The summer solstice begins on June 21st! After the summer solstice, it also means that the hottest phase of the year will be ushered in.
When the climate is hot, it is easy to cause excessive sweating and easy to catch fire. And summer rain is abundant, which is the hottest season.
On the afternoon of June 19, the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Bureau issued a high temperature blue warning, and the maximum daily temperature in most parts of the Plains of Japan City from June 20 to 21 will reach 35 to 36 °C.
Previously, according to the forecast of the Central Meteorological Observatory, from the 15th to the 22nd, there will be sustained high temperature weather in many parts of the north, and the 17th to 18th is the strongest period. From June 18 to 21, Shanxi, south-central Hebei, Beijing, Henan, Shandong, northern Anhui, Jiangsu and western Inner Mongolia, most of Shaanxi and other places have many high temperatures, the maximum daily temperature is 35 ~ 38 °C, and the local can reach about 40 °C.
On June 16, citizens cycled through Huayuan Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Haoran
With the rise of temperature and the invasion of summer heat, people tend to be bored, loss of appetite, insomnia, anxiety, and heavy head and body difficulties due to discomfort. Be sure to adjust your lifestyle and maintain your health correctly.
10 taboos don't break!
1, avoid: do not open the window ventilation
In summer, many people are afraid of heat, and blow air conditioning indoors with closed windows.
In fact, the humid and stuffy indoors with poor ventilation are easy to cause heat stroke, and the use of air conditioning without opening windows to ventilate, the air quality will become worse, but it will cause disease.
2, do not: often eat overnight dishes
In the summer, some overnight cold dishes are reluctant to throw away, and often continue to eat the next day. However, this can easily affect health.
Summer leftovers are leftovers for a long time, which is easy to produce harmful substances such as sulfites, and the light ones have abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, etc., and the heavy ones lead to problems such as food poisoning.
3, avoid: thirsty drink water
Sweating a lot in the summer, easy to thirst, many people take a cup and pour water, this way is not right.
Huang Li, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said in an interview with Health Times in 2014 that drinking too much water at one time will quickly enter the bloodstream, causing increased blood volume, which can easily increase the burden on the heart, making people have chest tightness, shortness of breath, breathing difficulties and other symptoms. Especially for people with poor heart function, the weather is hot, the human blood vessels are in a state of expansion, and suddenly drinking water may cause the blood vessels to contract rapidly, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular vessels, causing angina or even heart failure and other diseases. ①
Drink water in small quantities many times in the summer, each time at about 200 ml (a cup of ordinary tea cup). Don't wait until you're thirsty before drinking water.
4, do not: cold drinks do not leave the hand
Cold drinks from the stomach are an indispensable artifact to relieve the heat, but if the cold drink does not leave the mouth for a long time, the gastrointestinal tract cannot stand it.
Chen Jihong, former chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology of Wuhan University People's Hospital, pointed out in a health newspaper article in 2014 that after a large number of cold drinks enter the gastrointestinal tract, it will interfere with the normal peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, lead to digestive dysfunction, cause functional indigestion, affect the gastrointestinal blood supply, weaken the self-repair ability of the gastrointestinal mucosal barrier, and seriously induce abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome and other discomforts.
Patients with coronary heart disease and hypertension should not drink cold drinks, because a large number of cold drinks will lead to vasoconstriction, which will increase blood pressure, and coronary artery contraction will induce angina.
Health Times Photo by Kou Xiaowen
5. Avoid: Rinse cold shower
In the hot summer, taking a cold bath can reduce the temperature of the body surface, but it is not suitable for everyone.
Huang Li, chief physician of the Department of Integrative Cardiology of China-Japan Hospital, explained in an interview with Health Times in 2014 that because after sweating in summer, the pores are fully open, and it is easy to catch a cold when flushed with cool water.
Under the stimulation of cool water, blood vessels contract rapidly, which can also cause blood pressure to rise and insufficient blood supply to the heart, especially in the elderly with high blood pressure. Taking a shower can also easily induce respiratory diseases such as asthma and tracheitis, as well as gastrointestinal diseases.
6, avoid: do not sweat all day
Chen Yanqing, chief physician of the Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out in a health newspaper article in 2019 that most of the modern people's lifestyle is to eat more and move less, and it is easy to form a spleen deficiency and wet resistance physique, which needs to be exercised and sweated the most.
For example, in the summer, when the weather is cool in the morning and evening, exercise outdoors for half an hour. Elderly people can choose tai chi, yoga and other gentle sports, and young people can play basketball and football to achieve the effect of sweating.
7. Avoid: Do not rest at noon
Xing Junwu, chief physician of the Department of Cardiology of Nanjing Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, pointed out in a health newspaper article in 2014 that the summer days are long and the nights are short, and many people will gradually feel that they lack sleep at night, if after a busy morning of study and work, the consumption of physical strength and energy can be imagined. Therefore, in the summer, napping also plays a key role in disease prevention and health.
8. Avoid: insufficient dietary intake
In the summer, the body sweats a lot, consumes a lot, is easy to fatigue, has no appetite, and many people choose to eat some fruits and vegetables. Poor eating, insufficient nutrition, and reduced immunity can lead to diseases.
Huang Lianzhen, a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said in a Health Times article in 2014 that no matter how hot it is, it is also necessary to eat some lean meat, fish, soy milk, eggs and so on. When the appetite is not good, you can change the taste and eat summer foods such as lotus root, winter melon, loofah, watermelon, and lentils.
9. Avoid: turn on the air conditioner all night
Many people sleep with the air conditioner on all night, but it hurts to do so.
Chen Yanqing, chief physician of the Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said in a health newspaper article in 2019 that the temperature of the air conditioner is too low, and it is very easy to make the cold and evil qi enter the body, damage the yang qi, and do not blindly pursue coolness.
Blowing air conditioning and fans for a long time will make the cold gas stagnate in the body, so that the body's qi and blood operation is blocked, and it is easy to have colds, headaches, nasal congestion, facial paralysis and other diseases.
10, taboo: the emotion is too excited
Xu Tao, deputy chief physician of the Hebei Provincial Mental Health Center, pointed out in a health newspaper article in 2020 that if the temperature exceeds 35 ° C, the sunshine exceeds 12 hours, and the humidity is higher than 80%, the human body will be in a state of irritability, and the proportion of "emotional heat stroke" will increase significantly. For example, because of a harsh word, a bad thing, they are extremely angry, they hurt people, they throw fists at each other, and they can't control their behavior. Therefore, in summer, it is not only necessary to prevent physical heat stroke, but also to prevent "emotional heat stroke".
You can call other people and talk and express your emotions. Or do something else that interests you, especially some young people can participate in some sports activities, and shift their attention from fear of failure to positive action and success.
Summer Solstice Wellness Keep in Mind 6 Points
1. Drink a bowl of soup on the summer solstice - mung bean soup
Mung beans can be described as a good product for summer heat relief and detoxification, and drinking mung beans after the summer solstice is the most relieving. Physician of the Department of Pharmacy of Wuhan Central Hospital in Hubei Province introduced to Daochun in 2015 in the Health Times that in order to highlight the heat-clearing and detoxification effect of mung beans, there are skills when cooking mung bean drinks: First, do not peel, mung bean coats contain a lot of nutrients; Second, it is not appropriate to cook for too long; Third, in order to reduce oxidation, the pot lid should be covered as well; The fourth is to avoid cooking in an iron pot as much as possible.
2. Drink a cup of tea on the summer solstice - three-leaf tea
Yang Li, a professor at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, introduced in a 2009 article in the Health Times that the summer solstice nourishes the heart and clears the summer, and first recommends the summer solstice three-leaf tea, which are lotus leaves, bamboo leaves, and mint leaves. At the time of the summer solstice, you can brew tea with three leaves (3 to 5 grams of each type) or choose one of them (5 to 10 grams for lotus leaves and bamboo leaves, and 5 grams of mint leaves) to drink tea, which has a very good effect of clearing the heart, nourishing the heart and cooling off.
3. Eat a melon on the summer solstice – watermelon
Eating watermelon on the summer solstice can not only clear heat and detoxify, eliminate annoyance and quench thirst, but also diuretic and help digestion, especially those who are engaged in open air work or work in indoor high temperature environment can often eat. Of course, although there are many benefits, you can't eat too much at one time, otherwise it will dilute the gastric juice and cause indigestion. At the same time, you should also pay attention not to put the watermelon in the refrigerator for too long, otherwise it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.
Health Times Photo by Kou Xiaowen
4. Eat the head garlic on the summer solstice - garlic
Summer is the most vigorous period of microbial and bacterial breeding, coupled with the high temperature and high humidity in summer, food is very easy to spoil, some people with poor gastrointestinal function, especially love diarrhea, abdominal pain.
Dietitian Zhou Fengling reminded in the 2018 Health Times that if you eat some garlic regularly, your stomach and intestines will be comfortable to spend the summer. Garlic has a strong bactericidal and antibacterial effect, especially in summer, it has an inhibitory effect on intestinal E. coli and dysentery bacilli, and has a certain lethality.
5. Eat some bitterness on the summer solstice - bitter melon
On hot days, it is easy to get on fire, and often do not want to eat, you can eat some "bitterness" appropriately.
Yu Kang, chief physician of the Department of Clinical Nutrition of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, introduced in a health newspaper article in 2018 that the bitter taste in bitter melon can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice and promote appetite. The fresh juice of bitter melon, containing bitter guarin and insulin-like substances, has the effect of regulating blood sugar.
However, people suffering from stomach diseases or poor digestion, as well as pregnant women, should not eat it. In addition, if you can't stand the "bitterness", you can first blanch the bitter melon with water for one minute to reduce the stimulation of bitterness.
6. Press a point on the summer solstice - the large vertebral point
Xie Yu, chief physician of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, pointed out in a health newspaper article in 2017 that the summer solstice is the most exuberant period of yang qi in the year, and for cough, asthma and other cold diseases that are easy to get cold in autumn and winter, it can conform to the time of day, and select the acupuncture points of yang in the three volt days after the summer solstice for conditioning, which can play a multiplier of the effect of "treating the disease" with half the effort.
When we look down, we can see the highest vertebrae in the middle line behind the neck, and can rotate with the neck, which is the 7th cervical vertebra, and the depression below it is the large vertebrae.
When rubbing, the finger kneading method can be used, the index or middle finger (or assisted by others with the thumb) is placed on the acupuncture point, and the pressure is moderately forced, slightly sore and slightly flushed, each operation is about 10 minutes, and can be massaged several times a day.
(Source: Health Times)