As the weather gets hotter and hotter, we need to know in advance how to avoid getting cold and prevent illness, which is the umbrella of summer health care. Yang energy is strong in summer, but the hot and humid environment is prone to cause the body's qi and blood to run poorly, which may lead to problems such as colds and accumulation of dampness if we are not careful. This article combines the theories of Chinese medicine and modern life scenarios to analyze the key points of summer health care in terms of preventing cold, eliminating dampness, diet, work and rest, etc., which will help you cope with the summer heat in a scientific manner and protect the health of the whole family.
Yang energy is strong in summer, but the high temperature and humidity can easily lead to problems such as stagnant moisture and air-conditioning disease. This article is written by a team of Chinese medicine experts to systematically analyze the core points of summer health care:
✅The key to preventing cold: Taboos on air conditioning use, tips on clothing selection, recognition of cold intrusion signals
✅Good tips for getting rid of dampness: Recommended dietary remedies (red bean barley porridge/winter melon soup), acupressure points (yinlingquan/fenglong acupoint)
✅The Secret of Tongue Diagnosis: 5 Typical Tongue Signs (Damp-Heat/Cold-Dampness/Stomach-Qi Deficiency) and Corresponding Conditioning Programs
✅exercise contraindication: A guide to swimming against the cold, the essentials of the eight duanjin exercises, and children's sweating push-ups
✅First aid program: Patchouli Liquid Live Scenario (nasal congestion/dysmenorrhea/air-conditioning disease), Gentian Diarrhea Liver Pill External Apply Method
First, the core of summer health: cold prevention and dampness removal two-pronged approach
Air conditioning use: scientific avoidance of cold is the key
Today is case-based. But before I get to the cases, I want to make it clear that we are now going to activate the first level of defense. Why is it called first-degree defense?
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and there is a "big devil" that jeopardizes the health of us and our children - the air conditioner is going to appear.
I felt horrible when I heard Liu You say that the kindergarten had turned on the air conditioning for the kids at nap time two weeks before.Why are people so afraid of heat these days? Because the pores of the skin are not as permeable as they used to be.For example, mothers can observe their husbands who are fat or who often drink and socialize, and they will find that they are more afraid of heat than they are. It is common for many adults and children to catch cold easily, and for children to kick the quilt at night. However, women are generally less likely to do so. Women are usually more afraid of the cold than men and do not kick the covers at night. Why are men and children so afraid of heat?
From the human structure, skin, flesh, veins, sinews and bones, the outermost two layers of skin and flesh are more solid, lack of permeability, the body's internal heat can not be dispersed, it is closed inside, the internal heat is very heavy, so afraid of heat.
Blowing against the air conditioner or fan, comfortable at the time, but it will cause the pores and skin inside the heat heavy, outside the cold heavy, resulting in the skin and flesh more board, impermeable, forming a vicious cycle.
This kind of people do "gua sha therapy", can find the flesh is very tight, gua sha therapy often lead to "gua sha" appear.Here to popularize, "gua sha" is not the Western medicine said capillary ruptureThat serious, that is too horrible, if so, gua sha technology will not be passed down. In fact, "gua sha" is the process of scraping the skin surface of a red or purple spots or plaques, is due to scraping gua sha stimulation of the skin surface, so that the local capillary dilatation, a small amount of blood seepage to the tissue interstitial formation. This phenomenon is considered a normal therapeutic response in Chinese medicine theory, is the body in the discharge of "gua sha poison", that is, the body's metabolic waste and toxins.
Gua Sha is cold, dampness and stagnation in the body coming out through the pores.This kind of skin and flesh inside the occlusion is strong, scraping Gua Sha easily out of the Gua Sha, while the deficiency is strong or more permeable people, on the contrary, not easy to out of the Gua Sha.
Dietary Taboos: Be Wary of Invisible Cold Evil
- Fruit in moderationWatermelon, pineapple honey and other cold fruits need to control the amount of intake, excessive easy to aggravate the body dampness.
- abstinence from cold drinks: Chilled drinks can irritate the spleen and stomach, so it is recommended to replace them with warm summer relief products such as sour plum soup and green bean soup.
Back on topic, this evening focuses on summer health. We all know some of these things, like avoiding food.Fruit must not be eaten. Someone told me today that they were uncomfortable after eating four pineapple nectar. To emphasize, the reason for not letting people eat fruits is not that they are cold, but that they tend to increase dampness. Dampness is the most difficult evil to remove, as we all know.
Why is it okay to drink water every day, but not to eat fruit? Because the metabolic path of water in fruits is the same as that of food, and the metabolic path of drinking water is different from that of food. Drinking too much water is just urination, eating too much food will make you feel faint, ever felt like that? Have you ever had that experience? Originally can only eat two bowls of rice, one day the food is particularly delicious, ate three and a half bowls, in addition to stomach bloating, the whole person is lethargic, go home and want to sleep.
There is also late night snacking, you don't usually eat, one day you eat too much, the whole person is uncomfortable, you want to sleep but will wake up in the middle of the night. Food needs more yang energy from the body to metabolize, milk tea also goes the metabolic path of food, only pure water goes the metabolic path of water.
Dress Code: Protecting the Critical Areas
- Focused protection: Avoid plunging necklines and low-waisted pants, and choose round/v-necked clothing to cover the large vertebrae; prioritize long pants or knee-length skirts for leg warmth.
- Shoe and Sock SelectionThe most important thing to do is to reduce the use of sandals and pair them with breathable cotton socks, especially for children and people with Yang deficiency who need to pay attention to keeping their feet warm.
Enough about food, let's talk about dressing. This is a big problem, we recall how to get cold in the summer in previous years? Often in the office, sitting under the central air-conditioning wind, others envy, but they are annoyed to death.
I previously worked in the red apricot grove group of companies, and even the office someone umbrella to avoid the wind, blowing directly to the air conditioning is very easy to blow sick, postpartum wind is a similar situation, after giving birth to a child's body is weak, blowing outside the window of the wind may be blown into the body. Now the girl's body is also weak, blowing against the air conditioning is easy to blow out of the disease.So be sure to have blankets or towel blankets ready ahead of time to place at your workstation.
Wear less in the summer, but make sure you don't wear clothes that show off your navel or your back (especially the large vertebrae area), and wear clothes with a round or V-neck that covers the back of your neck.Show belly button, show waist, clothes too short, a squat down the waist is exposed to the clothes do not wear, wait for the body to adjust before wearing, or wear it, do not go to the air-conditioned place.
Legs are also in focus, it is recommended not to wear skirts that are shorter than the knee, it is better to wear skirts that are above the knee and better to wear pants.
And shoes. Sandals are not recommended.I don't dare to wear them myself, really afraid of heat can wear socks and then sandals, small children are not recommended to wear sandals directly, unless the feet sweating socks are wet, this situation shows that the child's body is weak, need to be adjusted.
Second, the scientific method of health care: the wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine to help healthy summer
Patchouli Liquid: The family's go-to defense against the cold
- Applicable Scenarios: Cold-dampness symptoms such as being cold in an air-conditioned room, nasal congestion and runny nose after a rain shower, and cold pain in the lower back and abdomen during menstruation.
- Suggestions for use: Adults take 2-4 doses (liquid/combination) daily, halved for children, taken promptly when tongue is white and smooth.
Realize that.When the hands and feet are colder, goosebumps or sneezing, you are already cold, then you should hurry to add clothes, too late to take two patchouli liquid.
I teach you is prevention, not wait for a disease and then cure, have a disease can not handle themselves, basically have to find a doctor. A little bit of a small problem know how to judge, sneeze two times to hurry to apply two times the liquid, so it will be fine.
When cold shivers, sneezing, hands and feet become cold, usually feel the temperature of your hands and feet more, cold hands and feet should add clothes.
Throughout the summer, Patchouli Zhengqi Granules, Patchouli Zhengqi Pills, and Patchouli Zhengqi Compound are a few medicines that you can always keep on hand, and you can just buy the same of these standby medicines, which can be purchased online.
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| Name of drug | Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Granules | Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Pill (botany) | Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Synthesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| ingredient | Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (made with ginger), Angelica Dahurica, Poria, Poria Cocos, Semen Armeniacae, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Infusion, Patchouli Oil, Perilla Folium Oil | Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (made with ginger), Angelica Dahurica, Poria, Poria Cocos, Semen Armeniacae, Glycyrrhiza Glabra Infusion, Patchouli Oil, Perilla Folium Oil | Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae (made with ginger), Angelica Dahurica, Poria, Poria Cocos, Semen Armeniacae, Licorice Extract, Patchouli Oil, Perilla frutescens Leaf Oil, Platycodon Grandiflorum, Ginger, Fruit |
| effect | Relieving exterior dampness, regulating Qi and harmonizing the middle Jiao | Relieving exterior dampness, regulating Qi and harmonizing the middle Jiao | Relieving exterior dampness, regulating Qi and harmonizing the middle Jiao |
| Applicable Symptoms | Colds caused by external wind-cold, internal dampness, summer dampness, gastro-intestinal colds. | Colds caused by external wind-cold, internal dampness, summer dampness, gastro-intestinal colds. | Colds caused by external wind-cold, internal dampness, summer dampness, gastro-intestinal colds. |
| Dosage form characteristics | Granular, easy to brew, better taste | Pills with mild effect, suitable for long term use | Liquid dosage form, faster absorption, better taste, suitable for the elderly and children |
| Recommendations for use | A summer essential to cope with summer dampness, colds and gastrointestinal discomforts. | A summer essential to cope with summer dampness, colds and gastrointestinal discomforts. | A summer essential to cope with summer dampness, colds and gastrointestinal discomforts. |
| Purchase Channels | Online or offline pharmacy | Online or offline pharmacy | Online or offline pharmacy |
Last year I bought ten boxes of patchouli liquid for my wife, she was a junior math teacher in a training institution, students are afraid of heat in the summer to open the air conditioning, I let her into the classroom every day before serving two, and then come back from school to serve two, four a day, a box of ten, almost a box of two-and-a-half days, she didn't catch a cold the whole summer.
We can do the same if we run the air conditioning at our own place of work.
If the recent poor sleep, rhinitis aggravation, irregular menstruation, should not come, be vigilant, look at the tongue moss there is no white moss or water slippery moss, if there is a hurry to compress patchouli Zhengqi Liquid, and all and cold related to aggravation of the disease, serving patchouli Zhengqi Liquid will have relief.
Previously, I talked about a case where someone who had back pain during menstruation took Patchouli Zhengqi Liquid, and the next day there was no back pain. All are manifestations of the living use of the Patchouli Zhengqi Pill.
Adjustment of work and rest: following natural rhythms
- early bed, early to rise: Sleep by 22:00 and wake up at 6:00 a.m., along with a 30-minute lunch break to restore energy.
- Sleeping to keep warm: Wear loose stockings or socks at night to avoid the cold on the soles of your feet, which can cause the cold to go up.
Try to go to bed by 11:00 and don't stay up late.Summer temperatures are high, sleep at night must close the windows, close tightly, really feel the room is not airy, stuffy and uncomfortable, you can open the window, but pull the curtains, do not let the outside wind blowing directly into the room, but also close the screen door, filter the wind.
Young and old, women and men.Yang-deficient people must wear socks at nightMany people don't wear socks at night slowly get cold, not for a few days in a row, the tongue will become water slippery moss, then eat an ice cream, the throat will start to feel uncomfortable, cold from the feet. If you feel hot and can't stand wearing socks, you can wear stockings that are not hooped too tightly and cut into short socks that only wrap around your toes.The main thing is to keep the soles of your feet from getting cold and windyThe
Exercise for health: the combination of static and dynamic is more appropriate
- Recommended Projects: Low-intensity exercise such as Baduanjin and walking to avoid heavy sweating.
- Swimming: Yang qi insufficient people with caution, before going into the water to fully warm up, swim in time after taking patchouli Zhengqi liquid to drive away the cold.
Are any of you planning to take your kids out swimming in the summer?
Swimming, no matter how high the water temperature, always lower than the body temperature, if the water temperature of 40 degrees that is a bubble bath. In the water for 60 minutes, the body is subject to cold air cleaning 60 minutes, which is similar to blowing against the air conditioning. If they are not enough yang, it is easy to get cold in the pool.
But if adults and children do always want to go swimming, there are a few suggestions. Warm up well before you get in the water, don't rush into the water until you are warmed up. Go to the hot water area before the cold water area.
Swimming time should not be long, feel tired, don't swim, because the body's yang qi in the reminder is not enough, and then swim the cold directly into the body.
After swimming out remember to take two times patchouli Zhengqi Liquid, the next morning to see the tongue, if still very white, indicating that yesterday's swim time is too long, the body is a little overdrawn, continue to take patchouli Zhengqi Liquid relief.
I was asked if swimming is suitable for people with high dampness. Does swimming increase one's dampness?
This is a question I can answer. Someone asked if taking too many baths would increase dampness, similar to your question.
Swimming and bathing do not increase dampness until the body is fatigued, as long as the positive energy is sufficient. Dampness does not come into the body because of more contact with water, water enters the body, cold can enter as the body, but water does not enter the body. Body cold slows down the body's metabolic processes. When the metabolism is high, it effectively converts body fluids and nutrients into life energy (which can be compared to "qi" or life force) and prevents fluid retention. However, if the metabolism is slow, body fluids cannot be processed efficiently and accumulate as dampness, thus burdening the body.
Essentially, a good metabolism ensures that body fluids are converted into beneficial energy, while a poor metabolism leads to fluid retention, which can negatively affect health.
Related Q&A:
Q: Swimming when the body will heat, not soaking in the water does not move, in the water does not move will be cold, swim up and will not be cold, swim fast will also be hot, this and blowing the air conditioning does not feel the same, in the office open air conditioning to sit and not move will be cold.
A: Yes.You get hot when you swim because the yang energy is releasing energy, but getting hot and getting cold can happen at the same time.It's like being hot after exercising and blowing into an air conditioner, you're still sweating from the heat, but the cold can get into your body just as well. Can you understand that?
Q: I understand you mean doing exercises in an air-conditioned room and getting hot or even sweating, is that what you mean?
A: Yes, it means that although the pores are open, the body is hot and sweating, this does not affect the possibility of catching cold. The possibility of catching a cold does not depend on whether the pores are open or not, or whether the body is hot or not, but on whether the positive energy is sufficient or not.If you have enough positive qi, you will be fine even if you soak in the water. If you do not have enough positive qi and you keep heating up in the water, the cold will still enter your body in the end.
Exercise in the summer you can actually practice Baduanjin, don't sweat too much, because of the heat, the slightest movement is easy to sweat, even walking, summer is suitable for meditation. It is not recommended to go to the summer resort, if you plan to take your children there in summer vacation, be careful.
The human body should be hot when it is hot, and cold when it is cold. When the weather is hot, the yang energy goes outward, and runs to the summer resort, where the temperature is low, the yang energy shrinks back, and the pores close, and the body thinks that it is going to be in the fall and winter, and closes off the bad things that are supposed to be discharged outward in the body in advance. You can go and have fun, but don't stay too long and follow the laws of nature.
Summer is to be utilized to open up the permeability of the skin and flesh, through sun exposure and other means.At home during the day less open air conditioning, really hot can turn on the fan, but the fan do not blow on people, to ensure that the heat is not hot and fidgety on the line.
Third, tongue diagnosis self-test: read the body's distress signal
1. Common Tongue Signs Analysis
- weak stomach qi: Sunken tongue with easy hunger, need to strengthen the spleen and stomach (e.g. yam and lotus seed congee).
- body heat from dampness: Red tongue with yellowish greasy moss, recommend adzuki bean and barley soup, avoid spicy and greasy.
- cold and heat mixed in togetherWhite saliva on the side of the tongue with dark red in the middle can be applied externally by applying Gentian Diarrhea Liver Pill to the Yongquan acupoints to induce the fire to return to the origin.
2. Self-examination methodology
- Morning Observation: View tongue color and pattern in natural light before brushing teeth and record trends.
- Symptom association: Thick and greasy tongue + sticky stools in the toilet = heavy dampness; red spots on the tongue tip + insomnia = heart fire.
3. Case studies
This tongue coating is not serious, I will tell you how to see the stomach and intestines through this tongue coating, pay attention to the picture, the red circle is in the middle of the tongue, which corresponds to the stomach;
The yellow circle is a little below the stomach, the tongue is viewed upside down, the tip of the tongue corresponds to the head, the root of the tongue corresponds to the feet, and the yellow circle corresponds to the intestines.
Sometimes when a mom brings her child to me for medical treatment, I can tell whether the child has eaten anything indiscriminately or whether he/she has eaten cold food just by looking at his/her tongue, and I can even tell whether he/she has eaten today or yesterday.
Because the food you ate yesterday went to your intestines and the food you ate today is still in your stomach, and you can tell by looking at your tongue.
Let me tell you a little bit about the depression of the stomach, which corresponds to a deficiency of stomach qi. There is a situation where a child or an adult is very hungry but cannot eat much, and then gets hungry again easily after a while, is there such a phenomenon?
This condition is Stomach Qi deficiency. Why do I cite this example? Because this small child is typical of Stomach Qi deficiency, with a depression in the middle of the tongue. How to look at Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Spleen deficiency, and Stomach deficiency, I will tell you in due course.
Stomach qi deficiency is the stomach is relatively small, can not carry much food, eat a little on the full, digested and easy to starve, this situation is not just a problem of the stomach, spleen, stomach and kidney are related to the conditioning up to the comprehensive regulation, otherwise children are prone to malnutrition.
You can really get malnourished, even if you eat seafood every day.
There is yellow color, indicating that there is internal heat. Tell you about this tongue coating which is different from the previous one, the whole tongue is reddish, indicating heavier internal heat. You can see a distinct white color on both sides of the tongue, see?
There's one on each side. This is called phlegm saliva, which means there's a lot of phlegm and dampness in the body.. If moms and dads see that they always have this kind of phlegm and saliva on their tongues, they usually don't sleep very well.
When the phlegm and saliva become heavier and heavier, it is easy to have nodules, which are formed when phlegm and sludge are clumped together and become harder and harder.
This tongue intestines that piece of obvious white moss, but also yellow, indicating that not only has the dampness, but also has been dampness depressing heat, so you have to take some medicine, but not for a long time, eat for a long time on the contrary, it will be more hot.
I'll show you another tongue, the ones I posted are in order. Do you see that this tongue is hotter than the one you just had?
However, it is so symptomatic that you can apply patchouli pills, but with Banlangen granules for better results.
Finally, I'll show you another tongue, which is very typical.
It's more typical than the one just now, the white moss isn't as thick and greasy, but it's still noticeable, and the periphery is distinctly red.This tongue is typical of a damp-heat body.The
The Damp-Heat body is the type of body that I talked about at the beginning where the skin is not very permeable and is prone to internal heat and is very fearful of heat, and a lot of small children will have this type of tongue, which may be red in color not as typical or more typical than that.
Let's analyze this tongue coating, starting from the stomach, the stomach area is darker in color, you can see that, right?
Dampness and heat are very heavy throughout the intestines, and the white moss is yellow and there is still moss, indicating that there is both dampness and heat.
More redness elsewhere means that it is hotter in places other than the gut.
This kind of body conditioning can not just rely on patchouli Zhengqi liquid, both to clear heat and dissipate heat, but also to warm the middle to dispel dampness.
So if moms and dads look at their own or their child's tongue similar to this, they can't take Patchouli Liquid easily, and they may get even hotter if they do.
For children who sweat at night, apply one or two packs of Banlangen before bedtimeThe adults can put on two packets and the kids can put on one packet.
It works.Salt water foot soak, boil water with the salt of frying vegetables, pour in a bucket to the child's feet, salt has a contraction effect, salt water foot soak has the effect of drawing fire back to the source. ,
If you have moxa sticks at home, you can give them to your child at night before bedtimeA moxibustion of the Yongquan acupointIt's right on the soles of the feet.
These methods can be tried by moms and dads, if the child is not particularly sweaty and not particularly active, it usually works.
If the first couple of methods don't work, there's another way, go buy a box ofGentian Liver Pills, buy large honey pills, roll one into two, flatten and apply to the center of the child's foot.
Most small children have high liver fire, which makes them prone to sleep uneasily at night, move around, and even sweat in severe cases.
Let's try changing the original internal medicine like Longdian Diarrhea Liver Pill to external application. Generally speaking, the effect can be seen within one or two days to two or three days, it is not immediate, but slowly improve, you can pay attention to observe.
If the child still sweats a lot after using this method, then it is not entirely a heat problem. In this case, it may be necessary to bring the child in and we'll see what the problem is in person, as the condition may be more complex and can't be solved by simply clearing and draining the heat.
In addition, moms and dads can watch their children more closely these days. If your child goes to kindergarten, see if the kindergarten has turned on the cold air conditioner.If the air conditioning is on and it is convenient, try to talk to the teacher about placing your child in a back corner to avoid direct air conditioning.
IV. Recommendations for dietary therapy and external treatments
1. Classic recipes
- tea to prevent heatstroke: Artemisia annua 3g + Honeysuckle 2g + Peppermint 2g, brewed with boiling water to drink as tea.
- pickled plum soup: 30g of umeboshi + 25g of hawthorn + 5g of licorice, boil and drink with rock sugar.
2. External treatments
- Salt water foot soak: Soak your feet in water boiled with sauteed vegetables and salt to draw the fire back to your body to improve night sweats.
- acupoint plaster: Cornus officinalis powder mixed with vinegar on the Yongquan acupoints, warming Yang and dispersing cold.
| symptom | Recommended Methods | Operating Points |
|---|---|---|
| Air conditioning shoulder and neck pain | Hot Salt Pack External Application + Gua Sha | Focused scraping at the large vertebrae points |
| Night sweats in children | Salt Water Foot Soak + Yongquan Patching | Stir fry salt ratio 1:10 |
| Bitter mouth in the morning | Cornhusk Tea | Simmer in boiling water for 15 minutes |
concluding remarks
Summer health care is based on "conforming to the time of the day and balancing movement and static". Through scientific prevention of cold, rational elimination of dampness, wise diet, together with external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, it can effectively enhance the ability to resist diseases. It is recommended to observe the changes in the tongue regularly and adjust the health care strategy in a timely manner. If symptoms persist or worsen, please consult a medical professional promptly.
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