The Inner Classic has the idea of “nourishing Yang in spring and summer, and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter”. So how to take care of the “Yang” in the hot summer? There are many misconceptions in daily life, such as how to eat healthier in the hot sun? The following is a brief description for your reference. People generally believe that in the heat of summer, the summer heat, to eat more cooling things, so the chilled, cool things are quite popular. I don’t know, this is just a quick practice, and this is only suitable for those who have a strong internal fire. And for the vast majority of people, especially the elderly, children, repeatedly easy to cold, cough, asthma, especially in winter is easy to complicate the respiratory diseases of the population will suffer greatly. This is because “the form of cold drinking cold will hurt the lungs” (“Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine”) is also. We say that excessive use of air conditioning and excessive consumption of cold drinks can damage the body’s “Yang Qi”. What is “Yang Qi”? In layman’s terms, Yang Qi is the “fire point” that keeps the internal organs of the body healthy and the “power” that keeps the body alive. Yang Qi plays a very important role in the health of the human body. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine has long said: “Yang energy, such as the sky and the sun, lost its place, it will be broken life and does not manifest; so the sky transport when the day bright, so the Yang thus on the outside of the guard also”. “Yang is the body’s ability to defend itself against external evil, and this ability is Yang Qi. In Chinese medicine, it is also called “Wei Yang” and “Wei Qi”. Wei means guard, defend. Yang Qi is like the body’s guards, they are distributed on the surface of the skin, responsible for resisting all external evil and defending the body. Anyone, as long as Yang Qi is strong, can not invade all diseases. The ancients compared Yang Qi to the relationship between the sky and the sun. If there is no sun in the sky, then the earth is dark and unknown, and everything cannot grow. Therefore, the sun is necessary for the operation of heaven and earth. And the person’s Yang Qi, to harmonize in order to consolidate its protective function, otherwise it will attract the invasion of disease and evil, often sickness and demons. Therefore, it is important to eat foods that help Yang energy in the hot summer. In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, it is famously stated that “spring and summer should nourish Yang, and autumn and winter should replenish Yin”. Therefore, when summer comes, both men and women should properly supplement yang energy to enhance their health, especially to prevent the onset of winter diseases, and play a very good health effect. According to the theory of “Heaven and Man correspond to each other”, spring and summer is the stage when Yang grows and Yin disappears, so if you follow this trend and nourish Yang, the effect will be much better than other seasons. There are many ways to replenish Yang in summer. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine suggests: don’t stay up late, ensure good sleep (sleep at night and get up early); don’t be afraid of heat, but overuse air conditioning, and blow less cool wind (no aversion to the sun); keep a happy mood, don’t often get angry (make the will not angry). Eat more warm Yang food is also an important part. Summer is prone to loss of appetite, or some people eat cold food, vomiting and do not think about eating. At this time, it is suitable to use some aromatic dampness, spleen and appetite food, help Yang Qi recovery, such as can choose to eat barley porridge, poria porridge, yam winter melon soup. In order to protect yang energy, promote immunity and prevent winter diseases, the following foods can be chosen: quail eggs, scrambled eggs with leeks, pigeon seed soup, pine nuts with sesame seeds, black bean soup, lychee and lily soup, yu zhu gui yuan porridge, tamari soup, fried silkworm pupae, oxtail soup, and if the internal fire is heavy, 30 grams of rhizome (each time) and 10 grams of maitake (each time) can be cooked together. In order to help sleep, you can choose to eat date palm and lily soup (30 grams of sour date palm + 20 grams of lily) and nightshade porridge (30 grams of nightshade + 60 grams of round-grained rice and 20 grams of poria boiled). We emphasize that warming Yang Qi is never a warm tonic, but a gentle tonic for Yang, and sometimes it is necessary to take into account the deficiency of fire or Yin deficiency, so it is better to pay attention to the law and proportion.