As the temperature gradually rises, along with the rain for several days, it is about to usher in the two hottest festivals of the year - small summer and big summer! Summer, meaning hot, is included in the "six fornications" of Chinese medicine of "wind, cold, summer, wet, dry, and fire". It shows that it is both a climate and a pathogenic factor. How do we recognize and deal with this extreme weather? Here, we will introduce some common sense, precautions and common ways to relieve heat and maintain health in the summer.
As the saying goes, "Small summer, big summer, steaming up and down!" ", the climate is hot, the human body consumes a lot, the so-called "disease-free three points of weakness", there will be mental fatigue, bitter moss, chest and abdomen distension and other symptoms, so at this time emphasize the antipyretic heat, supplement physical strength.
If the summer heat is too strong to invade the human body, it is a summer evil, and Chinese medicine believes that the summer is a yang evil, and its sex is hot; the summer is dissipated, disturbing the gods, hurting the gods, and consuming gas; the summer is more humid. To understand the characteristics of summer evil is to understand the characteristics of summer evil. So how to self-regulate in the face of summer heat? The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, a classic of Chinese medicine two thousand years ago, gives us the answer, which should be "lying down at night and getting up early, not tired of the sun, so that zhi is not angry, so that Hua Ying becomes a show, so that anger is vented, if the love is outside, this summer qi should be, and the way to cultivate growth is also." "The method of summer health is ready!" Specifically, the preparations are as follows:
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Chinese medicine believes that "the heart and summer qi are in harmony", and it is very easy for the heart to become inflamed, resulting in upset. Therefore, health care focuses on mental adjustment, maintaining a light state of mind, then peace and tranquility, to avoid anxiety, nervousness and other bad emotions affect normal life, induce the occurrence of various diseases.
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Summer is more humid, wet evil is most likely to damage the spleen and stomach, people often feel bad appetite, chest and abdomen bloating, easy diarrhea, white tongue and other symptoms, so avoid eating disorders and unclean diet. You should always take healthy spleen and wet things, generally choose more spleen aromatic wet and light infiltration wet products, such as herbs, perrin, lentils, white art and so on.
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Summer temperature is high, summer heat is evil, the human heart is more prosperous, so it is commonly used to have heat-clearing and detoxification and heat-relieving effects of drugs, such as watermelon green coat, American ginseng, mint, honeysuckle, dendrobium and so on.
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The so-called summer cure of winter diseases, that is, the human body and the outside world are full of yang in summer, and the climate is hot and vigorous. At this time, it is a period of vigorous metabolism, the yang qi is external, the yin is inside, and the qi and blood are correspondingly exuberant and active on the surface of the body. Internal Chinese medicine is combined with traditional external treatment methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat some diseases that occur in winter. For example, for rheumatic bone pain paralysis, medicinal baths, warm moxibustion, etc.; three-volt patches can be effective in treating cold diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, stomach pain, menstrual irregularities, and dysmenorrhea. Another example is shengyang moxibustion (commonly known as burning incense) can enhance the body's yang qi and thus enhance immunity.
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1. Drinks should be taken green tea, mung bean soup, sour plum soup, lotus leaf tea, herbal tea (Fucha). From ancient times to the present, the folk have the custom of drinking Fucha in the summer, Fucha, as the name suggests, is the tea drunk on the three-volt day, this kind of tea made of honeysuckle, mai dong, licorice and other more than ten flavors of Chinese herbs, has a good cooling effect.
2. Eat more bitter food, bitter taste can clear the fire and reduce gas, you can choose bitter melon, bitter vegetables, bitter buckwheat, etc.; three porridge often drink mung bean porridge, lotus seed porridge, lentil barley porridge, can play a role in the summer to dispel dampness and detoxification.
3. Melons relieve the heat, such as watermelon, cucumber, winter melon, have the effect of quenching thirst and clearing heat. Watermelon green dress soup. After washing the watermelon, cut off the thin green skin, add water and cook for 30 minutes, remove the residue and add an appropriate amount of sugar, and drink after cooling.
Conclusion, "small heat to prevent injury and heat, heat stroke to prevent heat stroke", the onset of the disease is slow, the mild illness is "injury and heat"; the onset of urgency, the serious illness, is "heat stroke". For heat stroke, it is necessary to seek medical attention in time. Understanding the characteristics of summer fever and related common sense, we can prevent and respond to it in a targeted manner to achieve the purpose of health.
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Xing Shu is the deputy chief TCM physician of the TCM Rehabilitation Center of Shenyang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He specializes in the combination of traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation, cervical spondylosis, arthropathy, sports injuries, as well as TCM rehabilitation and conditioning for fatigue, sub-health status, insomnia and anxiety.