As the summer heat approaches, we are entering the July fire season. Unbeknownst to us, summer is a dangerous and difficult season for patients with cerebrovascular disease. Cerebrovascular disease refers to a group of diseases in which the arteries of the brain or the carotid arteries that innervate the brain become diseased, resulting in impaired intracranial blood circulation and damage to brain tissue. It has various manifestations, such as hemiplegia, hemiparesis, sudden darkness or blindness in one eye, aphasia, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, deafness and facial sensory disorders, impaired consciousness, urinary and fecal incontinence, accompanied by headache and elevated blood pressure, etc. Some patients may also experience mental symptoms such as restlessness, delirium and hallucinations. In Chinese medicine, it is called “stroke”, which is mostly caused by the imbalance of yin and yang, yin deficiency, resulting in hyperactivity of liver and yang, fire and wind, Qi and blood rebellion, phlegm and turbidity blocking the orifices, just like “wind is good at moving and changing”, so it is called stroke, which is a metaphor for its rapid onset and change, often endangering people’s lives. The incidence is higher in July and August. Due to the hot weather in summer, heat consumes yin and fluid, and the internal wind is easy to move, so improper summer health care can easily induce cerebrovascular disease. Reasonable health care in summer has become a priority for cerebrovascular patients to spend the summer peacefully. According to the theory of “Nei Jing” of nourishing Yang in spring and summer, and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter, the following prescriptions for health care have been issued: First, medication For patients with hypertension, insist on taking antihypertensive drugs “rather than every other day”; for patients with atherosclerosis, take anti-platelet aggregation or lipid-lowering drugs according to laboratory results; for patients with cerebrovascular malformations For patients with cerebrovascular malformation, neurological examination should be done, and angiography should be performed if necessary. Second, the summer heat and choose yin summer due to more sweating, easy to make the body water loss, resulting in blood concentration, triggering acute cerebral thrombosis, but also because of the summer heat decoction fluid, Yin injury, Yang hyperactivity, liver wind and cerebral hemorrhage. For this reason, it is recommended that cerebrovascular patients can drink more herbal tea, which has a better effect on the prevention of summer heat: 6g of chrysanthemum, 6g of Xia Gu Cao, 6g of two flowers, 5g of bamboo leaves, 2g of gardenia, 2g of peppermint leaves, 3g of licorice, 1 – 3 doses per day, boiling water, this can clear the liver and eyes, detoxification and prevention of summer heat. If you sweat too much, you should supplement sodium and electrolytes appropriately. In addition, we should pay attention to choosing a shady place, and try to nourish yin when the sun is strong from 12:00 to 15:00, and avoid direct sunlight. Third, a balanced diet Cerebrovascular patients should pay attention to a moderate diet, so that there is a regular, limited, a range. Protein diet can slow down the process of blood vessel wall elasticity decay, improve the central nervous system’s regulation of blood pressure, lower blood pressure, thus reducing the incidence of cerebrovascular disease. Soybean products, yogurt and freshwater fish, which contain low cholesterol, can also be eaten in appropriate quantities. You can also eat more fresh vegetables containing more fiber and fruits containing pectin as well as mushrooms, etc. Salt is indispensable in people’s life, but if the diet contains high salt content, it is easy to cause hypertension, which in turn leads to cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, attention should be paid to limiting the intake of salt in the diet to 5 – 10 grams per day is appropriate. And those who are “heavy mouth”, should pay more attention to limit. The source of sugar in food is mainly carbohydrates, and excessive intake of food containing carbohydrates can be converted into triglycerides in the body, which can increase blood lipids. Long-term high blood lipid, can cause hypertension, atherosclerosis. Fatty foods, especially animal offal, eggs, fish roe, fatty meat, etc. contain a large amount of saturated fatty acids, which can raise cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, which can also cause atherosclerosis, which should also be limited. Chinese medicine believes that the diet gas pungent and spicy, can help fire to disperse gas; gas heavy and sweet more help wet phlegm, which leads to dysfunction of the internal organs, and induce cerebrovascular disease. Therefore, attention should be paid to diet, to achieve regular rationing, do not eat too saturated and salty, and eat less fat, chili, ginger, garlic, strong liquor and other fatty, sweet, thick and spicy stimulating products. Patients with high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis can take vinegar soaked peanut rice for a long time: 300g of raw peanut rice (remove the red coat), 200ml of rice vinegar, soak for 7 days, take 10 capsules each time, 2 times a day. In addition, summer should eat more seasonal fruits, drink some green tea, can also be dietary therapy. For example, mung bean and kelp porridge: 100g of mung bean and kelp each, 50-100g of japonica rice, first wash and chop the kelp, cook with mung bean and japonica rice into porridge, once a day, it is suitable for long-term use as dinner. Function: Clearing heat, nourishing Yin, relieving summer heat and lowering blood pressure. It can also be used to boil 30g of kelp, 100g of winter melon, 10g of coix seeds and 15g of sugar into soup, and take it once a day for 7 – 30 days. Auxiliary treatment of hypertension, to prevent cerebrovascular disease accidents. Fourth, avoid overwork For the majority of manual workers, we should pay attention to properly reduce the intensity of labor to prevent the occurrence of cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage, or cerebral thrombosis due to excessive sweating is not replenished. During the summer harvest in rural areas, we should pay more attention to moderate labor intensity, to work in the morning and evening cool time, with a straw hat shade, to prevent heatstroke or prevent cerebrovascular accidents. Five, appropriate exercise Chinese medicine advocates: “spring and summer nourish Yang, autumn and winter nourish Yin”, spring is the main birth, summer is the main long, spring and summer nourish Yang, that is, nourish the long, summer still need to exercise properly, advocate aerobic exercise, but to control the intensity, the morning to brisk walking, do health exercises, the evening is advocated for walking, not too much intensity. To go to bed early and get up early, to ensure a good sleep (12:00 pm), noon (12:30 pm to 13:30 pm) sleep, to ensure a happy mood, smiling mouth always open, the body and soul are healthy, Yin and Yang balance. In short, as long as the scientific and reasonable arrangement of summer life, you can effectively prevent the occurrence of cerebrovascular disease, so that cerebrovascular patients through the hot summer peacefully.