Li/Xia
The May Day holiday passed in a hurry
Lixia also quietly arrived yesterday
The beginning of summer is the 7th of the 24 solar terms
It is the first solar term of summer
Temperatures are starting to rise across the province
There will be a significant increase in both the amount of rainfall and the number of days it rains
No appetite, dizziness, lack of energy
All sorts of small problems have come to the door
The ancients warned us to follow the solar terms for health preservation, because the main organs and the corresponding climate of each solar term are different, so the health principles and methods of different solar terms are also different.
Lixia health - medicine and food ingredients
LIXIA
After the beginning of summer, the temperature rises, the thunderstorm increases, to the rainy season, the rain is more vigorous, susceptible to external dampness, so nourishing the heart, strengthening the spleen, dispelling dampness is the importance of health preservation, the following small series to recommend several common medicinal and edible ingredients.
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tuckahoe
Poria cocos is sweet, light and flat, and has the functions of diluting water and dampness, benefiting the spleen and stomach, and calming the heart and nerves. It is not biased, it enters the spleen and kidney meridians, is good at infiltrating dampness and water and dissipates water to drink, strengthens the spleen and promotes water and dampness; It is also into the Heart Sutra, which is good at calming the heart and calming the nerves, and it is advisable to control the water and qi and the heart. All those who are damp and stop drinking, whether it is cold or hot, spleen deficiency and edema or dampness.
tuckahoe
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Barley
Barley, also known as coix seed, has the effect of diluting water and dampness, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, removing paralysis, draining pus, detoxifying and dispersing knots, and can be used to treat edema, beriberi edema, unfavorable urination, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, dampness and spasm, pulmonary carbuncles, intestinal carbuncles, cancer, etc. Coix seeds are fried and processed to make fried coix seeds, which can enhance the spleen-strengthening effect of coix seeds, and alleviate its medicinal properties, and has a variety of effects, including strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, diluting water and dampness, removing paralysis, draining pus, detoxifying and dispersing knots, etc.
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Five-fingered peach
Five-finger peach has the function of strengthening the spleen and lungs, promoting qi and dampness, relaxing tendons and activating the nerves, and can be used to make soup with other ingredients, and can also be used to make tea and drink with poria cocos and tangerine peel.
Five-fingered peach
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Corn whiskers
"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" records: "Corn whiskers can widen the intestines. Treat women's breast knots, milk blockage, redness, swelling and pain, fear of cold and fever, headache and sleepiness". Modern studies have shown that corn silk has the effect of diuresis, swelling, liver clearing and gallbladder reliever. In spring and summer, the germinal qi is stronger, many people are prone to liver fire, yellow urine, and can use 30 grams of corn silk to boil water instead of tea every day.
Corn whiskers
Lixia health - acupressure massage
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Ashisanri
The foot is 3 inches below the calf's nose point, 1 finger from the anterior edge of the tibia. Zusanli is one of the main acupuncture points of "Zuyang Ming Stomach Meridian", which is the key acupoint of regulating the spleen and stomach, and massaging Zusanli has the effect of regulating the spleen and stomach, replenishing the middle and invigorating qi, activating the meridians, dispelling wind and dampness, and strengthening the right and dispelling evil.
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Fenglong Cave
The Fenglong acupoint is located on the anterolateral side of the lower leg of the human body, eight inches above the tip of the outer malleolus, one inch outside the tiaokou acupoint, and two horizontal fingers from the anterior edge of the tibia. Regular massage of Fenglong acupoint has the effects of harmonizing stomach qi, dispelling dampness and dissolving phlegm, activating meridians, nourishing qi and blood, awakening the brain and calming the nerves.
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Body pillar acupoint
The body pillar acupoint is the Yu acupoint of the Du pulse, the body pillar acupoint is located in the back, when the posterior midline, the depression under the spinous process of the third thoracic vertebra, often massaged has the effect of tonifying the kidney and benefiting yang.
Lixia is the turn of spring and summer, is the fastest development of children, through the massage of the body pillar acupoints, can regulate yang energy, enhance children's resistance, and have a certain auxiliary effect on growing tall.
Summer is coming
Say goodbye to the splendid spring, ushered in the vigorous summer, in this season of luxuriant things, the human body should conform to the changes of summer yin and yang, reasonable diet, active exercise, and lay a good foundation for a stable summer.
Source: Suzhou Wujiang District Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Editor: Chen Jia Editor: Chen Guangtai
The wind blows the spring overnight, and everything is beautiful to welcome the summer~