Summer is the season when the natural Yang energy is at its peak, and the climate is hot and vigorous. The human body is also a period of high metabolism, when Yang Qi is out and Yin is in, and Qi and blood are active on the surface of the body. Summer health care is important in the spirit of regulating, maintain a happy and stable emotions, do not be very sad and happy, so as not to heat to help heat, fire on the fuel. The heart is quiet and people are cool, so you can achieve the purpose of health. Summer features In fact, in the summer is also divided into three different stages. In the summer, toads are singing, earthworms are coming out frequently, various plants are growing, from tender green to green, wheat grains are becoming full, and there are more rainy days than sunny days. At this time of year, bacteria and viruses multiply and grow, making people susceptible to infections and requiring attention to prevent epidemics. In midsummer, the mantis is born, the antlers fall off, the cicadas begin to sing, the half-summer is born, and the wood cordial blossoms. The first wheat has awning, and the wheat is harvested at mango seed. Plum is already in the south, west to the Qinba mountains and Guizhou plateau, east to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, south to the South Ridge, and north to the Huaihe River basin. Plum rainy season, plum ripe, so called plum rain. Plum is mold, also known as moldy rain. Moldy rain season, the air is humid, pay attention to food mold, to prevent mold infection. Summer solstice, yin and yang, the day is long, the night is shortened. People should be quiet, do not be restless, stop the sound and color, diet should be light. The cool summer breeze begins to arrive, the crickets out, the eagle first fly. In the summer night, fireflies shine in the grass. In the summer season, trees flourish, heavy rains come and go, and the soil becomes wet and hot. The summer heat is hot, after the summer heat out of the plum. The mid-volcano into the summer, to prevent heat stroke. Summer care Summer sickness, most of the immediate onset, but there is a disease is latent, until the autumn onset, such as delayed to winter is very serious! –This is the “heart disease”. Of course, the “heart disease” mentioned here does not refer to the modern medical “cardiovascular disease”, but refers to the mental aspects of the “mind, emotions” of the disease. It is also important to arrange a reasonable rest time, not to sleep too late at night, and to get up in the morning around 6:00 for exercise. According to the five movements and six qi, this year belongs to the fire and earth, the qi produces the movement, for the smooth. But there may be more rain, people with joint lesions should pay more attention to weather changes. Summer should pay attention to several principles: First, to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. The biggest evil in summer is dampness, summer solstice a yin first born, the spleen and stomach function is low, people often feel bad appetite, easy diarrhea, white tongue coating and other symptoms, so you should always take things that strengthen the spleen and dampness. Generally choose more to strengthen the spleen aromatic damp and light percolation of damp products, such as winter melon, patchouli, lotus seeds, pelargonium, etc.. The second is to clear heat and eliminate summer heat. High summer temperatures, summer heat evil, the human heart fire is more vigorous, so commonly used some of the drugs with the role of detoxification of heart fire, such as lotus, chrysanthemum, mint, honeysuckle, lotus leaf, etc. to dispel summer heat. Third is to nourish the lungs and kidneys. Summer heart fire and lung gold, kidney water deficiency decline, pay attention to nourishing the lung and kidney yin. Can be used wolfberry, raw earth, lily, mulberry, Wu Wei Zi, etc., can prevent sweating too much, depletion of Jin Qi. Fourth, the winter and summer treatment. The so-called winter disease summer treatment, that is, the body and the external Yang Qi in summer, with internal Chinese medicine with acupuncture and other external treatment methods to treat some winter diseases. For example, herbal ointment can be applied to acupuncture points to treat patients with winter asthma, slow branch, rhinitis and some deficiency cold diseases. Summer health care medicine and food Diet for health care is to follow the nature. Health care is more inclined to Chinese medicine, the following are some small items, according to the needs of individuals to choose their own. 1, eat more melons: summer temperature is high, the body lost more water, must be timely replenishment. The water in vegetables is natural, clean, nutritious and biologically active water filtered by multi-layer biofilm. The water content of melon vegetables are above 90%. All melon vegetables have the effect of lowering blood pressure and protecting blood vessels. 2, eat more cool vegetables: eat some cool vegetables, is conducive to thirst, in addition to the annoyance of the summer, clear heat and fire, detoxification and laxative. Melon vegetables in addition to pumpkin is warm, the rest such as bitter melon, loofah, cucumber, melon, watermelon, melon are cool vegetables. Tomatoes, celery, lettuce, etc. are cool vegetables. 3, eat more “sterilization” vegetables: summer is a human disease, especially intestinal infectious disease season. Eat more “sterilization” vegetables, can prevent disease. These vegetables include: garlic, onions, leeks, scallions, etc.. These onion and garlic vegetables are rich in plant broad-spectrum bactericides, which can kill and inhibit various cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. Among them, the most prominent role is garlic, the best raw food. 4 , folk saying: winter eat radish summer eat ginger, summer should eat more ginger, ginger is warm food, summer people body pores open more consumption of ginger is conducive to wet cold gas discharge. 5, summer drink more red beans and barley soup can eliminate the body wet cold gas, diuretic. Summer meal regimen, should be low-fat, low salt, multivitamin and light. People sweat a lot, appetite is not good, available a variety of nutritional health porridge to appetite, and conditioning body. If you eat porridge in the morning and evening meal, and drink soup at lunch, this can not only quench thirst, cool and quench the summer heat, but also to nourish the body. Add some lotus leaves to the porridge (called lotus leaf porridge), the taste is fragrant, the porridge has a slightly bitter taste, which can wake up the spleen and appetite, and has the effect of dispelling summer heat, nourishing the stomach and intestines, and quenching thirst. Add some mung beans to the porridge or use mung beans alone to make soup, it has the effect of quenching thirst, clearing heat and detoxifying, producing fluid and diuretic. Dried lentils soaked through and cooked with rice into porridge, can clear summer heat and dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. In addition, red lentil porridge, mint porridge, silver fungus porridge, kudzu porridge and bitter melon porridge are all good foods for summer.