Three principles of health care in Xiaoman Festival

Principle 1: Clear heat and promote dampness, promote the production of fluids to quench thirst. Because the human body in the summer fluid consumption more, so summer should pay attention to clearing heat and thirst, and because of this period of summer and dampness, so should pay more attention to clearing heat and dampness, summer and dampness in daily life. According to Chinese medicine, long summer is attributed to the spleen among the five organs, and it is also appropriate to clear the tonic. According to the viewpoint of Chinese medicine health science, too wet to the spleen is not good, so the daily diet should be appropriate to eat more sweet and cold or sweet and cold is appropriate. However, it should be noted that because of the bitter taste of the food can be able to diarrhea can be dry can be hard function, so should not eat more. Summer heat and high temperature, people like cold drinks, drink more water, resulting in easy invasion of moisture into the body. External dampness into the internal, so that the water dampness fixed spleen, causing the spleen and stomach lift, people’s transport function to produce obstacles, will accumulate water for the problem, causing food appetite. Therefore, the summer can not eat too much cold drinks, to eat appropriate water seepage food, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, the spleen is healthy, the lift and transport function can be restored, is conducive to the line of water and moisture. Principle two: clear the mind to dispel heat, clear heat and detoxification. Chinese medicine believes that summer is summer heat, summer is attributed to the five organs of the heart, suitable for clearing and tonic. And the heart like cool, it is advisable to eat acid, such as wheat products can often eat some, in addition to appropriate food peaches, olives, celery and so on. Chinese medicine focuses on the unity of man and nature, yin and yang complement each other, so people in the summer to eat more to the nature of cold and acidic food is appropriate, try not to eat spicy warm and dry things. However, it should be noted that raw food and cold drinks should not be excessive, so as not to hurt the body’s vitality and induce disease. Principle 3: Strengthen the spleen, nourish the stomach, replenish qi and yin. In summer, the weather is hot, the human body consumes more, on the one hand, there is an urgent need to replenish nutrients and fluid, on the other hand, due to the summer heat, humidity and the influence of the climate can easily lead to the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, gastrointestinal dysfunction. So in the diet should be to strengthen the spleen and stomach as the principle of soup, soup, juice and other soup more, light and can promote appetite, easy to digest meals, so as to achieve the purpose of health care. At the same time, eat less or do not eat greasy, thick, fried food, and the amount of food per meal should not be too large, should be a small number of meals as a principle. If some people already have resistance to summer, summer heat, summer dampness, heat stroke and other symptoms mentioned above, then according to the point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, pay attention to targeted, evidence-based diet, or fill the spleen and lung qi deficiency, or qi, yin double tonic. In short, summer heat and summer dampness are physiological reactions that often occur in the human body in summer, and the three principles mentioned above are based on the physiological phenomena or undesirable symptoms that tend to occur in the human body in summer and are characterized. Friends in the practical application should also be based on the local meteorological conditions at the time (such as spring and summer from warm to hot, summer and autumn from hot to cool, the microclimate of each region, etc.) combined with the different characteristics of their respective physical and easy to appear in the summer response, to achieve flexible changes. Xiaoman season health diet: 1. celery mixed with tofu Ingredients: 150 grams of celery, tofu 1 block. Salt, monosodium glutamate, a little sesame oil. Practice: celery cut into small sections, tofu cut into small square dices, are blanched with boiling water, fished out and cooled with cool water, control the water for use. Celery and tofu stir, add salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil mixing stir into. This recipe has the effect of calming the liver and clearing fire, promoting dampness and detoxification. Cool and palatable, is suitable for summer food dishes. 2. winter melon grass carp casserole Ingredients: 500 grams of winter melon, grass carp 250 grams, salt, monosodium glutamate, vegetable oil in moderation. Practice: winter melon peeled, cleaned and cut triangular pieces, grass carp cut clean, keep the tail clean for use. First with oil will be grass carp (with tail) fried to golden brown, take a casserole, which puts the right amount of water, the fish, winter melon into the casserole together, the first martial arts fire after the boil, switch to the fire stewed to about 2 hours, the soup see white, add salt, monosodium glutamate seasoning can be consumed. This formula has the effect of calming the liver, eliminating wind, diuresis, and removing heat. 3. Water Chestnut Lotus Root Soup with Rock Sugar Ingredients: 250 grams of water chestnuts, 150 grams of lotus root, the right amount of rock sugar. Practice: wash and peel water chestnuts, lotus root washed and cut into small pieces. Casserole with the right amount of water, water chestnuts, lotus root into the pot with the fire cooking and stewing for 20 minutes, add rock sugar and then stew lO minutes, – pot can be consumed. This formula has a clear heat and dampness, spleen and stomach. Stop diarrhea and essence of the efficacy. 4. mung bean kelp soup Ingredients: 30 grams of mung beans, 20 grams of kelp, 15 grams of fish, sugar. Practice: wash green beans, kelp, with fish and grass in a pot with water decoction. Drink soup and eat kelp, green beans. 1 dose per day for 1 week. This party can treat skin eczema. 5. winter melon barley porridge Ingredients: 30 grams of winter melon, barley 50 grams. Practice: the two are cooked as porridge. 1 dose per day, morning and evening, every 7 to 10 days for a course of treatment. This party can treat skin eczema. 6. Job’s tears red bean porridge Ingredients: Job’s tears 30 grams, red bean 15 grams. Practice: red beans soaked in water for half a day, with corn husk, barley cooked with porridge. Daily 1 dose, morning and evening meals. This formula can treat skin eczema.