How to take care of your health at the end of the summer

Summer is the 14th solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, but also the second solar term in the fall. The summer heat, "the month of seventy-two wait collection" said: & ldquo; heat, July in the middle. At, stop also, summer to this and stop. ” That is to say that after the summer heat, the hot summer is about to pass, the weather to gradually cool up.

Summer is a temperature-related festival, is an important node of temperature change, is on behalf of the temperature from hot to cold transition of the festival. So the ancients said: & ldquo; early fall and late summer, the heat is very cool, not to undress naked, greedy for wind & rdquo;, and there & ldquo; seven nine sixty-three, sleep at night to find a sheet & rdquo; the saying. In short, after the summer heat, the daytime may still have the feeling of heat, but the temperature difference between morning and evening will become large, easy to catch a cold at night, especially & ldquo; an autumn rain a cold & rdquo;; once it rains, it is more to give a person the feeling of autumn coolness, therefore, this is also a high incidence of colds, coughs, diarrhea season.

Xiangyang City Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, deputy director of pulmonary disease, Zuo Mingyan reminded that the summer should go to bed early and get up early, maintain adequate sleep, collect God & ldquo; storage Yin & rdquo;, enhance physical exercise, improve resistance to disease. At the same time, pay attention to the appropriate time to increase or decrease clothing, especially after outdoor activities, be sure to dry sweat in a timely manner, dress warmly; pay attention to the use of air conditioning in moderation, indoor windows are often opened to ventilate the room, in public places to wear masks; pay attention to hand hygiene, wash your hands diligently, do not eat rotten and spoiled food, and prevent gastrointestinal disorders, especially the elderly and children.

In addition, after the summer, people tend to varying degrees of dry throat, dry nose, dry skin and a series of symptoms of autumn dryness. Chinese medicine believes that the relationship between the lungs and the fall is very close, the classic work of Chinese medicine, "Neijing", said: & ldquo; dry win is dry & rdquo;. That is to say, autumn dryness invades the human body more damage to the Yin Jin, so that the human body appears a series of Yin Jin insufficiency, dryness and loss of glory performance, and the prevention and treatment of lung dryness, clearing heat and moistening the lungs to nourish Yin is the key.

Therefore, in the summer, dietary regimen when the main light. Drinking water, honey, tea, milk, etc., eat more radish, yam, bamboo shoots, pumpkin, green beans, autumn pear, persimmon, lily, sugar cane, silver ear and other lungs, nourish Yin and dry food. At the same time, you can also eat some duck, eel, pork lean meat, seafood, etc., both to supplement the nutrition, but also to ease the discomfort of autumn dryness.