Three principles of Xiaoman health preservation

Principle 1: Clear away heat, remove dampness, promote salivation and quench thirst.

Because the human body consumes more body fluid in summer, we should pay attention to clearing heat, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst in summer. And because summer heat and dampness are both important during this period, we should pay more attention to clearing heat and dampness, and clearing summer heat and removing dampness in daily life. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the long summer belongs to the spleen among the five internal organs, and it is also suitable for nourishing the body.

According to Chinese medicine, excessive moisture is not good for the spleen, so you should eat more sweet and cool or sweet and cold foods in your daily diet. However, it should be noted that bitter foods have the functions of purging, drying and strengthening the body, so they should not be eaten too much. In the hot summer, people like to drink cold drinks and a lot of water, which makes it easy for moisture to invade the human body. External dampness enters the body, causing the water and dampness to solidify the spleen, causing the spleen and stomach to rise and fall, which will cause obstacles to the body's transportation and transformation functions, resulting in water accumulation and loss of appetite. Therefore, in summer, we should often eat foods that are diuretic and dampness-removing. This can strengthen the spleen and stomach. When the spleen is healthy, its ascending, descending, transporting and transforming functions can be restored, which is beneficial to the flow of water and the removal of dampness.

Principle 2: Clear the heart, dispel summer heat, and detoxify.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that summer is the season of heat, which belongs to the heart among the five internal organs and is suitable for clearing and nourishing. The heart likes coolness and should eat sour food. For example, you can eat some wheat products often. In addition, you can eat more pork, plums, peaches, olives, pineapples, celery, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the unity of man and nature, and the complementarity of yin and yang. Therefore, people should eat more cold and sour foods in summer, and try not to eat spicy, warm and dry foods. However, you should be careful not to consume too much raw food and cold drinks, so as not to damage the body's vital energy and induce disease.

Principle three: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and benefit yin.

As summer approaches, the weather becomes hotter and the body's consumption of energy increases. On the one hand, it is urgent to replenish nutrients and body fluids. On the other hand, the influence of the hot and humid climate can easily lead to insufficient spleen and stomach qi and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Therefore, the diet should be based on the principle of strengthening the spleen and stomach, and mainly eat soups, stews, juices and other soups with more water, which are light, appetite-stimulating and easy to digest. Only in this way can the purpose of health care be achieved. At the same time, eat less or no greasy, heavy, or fried food, and do not eat too much at each meal. The principle is to eat small meals frequently. If some people have already shown the symptoms mentioned above, such as summer heatstroke, heatstroke, summer dampness, and heatstroke, then according to the view of Chinese medicine health preservation, they should pay attention to targeted treatment, use diet based on syndrome differentiation, or replenish the spleen and lung qi deficiency, or replenish both qi and yin.

In short, heat and humidity are common physiological reactions of the human body in summer. The above three principles are determined based on the characteristics of physiological phenomena or adverse symptoms that are prone to occur in the human body in summer. In actual application, friends should also make flexible changes based on the local meteorological conditions at the time (such as the change from warm to hot at the turn of spring and summer, the change from hot to cool at the turn of summer and autumn, the microclimate of each region, etc.), combined with the different characteristics of their own physique and the reactions that are prone to occur in summer.