May 5th is the beginning of summer, heralding the beginning of summer. In this season, nourishing yang qi, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and removing dampness and turbidity become the key points of health preservation.
The diet should be mainly warm
As the saying goes, “nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter”, the theory of traditional Chinese medicine believes that nourishing yang should be the main focus in summer. “Yang can warm and nourish the tissues of the whole body and maintain the functions of the viscera, making people full of energy and strong.”
In terms of diet, a warm diet should be adopted, and cold and cold things should be eaten with caution. Cold diet will directly damage the body’s yang, greatly weaken the body’s ability to resist cold, and it must not be cold in winter. Moreover, the cold and cold diet hurts the stomach, weakens the digestion and absorption function, and the nutrition cannot keep up, which is not conducive to coping with the midsummer when the human body consumes more energy.
In addition, you should not be too greedy for the cold in your life. It is not recommended to stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time, or keep the fan away from you. The temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large, preferably not more than 5 °C, and the indoor air conditioning temperature should not be set lower than 25 °C.
Removing dampness is more important than clearing away heat
The climate is sultry, and light foods should be chosen, such as duck, crucian carp, shrimp, lean meat, edible fungi (shiitake, Mushrooms, white fungus, etc.), etc., Chinese herbal medicines for soup should be selected to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness, such as yam, gorgon, lentils, millet, etc., to help the body dehumidify.
In this season, even if it is clearing heat, it should not be too cold, and dampness can also be used, such as barley, red bean, corn silk, and tuckahoe. People with cold stomach can add ginger and dried tangerine peel to warm the qi and stomach, clearing heat without damaging the spleen yang.
Irritability, can nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen
After the beginning of summer, many people will be irritable, emotionally fluctuating, and have poor sleep quality. The five viscera corresponding to the summer are the heart and the spleen, so pay attention to nourishing the heart and strengthening the spleen.
In terms of diet, you can eat more bitter foods, such as bitter gourd, lotus seeds, kale, etc. “Bitterness in summer is better than tonic.” There is also a folk saying that “eat beans in summer is better than meat”, so you can pay attention to foods with beans, such as eyebrow beans, red beans, mung beans, lentils, edamame, soybeans, etc. In addition, because there is a lot of sweating in summer, you should pay attention to adding more water, eating porridge and soup appropriately.
In addition, in terms of sleep, it is recommended to “go to bed late” and get up early. Compared with other seasons, the “late sleep” here does not mean that everyone stays up late, especially children, it is recommended to go to bed before 9 o’clock. Getting up early means getting up as the sun rises to absorb enough yang energy. It is easier to get sleepy during the day in summer, so you can take a proper lunch break, so that you can have a full afternoon.
Recommended Dietary Recipe
Chicken Bone Grass Soil Poria Chicken Soup
Materials: 30 grams of chicken bone grass, 20 grams of tuckahoe, 20 grams of coix seed, hen 1.
Practice: 1. Fry 30 grams of chicken bone grass with an appropriate amount of water, remove the residue and leave the juice.
2. Cut 1 hen, remove the dirt and tail, clean the internal organs, wash the tuckahoe and coix seed, put them in the chicken belly, add the concoction, boil on high heat and then change to low heat Boil for 1 hour, add a little salt and ginger.
Suitable for the crowd: It is especially suitable for people with damp-heat in the spleen and stomach, and damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder, who often present with severe headache, weight and pain, stomach distention, abdominal distension, dry mouth and bitter taste, yellow and rotten stools, unpleasant defecation, and yellow and short urine , fatigue, fatigue, red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, rapid pulse.
Pink kudzu and red bean keel soup
Method: Boil the keel for later use, peel the kudzu and cut into pieces, wash the red bean and put it into the soup pot together with the above materials, add appropriate water, and set it on high heat Bring to a boil and turn to low heat, turn off the heat for about 60-75 minutes, and season with appropriate salt. Those with weak constitution can change the red bean to red bean and add a little dried tangerine peel.
Efficacy: clearing heat and removing dampness, for those with severe damp heat, mung beans, lentils, eyebrow beans, etc. can be added.
Bitter Gourd Soy Bean Scallop Dragon Bone Soup
Method: Boil the keel for later use, remove the flesh and cut the bitter gourd into pieces, wash the soybean scallop and put it into the soup pot together with the above materials, add appropriate water , turn off the heat for about 45-60 minutes, and add appropriate salt to taste. Those with spleen and stomach deficiency can add Wuzhi Maotao (invigorating the spleen, invigorating qi and eliminating dampness).
Efficacy: clearing heat and neutralizing, clearing the heart and nourishing the spleen.