Seven tips for keeping healthy in summer to help you get rid of dampness and strengthen your spleen easily

Clearing away heat, removing dampness and strengthening the spleen are all important parts of summer health care. Many people only start looking for treatment methods in a hurry after they fall ill, or only search for ways to maintain health after they fall ill, not knowing that every detail of life is inextricably linked to health. In fact, once you know the little tips for health care, you will know that removing dampness and strengthening the spleen is not difficult.

1. Let the rice cool down after it is cooked

In the past, people cooked rice in three steps: boiling, straining and steaming. But now, people have electric rice cookers which saves them a lot of steps. However, in terms of health preservation, these missing steps are actually very important to human health. Rice lives in water, so it carries moisture. If you use an electric rice cooker to cook rice, there will be more moisture. When the moist rice enters the stomach, it will increase the difficulty of the spleen and stomach in transporting and transforming moisture. When moisture is retained in the human body, it will bring endless harm.

Therefore, when cooking, you should open the lid after the rice is cooked, let the rice breathe, cool down slightly, and wait until the moisture dissipates before eating. If possible, don't eat rice every day. You can eat rice and pasta alternately to reduce the accumulation of moisture.

2. Don’t wear navel-exposing or backless clothing

Many girls like to wear cool clothes in the summer, exposing their navel and back. Although this may keep them cool, it will also allow cold air to quietly enter the human body. It is very important to protect the navel. The lower abdomen should be kept warm at all times to prevent cold air from entering the body and irritating 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 keep warm, so as to deal with dampness.

3. Adjust your daily routine

People with excessive dampness will feel dizzy and have sore calves when they wake up in the morning. When defecating, the stool will be difficult to pass and easily stick to the toilet bowl, and the color and smell of the urine will be particularly heavy. This is all because dampness has entered the body.

People with spleen deficiency will have thick tongue coating, no serrated teeth marks on both sides of the tongue, and the tongue will be fat and large. Sometimes, you may accidentally bite your tongue while chewing or talking, which indicates spleen deficiency, dampness and heat.

The best way to deal with the above problems is to adjust your diet and lifestyle. Make sure you get enough sleep, at least 7 hours a day, to give your body a process of self-repair. In addition, when the above situations occur, you should pay attention to a light diet and eat less raw, cold or fried foods.

4. Standing Health Posture

Standing in a health-preserving stance is the simplest and safest way to adjust the body and mind today. 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 shoulder-width apart, hold your hands in front of your chest as if you were holding a ball, bend both legs at the same time, your knees should not go beyond your toes, and relax your whole body.

2. When standing in the health-preserving stance, you can meditate in your heart. When you feel a tingling sensation in the palm of your hand, raise your arm high or lower it. When raising it high, it should not be higher than your eyebrows, and when lowering it, it should not be higher than your navel. The position can be adjusted left and right with both hands.

Note: The time of standing in the posture should not be too long. It should be done gradually. For beginners, standing for 10 minutes will show results, and then the time can be gradually increased.

Summer health care to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness: 3 dietary tips

1. Choose food to remove dampness

"Dampness" is the main qi of the long summer, corresponding to spleen and earth. Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, the important method to deal with dampness is to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, warm and nourish the spleen and stomach, increase appetite, and eliminate excess water in the body.

In terms of diet therapy, to expel excess water, you can choose dehumidifying foods such as coix seed, white lentil, red bean, etc. If you need to strengthen the spleen and nourish the spleen and stomach, you can choose purslane, crucian carp, yam, lotus seeds, coix seed, pork tripe, etc.

If there is too much moisture, the body will easily feel heavy and weak. At this time, you can drink some soup containing kudzu vine.

2. Barley and red bean soup

Red beans have the function of nourishing blood, while coix seed is cold. Boiled together, they can help clear away heat and dampness. In summer, drinking coix seed and red bean soup can nourish blood and remove dampness.

Ingredients: equal amounts of red beans and coix seeds, some sliced ​​ginger

Seasoning: brown sugar

Method: Soak the red beans in water the night before and they will be softened the next day. The next day, put the red beans and coix seeds into the pot and cook them together. Finally, add appropriate amount of brown sugar for seasoning.

3. Homemade spleen-strengthening beverage

Everyone likes to drink iced drinks in summer, but drinking them frequently will lead to a large loss of calcium in the body, cause kidney yin deficiency, damage kidney yang and spleen yang, and women will easily suffer from dysmenorrhea and infertility.

If you like drinks, you might as well DIY a spleen-strengthening drink yourself. It is also delicious and appetizing, and has certain health-preserving effects. The editor here names it sweet and sour spleen-strengthening juice.

Ingredients: 30g raw astragalus, 15 jujubes, 10g wolfberry, 3 black plums, 10g hawthorn, 3g raw licorice, 3g tangerine peel, 3g fresh mint

Seasoning: 30 grams of rock sugar

Method: Add appropriate amount of water to the raw materials and put them into the pot to cook. After the flavor is evenly released, add rock sugar, mix and cook for a while.

Because the above materials are all warm medicines, even if they are cooled down and then drunk, they will not cause discomfort to the spleen and stomach. Regular drinking can also enhance appetite and regulate the spleen and stomach.