What should I do in hot summer?
Minor Heat
It's already very hot, but it's not the hottest time yet, so it's called Xiaoshu.
Major Heat
It is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang throughout the year.
There are two solar terms in July, namely "Little Summer" and "Big Summer". Slight summer heat is called it because it is already very hot, but it is not the hottest time. Before and after the beginning of this solar term, trees were everywhere. The average temperature in many areas exceeds 30℃, and sometimes people will feel the heat wave. People are easily upset, tired and weak. When maintaining yourself, you should conform to the five internal organs.
In summer, taking the heart as the main factor, caring for the heart and yang, being peaceful and calm, conforms to the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer". Summer is the season with frequent digestive tract diseases. In diet conditioning, we should change the bad habits of uncontrolled and unclean diet and eat in moderation.
Summer is the hottest solar term in a year. In summer, the climate is hot, it is hot and rainy, damp heat is easy to enter, the summer heat is pressing, and the heart is vulnerable, especially for the elderly, children or the weak, and it is easy to get heatstroke at this time.
The summer heat is the season with the highest temperature and the highest yang. Traditional Chinese medicine often says that "winter diseases are treated in summer", that is, those chronic diseases that occur in winter, such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, rheumatism and joint pain, can be treated. Therefore, people with chronic diseases should be carefully nursed back to health in summer.
Summer diet conditioning is based on summer climate characteristics. Because the summer climate is hot, it is easy to hurt body fluid and consume gas. So medicated porridge can nourish the body. In addition, it is also necessary to properly replenish water to moisturize the body.
Mung bean, barley and pumpkin porridge
◎ Ingredients: 50g mung bean, 500g pumpkin, 50g coix seed and a little salt.
◎ Practice:
1. Wash mung beans and coix seed with clear water, peel and remove pulp from pumpkin, wash with clear water, and cut into 2cm square pieces for later use.
2. Add 500 degrees Celsius water to the pot. After boiling, add mung beans and coix seed and cook for 2 minutes, add some cold water and then cook.
3. Put the pumpkin into the pot, cover the pot and cook it with slow fire to about 30℃.
364