When spring and summer change seasons, the weather changes quickly, the temperature difference between day and night is big, the humidity is heavy and sleepy, and it is easy to develop all kinds of respiratory diseases and allergic diseases. At this time, how should we comply with the season, health care, and thus prevent disease? According to traditional Chinese medicine, spring health care, focusing on nourishing the liver and wind, Yang wind prevention, and summer health care should focus on nourishing the heart and tranquilize the mind, health care of the spleen and stomach. From the four seasons of the year, we should follow the law of "spring, summer, autumn, harvest and winter", in line with the seasonal characteristics of spring and summer Yang Yang hair health, and in line with the seasonal health, and should be from the four aspects of diet, living, exercise and emotions to health.
One, the diet should be more sweet and less sour
Spring diet should pay attention to Yang. Sweet food into the spleen, at this time, you can eat more jujube, yam and other foods, spleen and qi, dampness and liver. And acidic foods should be eaten less. Cold foods should also not be eaten more often, such as ice cream, cold drinks, etc. Otherwise, cold qi gathers in the body, resulting in summer spleen deficiency, causing discomfort. Some warm yang qi, have pungent flavor hair growth food, such as ginger, leeks, garlic, mustard, etc., adapted to the characteristics of the spring hair growth, may wish to eat more. And dehumidification of food, such as Chinese mountains, gravy, red beans, carp, soy milk, etc., can be very good to get rid of moisture in the body, you can also eat more. "Spring and summer growth", at this time you can add more protein, such as fish, meat, you can eat more beans, choose dark vegetables to supplement vitamins to prevent xerostomia.
And in summer, it is advisable to eat light, easy to digest, healthy to help the spleen and transport food, such as fish, eggs, milk, watermelon, cucumber, winter melon, corn, etc., drinks can be selected from the green bean soup, sour plum soup, honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea and so on.
Summer in the five elements of fire, the five flavors for the bitter, summer appropriate food bitter things such as bitter melon, lily, chrysanthemum, bitter tea, etc. There are heat in addition to the annoyance, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, to help digestion, improve appetite, refreshing the brain, fatigue and other efficacy, but too much consumption of bitter food will help the heart gas and hurt the lungs, because the heart over the fire is the restraint of the lungs gold.
So, in summer, you can eat more sour, salty food, such as prunes, strawberries, tomatoes, beans and their products, kelp and so on. Sour astringent, can be solid protection of the body surface, to prevent excessive sweating, and appropriate food sour food to help enhance appetite. Salty food can help the body to replenish the salt lost due to excessive sweating, to prevent sweating more damage to the heart. Summer diet to warm for the best, should not be too hot, too hot will hurt the gas, warm food is appropriate to help Yang Qi.
Two, nap is good for health
Spring everything is recovering, the natural everything Yang Qi rise, therefore, the human body Yang Qi should also comply with nature, upward and outward sparse hair.
Spring time, the weather is warming up, the air is humid, so that the human skin coupling gradually stretch, the circulatory system to strengthen the function of the skin peripheral blood supply increased, sweat gland secretion also increased, the organs increased load, making the body sleepy, commonly known as "spring sleepiness". So you should lie down at night and get up early, don't stay up late.
After getting up, you can go to the wide courtyard for a walk, or into the nature, trekking and enjoying the flowers, and should be distributed wide clothes, do not let the body by the constraints. Especially the elderly, because of old age, more than a few chronic diseases, more should adhere to this method of health.
Spring temperature changes, should pay attention to warmth and cold, care for Yang Qi, according to the weather warm and cold add or subtract clothing, not because of the winter past on the sudden reduction, so as to suffer a sudden attack of cold.
Summer is the most vigorous season of the year, high temperatures, sunshine, metabolism, so this time to adapt to the external environment of high temperatures and the internal characteristics of the human body as the focus.
You can go to bed late and get up early to comply with the changes in the natural world of yang and yin, which is beneficial to the enhancement of physical fitness. But at noon when the heat is most prevalent, you can nap properly, not only to avoid the heat, but also to eliminate fatigue, replenish energy, make up for sleep time.
three, aerobic exerciseshould pay attention to more exercise, aerobic exercise, can also go out more trekking, spring tour, or walking, swimming. Sweating after exercise should not immediately take a cold shower, should not blow the air conditioning, but should follow the natural law of Yang Qi rise, do not let the cold air will be doused with Yang Qi.
Four, keep quiet and calm
In the spirit of cultivation, the spring liver wood, so keep the spirit of cheerful, positive and optimistic, and can promote the liver gas discharge, and also help the liver gas rise with the spring yangqi rise in unity, thereby enhancing the body's ability to adapt to the outside world.
Here, to recommend a few spring and summer health porridge.
1. Perilla porridge.Raw materials: 6 grams of perilla leaves, 50 grams of round-grained rice, brown sugar.
Production: casserole with the right amount of water, put into the perilla leaves, boil for 1 minute, remove the slag juice spare. Polished round-grained rice, separate water, add round-grained rice porridge, when the porridge is cooked, and then add perilla leaves and brown sugar, stir evenly into.
Effects: Perilla leaves taste pungent, warm, have scattered cold and relieve the table, the gas broadening, depression and phlegm, etc., can expand the capillaries, stimulate the secretion of sweat and sweating, its infusion of influenza viruses have the ability to control the manufacturing. Perilla leaves summer is the most vigorous season of the year Yang Qi, and japonica rice cooked with the stomach, dispersing cold, and relieve the role of the table.
2. Gehuang porridge.
Raw materials: fresh rhubarb, white honey, round-grained rice, sesame oil, each appropriate amount.
Production: rhubarb washed and pounded juice, each 500 grams of juice plus 120 grams of white honey, boiled into a paste stored, sealed, 10 grams each time. About 50 grams of round-grained rice porridge, porridge cooked with 10 grams of rhubarb paste, ghee a little. Every morning and evening on an empty stomach.
Effects: Nourishing Yin, nourishing blood, moistening the lung. Suitable for lung and kidney yin deficiency, dry cough with little sputum, hemoptysis, yin injury constipation and other symptoms. If for the tonic kidney and lungs, can be put in the porridge cooked sheep kidney, chopped with food; such as in the porridge with pepper, ginger will have the effect of warming the middle to get rid of the cold, back to the yang through the veins.
3. Feng Feng porridge.
Raw materials: 12 grams of wind, 2 grams of white onion, 60 grams of round-grained rice. Production: wash the round-grained rice with the right amount of water to cook into thin porridge, add wind medicine (cooked in advance), scallion white (cleaned and chopped), Wenhe slightly boiled, seasoned food.
Effects: Pungent and warm to relieve the epidermis, dispel wind and cold. It is suitable for those who have a severe external wind-cold and dampness infection, with fever and cold, headache and nasal congestion, and body aches and pains, etc. It is also suitable for those who have a severe external wind-cold and dampness infection. Because of its ability to publish, dispel wind and dampness, so it can be used for the elderly peripheral bone and joint pain, headache and blurred vision and other diseases. Avoid greasy, raw and cold products. Seasoning should be bland. Rheumatic fever paralysis should not be eaten.