clearing heat, removing dampness and strengthening the spleen are important parts of health preservation in summer. Many people don’t start to look for treatment until they fall ill, or they don’t come to look for health care until they fall ill. Little do they know that life is inextricably related to health. In fact, knowing the tips of health care, you will know that it is not difficult to dispel dampness and strengthen the spleen.

1. Let the rice cool after cooking

in the past, people used to cook in three steps: cooking, filtering and steaming. But now, with the electric rice cooker, people save a lot of steps, but in terms of health preservation, these missing steps are actually very important for human health. Rice lives in water. It carries moisture. If you cook with an electric rice cooker, there will be more moisture. If the rice with moisture enters the stomach, it will increase the difficulty of the transportation of the spleen and stomach, and the retention of moisture in the human body will bring infinite harm.

therefore, when cooking, after the rice is cooked, you should open the lid to let the rice breathe, cool it slightly, and eat it after the moisture dissipates. If you can, don’t eat rice every day. You can eat rice and pasta crosswise, which can reduce the accumulation of moisture.

2. No navel and backless clothes

many girls like to wear cool clothes in summer. Navel and backless clothes may be cool, but it will also let the cold air enter the human body quietly. It is very important to protect the navel. The lower abdomen should always keep warm to avoid cold entering the body and stimulating the spleen and stomach.

in addition, it is best to eat less frozen and cold food in summer, especially during menstruation. Avoid eating raw and cold food and pay attention to keeping warm, so as to deal with dampness evil.

III. adjust the work and rest of life

people with excessive dampness will feel dizzy and sore legs when they get up in the morning. The smell will stick to the toilet when it is not easy to defecate and urinate. This is because dampness evil enters the body.

for people with spleen deficiency, the tongue coating will be very thick, there are no serrated tooth marks on both sides of the tongue, and the tongue is very fat. Sometimes, chewing or talking will accidentally bite the tongue, which means that there is a situation of spleen deficiency, damp and heat.

the best way to deal with the above problems is to adjust the diet and work and rest. Ensure adequate sleep every day for at least 7 hours to give the body a process of self-healing. In addition, in case of the above situations, pay attention to light diet and eat less cold or fried food.

IV. station health pile

station health pile is the simplest and safe way to adjust body and mind. It can fundamentally eliminate various physical and mental problems caused by Yang deficiency, such as strengthening the spleen and removing dampness.

method:

1. Keep your feet the same width as your shoulders, hold your hands in front of your chest, hold the ball, bend your legs at the same time, don’t exceed your toes, and relax your whole body.

2. When standing on the health stake, you can meditate in your heart. When you feel a tingling feeling in the palm of your hand, raise or lower your arm. When you raise it high, it is no more than your eyebrow and when you lower it, it is no more than your navel. Both hands can adjust the position left and right.

note:

standing pile time should not be too long. It should be gradual. Beginners can stand for 10 minutes, and then the time can be gradually extended.

summer health preserving, spleen strengthening and dampness removing: three dietary tips

1. Choosing food to remove dampness

“dampness” is the main Qi in long summer, which corresponds to spleen soil. Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, the important way to deal with dampness is to strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, warm the spleen and stomach, enhance appetite and eliminate excess water in the body.

in terms of dietotherapy, to discharge excess water, you can choose dampness removing foods such as coix seed, white lentil and red adzuki bean. If you need to strengthen the spleen and supplement the spleen and stomach, you can choose purslane, crucian carp, Huaishan, lotus seed, CI Shi, pig belly, etc.

if the humidity is too heavy, the body will easily feel sleepy and weak. At this time, you can drink some soup containing Pueraria lobata.

II. Job’s tears red bean soup

red beans have blood nourishing workers, while job’s tears are cold. Cooking them together helps to clear away heat and dampness. In summer, drinking job’s tears red bean soup can nourish blood and dispel dampness.

raw materials:

red beans and job’s tears,

ginger slices,

seasoning:

appropriate amount of brown sugar

practice:

soak the red beans in water the night before and soak them in water the next day. The next day, put the red beans and job’s tears into the pot and cook them. Finally, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste.

III. self made spleen strengthening beverage

everyone likes to drink iced drinks in summer, but if they often drink, they will lead to a large loss of calcium in the body, lack of kidney yin, damage kidney yang and Spleen Yang, and women will also easily cause dysmenorrhea and infertility.

if you like drinks, you might as well DIY a spleen strengthening drink, which is also delicious and appetizing, and also has a certain health preservation effect. Xiaobian first named it sour and sweet spleen strengthening juice.

raw materials:

30g raw Astragalus, 15 jujubes, 10g medlar, 3 black plum, 10g hawthorn, 3G raw licorice, 3G orange peel and 3G fresh mint

seasoning:

30g rock sugar

practice:

put the raw materials into the pot with an appropriate amount of water and cook them until they taste evenly, Add rock sugar and cook for a while.

because the above materials belong to warm drugs, even if they are cooled and drunk later, they will not make the spleen and stomach feel uncomfortable. Regular drinking can also enhance appetite and regulate the spleen and stomach.