How should the summer health diet?

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

        Just after the summer solstice, the summer had already started, so this summer the how to keeping in good health? Chinese medicine practitioners that summer to follow six health principle, namely: five zang-organs led to "; Diet with delicate advisable; Food should be clear for profit up; Winter to summer to cure sick old disease; Desiccant cultivated the spleen stomach; Nourish the lung tomifying qi and kidney. So what this how to operate?

        Clear for better for

        Summer signings diet should with clear heat of wet, pure in heart tonifying spleen primarily. This is because in the hot summer if use bored of growing tepid tonic, such as the donkey-hide gelatine, velvet antler, red ginseng, proved the cultivated land, etc, first, it will "adding fuel to the fire," backfire, had better choose the supplements may have oneself qi, such as prince and, medlar, north of straight ladybell, radix ophiopogonis, American ginseng, etc, also can match on summer commonly used rabbit meat, duck, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, mung bean, lotus seed, kindhearted YiRen, etc.

        Reasonable allocate

        Diet deployment good, help to enhance the function of spleen and stomach. Main should notice the following aspects: (1) XiLiang and coarse food grain to proper collocation to eat, a week should eat three meals coarse food grain; (2) the rare and dry to appropriate arrangements, with two thin stem advisable, eat pasta, soya-bean milk in the morning, lunch have rice, evening sipgruel; (3) and vegetables made reasonable non-vegetarian meals, should with green vegetables, melon kind, legume vegetables give priority to, complementary with non-vegetarian meals. Meat to thin pork, beef, fish and meat of good. In addition, to dine on time, don't eat whatever they want, don't want to eat not to eat, it would disturb the normal function of spleen and stomach, cause stomach trouble happened.

        Often eat bitter

        As the saying goes, "ten bitter nine fill", feed more bitter foods, be helpful for adjusting the balance of Yin and Yang. The modern medical science thinks, bitter taste food contains amino acids, alkaloids, vitamin, bitter flavor, glucoside, trace elements and of composition, have antipyretic except vexed, fight bacterium diminish inflammation, help digestion, increase appetite, refreshing, eliminate fatigue, such as effectiveness, the human body needs for summer.

        Vary from person to person

        Strong body without disease physically strong, who generally do not need to eat tonic food, more avoid long-term supplements; If there is a thick coating on the be bored with, chest tightness in the abdominal distension, body weight, such as yellow acid urine, is hot and humid trapped by the spleen, also can't supplements, or leave behind the closed doors in Kew. In addition, children like cold drink in the summer, easy to have abdominal pain, anorexia, defecate is not moved and gastroenteritis symptoms, so in the tonic should add some of the spleen and stomach of traditional Chinese medicine, so can have twice the result with half the effort, commonly have lentils, yam, largehead atractylodes rhizome, dried tangerine or orange peel, fry semen raphani, etc.

        Jiyong ointment

        This is because in the environment at the higher temperature of ointment is easy to metamorphism, even if in the refrigerator and may not safety, go against for long-term use, and summer appetite is poorer, taking ointment will affect appetite.