Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Weather inquiry - Today, the summer heat is gone, and the sky is high! It is very hot today. Let's look at the health guide.

Today, the summer heat is gone, and the sky is high! It is very hot today. Let's look at the health guide.

Summer is the fourteenth of the twenty-four solar terms. The twenty-four solar terms say, "Stay, go, and the summer vacation is over." The hot summer represents the end of the dog days, and the season enters the alternating period from hot to cool, and the temperature difference between day and night increases. If you don't pay attention, it will easily lead to respiratory tract, gastroenteritis, colds and other diseases. Therefore, it is called "eventful autumn". Therefore, citizens need to pay more attention to their health.

Guide to summer heat preservation

1. Moisten in autumn

Since midsummer, dryness and heat have become popular, and it is prone to cough, dry skin, dry mouth and nose, itchy throat, dry stool and other symptoms. Therefore, health care should be based on the word "run", while taking into account the spleen and stomach. It is suggested that the ingredients in the diet should be reasonably matched, mainly light, to reduce the irritation of spicy barbecue. Lotus seeds, lilies, tremella, Sydney, lotus roots, peanuts, persimmons, honey, mother duck, etc. In the choice of ingredients, medicinal materials can include Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae, Polygonatum odoratum, Radix Adenophorae, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae and so on.

Prevent catching a cold

After entering summer, the weather gradually turns cold, especially the temperature difference between day and night is large. Light clothes suitable for daytime wear are easy to catch cold in the morning and evening. Pay attention to add clothes and put on your coat in time after summer to help your body adapt to the ambient temperature. In addition, avoid eating cold food and blow less air-conditioning fans. Low temperature will increase the risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and other diseases, and it will also lead to "bone diseases" such as scapulohumeral periarthritis and cervical spondylosis.

3. Add clothes appropriately.

Although it is cold, there is no need to get dressed in a hurry. People who need a back, especially strong people, can wear thin clothes for a while. "Spring covers autumn and freezing" means that the body temperature in autumn should not be too high, which is conducive to the convergence of yang. Because the heat disappears, the cold will come in. But for the infirm, clothes should be added according to climate change.

In addition, you should add clothes when you go out at night to protect the yang.

4. Prevent autumn deficiency

The hot climate all summer makes people consume more energy. In summer, the human body begins to rest. At noon, yang is strong and yin is weak. "Huangdi Neijing" "Yang exhaustion leads to lying, while Yin exhaustion leads to sleeping".

Taking a nap at noon can not only keep energetic, but also be an important way to adapt to the changing law of yin and yang in nature.

5. Sleep an extra hour every day.

With the arrival of the "long summer" solar term, the summer heat dissipates, the climate becomes cool, and the human body's various systems change from active state to physiological rest period, and people will feel tired and weak. This is actually a protective reaction of the human body to make up for the extraordinary consumption in summer, and it is a physiological phenomenon to achieve the balance of yin and yang in the body. However, the absence of autumn is too obvious, even affecting normal work and study. Chinese medicine believes that in autumn, the yang in nature tends to converge, and the ups and downs of yin and yang in the human body also change. At this time, properly adjusting daily routine and increasing sleep can alleviate the excessive lack of autumn to some extent. After that, you should go to bed early and get up early, and go to bed no later than 23 o'clock at night.

6. Anti-depression

Falling autumn leaves and bleak autumn wind often make people "sad for autumn" and easily induce emotional diseases, such as depression. People have seven emotions, and too many emotions also affect health. The seven emotions of traditional Chinese medicine say: "sadness leads to qi elimination." So at this time, we should also pay attention to emotional adjustment, so as to calm down and calm down. Choose suitable sports, such as Tai Ji Chuan, Baduanjin, yoga, mountain climbing, etc. Coincides with the epidemic. Please do personal protection for outdoor sports.