In summer, we often encounter loss of appetite, inability to eat, along with mental fatigue and low work efficiency. Many people simply attribute the cause to lack of sleep or too tired, but the real reason may be “bitter summer”. Bitter summer refers to the summer high temperature environment resulting in loss of appetite, weakness, body wasting, and even insomnia, also known as “summer heat injury qi” in Chinese medicine. The three volt days are the highest temperature and humid, hot days of the year, plus the human body is most likely to feel the evil of summer humidity, so people are more and more tired and weak feeling. Therefore, many people will have the impression that the three days of volcanoes: the heat is unbearable, not to say that the body is weak and what to eat what does not smell, no appetite. “The heart and spleen are the two organs that are most likely to suffer from deficiency in the summer. In addition to high temperature, high humidity is also a major feature of summer, and dampness is a trapped spleen, which is the two main causes of “bitter summer”. 2, summer dampness trapped spleen type: manifested as easy fatigue, drowsiness, light mouth, indigestion, loose stools. More commonly speaking, the bitter summer brings “negative energy” of two kinds: one is poor appetite; the other is poor energy and easy fatigue. At the same time, the two also affect each other: the body fatigue will reduce appetite; and poor appetite leads to poor nutrition, the body more easily fatigue, so the bitter summer will make people feel very weak. This is the body’s qi-yin deficiency is not conducive to the discharge of dampness, and too much summer dampness will also aggravate the performance of qi-yin deficiency. Therefore, people who have a bitter summer usually have both qi-yin deficiency and dampness, such as poor stomach and intestines, like cold drinks, emotional depression, often stay up late, etc. Weight loss by bitter summer? The first time you hear that the “bitter summer” can make you lose weight, women who want to lose weight may be happy, thinking they have found a shortcut to lose weight. There are even working people who are not prepared to eat lunch, hungry to eat some snacks pad, through this way to achieve the purpose of weight loss. In fact, this idea is not right. Because “bitter summer” although people lose weight, but the consumption of energy is not normal eating, but by the overdraft of the body. Therefore, just by the bitter summer appetite poor is not a healthy way to lose weight. The appetite, vitality over three volt Although the bitter summer is not a disease, but the consumption of the body is very large, the so-called “no disease three points of deficiency”. Therefore, the focus of health care in three volt days is: one to appetite, two to get rid of dampness, refuse to “bitter summer” body! Traditional Chinese medicine is concerned with the time of health, regular work and rest, which is the cornerstone of healthy health, on this basis to prevent “bitter summer”, focusing on the following points: 1, adjust the diet, first stomach Three volt days can be appropriate to eat more bitter food. Summer heat and humidity, the heart of the fire when the order, bitter ingredients can dispel fire, but also dry damp, conducive to restoring the function of the spleen and stomach, such as bitter melon, bitter vegetables, buckwheat, etc.. For the case of Qi and Yin deficiency, you can eat yam, dates, honey, lotus root and other beneficial food, is conducive to nourishing Yin and stomach, with buckwheat fruit gold lycopodium hawthorn solid drink conditioning, stomach better. 2, nap, improve the spirit of the so-called “nap, afternoon collapse. Midday snooze, you can replenish the body’s yang. And long days and short nights in summer, and because of the dry heat, how much will affect people’s normal sleep, affecting energy. A nap at noon, can be a good way to restore the consumption of “essence”. 3, through the meridians, often maintenance three volt days is a good time for “winter diseases summer treatment”, and through massage, umbilical therapy, moxibustion and other ways to dredge the meridians, harmonize the blood, boost the kidney Yang is an important way to achieve “winter diseases summer treatment”. In addition, dredging the meridians is also very effective in preventing “bitter summer”, for example, dredging the pericardium meridian and liver and gallbladder meridian can improve appetite. The bladder meridian can boost kidney yang and promote water metabolism, which is good for discharging dampness in the body and replenishing qi and raising yang. The summer is hot, some people “leisure summer”, some people “bitter summer”, some people “praise summer”, as long as you grasp the health guidelines, natural can easily cope with the bitter summer, enjoy the three volt days.