Principles of health care in summer

Don’t think that you should pay attention to your physical health and keep warm only in winter. We should never ignore this kind of health care in the hot summer, because we are also threatened by various diseases in summer. Therefore, everyone should pay more attention to health care in summer. Let’s learn about some principles that need to be paid attention to in summer health care.

As long as we respect these health care principles, we can bring out the benefits they bring to your body and reduce unnecessary impacts. Therefore, I hope that people who maintain their health in the summer can pay attention to it and help themselves achieve the effect of health preservation scientifically.

1. Diet and fire prevention in summer

Hot weather can cause people to suffer from a series of symptoms such as irritability, insomnia, etc. The summer heat can easily cause internal heat in the body, so "fire prevention" has become the primary principle of health preservation in summer.

In midsummer, you can eat more foods that clear away heat and detoxify. In traditional Chinese medicine, the medicinal materials that can clear away summer heat and reduce fire include: mint, lotus leaves, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, forsythia, etc. The diet should be light and easily digestible, and greasy and spicy food should be eaten less. You can add mung beans, lotus seeds, lotus leaves, reed roots, lentils, etc. to japonica rice and cook them into porridge, and then eat it after cooling. This medicinal porridge has the effect of strengthening the stomach and relieving heat. Usually you should eat more vegetables and fruits, which can provide vitamin supplements. It is best to eat more melon foods, including watermelon, cantaloupe, broccoli, cucumber, winter melon, etc.

2. Summer health care: daily life and rest

In summer, the key to nourishing yang is to nourish the heart. In the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine also believes that "summer qi and heart qi are connected", so health preservation requires "quiet rest", for example: go to bed early and get up early, and avoid profuse sweating. Excessive sweating can easily damage the yang.

When the weather turns hot, it is easy to experience irritability, restlessness, poor sleep, etc., and people's minds are easily affected. So how can we avoid restlessness? First of all, we must pay attention to mental conditioning and maintain a happy mood; secondly, avoid excessive joy and sadness, and maintain a clear and peaceful state.

Traditional Chinese medicine has long had the saying that "it is good to nourish the heart in summer", so in terms of daily life and health preservation in summer, we must keep our body and mind happy and our mood good, to prevent excessive heart fire from causing illness.

3. Avoid eating cold drinks immediately after exercising to maintain your health in summer

In the summer, a little exercise will make you sweat profusely. Many people like to drink cold drinks and iced beverages immediately after exercise, thinking that this is very "refreshing" and thirst-quenching. In fact, this has a huge impact on your health, because if you eat cold drinks immediately after exercise, it will cause great harm to your liver and lungs. The Qi and blood are boiling, and the lungs, liver and other functions are in an active state. If you catch a cold immediately, the body's Yang Qi will be damaged.

The above are the issues that need to be paid attention to in summer health care. If you often ignore these health care in summer, it will easily cause some harm to your health. So I hope that after reading the above introduction, everyone can pay more attention to these health care issues.