability and protecting heart. At the same time, the effective components in bitter gourd can inhibit the canceration of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutant cells, which has certain anti-cancer effect. High-energy lipid in bitter gourd, namely momordicin, is known as? Fat killer? Its special ingredients can reduce the fat and polysaccharide ingested by human body by about 40% ~ 60%, which can be used to lose weight.
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