Summer is a special season. This season is full of heat and dampness, which is the most likely to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, it is very necessary to regulate the spleen and stomach in summer. In fact, the most important thing to regulate the spleen and stomach is to prevent heatstroke and eliminate dampness. What should be done to regulate the spleen and stomach?
Heavy humidity in summer
In summer, it is rainy and hot, and it is easy to produce moisture. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness belongs to yin evil, while spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, so spleen is easy to get sick in summer. There is another feature in summer, especially the long summer, which is the sun in the sun all the year round. At this time, the yang is most likely to be lost.
In addition, in summer, people are greedy for cold and drink cold, and the spleen and stomach are very prone to illness. The spleen mentioned by Chinese medicine is not the spleen in western medicine anatomy, but a high summary of the transport and transformation effect of the five internal organs. Therefore, the key point of health preservation in summer is to regulate the spleen and stomach.
In summer, because the external humidity is very heavy, the human spleen and stomach are easily trapped and become relatively weak, so it is very important to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Not only should we not forget the qi of strengthening the spleen and stomach, but we can spend the summer safely by doing these things well.
Summer heat will hurt qi, and summer heat will be wet.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that summer heat is yang evil, which is loud and loud, and it is easy to consume qi and hurt body fluids. Moreover, due to hot steaming, sweating will occur when the phlegm is released, and body fluids will be consumed and hurt, and qi with body fluids can cause qi deficiency. Therefore, hot weather is easy to make people feel tired, tired, thirsty, angry and lazy, and sweat like rain when they move a little. Chinese medicine calls it "summer heat will hurt qi and biochemical loss."
Therefore, it is advisable to adopt some dietotherapy or "clearing up" with the effect of clearing away summer heat and benefiting qi, which is helpful to help healthy qi and prevent diseases. In summer, when treating elderly people's wind-cold colds, it is forbidden to sweat too much. We should pay attention to the principle of "strengthening the body resistance to evil". We should not buy common cold drugs on the market casually. We should first distinguish cold, heat, deficiency and excess, and then identify the drugs to avoid sweating and consuming healthy qi.
Summer is bound to be wet. Dampness is the evil of heavy turbidity, and summer heat is the gas of fumigation. In summer, the atmosphere of heaven and earth intersect, it is extremely hot, and the moisture is steaming. Especially in the rainy period, the higher the temperature, the more water vapor in the air, so the heat is heavier.
When summer-heat dampness invades the human body, it can restrict the transport and transformation of the spleen and stomach. In addition, summer-heat dampness directly damages healthy qi and hinders the mechanism of clearing yang-qi. Therefore, common symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, shortness of breath, palpitation, heavy limbs, thin stool, low fever and greasy tongue coating are called "summer" by the people, and it is easy to occur in the elderly or people with deficiency of qi and yin and weakness of the spleen and stomach. For those who have been ill for a long time, don't be cold and cold when summer comes, so as not to suppress the nostalgia of dampness and evil, which will lead to lingering illness.
1, double bean drink, cooling summer heat and strengthening spleen.
Everyone only knows that it is good to drink mung bean soup in summer, but they don't know that mung beans are cold and easy to hurt the spleen and stomach; Here I recommend a "mung bean soup" that everyone can really drink, which is to cook soup with mung beans and white lentils. This can not only relieve summer heat and strengthen the spleen, but also achieve the goal of relieving summer heat and strengthening the spleen. It is also known as the popular "double bean drink".
Mung bean soup is cold, although it has the function of clearing away heat and detoxifying, but drinking it every day may easily hurt the spleen and stomach, and the elderly, children and people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not drink more. White lentils are slightly warm, and they also have the effects of invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness, harmonizing the middle and relieving summer heat. They are a perfect match for cooking soup.
Note: White lentils are hard and hard to boil, so they should be soaked for 3~4 hours in advance (if the weather is hot, it is best to soak them in the refrigerator), first boiled in a pot, and then cooked with mung beans. Because white lentils contain physostigmine, they can only be destroyed at high temperature, so they must be cooked thoroughly to avoid poisoning accidents.
2, Fuling soup, a good choice for slimming.
Some people find themselves fat as soon as they arrive in summer. In fact, many people are caused by heavy moisture in the body and poor transport and transformation ability of the spleen and stomach, which leads to water retention in the body. Want to lose weight, here I recommend a Poria cocos old duck soup. Poria cocos is a medicine with the same origin as food, which can promote diuresis, moisten the spleen and calm the heart. Duck meat is the king of meat in summer. As the saying goes, the old duck wins the tonic in summer. Before the summer comes, let's move quickly to get rid of dampness and lose weight!
Note: Poria cocos on the market are lumpy and flaky. Because lumpy Poria cocos is not easy to boil, flaky Poria cocos are usually preferred, so it is more convenient and quick to make soup without soaking for a long time. Poria cocos old duck soup can also be added with a little dried tangerine peel, mung bean, coix seed, etc., and then boiled over high fire for about an hour.
Reviewer: Chen Ting, Dongguan People's Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical Society.
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