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In summer, many people feel that their appetite is declining. What is going on? Bring it today Find out why you don’t have an appetite in summer, and how to keep a good appetite in summer.
Why summer has no appetite
When the temperature increases in summer, the human body transmits the high temperature stimulus to the thermoregulatory center through nerve conduction, and the complex regulation mechanism produces an inhibitory response to the food intake center, resulting in a decrease in food intake. In summer, people also eat cold and iced food to prevent heatstroke and cool down, but excessive consumption of such food will cause damage to the gastric mucosa, thereby affecting appetite.
The human body is prone to sweating in summer, and the loss of body fluids will make the water and electrolyte imbalance in the human body , The gastrointestinal motility is weakened, so that people just want to drink water and do not want to eat. In summer, people like to eat supper, which not only affects sleep, but also easily causes acute gastroenteritis due to unclean diet. Lack of sleep and gastroenteritis can affect appetite.
In addition, in summer, people are greedy for cold drinks, which can easily damage the yang qi of the spleen and stomach, and easily generate dampness. The spleen is in charge of transportation and transformation, the stomach is in charge of acceptance, the spleen and stomach are damaged, and all diseases are caused by the birth. Therefore, it is natural for people to experience decreased appetite and poor appetite in summer.
What to look out for if you have no appetite in summer
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1. Avoid overeating, eat less supper, drink less alcohol, pay attention to dietary hygiene, and eat as little raw and cold food as possible.
2. Mainly clean and nourish, eat less greasy food, especially red meat, when cooking As far as possible, the main method is to stew, steam, and boil, and use less frying, frying, and deep-frying.
3. Choose the type of fruit appropriately according to your constitution. There are many fruits in summer, such as watermelon, which is a very good fruit for heatstroke prevention and cooling, but people with deficient constitution should not eat more, and also avoid affecting the food intake of dinner due to excessive consumption.
4. Drink more soups and porridges, mainly liquid and light food, and avoid too spicy stimulation.
5. Exercise properly to promote digestive function.
6. Pay attention to the temperature of the air conditioner, 26℃~28℃ is appropriate, and do not directly face the human body blow.
7. Ensure sleep quality. Lack of sleep can also affect people’s appetite, especially in hot summer, pay more attention to sleep time and quality.
Traditional Chinese Medicine to keep your appetite up
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Here we introduce several therapeutic recipes suitable for summer conditioning the spleen and stomach, so that your appetite is always open and you have a healthy summer.
Sour plum soup
Composition:Hawthorn 50 grams, ebony 30 grams, licorice 3 grams, rock sugar 50 grams, osmanthus 10 grams.
Practice: Wash ebony, hawthorn and licorice, soak in water for 1 hour. Pour the soaked ingredients into the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 90 minutes, then turn off the heat, and add rock sugar and sweet-scented osmanthus according to personal taste.
Efficacy: Aid digestion and increase appetite. Sour plum soup can not only quench summer heat and quench thirst, but also quickly eliminate fatigue.
Barley and Red Bean Soup
Ingredients: Coix seed, 30 grams of red bean, 5 red dates, 1 spoon of sugar.
Practice: Rinse the coix seed and red bean into the pot, add 2 large bowls of water, and cook on low heat for 1 hour Then, add red dates and sugar, cook for another 30 minutes, until the beans are rotten and leave the fire, and it can be eaten as a snack.
Efficacy:Suitable for all kinds of people in summer, it can clear heat and strengthen the spleen, diuresis and dampness.
Three Bean Soup
Materials: Black beans, mung beans, and red beans in moderation.
Methods: Take equal amounts of black beans, mung beans, and red beans, wash them with water and put them in a pot. “Three beans” add three parts of water, boil over low heat, 2 times a day, a small bowl each time.
Efficacy:Black bean has the function of invigorating the kidney and nourishing essence, mung bean has the effect of clearing away heat, detoxification and relieving summer heat, and red bean can clear heat and diuretic Swelling, combined with three beans, is a good product to cool down.
Hawthorn Malt Drink
< p>Materials:Hawthorn 15g, raw malt 30g, Taizishen 15g, bamboo leaf 10g.
Methods:Wash the hawthorn, malt, Radix Radix et Rhizoma, and pale bamboo leaves, boil with water, soak for 15 minutes, and serve as a substitute for tea.
Efficacy: Nourishes Qi, clears the heart, strengthens the spleen and eliminates stagnation.
< strong>Millet porridge
How to: You can directly cook porridge with appropriate amount of millet.
Compendium of Materia Medica records that millet “treats nausea and dysentery, cooks porridge, nourishes dantian, nourishes Deficiency, appetizers”. Millet tastes sweet and salty, and has the functions of clearing heat and quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen and dehumidifying, and is suitable for people with internal heat and weak spleen and stomach. When the appetite is not good, eating millet porridge is both appetizing and nourishing.
Source: Yunfu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine
Edit: Huang Yixin
Editor in charge: Wang Hui
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