Do you feel sleepy and get angry easily in summer? “Summer Syndrome” should be treated like this

Getting easily irritated, easily fatigued, having poor spirits, and having a poor appetite...these are all symptoms of "summer syndrome"! The various minor physical problems that occur in summer are closely related to the characteristics of the season. If you know how to adjust your diet wisely, you can easily cope with them and get rid of "summer syndrome."

●Heat is heavy, heart fire is strong, and it is easy to get angry

The key to dealing with it: detoxification and heat relief

There is a theory of "Six Evils" in Traditional Chinese Medicine, namely wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire, which are the six major factors that cause disease. To put it simply, "fire" is what people commonly call "getting angry". Getting angry can occur in different seasons, and the first five evils can also cause the generation of fire. In addition to fire in summer, there are also two other evil spirits, heat and humidity, which interfere with human health.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that summer corresponds to the "heart". Severe summer heat and excessive heat toxins can easily lead to excessive heart fire, and people are prone to become tired and lazy mentally. It can also easily cause a series of symptoms of getting angry, such as dry mouth, irritability, loss of appetite, etc. At the same time, the days are long and the nights are short during this season, and many people tend to go to bed late, lack sleep, or have poor sleep quality, which can easily lead to heart fire. Therefore, the primary task in summer is to clear away heat and toxins and reduce summer heat.

Dietary advice: Clearing away heat and relieving summer heat does not necessarily require the use of medicine. There are many foods in our daily life that can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Common foods in summer include winter melon, mung beans, kelp, bitter melon, pig blood, fungi, carrots, water chestnuts, watermelon, etc.

Eating more bitter foods, green vegetables, and fruits rich in water can also help the body clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It is recommended to add more such recipes to the table. In addition, you can also boil water with some common Chinese medicine and drink it as tea, such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, lotus leaves, etc., which is especially suitable for this season.

●Heavy dampness, poor spirits, easy to feel sleepy

The key to dealing with it: removing dampness and promoting diuresis

Summer dampness is very common in the Lingnan region, especially in July and August when humidity is at its peak. The Lingnan region is very humid and has a lot of rain in summer, which is a major source of humidity. In addition, during the hot summer season, if you like to drink cold drinks and eat cold dishes, it can easily lead to the invasion of dampness and affect your health.

People with heavy dampness tend to feel listless, heavy head, drowsiness and thirst, as well as systemic symptoms such as heaviness and numbness of limbs, sore shoulders, and general fatigue. Dampness can also invade the spleen and stomach, causing loss of appetite and poor appetite, which further aggravates lack of energy. At the same time, many people with heavy dampness will also show symptoms such as edema and swelling of the lower limbs.

Dietary suggestions: Many foods have the effect of removing dampness, and you can appropriately increase the intake of such foods, such as red beans, Job's tears, lentils, yam, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, carrots, crucian carp, etc., which are all good products for removing dampness on the table.

Another key to removing dampness is to increase the amount of water discharged from the body to take away the dampness. The human body tends to sweat in summer, which is actually a process of expelling moisture. Drinking more water, exercising properly, and not staying in an air-conditioned room all the time will help expel moisture. You can also consume appropriate amounts of diuretic foods, such as winter melon, loofah, cucumber, bitter melon, tomato, radish, etc., which can facilitate urination, increase urine volume, and promote the excretion of moisture from the body.

●High temperature, poor appetite, and weak digestion

The key to coping: strengthening the spleen and stimulating appetite

My appetite has worsened and I have no appetite for anything. This is a big problem that plagues the whole family in summer. There are many reasons for poor appetite in summer. As the temperature rises, people tend to feel tired and sleepy and lose their appetite.

Sweating a lot in summer and drinking too much water will neutralize gastric juice and cause loss of appetite. Excessive dampness can easily affect the spleen and stomach, causing loss of appetite, etc.

Dietary advice

1. Eat more acid

To deal with loss of appetite, you can consume sour foods appropriately, such as sour plums, orange peel, hawthorn, pineapple, kiwi, lemon, etc. Sour foods can increase the acidity of gastric juice, have the effect of promoting salivation and quenching thirst, strengthening the stomach and digesting food, and can improve appetite.

In addition to eating it directly, you can also add appropriate amounts of tangerine peel, pineapple, etc. when cooking or making soup, which has an appetizing effect. The temperature is high in summer and the digestive function is poor. You should eat less difficult to digest food and choose easily digestible food, such as chicken, fish, porridge, etc.

2. Strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach

You can also eat some foods that strengthen the spleen and stomach to enhance gastrointestinal function. Such as mung beans, bitter gourd, radish, yam, mushrooms, fungus, pumpkin, tomato, etc. Since dampness is also the cause of poor appetite, consuming more of the above-mentioned dampness-removing foods can also help relieve spleen and stomach discomfort.

At the same time, supplementing salt in moderation according to the amount of sweating of the body is also an important way to relieve physical fatigue and poor appetite. In addition, You Huazhi also reminded that the temperature is high in summer and bacteria multiply quickly, so food must be kept clean and hygienic before eating to avoid gastrointestinal diseases that affect the spleen and stomach function.