[Guyu Health Care] The weather is not over yet, but the heat and humidity are high! What should we do to prevent dampness from harming people?

With the arrival of Grain Rain, spring is already late and all things are beginning to grow vigorously. The weather is not yet completely hot, but humidity has already arrived.

The key to health care at this time of year is to "soften the liver, strengthen the spleen, and remove dampness" to help the liver qi rise and enter the summer safely.

Daily life in Guyu

Sleeping late and getting up early to nourish the liver

Spring is the time when yang energy is generated. You can go to bed late and get up early. After getting up, you can do some gentle outdoor activities, such as jogging, brisk walking, dancing, gymnastics, boxing, etc. This can conform to the growth opportunity of spring, promote gas exchange inside and outside the body, and help the body's metabolism and make people energetic.

Grain Rain Clothing

Pay attention to the temperature and stop covering up in spring

During the Grain Rain period, the weather is hot and cold. The temperature is higher at noon, but cooler in the morning and evening. Many people would rather wear more clothes than suffer the cold.

In fact, this approach is wrong.

There should be a limit to covering yourself in spring. 15℃ is the critical point of covering yourself in spring. If the temperature exceeds 15℃, you should take off your clothes. If you continue to cover yourself, it will easily induce "spring fire" and make you prone to illness.

Especially at this time, the temperature difference between morning and evening and noon is large, so you should pay attention to keeping warm in the morning and evening, and take off clothes appropriately at noon.

Guyu Health

Rubbing nose and pressing acupoints to prevent allergies

There are more pollen and catkins around Grain Rain. People with hay fever, allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma and other diseases can wash their noses with cold water and rub their noses every morning and evening. This can improve the blood circulation of the nasal mucosa and help relieve allergic symptoms such as nasal congestion and sneezing.

Also, because the air humidity increases after Grain Rain, those who usually have heavy moisture in the air should start their daily health care by strengthening and replenishing the spleen.

Yinlingquan is the He point of the spleen meridian and is also an important point for removing dampness.

This point is located on the inner side of the human calf, in the depression on the inner side of the tibia below the knee. When tapping this point, one should adopt a sitting or supine posture.

Massage the acupoints on both legs 60 times each time, and massage once in the morning and evening every day, until you feel soreness and swelling on the acupoints.

Grain Rain Diet

Less acid and more sweetness to prevent getting angry

In the relationship between the five internal organs and the five flavors, sour taste enters the liver and has a astringent nature, which is not conducive to the generation of yang energy and the release of liver qi, so we should eat less of it.

At this time, you can eat some cool and sweet foods, such as spinach, celery, kelp, shepherd's purse, bean sprouts, toon, etc., to clear away internal heat, moisten the liver and improve eyesight.

In addition, during the Grain Rain season, you should try to eat less spicy and hot foods, such as chili peppers, raw garlic, strong tea, liquor, coffee, onions, etc., to avoid generating heat and increasing fire.

You should also eat less "hot fruits", such as oranges, longans, durian, etc., so as not to "add fuel to the fire".

At the same time, you should not drink iced drinks or heat-clearing herbal teas to prevent further damage to the spleen and stomach.

You can eat some foods to clear the heat in the body, such as red bean soup, sour plum soup and green tea, to prevent heat accumulation.

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Replenish water to promote metabolism

During the Grain Rain season, the human body's metabolism will continue to accelerate.

Therefore, people should increase their exercise and sweat moderately to better promote metabolism.

However, you should avoid sweating profusely at this time, because excessive sweating will affect the health of qi and blood in summer.

Therefore, during the Grain Rain period, we should remember to follow the principle of "relaxing and not sweating profusely to nourish the internal organs" and choose to do outings, jogging, kite flying, Ba Duan Jin, etc.

Sweat is transformed from body fluid. Only by paying attention to the orderly rise of Yang Qi and the protection of body fluid in spring can we keep Qi and blood abundant in summer.

Eliminate dampness and relieve pain

During the Grain Rain season, friends living in the south may already feel the heat, or even be in the "gloomy Grain Rain" plum rain climate.

For this group of people, they must not forget to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness when maintaining health during Grain Rain.

Prevent rheumatism in daily life: Avoid staying in wetlands for a long time during the Grain Rain season. Those who go out early and come back late should pay attention to adding or removing clothes to avoid catching a cold. Those who usually have rheumatic bone diseases should pay more attention.

Exercise to remove dampness: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that movement raises yang, and the movement of yang causes qi and blood to flow, which is beneficial to the transportation and transformation of water and dampness. In addition, sweating through exercise can also expel a certain amount of dampness.

It is recommended that aerobic exercise be the main form of exercise, and high-intensity strength training using equipment is not recommended.

Diet to eliminate dampness and turbidity: During the Grain Rain season, the diet should be based on the basic principle of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. You can eat foods such as yam, water chestnut, coix seed, lentil, adzuki bean to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, or eat ingredients such as tangerine peel, green peel, and cardamom to regulate qi and eliminate dampness, or drink teas such as patchouli and perilla to clear turbidity with fragrance. However, avoid eating raw, cold, and greasy foods to avoid further damaging the spleen and stomach and aggravating the retention of dampness in the body.

Spring tea clears dampness and heat: Drinking Guyu tea (especially green tea) at this time can clear away heat and dampness, eliminate turbidity and refresh the mind, unblock the body's Qi and eliminate symptoms of fatigue and drowsiness.

Part of the source of this article: Comprehensive compilation by Chinese Traditional Medicine and Health China WeChat