Into the volt !!
Today is the first day of the "first volt"
From today we are officially in
The hottest "three-volt day" of the year
Saying goes
"A year to raise the sun to see spring and summer, spring and summer to raise the sun to see three volts."
"Three volt days" are the most susceptible to illness and the most nourishing
"Raising the right thing" may achieve twice the health effect with half the effort
"Raising the wrong thing" may leave the root of the disease
It even provokes a fatal crisis
What are the health misunderstandings of "Three Volt Days"?
And how should I maintain my health correctly?
Small circle, this will take you to learn more about it!
Li Guojing
Beijing Shijitan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University
Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Focus
01
What are the health misunderstandings of "Three Volt Days"?
Myth 1: Excessive temperature and sunshine in summer
Many circlers know the phrase "eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", but not many people really understand its meaning. If you understand it wrongly, it will not only fail to achieve the purpose of health preservation, but will be counterproductive.
People with humid and hot physiques or people with yin deficiency and heat in the body, or have been eating warm food, if they eat too much ginger, it will "add fuel to the fire" and cause fire.
Similarly, some people advocate drinking more mutton soup in summer is also this truth, drinking mutton soup in summer is only suitable for people with yang deficiency, most people in the summer in a yang state, drink more mutton soup or eat more mutton, but will lead to fire, dry stools and even bleeding, even if it is a yang deficiency physique, summer tonic also needs to be moderate, do not make up for it.
Myth 2: Excessive exercise in summer
People often say, "Practice three nine in winter and three volts in summer." In summer, middle-aged and elderly people can be seen everywhere in parks and squares, and although they sweat profusely, they still insist on exercising.
As everyone knows, sweating will consume the yang and fluid of the human body, especially middle-aged and elderly people must not exercise too much in midsummer, because sweating will lead to blood viscosity, easy to cause heart disease, cerebral infarction and other diseases.
The "three-volt day" health care should be mainly to escape the summer, be quiet to nourish the mind, and move more and less still. At this time, exercise must avoid high temperature, in a cool place, cool time, should do gymnastics, walking, tai chi and other light exercise, as long as slightly sweating, should not exercise too much.
Myth 3: Drink a lot of mung bean soup every day
Many families in the summer, the family can not do without mung bean soup, not only drink a lot of every day or even as water. However, mung bean soup is cold, and drinking it for too long is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with yang deficiency constitution or cold body, such as cold limbs, bloating, diarrhea and loose stools, should not drink more mung bean soup, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms, and even cause other diseases, people with blood deficiency and blood deficiency are not suitable for drinking mung bean soup.
Myth 4: Only prevent heat and not cold
For many people who like to eat cold drinks and blow air conditioners in summer, for people who like to be cold, cold protection needs more attention.
Staying in an air-conditioned room often will lead to ignorance of heat and cold, decreased immunity, and more likely to catch a cold. The cervical spine blows against the air conditioner, which causes the neck and back muscles to be cold, causing continuous neck spasm and back pain. And the weather is hot and sweaty, avoid quickly, gulp ice drinks, suddenly too cold stimulation will cause vasoconstriction, induce angina and even myocardial infarction, and cold food can also easily cause stomach discomfort, affecting digestion.
It is best that the temperature of the air conditioner does not differ from the outside temperature by no more than 8 °C. The key is not to be too greedy for cold, if you blindly covet cold (cold drinks, air conditioning) for a long time, it is bound to consume the yang energy of the human body and damage the function of the body.
Myth 5: Go cool off after rain and exercise
After the summer rainstorm, it is often cooler, and many people choose to go out for a walk and exercise at this time, but going out to exercise after the rain will aggravate the moisture in the body.
After the summer rainstorm, the humidity goes up with the evaporation of the heat, the humidity in the air will actually increase, and walking after the rain is often more prone to chest tightness, dizziness and even nausea, which is caused by the mixture of humidity and heat.
If you want to get rid of dampness, it is best to reduce exposure to moisture in daily life, and it is recommended to reduce outdoor activities on wet and rainy days.
Myth 6: Can't wait to take a cold shower after sweating
"Three volt days" hot weather, a little movement is sweaty, not to mention how uncomfortable, at this time many circle friends will be eager to take a shower, but also like to use a cooler water temperature, which is quite dangerous.
When people sweat profusely, the pores on the body are in an open state, and the skin is also in an open state, and at this time you use cool water to shower, you feel very comfortable, but the pores will suddenly shrink due to the stimulation of cold water, so that the heat in the body is suppressed and cannot be dissipated, resulting in heat stroke.
In addition, it will also make the blood vessels constrict, the amount of blood back to the heart greatly increased, but also stimulate adrenaline secretion, comprehensive factors lead to increased blood pressure, especially hypertension, coronary heart disease patients can not load, it is easy to occur cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system dangerous events, severe cases may have the risk of sudden death.
Moreover, the bath water is too cold (below 25°C), and it is easy to induce symptoms such as gastrointestinal discomfort and joint pain.
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, cold and wet qi frequently enter the human body, which will not only damage the yang qi of the human body, but also trap the moisture in the human body, and the moisture will be entangled in all kinds of diseases, which will inevitably cause the human body to fall into the root of old diseases.
It is recommended that everyone usually take a warm bath, and the specific water temperature should be close to the human body temperature, that is, 35 °C ~ 37 °C.
Myth 7: Fruits and vegetables replace meals
Many circle friends choose to directly replace the meal with vegetables and fruits, but this method can easily lead to reduced immunity, and it is easy to produce diseases over time.
Even if it is hot, eat some lean meat, fish, beans, milk, eggs, etc. appropriately. When you have a bad appetite, you can change the taste and eat summer foods such as lotus root, winter melon, loofah, lentils and so on.
Focus
02
The health effect of "three volt days" is twice as effective with half the effort
First, nourish qi
"Three volt days" sweat a lot, easy to consume gas and hurt yin, resulting in insufficient physical strength, vitality, and decreased body function. Therefore, health care should pay special attention to "nourishing qi", in case in winter, the yang is insufficient and the ability to resist diseases decreases.
Qi Supplementation Suggestion: American ginseng tea
American ginseng, also known as American ginseng, belongs to the heart, lungs and kidney meridians, and can replenish qi and nourish yin, clear heat and rejuvenate. "Medical Essence of Chinese Ginseng Western Record" says that "American ginseng is cool and tonic, and anyone who uses ginseng without being warmed by ginseng can replace it".
American ginseng qi yin double supplement, especially when sweating too much, people feel very tired and flustered, suitable for using American ginseng to make tea, which is very beneficial to those who suffer from summer. However, American ginseng is cold, and patients with cold qi deficiency are not suitable for using American ginseng.
Second, nourish the heart
TCM believes that the heart communicates with summer, and the yang energy of the heart is most vigorous in summer. Summer sweats a lot, sad yin, consumes heart yang, so summer is still the most tired season for the heart, so summer should be mainly to nourish the heart, especially patients with a history of heart disease should be vigilant.
Heart nourishing advice: often eat red food
The "Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon" pointed out that the five colors are matched with five flavors, and the five flavors are into the five internal organs, cyan nourishes the liver, red nourishes the heart, yellow nourishes the spleen and stomach, white moisturizes the lungs, and black nourishes the kidneys.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that in summer, it is advisable to eat more red food. For example, red dates, tomatoes, cherries, grapefruit, saffron, etc., some of these ingredients can nourish the heart, warm the yang, and help sleep.
Third, strengthen the spleen
Summer is wet and wet, especially during the long summer season. Long summer and the five internal spleen are connected, too humid heat will hinder the spleen and stomach, so no appetite and no appetite in summer is a common disease of many people. And the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the day after tomorrow, the source of qi and blood biochemistry, once you eat badly, it will cause many problems.
Spleen nourishing suggestion: tangerine peel tea
Take 10 grams of tangerine peel, an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and soak the offspring tea with boiling water. Tangerine peel tea has the effect of regulating qi and appetizing, drying and humidifying phlegm, and is suitable for drinking when you have stomach bloating, poor digestion, or eating without appetite on summer days.
Fourth, remove dampness
In summer, people often feel heavy head and brain pain, easy to depression, fatigue, chest tightness, and poor appetite. Heat and humidity can cause symptoms such as stuffy chest, tasteless diet, sticky mouth, dizziness, and heavy limbs.
Advice for removing dampness: watermelon green soup
Watermelon peel, also called watermelon cuiyi, is the outer peel of watermelon. Its sweet taste, coolness, into the heart, stomach, bladder meridian, has the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst, dampness and drenching, suitable for summer heat and thirst, short urination, edema, mouth and tongue sores, etc.
Method: After washing the watermelon, cut off the thin green skin, add water and cook for 30 minutes, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, cool and drink.
Fifth, relieve the heat
The "three-volt day" has high temperature and heavy humidity, so you must grasp both hands to relieve heat and remove dampness.
Suggestions for relieving heat: Drink cardamom boiled water
Cardamom is warm, attributed to the lungs, spleen, stomach meridian, has the effect of dissolving moisture and eliminating ruffles, walking in temperature, appetizing and eliminating food. The whole cardamom and rock sugar are boiled together, the boiled cardamom water is not only very fragrant, but also sweet in taste, is a cool and relieving heat without damaging the spleen and stomach of the drink, "three volt days" can be drunk appropriately.
Sixth, clear the fire
Summer corresponds to the "heart", and people are prone to "heart" in summer, which is also easy to cause consumption to the body. Heart fire can sometimes lead to aphthous sores, upset, insomnia and other conditions.
Qinghuo suggestion: drink lotus seed heart tea
The "Sanfutian" health care necessary lotus seed heart, is the green core in the middle of the lotus seed, can clear heat and go to fire, the main thing is the heart fire. If you have upset, insomnia, and mouth sores on the tip of the tongue, you can use 20 lotus seed hearts, add a little green tea, brew with boiling water and drink. Lotus seeds have a cold heart, and people with cold spleen and stomach are not suitable for taking it.
Seventh, detoxification
As the saying goes, "Go into the summer heat, steam it up and boil it!" ”。 In addition, after entering the ambush, the "sauna day" of high temperature, high heat and high humidity will appear frequently, the heat wave will hit people, the heat is unbearable, and various health problems will follow, such as heat stroke, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, etc.
Detoxification Suggestion: Honeysuckle Dew
Honeysuckle is sweet, cold, belongs to the lungs, heart, stomach meridians, has the function of clearing heat and detoxification, evacuating wind and heat. Honeysuckle can be eaten in many ways, and can be directly brewed in water instead of tea, or eaten as porridge or stew.
Method: Put 5g~10g of honeysuckle into 500ml of purified water and soak for half an hour, decoction for 30 minutes, filter out the soup, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, stir well and drink.
Efficacy: This tea drink has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, relieving heat, thirst and children's rash, etc., but because of honeysuckle cold, spleen and stomach deficiency are prohibited.
Eighth, sleep peacefully
Many people will sleep lightly, do not sleep steadily, and even have problems such as upset and palpitations in the summer, in fact, this may be a lack of effort. If you want to nourish your heart in summer, if the symptoms of deficiency are not severe and you don't want to drink soup medicine, you may wish to try dietary therapy.
Sleep suggestion: sour jujube porridge
Ingredients: 15g of sour jujube kernels, 10g of raw land, 150g of glutinous rice.
Method: Put the sour jujube kernels in a wok, stir-fry on a simmer until the skin is bulging and light dark greenish brown or yellow, take out and cool, crush and slowly fry with raw land, remove the residue, take the juice and filter for use. Rinse the glutinous rice, add an appropriate amount of water, cook until the porridge is thick, add the medicinal juice, and eat it 3 minutes ~ 5 minutes after the water boils. It is advisable to take warm.
Efficacy: This porridge has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing blood and calming the spirit, and is suitable for insomnia caused by yin blood deficiency and internal disturbance of virtual fire.
Note: It is not suitable for those who are really depressed or have loose stools.
(CCTV Life Circle)