How to carry out health care effectively and healthily during the dog days?

"Small summer heat, steaming and cooking", the arrival of small summer heat means that it is about to enter the dog days. The dog days appear between the light summer heat and the heavy summer heat, which is the hottest and wettest day in a year. In dog days, people generally think about how to cool down and prevent heatstroke, and how to start a health journey with the help of solar terms. At this time, we must pay attention to supplement physical strength, reduce fever and prevent heatstroke to ensure good health.

■ The dog days schedule of 2065438+00.

The first day: July 19 (the eighth day of the sixth lunar month)-July 28 (the seventeenth lunar month).

Midrange: July 29th (June18th)-August 7th (June 27th).

The final stage: August 8th (June 28th of the lunar calendar)-August 17 (eighth day of the seventh lunar month).

■ How to maintain health in dog days?

The "dog days" are the days with the highest temperature in a year, which is humid and sultry, and what people call "bitter summer" is at this time. Pay attention to increasing nutrition this season, and the food should be light and easy to digest. We should eat less greasy and spicy food, drink less and smoke less. In addition, we should make psychological adjustment, calm our mind, calm our nerves, avoid impatience and calm our anger.

■ Dog days, what to eat?

When it comes to dog days, what people think most is: dog days, what to eat? There is an old saying: "jiaozi lies on his head and pancakes roll eggs on his feet." . Eating jiaozi, pancakes and noodles in dog days not only means the joy of abundant food after harvesting wheat in summer, but also reminds people that their diet in summer should not be too fragmentary, and they should always comfort themselves and eat more foods rich in protein and B vitamins. Because of the high temperature and sweating in summer, a lot of protein amino acids will be lost, as well as a lot of B vitamins and minerals such as potassium and sodium. Eating noodles is more conducive to supplementing nutrition. When it comes to what to eat, there are four main points: sour and sweet, invigorating qi and removing fire, fresh and clean, and replenishing water for health.

Low dog days diet-more sour and sweeter

Ancient scholars believed that "summer heat and dampness should be cleared and replenished". In hot summer, people like cold drinks and drink plenty of water, so that moisture invades the human body, while external moisture enters the body, making water wet and invigorating the spleen, lifting the spleen and stomach, causing digestive dysfunction, stagnant water and loss of appetite. According to the viewpoint of TCM health preservation, dryness and dampness in summer are very unfavorable to spleen, so it is appropriate to eat more sweet and cold or sweet and cold in daily diet. And in summer, you return to your heart, but your heart likes cold and wants to eat sour, so you should eat more sour in summer. Such as pineapple and watermelon.

● Three-volt diet-invigorating qi and removing fire

The hot summer days not only bring us physical discomfort, but also easily lead to more and more people's anger rising, which is manifested as emotional irritability, anxiety, excitability, insomnia and so on. These symptoms are called "summer mood disorder" in medicine. Therefore, "removing fire" is also a compulsory course for summer food supplement. The best choice for summer food is bitter gourd, tomatoes and other cool fruits and vegetables. At the same time, milk is slightly cold, which can replenish water, nourish yin and reduce fever, and is also a good product for "dispelling fire". Dog meat and duck meat is the best way to make up for it in summer.

Low dog days diet-fresh and clean

Chinese medicine believes that the stomach is the foundation of the day after tomorrow. In summer, people often feel loss of appetite, and the function of spleen and stomach is relatively slow. At this time, it may be desirable.