Small full, things are so small that they are full!
"Little Full" is the eighth of the twenty-four solar terms. Usually around May 21 of each year, the solar ecliptic longitude is located at 60 degrees. "The fingernails are small and full, and all things are full of this little, and the wheat is small and not fully ripe, so the name is also."
Summer crops such as barley have begun to bear fruit, and the grains are gradually full. But it is not yet fully mature, so it is called "little full".
Xiao Man has the proverb of "big fall big full, small fall small full", "falling" means rain, the more abundant the rain, the more harvest will be in the future.
"The Seventy-two Waiting Solutions of the Moon Order": "In the middle of April, the small full, the things are so small that they are full." "When the small full, all over the place has entered the summer, the average temperature in the southern region is generally above 22 degrees, while the rain increases, just as the folk rumor: "small full, small full, rivers full."
During this period, after the rain, the temperature will drop sharply, so it is necessary to pay attention to adding clothes to avoid colds, high temperatures and rainy temperatures, and hot and humid air, which is the meteorological characteristics of "small fullness".
From now until around the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a good time to collect medicine. Plants that occur early in the spring have accumulated rich nutrients, and many of them have reached the time when their medicinal properties are at their best. Among the medicines that can be harvested this season, there are one flower and one fruit that I would like to recommend.
01
honeysuckle
Picking the stubble honeysuckle in the small full season, adding some licorice soaking water to drink in the summer, it is extremely refreshing and pleasant, and it is a summer tea that I drank from childhood to a large summer. If the dosage is increased, it can also be used to treat skin allergies, redness, dermatitis and other problems.
02
greengage
Folk legend: "Eat plums to take orders" - eating plums can prolong life. Plums are a health fruit for the liver, which can purify the blood and prevent cancer. It also stimulates the secretion of parotid hormone ("rejuvenation hormone") to make people younger.
Small full of health
Principle 1: clear heat and dampness, raw jin quenching thirst because the human body consumes more liquid in the summer, so in the summer should pay attention to clearing heat and quenching thirst, and because of the equal emphasis on summer and humidity during this period, so more attention should be paid to clearing heat and humidity in daily life. Chinese medicine believes that the long summer belongs to the spleen in the five internal organs, and it is also advisable to make up for it. According to the view of Traditional Chinese medicine health, too wet is not good for the spleen, so it is appropriate to eat more sweet or cold in the daily diet. Often eat foods with clear damp heat and yin nourishment effect, such as red adzuki beans, coix seeds, mung beans, winter melon, cucumbers, yellow cauliflower, cress, water chestnuts, black fungus, carrots, tomatoes, watermelon, yam, crucian carp, grass carp, duck meat, etc. Principle 2: Pure heart to dispel heat, clear heat and detoxification Chinese medicine believes that summer is summer heat, summer belongs to the five viscera belong to the heart, suitable for cleansing and supplementation. And the heart likes to be cold, it is advisable to eat acid, such as often eating some wheat products, in addition to the appropriate more pork, plums, peaches, olives, pineapples, celery and so on. Chinese medicine pays attention to the unity of nature and man, and the complementarity of yin and yang, so it is advisable for people to eat more cold and sour foods in the summer, and try not to eat spicy and warm things. However, it should be noted that raw food and cold drinks should not be excessive, so as not to hurt the healthy qi in the human body and induce diseases. Principle three: healthy spleen and stomach, tonic qi and yin into the summer, the weather is hot, the human body consumption increases, on the one hand, it is urgent to supplement nutrients and liquids, on the other hand, due to the influence of summer and wet climate, it is easy to lead to insufficient spleen and stomach integrity, gastrointestinal dysfunction. Therefore, in the diet, it should be based on the principle of healthy spleen and stomach, with soup, soup, juice and other soups with more, light and can promote appetite and easy to digest diet, 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 eaten at each meal should not be too large, and a small number of meals should be used as the principle.
Small full health two avoidance
1, Mo greedy in front of the eyes comfortable, too avoid the heat and cool small full of solar terms is in late May, the temperature increased significantly, if the greedy sleep will inevitably lead to rheumatism, wet skin diseases and other diseases. In the shade, we should pay special attention to covering the abdomen, many rural places like to wear "pocket belly", which is very in line with the way of health. Summer health, the reason why the ancients proposed to maintain the yang, the key lies in the summer heat steaming, sweat leakage, pores open, so that the body is most vulnerable to wind and cold and wet evil invasion. 2, to avoid a long time in the air conditioning environment, beware of air conditioning disease The so-called air conditioning disease refers to a disease that people suffer from when working and living in the environment of air-conditioning equipment for a long time. Mild facial neuralgia, lower limb soreness, fatigue, headache, low back pain, easy to catch colds and gastrointestinal diseases of varying degrees, etc.; severe cases will have skin diseases and cardiovascular diseases. The various symptoms that appear in the elderly are more pronounced. The way to prevent the above two points from happening is:
1, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not exceed 5 degrees Celsius. The indoor temperature is not less than 25 degrees Celsius.
2, it is best to turn off the air conditioner when falling asleep, and the indoor air is circulated outside the air.
3. If you have chronic patients such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, especially the elderly, do not stay in the air-conditioned environment for a long time, and people with joint pain do not live in the air-conditioned environment for a long time.
To prevent the invasion of wet evil, we must avoid dampness in the living environment. Therefore, in the long summer room must be ventilated, moisture-proof, heat insulation, if the room is too humid, the air is dirty, not only furniture, clothing mold, long hair and damage. It can also damage the body's yang qi.
Small full moxibustion
Small Man Festival Qi Moxibustion I: Calm the spirit and nourish the heart because of the summer fire, but also because the fire qi is in the heart, the fire is yang, so the summer heat is the most likely to interfere with the mind, making the mood restless, causing upset. And the upset will make the heart beat faster, and the faster heart beat will increase the burden on the heart and induce various diseases.
Therefore, summer health care is heavy on the heart. For friends with heart disease, high blood pressure and other diseases, moxibustion health care focuses on yang, heart and spirit. Moxibustion Laogong, Yongquan, Heart Yu, calm the mind, nourish the heart, care for blood vessels. Drain their qi and blood, make them reach the limit, and bring peace.
Universal prescription for high blood pressure foot bath
Ingredients: 15g each of huai ox knee and Sichuan root, 10g each of gastrodia, hook vine (rear down), summer dry grass, evodia, cinnamon
Method: Add 2000ml of water to the top and cook, 10 minutes after the water is boiled, take the juice while warm and bathe for 30 minutes, 1 time in the morning and 1 time in the afternoon, 2-3 weeks for 1 course.
Small full festival qi moxibustion two: healthy spleen wet small full festival is in late May, the temperature is significantly increased, if you sleep in the cold will inevitably cause rheumatism, wet skin diseases and other diseases. After the small full, the rain is more, the weather is hot and humid, and Chinese medicine calls it "wet evil". Because the spleen of the human body "likes dryness and dampness", at this time the sweat is lost more, and it is most affected by the "wet evil", the spleen and stomach digestive function will be poor, and some summer diseases will follow. For example, symptoms of loss of appetite, bloating, diarrhea and other symptoms of digestive decline are often accompanied by mental malaise, drowsiness, physical weakness, etc., which is called "wet evil obstruction" in Chinese medicine, and may also suffer from skin diseases such as athlete's foot and eczema.
Therefore, the health of the small full festival should pay attention to the healthy spleen and wetness, and the acupuncture points such as zhongyi, foot three miles, fenglong, and Xiexi are the acupuncture points that the small full festival qi dispels dampness and spleen.
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