Four seasons health in summer
Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that dampness is heavy and turbid, so there are many symptoms such as body weight and head weight after exogenous dampness. Because it is wet and sticky, pathological changes are often difficult. If it invades the skin and bones, it is often heavy and sour and fixed in one place, so it is called "arthralgia". He said that generally speaking, dampness is a disease with a long course of disease, such as wet fever, which often has clinical characteristics inseparable from oil. Rheumatic joint pain is caused by rheumatism, which invades the skin and joints and often recurs. It is common that the pathological products of internal dampness disease are mostly dirty and unclean, such as skin lesion exudate and damp-heat leucorrhea secretion, which are sticky and smelly. Therefore, people often call wet "tangible evil", which is filthy and turbid.
Because the formation of moisture is often related to the evaporation of moisture on the ground, its damage often starts from the lower part. Clinical symptoms such as lower limb ulcer, wet beriberi and leucorrhea are mostly related to dampness. "It is necessary to prevent heatstroke and cool down" warns people that in hot summer, people must pay attention to protecting the yang in the body, just as Huangdi Neijing said: "Nourishing the yang in spring and summer", so how to protect the yang in summer? First of all, people can't just pay attention to the immediate comfort, avoid the heat and cold too much, such as staying in the open air for the night, or drinking too much cold wine, which leads to the lack of qi and the evil of summer heat and cold. When enjoying the cool, pay special attention to cover your abdomen. Many rural areas like to wear "Dou Du", which conforms to the way of keeping in good health. The book "Providing for the Aged and Longevity" points out: "If it is hot in summer, if you break the window under the eaves, you can't enjoy the cool, in case thieves catch the wind." "Photojournalism" also pointed out: "Don't lie naked under the stars and moons, making people sleepy and enjoying the cool wind." These are valuable health care experiences, which are in line with the spirit of "nourishing yang" in summer. Health preservation in summer, the reason why the ancients proposed to maintain yang is that the key lies in steaming outside in summer heat, sweating a lot and opening pores, which makes the body most vulnerable to wind, cold and dampness.
Secondly, we should guard against air-conditioning disease: the so-called air-conditioning disease refers to a disease that people suffer from working and living in an air-conditioned environment for a long time. Mild facial neuralgia, lower limb pain, fatigue, headache, low back pain, easy to catch a cold and different degrees of gastrointestinal diseases; In severe cases, skin diseases and cardiovascular diseases will occur. Symptoms of the elderly are more obvious. There are two reasons for the occurrence of cold-air disease: the first point is that people go in and out of the cold-air environment many times every day, which makes the human body carry out cold adaptation conditioned reflex many times, prompting sympathetic nerves to secrete a lot of adrenaline, which invisibly increases the burden on the heart. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, there has long been a saying that nourishing the heart in summer, because the five internal organs are at five o'clock, and the heart should correspond to it in summer. In summer, people have more outdoor activities, and the amount of activities is relatively increased. In addition, the days are long and the nights are short in summer, the weather is hot, and the sleep time is less than other seasons. Therefore, the body consumes more energy, blood circulation is accelerated, and sweating is more. Obviously, in this season, the burden in my heart is very heavy. If you don't pay attention to the maintenance of your heart, it's easy to hurt your heart. As can be seen from the above, people repeatedly go in and out of the cold air environment in summer, which is bad for the heart, while the heart belongs to fire, and sorrow hurts the yang.
Second, people who have been in a cold air environment for a long time will have a series of physiological reactions once they enter a hot natural environment. In addition to the rapid rise in body temperature, the skin begins to sweat, and sweaty skin often has a lot of bacteria. When people return to the cold air environment, the skin and blood vessels contract immediately, and bacteria can easily enter the human body by using the open pores, causing infection.
In view of the above situation, people must not be greedy in hot summer, and beware of the occurrence of air-conditioning diseases. The way is:
The temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large, and it is best not to exceed 5 degrees Celsius. The indoor temperature is not lower than 25 degrees Celsius.
When you are asleep, it is best to turn off the air conditioner; Don't close the air-conditioned room for a long time, and always let the indoor air circulate with the outdoor air when conditions permit.
When you feel cold indoors, you must stand up, move your limbs and body properly, and speed up blood circulation.
If you have chronic patients such as coronary heart disease, hypertension and arteriosclerosis, especially the elderly, don't stay in a cold environment for a long time, and people with joint pain should not live in a cold environment all the time. 1, hot tea cooling data show that drinking a cup of hot tea can reduce the body temperature 1 ~ 2℃ after 9 minutes, so it is best to drink 2 ~ 3 cups of hot tea at 40 ~ 50℃ every day in midsummer, which can not only stimulate the expansion of skin capillaries, promote heat dissipation, but also help the digestion and absorption of food. In addition, theophylline in tea has diuretic effect, and urination can also take away some heat, which makes people feel cool.
2, three meals in summer to warm up, eating noodles is the love of many people. But the elderly should pay attention to the following points: first, it is best not to pass cold water after the noodles are cooked; Second, the temperature of noodle soup should be appropriate, and it should not be overheated to prevent scalding the esophagus. In addition, some condiments such as onion, ginger and pepper can be used in summer. These pungent condiments can help Yang Qi to get rid of dampness.
3, take a hot bath in summer, although taking a hot bath will sweat a lot, but hot water will dilate capillaries, which is conducive to human heat dissipation. Old people can take a bath every 1 ~ 2 days, and it is best not to take a bath. Those who are in poor health can sit in a chair and take a bath. Each time the water temperature is controlled at about 40℃ 10 ~ 15 minutes. Use less or no soap, and use a shower gel containing moisturizing ingredients to clean your skin. You can also gently wipe the chest and back with a soft towel, which can stimulate and activate the human immune cells in a "dormant" state and improve the disease resistance.
4, hot water soaking feet, hot water soaking feet, massage and other benign stimuli can have a good therapeutic effect on diseases such as dizziness, headache, insomnia, diarrhea, bloating, loss of appetite, and urinary frequency, dysuria, nocturnal emission, dysmenorrhea and other diseases caused by nervous system dysfunction.
5. Heat-resistant exercise The specific method of heat-resistant exercise is to take out 1 hour every day for physical exercise such as running, boxing, fitness dancing and walking. Every exercise should achieve the purpose of sweating to improve the body's heat dissipation function. However, it should be noted that the amount of exercise should not be too large, especially when the temperature is higher than 28℃ and the humidity is higher than 75%, the amount of exercise should be reduced to prevent heatstroke.