Today,
August 14 officially enters the end of the summer. Due to the abundant rain and heavy humidity in summer, if the health is not kept properly, it is easy to cause dampness to be trapped in the human body for a long time and breed diseases. Entering the “last train” of the dog days, Wei Wei, chief physician of Nutrition Department of Oriental Hospital of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reminds us that people can take this opportunity to dispel the cold in their bodies, achieve body building and physical fitness and improve their physique.
“Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the cause of obesity is mostly related to phlegm and dampness.”. In common clinical spectrum, people with phlegm-dampness, spleen deficiency and spleen-kidney Yang deficiency should seize the good opportunity of dog days. At this time, health preservation is not only beneficial to health, but also can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Wei Kuo pointed out that at this time, we should do a good job of “three things at the end of the summer”, that is, drinking hot tea, eating hot food and using hot water.
Drinking hot tea
in hot summer, many people like to drink cold drinks to cool down, but this eating habit will aggravate the body’s cold and dampness evil. Wei said that drinking warm tea, while replenishing water, can also promote the circulation of Qi and blood, so that the body’s cold evil can be dispersed. If some medicinal materials for eliminating dampness are added to tea, dampness can also be discharged from urine, thus playing the role of dispelling cold and eliminating dampness.
Wei Wei recommends the following two recipes for drinking tea at the end of the summer.
The lotus leaf slimming tea comprises the following main raw materials: 6G of hawthorn, 6G of Coix seed, 3G of orange peel and 9g of lotus leaf; the materials are put into a gauze bag or a medicine bag, tied tightly and brewed with boiling water for 10 minutes, and the boiling effect is better. Usage and Dosage: Drink instead of tea, warm and take frequently.
If you have accidentally eaten too much cold food and caused stomach discomfort, you can choose ginger and jujube tea to warm the stomach and remedy it. The main raw materials of the ginger and jujube tea are 3G of ginger and 5g of jujube. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: putting the materials into a gauze bag or a medicine bag, tying the gauze bag or the medicine bag tightly, and brewing the gauze bag or the medicine bag in boiling water for 10 minutes, wherein the boiling effect is better. Usage and Dosage: Drink instead of tea, warm and take frequently.
Eat hot food
in hot summer, you can properly eat some heat-clearing food, such as wax gourd, water chestnut, Lily, Coix seed, etc., but when cooking, you should try to avoid ice, ice cubes and other ways, the best way to choose soup, not only simple, convenient, easy to use, but also health, health care, health promotion.
Wei Wei recommends Coix Seed and Wax Gourd Soup (Dietotherapy Prescription at the End of Fu). Main raw materials: 300g of white gourd and 20g of Coix seed. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: peeling the white gourd, removing pulp, and slicing for later use; slicing the ginger, and cutting the scallion into sections for later use; cleaning the Coix seed, placing the Coix seed in a stewpot, adding a proper amount of water, boiling with strong fire, and continuously boiling with low fire for 30 minutes; adding the white gourd slices, the scallion and the ginger, boiling with strong fire, continuously boiling with low fire for about 15 minutes, and adding a small amount of salt for seasoning. Usage and Dosage: Eat before or with meals.
Use hot water
“Summer bath must use slightly hot water, especially when sweating, do not take a cold bath, easy to lead to closure, Qi is not smooth, breeding diseases.” Wei said that besides bathing, soaking feet every day is also a good way to dispel cold and dampness.
It is suggested to choose the prescription of foot bath for dispelling cold. Main raw materials: 10g of ginger, 3G of cinnamon, 10g of perilla stem, 10g of cassia twig and 5g of suberect Spatholobus stem. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: putting the raw materials into a gauze bag or a medicine bag, tying the gauze bag or the medicine bag, boiling the gauze bag or the medicine bag in boiling water for 10 minutes, and placing the gauze bag or the medicine bag at a proper temperature.
