One day of good care is better than a year! Don't say you're not moved

Lesser Heat is the 11th solar term among the 24 solar terms in China. It is not the hottest time of the year yet, but this day is when the human body's yang energy is at its strongest.

The arrival of the Lesser Heat solar term also marks the beginning of the hottest period of summer, which is why "Lesser Heat is not less than that".

Experts remind you: During this solar term, farmers are busy with farming and the Yang energy in the body is at its peak, so please pay attention to your health: avoid the five colors and stay away from the five flavors.

Avoid the five colors

Don't take it lightly

The heart is the monarch of the body and an important deity in charge of the human body. Nourishing the heart is the key in summer. However, most people only try to nourish the heart on the surface, thinking that removing heart fire and cooling heart blood is the way to nourish the heart, so they consume a lot of cooling foods, not realizing that this will extinguish the body's yang energy.

The most important thing for human health is to pay attention to the five colors, five sounds, and five flavors, and to examine one's inner desires. The amount of information in today's chaotic world is too great. The colorful, complex and ever-changing society is all "color", that is, the tangible world. When faced with these five colors, we recommend that you close your eyes and relax in a quiet place to cultivate your mind.

Rub your palms together to generate heat, place over your closed eyes, or rub towards your temples.

Doing this allows your eyes to relax and rest. The way to nourish the heart during the Lesser Heat is to be quiet. Only quietness can nourish the heart. Being able to calm down in a noisy environment and a season that makes people restless is a way to nourish the heart and is also a form of one's own effort.

Far Five Flavors

Eat less sweet food and more hot food

Chinese people love to eat, and “the five flavors make the mouth refreshing”, does “refreshing” mean refreshing? It doesn't mean to be straightforward, it means to be wrong.

If you eat too much of the five flavors, your mouth will lose the original taste of the food. People often say "real water has no fragrance". The original taste of water is colorless, tasteless and odorless, so it is said that water with its original taste is the best to drink.

A glass of water after getting up in the morning

Drink a large glass of warm water before a rich breakfast to get your intestines moving after a night of rest, help with defecation, and give your intestines a thorough cleaning.

A glass of water before lunch

Try to drink a glass of water before lunch. On the one hand, it can make your hungry stomach feel full, thereby reducing the amount of food; on the other hand, it can replenish the water needed by the body and speed up metabolism.

A glass of water before going to bed

The dilution and circulation effects of water can help the body's metabolism at night, dilute the viscosity of the blood to the greatest extent, and prevent possible sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Of course, don't drink too much at night to avoid nocturia.

75% of the substances in the human body are water. The human body will feel thirsty when the water loss reaches 2% of its body weight. In other words, when you feel thirsty, your body is already in a state of chronic dehydration. You should drink the three glasses of water mentioned above even when you are not thirsty.

Lesser Heat is in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the last month of summer, which was called Jixia in ancient times and Changxia in Chinese medicine. The long summer is approaching, so it is best to eat less sweet food to help fire generate earth, and eat hot food to nourish yin.

Eight Treasures, Dried Scallops and Winter Melon: Nourishing Yin on the Most Yang Day

Wash half a winter melon, cut it into large pieces with the skin, add 3 shiitake mushrooms, 20 lotus seeds, 20g coix seeds, and 3 snow fungus, soak them in water until done, and then add them to the pot;

Wash and put dried scallops (20 pieces), dried shrimps (10 pieces), and lean meat (1 tael) into the pot, add clear soup, and cook until all the ingredients are gone.

Seal and cook for more than an hour, then add a small amount of salt when serving.

This diet is designed to nourish qi and yin, and promote diuresis and the production of body fluids. Why should we cultivate Yin when Yang is at its peak?

This is because: those who are good at replenishing yin must seek yin within yang. Therefore, when nourishing yang in spring and summer, you should not be too greedy for coolness, but should eat hot food.