How to get wet and cold in dog days?

As the saying goes: "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer." Ginger has the effects of warming, nourishing and eliminating dampness. You can eat more ginger in summer to nourish yang. Ginger is pungent and warm, and has many functions such as dispelling cold and sweating, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, regulating stomach and stopping vomiting. Drinking ginger tea is a simple and easy way to get rid of dampness and keep fit, and it is the most suitable time to drink ginger tea in dog days.

2. soak your feet in warm water

In dog days, people usually take a bath every day, but few people soak their feet. In fact, the hotter the weather, the heavier the humidity, and the more you need to soak your feet. Soaking feet with warm water can stimulate many meridians of the foot, thus playing the role of strengthening the spleen, eliminating dampness, dredging collaterals and diuresis. Soaking feet with 40℃ warm water before going to bed can also improve the quality of sleep.

3. Eat more sweaty food.

Eat more sweaty and diuretic foods, such as red beans, mung beans, coix seed, wax gourd, watermelon, ginger, green tea and scented tea. , expel water from skin and urine, and promote metabolic operation in the body. You can also drink ginger brown sugar water, red bean mung bean barley soup, coriander loofah soup, Cui Yi corn stigma soup, green tea and so on. Achieve the purpose of diet therapy and dampness elimination.

Step 4 exercise more

The best way to prevent and eliminate dampness is to "micro-move four poles", that is, to move your limbs a little, so that the yang of your body will slowly recover and the moisture will gradually dissipate. Don't sweat a lot, so qi will be discharged with sweat, qi will be injured, and water-moisture metabolism will be affected. Although some moisture and moisture will be released with sweat, the internal moisture will come out again, and finally the moisture will not be discharged.

5. Cupping

Cupping can dispel cold and dampness, dredge meridians, remove blood stasis and dissipate stagnation, promote qi and blood circulation, relieve swelling and pain, remove toxin and clear heat, and has the functions of regulating the balance of yin and yang, eliminating fatigue and strengthening the body, thus achieving the purpose of strengthening the body resistance, eliminating pathogenic factors and treating diseases. So many diseases can be treated by cupping therapy.

Extended data

The dog days appear in midsummer and summer heat, and it is the hottest, humid and sultry day of the year. The so-called "dog days" refers to the "dog days" of the lunar calendar, which is the hottest period of the year. It can be understood as "squatting" means that the weather is too hot to move. But the dog days are called "dog days" because there are also many cold factors. The dog days are the hottest thirty or forty days in a year in the Central Plains. The dog days are calculated according to the lunar calendar, between the middle and late July and the early August of the solar calendar.

After lodging, the surface humidity increases, and the heat absorbed every day is more, but the heat emitted is less, and the heat on the surface is accumulated. So it gets hotter every day, and when it enters the dog days, the accumulated heat on the ground reaches its peak and the weather is the hottest.

In addition, there is much rain in summer, the air humidity is high, and the heat capacity of water is much greater than that of dry air, which is also an important reason for the sultry weather. The subtropical high intensified in July and August. Under the control of the subtropical high, the descending airflow inside the high makes the weather clear and cloudy, which is beneficial to the sunshine, the ground radiation heats up and the weather is hotter.

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