Chinese medicine summer is considered to be fire, the main in the longevity, the heart is strong. In summer, Yang Qi is more abundant, is the season when everything grows prosperous and luxuriant; and Yin Qi inside the ambush, summer toxicity outside the steam. The climate is hot, hot and rainy, and there is a lot of summer humidity evil intrusion. Summer health should be in line with the characteristics of the body’s full of Yang energy. Why is summer also called “bitter summer”? What should I pay attention to during “bitter summer”? People call summer “bitter summer” (“resistance summer”) because of the high temperature for days on end, there will be poor sleep, poor food, lack of energy, irritability and other phenomena. According to Chinese medicine, “summer heat is easy to hurt the qi” and “summer heat is easy to enter the heart”, so in the hot summer, we should pay special attention to the spiritual regimen. It is important to regulate the emotions and keep a healthy, clear, happy and cheerful state so that the mind and spirit can be nourished. Summer diet, should be light – refreshing, with clear heat to dispel summer heat, spleen and beneficial effects of food, such as fresh lotus root, loofah, cucumber, winter melon, tomatoes, coix seeds, lotus seeds, red lentils, mung beans, etc.. Should eat less greasy, cold food, summer heat outside the steam, the body’s pores open, sweat, the most vulnerable to wind, cold and rain, therefore, should not be outside in the evening for too long. You should go to bed late and get up early, take a proper nap to recover from fatigue and keep your energy up; dress in thin clothes, clothes should be diligently washed and changed, do not wear wet clothes, sweat clothes. How to prevent heatstroke in summer? It is often said that: summer time to prevent summer evil, long summer attention to prevent moisture evil. When working outdoors or in a hot environment in high summer, you should avoid the scorching sun and pay attention to the supplement of light salt water. You can take mung bean soup or Chinese herbal soup (patchouli, honeysuckle, perilla, mint, forsythia, rhizome, light bamboo leaves, etc.) to prevent heat stroke and injury to the body. Summer three volt season, due to heavy moisture, the body’s sweat is not easy to discharge, sweating is not easy to be evaporated, thus making people irritable, fatigue, loss of appetite, and even gastroenteritis, dysentery and other diseases, so in the long summer to keep the room dry and hygienic, personal diligent change of clothing, usually eat more coix seeds, lotus seeds, red beans, mung beans and other foods to clear heat and moisture. If necessary, you can take Huo Xiang Zheng Qi capsules to prevent summer dampness from hurting your body. Can I exercise in the summer heat? You can exercise in summer, but the time should avoid the scorching heat of the sun, to the morning and evening cool time is appropriate, the site should be selected in the river, lake, water, park courtyard and other places with fresh air. Exercise projects to walk, jogging, taijiquan -, radio exercise is good, should not do overly strenuous activities. In the process of exercise, can be appropriate to drink light – salt water or mung bean salt water soup, do not drink a lot of cold water, and not immediately with cold water shower, shower. What is the “air conditioning disease” in summer? Hot summer, with air conditioning temperature is too low, (should pay attention to the indoor temperature should not be lower than 26 ℃, indoor and outdoor temperature difference of not more than 6 ℃), will make the coup closed, heat depression, may appear headache, lumbago, lower limb pain, easy to suffer from colds, gastrointestinal disease, skin disease and cardiovascular disease, that is, “air conditioning disease”. It is best to turn off the air conditioner when you go to sleep or keep the room temperature at 28℃. When you feel cool indoors, get up and move around to speed up the blood circulation. Why is it possible to cure winter diseases in summer? In Chinese medicine, “winter illnesses are treated in summer”, which is an external treatment method in accordance with the weather and seasonal changes. In summer, when the body’s yang energy is strong and the couples are open, the herbal stimulation through acupuncture points can effectively unblock the meridians and blood and regulate the function of internal organs, so as to achieve the efficacy of internal and external treatment and summer treatment of winter diseases. It has good effect on some respiratory diseases, allergic diseases, joint lesions, chronic spleen and stomach diseases which are mostly attacked in winter, and can improve the immunity of the body and prevent colds by applying the compress continuously for several years.