Xiaoman Health Preservation Chinese Medicine teaches you how to prevent diseases

Grain Full is the second solar term in summer. From this time on, we can feel the heat of summer. What is the most important thing we should do to maintain our health during Grain Full? That is to prevent diseases. What is prevention of disease? Let me introduce it to you below!

Prevent diseases before they happen

Starting from Xiaoman, summer crops such as barley and winter wheat have begun to bear fruit, and the grains are gradually becoming full, but are not yet mature, so it is called Xiaoman. Summer is the period when Yang energy is at its peak. Grain Full is the second solar term in summer. Starting from Grain Full, we should adjust our daily diet and living habits so as to spend the hot summer safely.

The Grain Full solar term is in late May, when the temperature rises significantly. If you want to sleep in the cool, you will inevitably develop rheumatism, wet skin diseases and other diseases. In the health preservation during the Grain Full solar term, we must especially put forward the health preservation concept of "prevention before illness". It means doing various preventive work before you get sick to prevent the disease from occurring. In the health preservation of preventing illness before it occurs, we still emphasize the holistic view of the correspondence between heaven and man and the pathological view that "when the righteous energy is stored inside, the evil cannot invade."

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the human body is an organic whole and that humans are closely related to the external environment. It also suggests that we must master the laws of nature, adapt to changes in nature, maintain coordination between the internal and external environments of the human body, and achieve the goal of disease prevention and health care. Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that the occurrence of disease is related to both positive energy and negative energy. Evil Qi is an important condition that leads to the occurrence of disease, while the lack of positive Qi in the human body is the internal cause and basis of the disease. However, this does not deny the dominant role of external pathogenic factors in special circumstances. Therefore, prevention of disease should start from two aspects: strengthening the body's positive energy and preventing the invasion of pathogenic factors.

During the Grain Full solar term, the temperature rises significantly and the rainfall increases. After the rain, the temperature will drop sharply. So you should pay attention to adding clothes and don't catch a cold due to the wind. During the Grain Full season, the weather is hot and humid, which is the peak period for skin diseases. The Golden Chamber states: "When evil qi invades the meridians, the body will itch and develop rashes." This refers to rubella. It can be seen that ancient medical scientists already had some understanding of this.

The etiology and pathogenesis of rubella are nothing more than three points:

1. Dampness accumulates in the skin, and wind-heat or wind-cold is felt, which in turn causes dampness and accumulation in the skin and fur, leading to illness;

Second, due to the accumulation of heat in the stomach and intestines, combined with the wind evil, the heat cannot be discharged internally and cannot be released externally, so it is trapped in the skin and pores;

3. It is related to physical constitution. Allergies to foods such as fish, shrimp, crab, etc. can lead to disharmony between the spleen and stomach, accumulation of dampness and heat, which accumulate in the skin and cause this disease.

Therefore, during the Grain Full season, the diet should be based on refreshing and light vegetarian food, and foods that have the effect of clearing dampness and heat should be eaten often, such as red bean, coix seed, mung bean, winter melon, loofah, cucumber, day lily, water celery, water chestnut, black fungus, lotus root, carrot, tomato, watermelon, yam, snake meat, crucian carp, grass carp, duck meat, etc. Avoid eating rich, greasy, sweet, fatty, and damp-producing foods, such as animal fat, fish, sour, spicy and hot foods, warm and fire-promoting foods, and fried, smoked and grilled foods.