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How to keep healthy in summer solar terms?

1, summer solar terms should be calm: summer solar terms, high temperature and heat, easy to get angry, often feel upset, loss of appetite, impatience and anxiety. This is a typical symptom of "emotional heatstroke". Meditate on health, as the saying goes, "Calm mind is naturally cool", and the mentality should be calm. The hotter the weather, the more you need a "cool head" to avoid bad stimulation. To adjust daily life and ensure adequate sleep, take a nap at noon for 0.5 ~ 1 hour, because sleep is closely related to mood and immunity, and lack of sleep leads to poor resistance. Outdoor workers should work after 3 pm. And pay attention to take cooling and heat dissipation measures.

2, summer diet should eat less spicy and greasy products, if you eat greasy food, it will hurt the spleen and stomach, affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients, and stay in the body where colds, dampness and greasy products are mixed together, making people prone to illness. Eating a little "bitterness" in summer will be of great benefit to the body, which can play a role in relieving fever and dehumidification, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation, helping digestion and regulating the balance of yin and yang in the human body. In addition, hot and humid summer is very unfavorable to the spleen, so it is recommended to eat more sweet and sour foods, such as yam, coix seed, pineapple and watermelon. At the same time, the hot weather is easy to lead to the rise of internal heat in the human body, so "removing fire" is also a necessary course for summer food supplement. In summer, people sweat a lot, and mineral elements such as vitamin B, vitamin C, potassium, calcium and magnesium will be lost more than in other seasons, so people need extra supplements. Pay attention to diet adjustment, light and diverse, eat more nutritious fruits and protein, and eat ginger, onion, garlic and vinegar properly, which can not only sterilize and prevent diseases, but also strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite.

3, summer heat health diet should be clear and appropriate, should be Yiqi Qingre, should be spleen and stomach, should be supplemented by medicated porridge. Clear food includes mung beans, lilies, cucumbers, bean sprouts, duck meat and so on. Foods for invigorating qi and relieving summer heat include mushrooms, laver, watermelon, tomatoes and so on. Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Radix Pseudostellariae and Radix Astragali can also be selected. Foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach include adzuki bean, coix seed and pumpkin. Medicinal porridge includes mung bean porridge, bean porridge, lotus seed porridge and barley porridge. In hot summer or scorching summer, Guangdong folk traditional boiled lotus leaf and winter melon soup for heatstroke prevention and health preservation also consists of red beans, coix seed, lentils, corduroy flowers, polyporus, Alisma orientalis and Smilax glabra. , or light drink or sweet soup, or boiled pork bones.