How to keep in good health by TCM in summer?

1, TCM health preservation in light summer and solar terms

Pay attention to nourishing the heart. In dog days, the temperature is high, the humidity is high, the weather is sultry and the air pressure is low. People with myocarditis sequela are prone to bradycardia, chest tightness and shortness of breath. Health care should pay attention to going to bed early and getting up early to avoid staying up late. The weak with qi deficiency and pulse should drink Shengmai drink, or soak 5 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 3 grams of American ginseng and 3 to 5 grams of longan meat in water.

Damp-proof, spleen-strengthening and stomach-regulating. Pay attention to the maintenance of spleen and stomach. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should drink less cold drinks and eat less cold dishes, and pay attention to the navel not to catch cold. Summer solar term is a season with frequent digestive tract diseases. In diet adjustment, we should change the bad habits of improper diet, unclean diet and partial eclipse. Cold drinks and food should not be too much, everything should be moderate.

Scraping for heatstroke prevention. Dog days, heavy humidity, easy to nausea and dizziness. Scraping can be used. Specifically, scrape both sides of the back, or both sides of the ribs or forehead up and down with a scraping board or gauze sterilized with alcohol, which can be purple-black or can be scraped with cool oil. Or take Huoxiang Zhengqi Pill (water), drink more mung bean soup, lotus leaf and Huoxiang tea, and replenish light salt water in time when sweating.

2. Dietotherapy at high temperature in summer.

Salted radish soup: Ingredients: 250g carrot, 3g salt.

Practice: add salt to carrots, boil, remove residues and take juice, three times a day, for two days.

Note: One party can simply make soup with carrots and water.

Indications: indigestion and malnutrition in children.

Jujube sorghum powder: with shake: 50 grams of red sorghum, 10 jujube.

Practice: Jujube is peeled and fried, sorghum is fried and ground into fine powder. Take 10g for 2-year-old children and 15g for 3-5-year-old children twice a day.

Indications: indigestion in children.

Corn and yam paste: ingredients: 20 grams of corn and 0/0 grams of yam.

Practice: the above two herbs are ground into fine powder, decocted in water into paste, and seasoned with 1 sugar.

Indications: indigestion in children.

Braised pork with lotus seeds and lilies: Ingredients: 50 grams of lotus seeds, 50 grams of lilies and 200 grams of pork.

Practice: Cut the pork into small pieces, put the lotus seeds and lilies into the pot, add water, add seasonings, bring to a boil with strong fire, and simmer 1 hour. Eat lotus seeds, lilies, pork and soup.

This prescription is effective in clearing heart and benefiting lung and treating heart failure.

3. What fruit do you eat for health in summer?

Watermelon. Melon pulp is crisp, sweet and juicy, rich in glucose, fructose, sucrose, trace elements and vitamins, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, relieving polydipsia, diuresis and hangover. Pericarp can also be preserved into candied fruit. Watermelon peel can also be used as medicine to treat nephritis edema, liver disease jaundice and diabetes. It is hot in summer, and watermelon is a very recommended summer fruit.

Mangosteen is called "the queen of fruit". Besides its sweetness, another main reason is its role in ancient medicine in Southeast Asia. Traditionally, mangosteen is used to control the temperature of fever and prevent various skin infections. Studies have shown that the peel or skin of mangosteen contains a special substance, which not only has antioxidant capacity, but also helps to improve the health of immune system and make people feel comfortable. Mangosteen has the functions of reducing dryness, cooling and relieving fever. Healthy people can eat mangosteen, but three a day is enough.

Cherry. Cherry in this season grows well and is very popular. Generally, the iron content of fruits is low, but the iron content per100g of cherries reaches 5. 9 mg, has the function of promoting hemoglobin regeneration, is suitable for the elderly, children and women, and can improve anemia.