Summing up and Reflection on the Key Points of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Summer

Answer 1

The main points of Chinese medicine summer health care are as follows:

** 1. Sports and Health **
1. Summer was suitable for gentle cardiovascular exercise, avoiding strenuous exercise and a lot of exercise to prevent excessive sweating from damaging the heart. For example, Taiji Fist, which combined hardness and softness, movement and stillness, was beneficial to the cultivation of both body and spirit.
2. It was best to choose the time of the activity in the early morning or evening when the temperature was cooler.
3. Although swimming was good, it was not suitable for everyone. Before entering the water, a thorough physical examination was required. People with chronic suppurative middle ear, some deaf people, and inner ear diseases could not swim.

** 2. Emotional Health **
1. Summer was the season with the most yang qi. To nourish one's emotions, one had to adapt to this characteristic and pay attention to protecting yang qi.
2. He had to maintain a calm, happy, open-minded, and energetic state. He had a strong interest in the outside world and cultivated an optimistic and upward personality to facilitate the smooth flow of qi.
3. Summer is easy to make people irritable and tired, so you need to maintain emotional stability. Do not be overjoyed, sad or angry. You can control your emotions by adjusting your sleep rhythm. In accordance with the characteristics of long days and short nights in summer, you should go to bed late and get up early. It is better to take an afternoon nap of no more than one hour. Turn off air-conditioning and other air-conditioning equipment during sleep to avoid facial paralysis, headache, joint pain in limbs, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases.

** 3. Food and Health **
1. In summer, the digestive function of the human body's spleen and stomach is weak. The diet should be light and easy to digest. Eat less greasy and spicy food and eat more vegetables, fruits and grains.
2. Summer should eat more fruits and melons that help nourish the heart, clear heat and relieve summer heat, such as watermelon, cucumber, bitter gourd, peach, etc., but also pay attention to replenishing nutrients, such as eating more tomatoes to supplement vitamins, and appropriately supplement fish, eggs, milk, lean meat, soy products and other high-quality protein.
3. Don't be greedy for cold water. You can eat cold food to prevent heatstroke and cool down, such as mung bean soup, sour plum soup, watermelon juice, ginger jujube tea, white fungus lily lotus seed soup, winter melon porridge, etc. However, eating cold food may damage the weak yang qi inside, leading to abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
4. Food in summer is prone to deterioration, so fresh ingredients should be the first choice.

** 4. Principles of health preservation **
1. Following the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer", one should prevent heatstroke in midsummer and damp evil in long summer. At the same time, one should pay attention to protecting the yang qi of the human body to prevent excessive greed for cold and drinking cold to harm the yang qi in the body.

[Reflection: Traditional Chinese medicine summer health preservation is a systematic concept. The key points of health preservation are interconnected.] Starting from exercise, emotions, diet, and many other aspects, the overall health plan was based on the characteristics of the human body in summer, such as exuberant yang qi, vigorous metabolism, weak spleen and stomach function, and easy invasion of summer heat and dampness. These health points reminded people to have a comprehensive concept when maintaining health in summer. They could not only focus on one aspect and ignore other aspects. Only by following these health points in a comprehensive manner could they achieve better health effects and prevent chest tightness, dizziness, headache, loss of appetite, general fatigue, poor sleep, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and other symptoms that may occur in summer. At the same time, it also laid the foundation for long-term health.
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