Summer health precautions

  Summer should pay attention to the following principles: First, to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. The biggest evil in summer is wet, summer solstice a yin first born, the spleen and stomach function is low, people often feel bad appetite, easy diarrhea, appear white and greasy tongue and other symptoms, so you should always take things that strengthen the spleen and damp. 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 medicinal food diet for health care is to follow nature. The following points should be done: 1. Eat more melons: summer temperatures are high, the body loses 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, slightly bitter in the porridge, can wake up the spleen and appetite, has the effect of eliminating 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, bitter gourd porridge are all good food in summer.  Also, pay attention to supplementing some nutrients.  Products that nourish the heart and calm the mind in summer include poria, maitake, jujube, lotus seeds, lily, bamboo leaves, cypress seeds and so on. In terms of diet, you should eat more millet, corn, beans, fish, onions, potatoes, winter melon, bitter melon, celery, asparagus, pumpkin, bananas, apples, etc. Eat less animal offal, egg yolk, fatty meat, fish roe, shrimp, etc. Eat less salty food, such as salted fish, pickles, etc.  The following four common summer heart protection melon fruit you can eat more.  1, watermelon: in addition to quench thirst, heat relief. Applicable to heat injury, summer heat, thirst, urine, throat paralysis, mouth sores and other diseases.  2, cucumber: green skin, juicy, crisp and fresh, is a good product to quench thirst. Fresh cucumber has the effect of detoxification of heat, dehumidification, slippery intestines, analgesia also has a significant effect, constipation in summer should eat more.  3, peach: produce moisture, moisten the intestines, blood, eliminating accumulation. Suitable for thirst, blood stasis, poor bowel movement, urinary discomfort, fullness and other symptoms.  4, bitter melon: bitter melon taste sweet and bitter cold, old melon gradually turn yellow and red, taste sweet and flat. It can get rid of heat evil, relieve fatigue, clear the mind and eyes, people who work hard can eat more.