Suwen – four qi tune Shen Da Lun said: “summer in March, this is called the flourishing; heaven and earth gas interchange, all the things Hua Shi.” After the summer, the weather is getting hot, plants are flourishing, and this season is conducive to the physiological activities of the heart, so people should be obedient at the time of the intersection of the season. Therefore, we should pay attention to the care of the heart in the whole summer health. The medical source of flow said: “The heart is the master of the whole body, all the organs and bones are under the command of the heart, so it is the monarch. The heart contains the gods, so it is used for the gods.” In Chinese medical literature, the heart is explained as the heart of flesh and blood and the heart of the gods. The heart of flesh and blood refers to the substantial heart; the heart of the gods refers to the function of receiving and reacting to external things and carrying out activities such as consciousness, thinking, and emotion. The “Introduction to Medicine” said: “The heart of flesh and blood is shaped like an unopened lotus flower, living under the lungs and on the liver is also. The heart of the gods …… dominates all things, and the spirit of emptiness is not unknown.” The heart is the master of blood and veins According to Chinese medicine, the heart is the master of blood and veins and the master of the mind. Blood refers to blood, veins refer to the veins, also known as meridians, is the channel for blood to run. The heart and veins are connected to form a closed system and become the hub of blood circulation. The heart keeps beating every moment, transporting blood to the whole body and then back to the heart, and so on and so forth. The heart is the driving force of human blood circulation, and the nutrients in the blood play a role in the process of circulation, moistening the organs, limbs and bones, muscles and skin, as well as the role of the whole body, maintaining the normal physiological functions of the human body. Blood relies on the heart beat in the circulation of the veins, the heart function is normal, the pulse and slow and strong, even rhythm, the face is rosy and lustrous. If the heart has a problem, the blood will not flow smoothly, the pulse is empty, like a dry river, and the face is colorless; the pulse is weak and weak, the qi and blood are stagnant, the blood is blocked and the lips and tongue are blue; the precordial area is stuffy and tingling, and the pulse is knotted, substituted, or rapid and astringent. The heart is the master of the mind. The heart is the master of the mind, referring to the heart’s mastery of the mind, and there is the saying that the heart harbors the mind. Shen is explained by Chinese medicine in both a broad and narrow sense. Shen in the broad sense refers mainly to the external manifestation of the body’s life activities, such as the body’s image, facial color, eyes, speech, response, and posture of physical activities; while Shen in the narrow sense refers to the divine will, including spirit, consciousness, and thinking activities. According to the Tibetan science, the essence is the material basis for the composition of the human body and the maintenance of the vital activities of the muscles, and it is also the material basis for the production of the gods. God is born from the innate essence, and the God of life arises at the time of embryonic formation. After the birth of life, the human body continues to grow and develop, and during the whole life process of the human body, the essence of water and grain nourishes the God of life, as stated in “Ling Shu – Ping Ren Jie Gu”: “The God is the essence of water and grain.” The heart is the master of the mind in two ways: first, in the normal state of the body, the mind receives and reacts to objective external things, and carries out spiritual, consciousness and thinking activities, so that people can recognize and think; second, the mind is the master of the body’s life activities, and the five organs and six bowels of the body are all under the unified command of the heart, carrying out unified and coordinated normal activities. Therefore, the heart occupies the primary position among the organs and tissues of the body. Heart of the Yang Qi, maintain muscle function Heart for the Yang organs and the main Yang Qi, that is, the heart for the Yang in the sun, the heart of the Yang Qi can promote blood circulation and moisten the body, so that the body vitality, so Chinese medicine called the heart of the person “day”. Medicine is really easy “said:” cover people and heaven and earth together, the sky has a day, people also have a day, the father of the sun, the day.” The Yang heat of the heart not only maintains its own physiological function, but also has a warming effect on the whole body. “The heart is the fire organ, candle to all things”, so where the spleen and stomach of the decay and transportation, the trial of Yang warm transpiration and the whole body of water metabolism, the regulation of sweat, etc., are inseparable from the important role of the heart Yang. In addition, the heart is connected to the summer qi. It means that man and nature are a unified whole, and the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons of nature are interrelated with the functional activities of the five organs of the human body. The heart is connected to the summer qi, which means that the heart yang is most vigorous and strongest in summer. Therefore, at the beginning of summer, we should follow the changes in the weather and take care of ourselves by sleeping late, waking up early and taking a lunch break, and not getting angry. Focus on heart maintenance to avoid hurting the heart and getting seriously ill in winter. How do I do this? Summer is connected to the heart, and summer is good for the physiological activities of the heart. “Therefore, it is important to follow the changes of the four seasons and pay attention to the heart and health care at the beginning of summer to make a peaceful transition to summer. The summer season, the temperature rises significantly, and the weather gradually becomes hot. Although summer has come, but at this time the morning and evening is still relatively cool, the temperature difference between day and night is also large, so the morning and evening should be properly clothed. In summer, the long day and short night are becoming more and more obvious, according to the nature of Yang Sheng Yin deficiency of this change, sleep should also be relatively “late”, “early”, in order to accept the clear air of heaven and earth. Don’t sleep in the wind to avoid getting cold and getting sick. In addition, because the “summer” season dawned early, people get up early, prone to sleep deprivation. Therefore, attention should be paid to sleep well “meridian sleep”. Summer noon 1 to 3 points the highest temperature, people are prone to sweating, after lunch, the digestive tract blood supply increased, the brain blood supply is relatively reduced, so, noon people are always mental, drowsy. Proper napping can ensure a full mental state as well as adequate physical strength. If you can’t take a lunch break at noon, you can listen to music or close your eyes for about 30 minutes to relax your body and mind. To keep the spirit of quiet after the summer, with the gradual rise in temperature, people are very easy to irritable, good temper. This is because the high temperature intensifies people’s nervousness and makes people’s hearts too hot. Especially the elderly, the early summer when the blood is easy to stagnate, blood vessels are easy to block, by the fire angry caused by myocardial ischemia, cardiac arrhythmia, blood pressure is not uncommon. For this reason, do not be very happy and angry, to keep the spirit of quiet, open-minded, relaxed mood, leisurely from the joy, smile often open. Pay attention to the “quiet”, can do more quiet cultural and sports activities, such as painting, writing, fishing, chess, planting flowers, etc.. It is advisable to take a warm bath after exercise After the first summer, as the temperature rises, people are prone to sweating. “Sweat” for the heart of the liquid, the summer season should be careful not to sweat excessively, after exercise to drink warm water, to replenish body fluids. At the same time, exercise should not be too strenuous, preferably in the early morning or evening, choose relatively calm exercise, such as practice Taijiquan, Taiji sword and walking, jogging, etc.. When the exercise just ended, the body is still in a state of high metabolism, skin vasodilation. At this time, if you immediately take a shower, the skin is stimulated, through the nerve reflexes caused by skin vasoconstriction, but will make heat dissipation difficulties, body temperature rise. Therefore, in the summer, after exercise should be appropriate rest and drink water, after a while and then take a bath, the best choice of warm water, do not use cold water. The diet is light to nourish the heart. The dietary principle after the summer is “nourishing the yang”, which is important to nourish the heart. The heart can drink more milk, eat more soy products, chicken, lean meat, etc., can not only supplement the nutrition, but also play a role in strengthening the heart. The usual eat more vegetables, fruits and coarse grains, can increase the supply of fiber, vitamin B, vitamin C, can play a role in the prevention of arteriosclerosis. Take the principle of “increasing acidity and reducing bitterness, tonifying the kidneys and helping the liver, and nourishing the stomach”, and eat a light diet, with easy-to-digest, vitamin-rich food as the mainstay, and less fish and meat and greasy and spicy food. Add mung beans, lotus seeds, lotus leaves, rutabaga, lentils, etc. to japonica rice and cook the porridge together, set aside to eat after cooling, can also play a stomach, the effect of summer heat. In short, the first summer diet should be low-fat, low-salt, multi-dimensional, light. Here are a few recipes for summer recuperation. 1. saxifrage and lily duck soup Ingredients: 30 grams of northern saxifrage, 30 grams of lily, 150 grams of fatty duck meat, salt and monosodium glutamate. Practice: first wash the duck meat, cut into small pieces; lily washed clean. Duck meat with lily, sage into the same casserole, add water to the appropriate amount, slow stew, to be cooked duck meat, add a little salt, MSG seasoning, drink soup and eat meat. Efficacy: nourish Yin and clear heat, moisten the lungs to stop cough. 2. cinnamon porridge Ingredients: 25 grams of cinnamon meat, 100 grams of round-grained rice, a little sugar. Directions: Put cinnamon meat and round-grained rice into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, boil into a porridge, and then mix in sugar. Efficacy: nourish the heart and spleen, nourish blood and calm the mind. 3. pork belly with lotus seeds Ingredients: 1 pork belly, 50 grams of lotus seeds, sesame oil, refined salt, ginger, onion, garlic and other appropriate amounts. Method: first wash the pork belly, lotus seeds (remove the heart) soaked in water, then put into the pork belly, sewn with thread. Pork belly into the pot, add water stew cooked through; then fish out to cool, the pork belly cut into uniform thin shreds, with the lotus seeds into the plate, the sesame oil, salt, ginger, onions, garlic seasoning and pork belly shreds mixed that is. Efficacy: benefit qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach. 4. carp astragalus soup Ingredients: 200g of fresh carp, 20g of astragalus, 12g of fried heliotrope shell, ginger, fine onion, monosodium glutamate, salt. The way: carp cut off the internal organs, gouge, wash clean; astragalus sliced, and hedgehog shell together with a gauze bag, tighten the mouth; ginger, fine onion clean and chopped. The first medicine bag into the pot, add the right amount of water, cook for about half an hour, and then the carp with cooking, to be cooked fish, fish, fishing bag, add ginger, fine onion, salt, monosodium glutamate seasoning is ready. Effect: It is good for the vital energy, and it can raise the internal organs.