Summer is the season when yang energy is at its peak, and the climate is hot and vigorous. This is a period of metabolism, when Yang Qi is outside and Yin is inside, and Qi and blood are active on the surface of the organism. Summer health care is important in the spirit of regulating, maintain a happy and stable emotions, do not be very sad and happy, so as not to heat to help heat, fire on the fuel. The heart is quiet, people cool themselves, can achieve the purpose of health. The principle of health care is to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. Dampness is a major evil in summer, coupled with the summer spleen and stomach function is low, people often feel bad appetite, easy diarrhea, white tongue and other symptoms, so you should always take the spleen and damp things. Generally choose more to strengthen the spleen aromatic damp and light percolation of damp products, such as patchouli, lotus seeds, pelargonium, etc.. The second is to clear heat and eliminate summer heat. Summer high temperature, summer heat evil, the human heart fire is more vigorous, so commonly used some of the drugs with heat detoxification to clear the heart fire, such as chrysanthemum, mint, honeysuckle, forsythia, lotus leaf, etc. to dispel summer heat. The third is to nourish the lungs and kidneys. Chinese medicine believes that, according to the law of the five elements, summer heart fire and lung gold, kidney water deficiency, we must pay attention to nourishing the lung and kidney yin. You can use wolfberry, raw earth, lily of the valley, mulberry and acid collection of lung qi medicine, such as 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 outside world Yang Qi in summer, with internal Chinese medicine with acupuncture and other external treatment methods to treat some winter diseases. For example, fresh sesame flowers can be used to prevent frostbite by rubbing the frostbite prone areas, and the ointment can be applied to acupuncture points to treat asthma and rhinitis in winter. Psychological Psychological adjustment method in ancient times there is no air conditioning equipment, so in the summer, the heat is difficult when the mood is particularly irritable; modern people to the summer, although there are conditions to use air conditioning, but in the blazing sun days, but also easy to distracted. What’s more, air conditioning is not a panacea, only learn to self-regulation is the best policy. So how should self-regulation? The “Nei Jing” says well, should “sleep at night and get up early (a little later to go to bed, in order to comply with the natural lack of Yin; get up earlier, in order to comply with the fullness of Yang. (Do not get tired of the sun, so that the will is not angry (do not be irritable and lose your temper because you are tired of the long day), so that Huaying becomes a show, so that the gas can be released (to be full of spirit, to achieve the beauty of the summer, and to fully vent), if the love is outside (as you face the object of love, the emotions should be fully exposed and do not need to hide inside) This is the way to adapt to the summer climate, and to protect the qi of longevity (this is the way to adapt to the summer climate, to protect the qi of longevity). (This is the way to adapt to the summer climate and protect the qi of longevity)”. The beauty of this is that the whole text is about “qi”. The key to summer health is to make people “free from anger”, and “qi” can be fully and normally “ventilated”, but not “chaotic”. “. If you are irritable, you are “chaotic” and “rebellious”, and you will be injured, such as having malaria in autumn. Modern people’s living conditions have greatly improved. In summer, on the one hand, we can use the objective health care of diet and living (which has been advertised in many magazines), and on the other hand, we should not neglect the subjective meditation of rest. In the summer, it is advisable to intentionally make some activities that can make people relaxed and happy: appropriate morning exercise, appropriate recreation, appropriate summer recuperation, appropriate male and female love …… In short, into the summer time, nourishing “heart” for the top, nourishing ” The first thing you need to do is to take care of your heart. The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of the most popular and most popular items. The food to protect the heart food to nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind in summer are poria, maitake, sour dates, lotus seeds, lily of the valley, light bamboo leaves, cypress seeds, etc., these can play a role in nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind. 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. Heart protection melons and fruits The following four common summer heart protection melons and fruits you can eat more. Watermelon: to quench thirst, clear heat and relieve summer heat. Suitable for heat injury, summer heat, thirst, urination, throat paralysis, mouth sores and other diseases. Cucumber: green skin, juicy, crisp and fresh, water content of about 97%, is a good product to quench thirst. Fresh cucumber has the effect of detoxification, dehumidification, slippery intestines, analgesia also has a significant effect, constipation in summer should eat more. Peach: generates body fluid, moistens the intestines, activates blood circulation and eliminates stagnation. It is suitable for irritable thirst, blood stasis, irregular bowel movements, unfavorable urination, and flatulence. Eat two daily after lunch and dinner. Bitter gourd: bitter gourd taste sweet and bitter cold, old gourd gradually become yellow and red Research has found that the elderly, children and the system deficient people should not drink more mung bean porridge to relieve the heat. According to the test found that the protein content of mung bean porridge than chicken. The gastrointestinal function of the elderly and children is relatively poor, it is difficult to digest the mung bean protein in a short period of time, so it can cause indigestion. Such people should eat less or no cold food. In addition, people with a weak spleen and stomach must not drink mung bean soup, but can drink rice and millet mixed with mung beans boiled into a porridge, because rice and millet will play a nourishing effect on the spleen and stomach. The cold physique and the people who are taking drugs are also not suitable for drinking mung bean soup. Because of the cold nature of the mung bean itself, people with cold bodies, eating mung beans will aggravate the condition, serious will cause other diseases, and mung beans also have the effect of detoxification of heat, will be combined with the patient taking drugs, decomposition of the medicinal properties, affecting the therapeutic effect. Winter melon mung bean paste Folk proverb: summer drink mung bean soup, winter boil silver ear soup. Mung bean sugar water is the most classic summer drink, mung beans have high medicinal value, the protein contained is almost three times that of japonica rice, Li Shizhen called it “the food grain of the world, dishes in a good product”. Drinking mung bean soup in summer can prevent heatstroke, red eyes, sore throat, prickly heat, constipation, urinary redness, thirst and other diseases, but should not often drink in the dry season. Fresh winter melon is sweet and light, can clear heat and relieve summer heat; dry mung beans are sweet and cool, can cool and detoxify, eliminate summer heat and water; brown sugar is sweet and can detoxify and moisten the bath. Three kinds of food together can clear the heat and thirst, and sweet and delicious. Practice: each available fresh winter melon meat 250 grams, 75 grams of green beans, brown sugar appropriate amount. When making, first wash the winter melon, and remove the skin and seeds, cut the melon flesh into small strips, dry mung beans washed, if possible to remove the mung bean skin. Then put the prepared green beans into the casserole, add water and fry, when the beans will be cooked into bean mince, add the cut winter melon and continue to boil for 20 minutes, then add the right amount of brown sugar to taste. Kombu is kelp, boiling pork spine is light in smell, has the effect of clearing heat and eliminating stagnation, relieving dampness and annoyance, it is a drink that is both diarrheic and nutritious at the time of summer dampness, and can also assist in the treatment of hypertension, simple goiter, chronic cervical lymphadenitis, etc. Kombu is cold and salty in nature, entering the lung and stomach meridians, with the function of clearing heat and eliminating phlegm, softening hardness and dispersing knots, and lowering blood pressure. Soybean, pork backbone both as a medicinal guide, but also to its kombu, kelp cold. Soy beans are mild and sweet in nature, both tonic and effective in detoxifying heat and eliminating summer heat; pork backbone is mild and sweet in nature, with the function of tonifying yin and benefiting marrow. Combined as a soup, it not only clears heat and eliminates annoyance, but also dispels dampness and diuresis and is beneficial. Directions: Wash the kelp and soybeans, soak them slightly; wash the pork backbone and break it with the back of a knife, then put it into the pot with ginger, add 2500 ml of water about 10 bowls of water, boil it with a martial fire, then change it to a civil fire for about two hours, and mix in the right amount of salt. This amount can be used for 2-3 people. Water Duck Soup with American Ginseng The American Ginseng in this soup is a good tonic for summer heat, which can benefit qi and nourish yin, clear fire and produce fluid; the water duck is a flesh and blood thing that grows on the surface of water for years, which can nourish yin and replenish blood, benefit stomach and produce fluid, and is not dry. It is especially suitable for people with damp heat and excessive deficiency fire, and is known as “the holy medicine for deficiency labor”. Cinnamon meat is a wonderful product to nourish the qi and nourish the face, good at nourishing the blood, nourishing the heart and educating the mind. Three kinds of food together can benefit qi, nourish the heart, nourish the blood and eliminate annoyance. This soup is very suitable for hot weather, self-fatigue, excessive sweating, dry mouth and thirst, and lack of spirit. Directions: Use 20 grams of American ginseng, 250 grams of water duck meat and 12 grams of cinnamon meat each time. When making, first wash the American ginseng, cut it into thin slices with a knife or break it into young grains, and set aside. Cut the duck into pieces, remove the hair and internal organs, head, neck and feet, wash the blood with water, and then chop it into rough pieces with a knife. Remove the impurities from the cinnamon meat and wash it slightly with water. After the above ingredients are ready, put them into the soup pot, add the right amount of water, with medium to slow fire soup, boil an hour and 30 minutes, add salt to taste, wait for warm soup, eat duck meat and cinnamon meat.