The beginning of summer is the first solar term of summer, indicating the end of spring and the beginning of summer. In the four seasons, summer is fire, fire is in the heart, coupled with the hot climate, sweat leakage, easy to consume sad heart, irritable and restless, so the summer health should pay attention to nourishing the heart.

Lixia protects the heart

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Unclog blood vessels throughout the body

"The Theory of the Origin of Medicine" says: "The heart is the master of the body, and all the organs and bones are obeyed by the heart, so he is the monarch." The heart is hidden in the gods, so it is used by the gods. "In the Chinese medicine literature, the heart is interpreted as the heart of flesh and blood and the gods. The heart of flesh and blood refers to the heart of substance; The god mind refers to the function of accepting and reflecting external things, and carrying out activities such as consciousness, thinking, and emotion.

The main bloodline of the heart includes two aspects: the main blood and the main vein.

Blood refers to blood, and veins refer to the vasculature, also known as meridians, which are the channels through which blood runs. The heart and vasculature are connected to form a closed system that serves as the hub of blood circulation.

The heart beats non-stop, pushing the blood to circulate in the vasculature of the whole body for no reason, and it becomes the driving force of blood circulation. The nutrients carried by the blood can nourish the whole body, so that the internal organs, limbs, muscles, fur and the whole body are nourished to maintain their normal physiological functions.

If the heart function is normal, the pulse is gentle and strong, the rhythm is even, and the complexion is ruddy and shiny; If the heart is diseased, there will be poor blood flow, vasculature emptiness and lack of color, weak pulse, stagnation of qi and blood, obstruction of blood and pulse, suffocation and tingling of the lips and tongue in the precordial area, and knots, generations or astringency of the pulse.

Therefore, from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, protecting the heart in summer is equivalent to dredging blood vessels!

The blood clot looks like this, it's scary! The way to keep the blood clot out of the body is just one word....

We often talk about blood clots, and very few people have actually seen blood clots.

Professor Wang Bing, vice president of the Vascular Surgery Hospital of the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University and an expert in vascular surgery, received a patient in his 80s with arterial thrombosis in the lower limbs, and actually removed a thrombus of about 10 cm from his lower limbs......

▲Arterial thrombosis of the lower extremities (medical imaging data of patients)

So how do you protect your heart?

At the age of 51, Professor Lian Jianwei, who won the "National Old Chinese Medicine Expert", has a heart-care method that is worth learning from all of us! He said

Usually, I will eat 5 salvia tablets before going to bed, and this habit has been adhered to for six or seven years, with the purpose of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, protecting the heart and nourishing the heart. I don't eat compound salvia tablets because there are borneols and so on in them, and my stomach will feel uncomfortable after eating them.

 

3 grams

 

in the morning and

5 tablets

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salvia

before bedtime

I believe that many friends know about salvia and notoginseng, but they have not eaten it, and many friends also feel that it is a bit troublesome to eat all year round and easy to forget. If this is the case, then you must eat it in the three months of summer to protect your heart and yang, which is particularly beneficial for preventing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in a year.

Vascular exercises

1

Shoulder relaxation

Sit upright in a chair with your shoulders raised and stop for 5 seconds; Then relax slowly, lift and loosen, repeat, 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the evening.

This action can move the neck muscles, promote the flow of carotid artery blood into the brain, accelerate the flow of slow-flowing blood into the brain, and prevent blood clots caused by insufficient blood supply to the cerebral blood vessels;

2

Tiptoe and pat your armpits

Feet hip-width apart, left hand back to the right ear, right armpit with the right hand in the empty palm of the right hand. 50 taps while tiptoeing; Then switch to the other side and slap another 50 times.

Tiptoeing can promote peripheral circulation, and patting the armpits can unblock the lymph under the armpits, which helps the body flush out garbage toxins.

Avoid touching ice water to avoid hurting your heart

Since the advent of refrigerators and air conditioners, it is easy for people to get the opposite of solar terms, drinking cold water and beer in summer, eating cold fruits, blowing air conditioners, and so on. After a long time, it will first hurt the spleen yang, and the spleen yang deficiency will hurt the kidney yang for a long time, forming the spleen and kidney yang deficiency. However, hurting yang qi is only one aspect, inducing a heart attack can be fatal quickly!

Every summer, there are news reports of heart attacks caused by drinking a lot of ice water, cold beer, or bathing with ice water. The reason for this is that the sudden cold stimulation will not only cause the peripheral blood vessels of the human body to constrict, resulting in an increase in blood pressure, and sometimes even lead to severe spasm of the coronary arteries, plaque rupture, thrombosis, resulting in acute myocardial infarction, which is life-threatening.

If you want to relieve the heat, in addition to ice, there is actually heat, drink more bowls of hot soup, heat with heat, sweat through, cooler, and not sad, but also nourish the stomach!

Lotus duck stew

< instruct hospital >

• Department of Clinical Nutrition, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

< > ingredients

• 500 grams of winter melon (without peeling), 1 corner of lotus leaf, 30 grams of barley, 20 grams of seeds, a little tangerine peel, 300 grams of duck meat (3~4 people).

< approach >

• Cut the duck meat into pieces, put it in boiling water and boil it for a while to remove the dirt; Remove the winter melon, cut it into pieces, wash the barley and root seeds, and soak it slightly. Put the duck meat, winter melon slices, barley, seeds, lotus leaves, and tangerine peel in a stew pot and simmer for 1~2 hours, add salt to taste (some people think duck has a bad taste, add a little tangerine peel to remove this taste).

< > efficacy

• Strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, clear away heat and relieve heat

< efficacy analysis >

• The duck in the soup is sweet in taste, slightly cold, can replenish qi and benefit yin, dilute water and reduce swelling, and is a good nourishing product in summer.

• Winter melon is sweet and light, slightly cold, can clear heat and dissolve phlegm, diuretic and invigorating.

• In addition to the heat in summer, it often carries moisture, damp heat fumigation, people often feel that the face scale is shiny, easy to be heavy and sleepy, upset and slack, so add barley, seeds, lotus leaves and other medicinal foods to clear the heat and strengthen the spleen and dispel dampness, which can increase the efficacy of medicinal diet.

Exercise a little slower, and the heart is not overloaded

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that summer should be the season of "resting" for middle-aged and elderly people, and it is not appropriate to exercise a lot. The intensity of the activity should not be tired, and the time should not exceed 1 hour, so as to reduce the workload of the heart and prevent myocardial ischemic attack.

Summer is characterized by high temperature and humidity, which directly leads to an increase in human metabolism and oxygen consumption. Even if you sit quietly, in a hot and humid environment, blood circulation will still increase and your body's oxygen consumption will increase.

Some people with pre-existing diseases are very susceptible to disease in such an environment, especially some patients with heart and brain diseases, and the increase in oxygen consumption is the first direct cause of the disease.

On the other hand, many elderly people are willing to get up early and exercise in the morning because of the early dawn in summer. However, according to the survey, 70%~80% of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases occur at 6~10 o'clock in the morning, which is considered to be the best time for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so exercise should be avoided as much as possible.

At the same time, people should develop the habit of taking a nap after the beginning of summer. Studies have shown that napping can prevent heart disease, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction and other heart diseases.