The Guangzhou Secondary School Entrance Examination has been postponed to July due to the impact of the epidemic, and some candidates will feel more stressed and restless. So, how to alleviate these nervous and anxious emotions before the exam?
The sundial has been clouded, and the night has been leaking since then. With the arrival of summer, the heat of the summer also quietly arrived. The hot climate in the summer season, coupled with the rainy and humid, and the humid external environment in the south of the mountain often causes a lot of physical discomfort. For students who take the middle school entrance examination, because of factors such as academics, psychological stress, and less sleep time, they are more likely to be affected by the weather, insomnia, emotional tension and other symptoms. In this regard, Professor Li Yan, director of the Department of Psychological Sleep of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, recommended several traditional Chinese medicine summer dietary therapy and heart nourishment.
Professor Li Yan, Director of the Department of Psychosocial Sleep of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Nourish the spleen, remove dampness, nourish the blood and replenish the qi
1. Nourish the heart in the summer season, and grow a long "temper"
The spleen and stomach are located in the center of the body, undertaking the important task of digesting food and supplying nutrients, just like the nourishment of all things in the natural world, so Chinese medicine particularly emphasizes that "the spleen is the source of acquired qi and blood biochemistry".
In the summer season, the heat is forced, the ground is wet and steaming, and the humidity and summer heat are combined, which is more likely to damage the spleen and stomach. Chinese medicine says that "if the stomach is not harmonious, it is restless", so the long "temper" is an important way to nourish the heart in the summer season.
Try 【Yam barley porridge】
Ingredients: Yam 60 g, coix kernel 30 g.
Directions: Wash and boil the coix seeds, add yam powder when cooked, and continue to cook over low heat until the porridge is cooked. Serve warmly in the morning and evening.
According to the language: Huaishan healthy spleen and qi, coix kernel seepage wet anti-diarrhea. Suitable for Cantonese people because of temper and wet, there is less food, loose stool and other situations.
2. When the summer and humidity strike, get rid of the dampness and sleep peacefully
The summer season has abundant rainfall, high air humidity, and high temperatures, making people feel stuffy and hot. Just like in a steamer, this weather is called sauna days. Living in this environment for a long time often causes moisture in the body, poor air machine, resulting in insomnia, peculiar smell in the mouth, and thick tongue.
Try 【Lotus leaf winter melon duck soup】
Ingredients: duck 250g, lotus leaf half sheet, winter melon 500g, salt to taste, ginger to taste.
Method: First soak the lotus leaves in water until soft; cut the winter melon into pieces, wash and cut the duck into pieces; add cold water to the pot, boil the duck and ginger slices, rinse and set aside; add the appropriate amount of water to the casserole, put the lotus leaves, duck meat, and ginger slices together into the pot, first simmer for 1 hour; finally add the winter melon to a medium-low heat and then simmer for 0.5 hours, add salt to taste before eating.
According to the language: lotus leaf clear heat, relieve heat and dampness, benefit the stomach and vitality. Winter melon is a seasonal vegetable, which has the effect of clearing the heat of the summer, reducing swelling and water. The duck is rich in protein, which can nourish the yin and replenish the deficiency, and benefit the stomach. Boil the three into a soup to drink, fragrant and delicious, get rid of dampness and relieve heat.
3. Nourish your heart in the summer season, don't hurt the "fire gas"
The summer season is hot, the heart belongs to the fire, the summer main heat, the heart and the summer ventilation are sought, so there is "summer heat through the heart", easy to cause heart fire, upset, dry stool, yellow urine, insomnia and other discomfort.
Try 【Light bamboo leaf lotus heart tea】
Ingredients: Lotus seed heart 3 g, light bamboo leaves 6 g
Directions: Put the above herbs into a cup, rinse into an appropriate amount of boiling water, cover and steep for 10 to 15 minutes, let the offspring tea drink, one dose per day.
According to the language: Lotus seed heart tastes bitter, but it is a good medicine for pure heart fire, which can regulate insomnia caused by heart, kidney non-intercourse or strong heart fire, and light bamboo leaves have the effect of clearing the heart and eliminating troubles. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that light bamboo leaves "remove heat, facilitate urination, and purify the heart."
4. Nourish the heart in the summer season, nourish the yin and the jin
The hot weather in the summer season is easy to consume the jin fluid in the body, causing dry mouth and thirst, drinking a lot of water and still not quenching thirst, accompanied by emotional irritability before falling asleep.
Can try 【Mai Dong White Grass Root Tea】
Ingredients: Wheat Dong 6 g, White Grass Root 10 g
According to the language: Mai Donggan is cold and moist, with feminine nature, but it is nourishing but not greasy, clearing heat without hurting, good at nourishing yin and shengjin, suitable for hot wound jin liquid, dry mouth thirst, no sleep and other evidence. The white grass root is cold, sweet and bitter, into the lungs, stomach, small intestine meridians, has the effect of clearing heat and vitality, can help unload the heat in the human body.
5. Nourish the heart in the summer season, and don't forget the liver qi
In the summer season, the function of "spleen main transport" is often damaged by the influence of internal and external damp and hot evil qi, Chinese medicine believes that liver and spleen are related, spleen deficiency is often at the same time liver qi is irregular, stomach bloating, poor appetite, bad mood, insomnia and other symptoms.
Try [Bergamot Tangerine Peel Tea]
Ingredients: 8 grams of bergamot, 5 grams of hawthorn, 5 grams of tangerine peel
According to the language: the Buddha's hand focuses on the liver and qi, the orange peel dispels the phlegm, the hawthorn and the stomach clear the heat, the liver and the qi are jointly thinned, and the stomach, and sleep naturally.
6. Nourish the heart in the summer season, and don't forget to nourish the blood
In the summer season, the humidity and heat inside and outside are difficult, the spleen and stomach are the source of human body qi and blood biochemistry, the spleen is deficient in blood, the blood deficiency will not nourish the heart, the mental loss is easy to lead to insomnia, and symptoms such as dysmenorrhea are common.
Try 【Guiyuan Lotus Seed Soup】
Ingredients: 8 guiyuan, 10 red dates, 20 lotus seeds, 3 white fungus, 15 grams of brown sugar, 1 liter of water.
Directions: White fungus foam, remove yellow root, lotus seed foam hair. Wash the cinnamon meat, dates, lotus seeds, and white fungus with water, put them together in a pot, pour 1 liter of water, bring to a boil over high heat, reduce to low heat, and continue simmering for 20 minutes. After cooking, add brown sugar while hot and stir well to serve.
According to the language: tonify the heart and spleen, treat spleen deficiency and diarrhea, weakness, tonify qi and blood, calm the nerves, cure insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations.
Nourish the heart
Experts recommend that candidates should not be suitable during the summer season
Big tonic, cold drinks, strong tea, coffee
In addition to working dietary medicinal diets, it is more appropriate to cooperate with the exercises of nourishing the heart to ensure mental and physical health and maintain the state of learning to the greatest extent.
01 Living sometimes, nourishing yin and protecting yang
The summer season is long and the nights are short, and it is advisable to maintain a regular work and rest to conform to the yang and yin decline of the natural world. A moderate nap can nourish the yin and protect the yang, maintain a good mental state and physical strength, and help to ensure the state of learning.
02 Sports should be "light", the environment should be "clear"
Exercise that is too intense and lasting often causes a lot of sweating, excessive excitement of the body, and often leads to insomnia and upset. Light aerobic exercise is more helpful in adjusting the body and mind.
03 Summer season to nourish the heart, the emphasis is on meditation
To ensure the state of learning, pay more attention to meditation and tranquility, Ji Kang's "Health Theory" believes that the summer season is hot, "it is advisable to pranayama and meditate, often like ice and snow in the heart, the heat is also less reduced in my heart, can not be hot for heat, more hot." ”
04 Should not be largely supplemented
Large tonics such as deer antler velvet, red ginseng, ejiao are more warm, greasy and easy to cause gastrointestinal stagnation, in the summer season is more likely to cause moisture and heat.
05 It is not advisable to eat cold drinks
In the hot and humid season, the human body's texture and sweat holes are in a state of discharge, and eating cold and drinking can easily lead to the invasion of cold and evil and damage the spleen and stomach.
06 Should not be strong tea, coffee
Although caffeine in strong tea and coffee has a certain effect on maintaining wakefulness, it affects the normal rest and biological laws of the human body, and may cause the next day such as fatigue, palpitations, gastrointestinal diseases.
Medicinal food with living and eating should be avoided, you have fully learned the summer season to nourish the heart, I believe that with the blessing of this practice you can also harvest a good night's sleep, to ensure a good state of learning.
Finally, if you appeal to medicated diet, diet and rest can not improve your insomnia, emotional state, it is recommended that you go to the psychological sleep specialist in time.
Written by: Nandu reporter Yang Liyun Correspondent Zha Guanlin