Six tips for fitness in summer and solar terms, the best way to cool off the heat.

Skillfully use aromatic plants to relieve summer heat and dampness;

The summer heat is just around the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the highest temperature in a year. At this time, it is often easy to lose heart, especially for the elderly, children and the weak, and it is often difficult to resist the heat and have problems such as heatstroke, such as dizziness, palpitation, chest tightness, inattention and sweating.

The best way to solve these symptoms is to arrange work reasonably and pay attention to the combination of work and rest; Avoid exposure to the hot sun; Pay attention to indoor cooling; Ensure adequate sleep; Pay attention to food hygiene. A correct diet can help the human body resist the invasion of summer and moisture. You can eat more melon, coix seed, poria cocos, yam and other foods. The best way is to cook porridge or soup with these ingredients.

If you already feel dizzy, you can also use aromatic plants to relieve dizziness. For example, fresh leaves of Pogostemon fragrans, mint leaves and Eupatorium odoratum are used to cook soup or porridge. Because the main function of fresh leaves of Pogostemon cablin is to fragrant turbidity, dispel summer heat and relieve exterior syndrome; The main functions of mint are dispelling wind and clearing heat, relieving sore throat and penetrating rash, soothing liver and purging heat, which can play a very good role. However, Wang Wenhui also reminded that it is feasible to eat fresh Pogostemon cablin leaves for health care in summer, but care should be taken not to overdo it, and not to treat diseases with it. And patchouli and mint should not be fried for a long time. Take patchouli as an example. If cooked for a long time, the fragrance will disappear and the original effect will not be achieved. So it's best to put the porridge and soup in a few minutes before they are cooked.

Eliminating dampness in summer and relieving winter diseases;

The summer heat is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang throughout the year. In health care, it is often said that "winter disease is cured in summer", so it is the best time to treat those chronic diseases that occur every winter, especially in summer health care, which should be carefully nursed back to health and focused on prevention and treatment.

"But not all chronic diseases can be treated in summer, depending on personal physique." Experts said that the yang is strong in summer, and the treatment is to supplement the yang through moxibustion and other means to achieve the effect of conditioning. Under normal circumstances, those diseases that are prone to onset in winter, that is, diseases with yang deficiency, can be treated in winter and summer. For example, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, rheumatism and other diseases with yang deficiency, people with these chronic diseases can make good use of summer heat to treat diseases, but if some patients with chronic fever are not suitable for this way to treat.

Drink more warm water to relieve summer heat;

In summer, water is also a very important and indispensable thing to strengthen the body and prolong life. As the saying goes, "Man is made of water", which makes sense. Water accounts for about 70% of human body weight, and drinking boiled water is strongly recommended in the traditional summer heat-relieving health care method.

It should be reminded that some people drink too much water at a time to quench their thirst, but they don't know that this will increase the burden on the heart, make the blood concentration drop rapidly, and even cause palpitation, shortness of breath and sweating. Therefore, in the hot season, if you are thirsty, you should drink a small amount of water first, and then stop drinking for a while.