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Why can't we be greedy in summer?

Modern medicine believes that frequent and prolonged consumption of cold food can cause Vasoconstriction of the digestive tract and ischemia of the gastric wall mucosa, thus affecting normal digestive function, even causing gastrointestinal diseases, or making the digestive tract relapse. If an electric fan or air conditioner is used for a long time during sleep, the room temperature may be too low, making it easy to catch a cold or cause symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea.

If children consume too much cold food, it can damage their spleen and stomach, affect normal eating, and cause symptoms such as loss of appetite, yellow and thin complexion, and weak constitution. Elderly individuals with weak physique, insufficient yang qi, and low gastrointestinal function can cause mild symptoms such as aversion to cold, headache, lack of sweating due to muscle heat, and joint soreness, while severe symptoms such as stroke and paralysis can be induced.

What is' hot health preservation '?

'Hot health preservation' refers to adjusting diet and lifestyle to avoid the invasion of cold and cold into the body.

1. Soak feet

Soaking feet in summer can help dispel heat dampness, boost people's spirits, increase appetite, and promote sleep. The recommended water temperature is around 40 ℃. During the soaking process, hot water can be continuously added to prevent the water temperature from dropping.

2. Relieve heat and drink hot tea

Usually, after drinking hot tea, the skin will slowly sweat, helping to dissipate heat from the body. On the contrary, drinking cold drinks makes it difficult to expel hot air from the body, only the mouth feels cold.

3. Don't be greedy when sleeping

When sleeping soundly, the basic metabolism slows down, the Thermoregulation function drops, and the body's resistance weakens. At this time, if the air conditioner is turned on and the quilt is not covered, it is particularly easy for cold air to enter the body, leading to illness.

4. Adhere to moxibustion

The hot climate during the three months of the year is the most prosperous time for Yang Qi. At this time, using the weather and moxibustion can better dispel cold and disperse dampness, and dredge meridians. It has a good regulating effect on common winter symptoms such as fear of cold, uterine cold, and kidney yang deficiency.

What are the symptoms of insufficient yang qi?

Insufficient Heart Yang: Chest tightness, shortness of breath, chest tightness, chest coolness, hands and feet coolness, lips and tongue bruises, slight fatigue leading to palpitations, pale complexion, and shortness of breath;

Kidney yang deficiency: dark complexion, lack of energy, easy to be irritable, frequent nocturia, and cold sensation in the lower back;

Insufficient spleen yang: loss of appetite, indigestion, susceptibility to diarrhea and bloating, and obesity compared to the general population;

Insufficient liver yang: expression is listless, prone to fatigue and irritability;

Insufficient lung yang: shortness of breath, weakness, coughing at night, wheezing, and tendency to be pessimistic.

What are the behaviors that harm yang qi in summer?

The causes of yang injury in summer can generally be divided into external and internal injuries. External sensations can also be divided into excessive use of air conditioning, excessive sweating causing heatstroke, and exposure to rain and water; Internal injuries can also be divided into overeating cold and cold, and overwork damaging yang.

What is winter disease treated in summer? What diseases are suitable for winter and summer treatment?

Winter disease summer treatment refers to the targeted treatment of diseases that are prone to occur or worsen in winter, which improves the body's disease resistance and reduces or disappears the diseases that are prone to occur or worsen in winter, achieving the goal of prevention and treatment. Suitable for the following diseases:

1. Respiratory disease: chronic cough, asthma, chronic bronchitis, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, repeated colds, etc;

2. Rheumatoid immune diseases such as joint pain and limb numbness, shoulder periarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, etc;

3. Digestive system diseases such as chronic gastritis, chronic enteritis, and indigestion;

4. Otolaryngology diseases Allergic rhinitis, chronic Sinusitis, chronic pharyngolaryngitis, etc;

5. Pediatric diseases, such as asthma, cough, bronchitis, body deficiency, colds, spleen and stomach weakness;

6. Chronic skin diseases Hives, chilblain, Scleroderma, etc;

7. Gynecological diseases such as chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, dysmenorrhea, menstrual diarrhea, infertility, etc;

8. People with other Yang deficiency constitutions.

Summer health preservation and heat dissipation, these tea drinks should be aware of

In summer, you can drink Chrysanthemum tea, honeysuckle tea, Taraxacum tea, mung bean sour plum tea and other tea drinks to get rid of summer heat.

1. Chrysanthemum tea: It is suitable for fever, headache, cough, sore throat, etc. caused by wind heat evil, and can also calm liver yang;

2. Honeysuckle tea: If symptoms such as body heat, headache, dry throat, thirst, swollen throat, and pain occur due to heat stroke, honeysuckle tea can be brewed and consumed;

3. Taraxacum tea: It is applicable to damp heat syndrome caused by summer heat, such as astringent urination due to hot shower;

4. Lotus tea: it can alleviate the symptoms of hot and thirsty, hot and wet diarrhea to a certain extent;

5. Green bean sour plum tea: It has the effect of refreshing, detoxifying, promoting fluid production, and quenching thirst.