Long summer, the temperature continues to rise, the hot weather makes many people distracted, easily fatigued, feel the whole person is “out of shape”. For people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, summer is more likely to have “heart problems”. Because of the summer heat, people are particularly irritable and their blood pressure is prone to fluctuations. In addition, summer sweating, water loss, blood viscosity increased, greatly increasing the incidence of acute cardiovascular events. Therefore, summer health care is important to “nourish the heart”. “The first thing you need to do is to combine your heart in summer. The “quiet” means to achieve a calm mood, adjust their emotions, do not be very happy and angry. For this reason, the elderly can usually read more books, listen to music, play chess, etc., to help maintain a relaxed mood. Second, exercise also has a good protective effect on the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular, but should not do strenuous exercise in summer. Because the heartbeat accelerates when the exercise is intense, the body consumes a lot, beyond the load of the heart will be a problem. Therefore, you can choose relatively mild exercise in summer, such as walking, jogging, playing tai chi, etc. A lot of people believe that the summer heart should eat more bitter food. It is true that eating bitter in summer can be good for the heart, but most of the bitter food is cold and not all people are suitable for eating. Eating bitter is suitable for people with damp-heat and yin deficiency constitution, because bitter can clear heat. This group of people can properly eat foods such as lotus hearts, bitter melon and lettuce. If people with spleen deficiency, qi deficiency and yang deficiency are not suitable to eat more bitter and cold foods. Because bitter and heart are connected, if there is no heart fire itself, there is no need to clear the fire. Especially the elderly are mostly deficiency fire, too much clearing heat will be deficient, the way to deal with deficiency fire is to nourish yin and lower fire, you can eat some ingredients that are calm, such as lily, lotus seeds, etc. In addition, people with a weak constitution should eat some red food, such as red beans, red dates, carrots, tomatoes, grapes, wolfberries, etc. In addition to not just “eating bitter” in summer, we must also adjust our diet according to our personal constitution. Yin deficiency body: this kind of people often show a flushed face, hands and feet heart heat, easy dry mouth and throat dry, like to drink cold drinks. People with Yin deficiency can eat cool foods in summer, such as lily and lotus seeds in sugar water or soup; raw earth in water; and maitong yu zhu soup. Yang deficiency: Yang deficiency is manifested by fear of cold, cold hands and feet, yellow and white face, easy to eat cold things diarrhea, night urination, stool rotten. Chinese medicine emphasizes that “spring and summer nourish Yang, autumn and winter nourish Yin”, so patients with Yang deficiency should seize the opportunity to replenish Yang in summer and eat more warm foods. For example, fruits such as lychee, durian, cherries, as well as longan and walnuts. The meat category includes mutton and beef, etc. In addition, people with Yang deficiency can do moxibustion (San Fu moxibustion), which is good for replenishing Yang energy. Qi deficiency: always feel tired, easily fatigued, weak limbs, sweating, and in severe cases, dizziness and panic. These people need to replenish qi in summer, you can take ginseng and American ginseng, but also can be used in soup with Astragalus, Radix et Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, etc. Sleep meridian, acupressure in addition to the heart of the summer heat, long days and short nights, many people’s sleep quality becomes poor or even insomnia, and sleep is a major taboo to nourish the heart. Professor Liang Donghui said, summer we also need to ensure sleep time, 6 to 8 hours a day is appropriate, followed by the best to sleep a meridian, that is, between 11:00 and 1:00 at noon, to 30 minutes is appropriate. For some insomnia conditioning, but also according to personal constitution. If always insomnia, heart trouble, dry mouth, such people are mostly insomnia due to heart blood deficiency, can be used sour date seeds, lily, lotus seeds, wolfberry, cinnamon meat and other soup, can nourish the heart and calm the mind. If there is blood stasis, you can drink Salvia tea, Hawthorn tea, etc., can invigorate the blood and nourish the heart, but also appetite and fat. If sleep is not good, you can press the acupuncture points before going to bed, can calm the mind and nourish the heart, such as the pericardium meridian on the Nei Guan point, Shen Men point; legs of the foot San Li, Sanyinjiao; neck behind the ears of the Annmian point, etc., the pressure is appropriate to self-feeling soreness, numbness and swelling pain, once 2 to 3 minutes. Summer heart to prevent heatstroke High summer temperatures, the loss of body water not only makes the elderly susceptible to heatstroke, but also prone to stroke, heart attack and other serious problems. Therefore, it is also necessary to do the following three things to nourish the heart in summer. First, drink more water. Summer to drink warm water, and it is best to drink a cup of warm water in the morning, about 250 ~ 500 ml. If you sweat a lot during the day, you can drink a glass of light salt water, but should not drink cold water. Secondly, to prevent heatstroke and cool down. Do not stay in the air conditioning room for a long time in summer, the air conditioning temperature at 26 degrees is appropriate. If the air conditioner is too cold, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is large, and the middle-aged and elderly people’s heart and vascular nerves are poorly regulated, so they can easily be stimulated and induce acute events. Lastly, it is important to have some medication to prevent heat stroke when you go out in summer. When you go out in summer, you should have some medication to prevent heatstroke, such as patchouli, rindan, peppermint oil, cool oil, ten drops of water, etc. You can use the oil to apply to the Fengchi point, solar plexus, Neiguan point, human etc., which can help prevent summer heatstroke.