"The day has been cloudy, and the night has been leaking since then", the summer solstice is the starting point of mid-summer, as the saying goes, "the summer solstice is yin", although the weather is hot, the yin has begun to grow. Yin and yang alternate, and the human body is prone to various diseases. Many people will experience physical discomfort, chest tightness and shortness of breath, so it is crucial to do all aspects of health work on the summer solstice.
Living and wellness
1. Go to bed late and get up early, and pay attention to lunch break
Summer days and nights are short, the yang is full of poles, and the yin qi is initial. Living and recuperating, it is advisable to go to bed late and get up early to conform to the yang and yin decline of the natural world, reasonable work and rest, and appropriate extension of daytime work and activity time. A moderate amount of nap can nourish the yin and protect the yang, relax the brain and the whole body, and maintain a good mental state and physical strength.
A healthy nap is most appropriate for 15 to 30 minutes, and if it exceeds 30 minutes, the body will enter a deep sleep period that is not easy to wake up.
2, summer solstice health, the emphasis on nourishing the heart
Entering the summer, the mood becomes easy to be impatient, and the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says that in the summer, it is necessary to make Zhi no anger, that is, the mood should be happy, so that the anger should be vented, and do not suppress yourself. Spiritual introspection, illness comes from anguish, this is the truth. When you are in a bad mood, you can eat less sweets to alleviate it, and a full mental state and sufficient physical strength can also bring you a good mood.
Listening to slow music is a great way to pranayama. Notes also contain elements of yin and yang, and fast-paced music can enhance the yang in the body, help people to get excited, soothing music can help slow down the breath, so that the heart can rest.
3, should not be greedy, proper exercise
In hot climates, people often can't do without air conditioning. In a cool room for a long time, it is easy to attract wind and cold and wet evil into the body. When falling asleep at night, the wind direction of the air conditioner should avoid the human body as much as possible, and the indoor and outdoor temperatures should not be too different.
Exercise is best to choose in the early morning or evening when the weather is cooler, the venue can choose in the river and lake, park courtyard and other places with fresh air, exercise programs to walk, play tai chi, do broadcast gymnastics as well, strenuous exercise should not be done.
Diet regimen
1, light diet, eat more vegetables and fruits and grains
During the summer solstice, the climate is hot, and people's digestive function is relatively weak, so the diet should be light, not fat and sweet, and it is necessary to eat more grains to chill its body, and not to eat hot food, so as not to help heat. Cold food melon and fruit should be stopped in moderation, and should not be overeaten, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach. Thick and fatty products should be less and not more, so as not to turn heat and wind and stimulate the disease of boils.
Before and after the summer solstice, you can eat more bitter vegetables such as celery, bitter melon, oil wheat vegetables, lettuce, etc., which have the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat.
2, summer solstice diet, should be bitter and salty
Summer is the season of sweating, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is advisable to eat more sour taste to fix the table. At the same time, eat more salty to replenish the heart, because the salty into the kidneys, nourish the kidney water, the kidney water to collect the heart fire, do not cause the heart fire is too strong.
Chinese medicine believes that all bitter vegetables, most of them have the effect of clearing heat, such as bitter melon known as "gentleman in the dish", summer food can reconcile the spleen and stomach, clear fatigue, wake up the brain and refresh, and have a certain preventive effect on heat stroke and gastrointestinal diseases. Bitter foods include celery, cucumbers, chicken feathers and so on.
In addition, sweating a lot in the middle of summer, easy to lose liquid, should also eat more acidic foods, such as tomatoes, lemons, strawberries, grapes, hawthorn, pineapple, mango, kiwi fruit and so on.
Wellness recipes
1. Bitter melon tofu soup
Ingredients: 150 grams of bitter melon, 400 grams of tofu, vegetable oil, fine salt, rice wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, wet starch each appropriate amount.
Method: Stir-fry the bitter melon slices quickly, add boiling water to an appropriate amount, add tofu blocks, fine salt, rice wine, soy sauce, boil, use wet starch to outline, add MSG, drizzle with sesame oil.
Efficacy: This soup has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat, nourishing blood and nourishing the liver, and is suitable for summer heat and chronic inflammation.
2. Crucian carp soup with three red dates
Ingredients: 15 grams of sanchi, 5 jujubes, 1 crucian carp, 5 grams of tangerine peel.
method:
1, first descale the crucian carp, remove the internal organs, remove the gills, wash, cut into pieces; wash the orange peel separately; wash the jujube and remove the core.
2: Put the pot on the fire, put in the cooking oil, put the crucian carp after the oil is hot, fry on both sides until golden brown, add the appropriate amount of water and cooking wine. Add 37, tangerine peel, red dates and ginger slices, bring to a boil over high heat, reduce heat to low heat for 30 minutes, add salt and season.
Efficacy: Nourish the heart and blood, suitable for coronary heart disease, palpitations, precordial area of the hidden pain.
3. Lotus root porridge
Ingredients: 1 lotus leaf, 1 lotus root, 30g of japonica rice, sugar to taste.
Directions: Wash the lotus leaves and decoct the soup, dice the lotus root, and finally pour the lotus leaf juice together with the lotus root and boil it together into the japonica rice to make a thin porridge.
Benefits: Refreshing heat and moisturizing, dampness and stomach diarrhea.