How to nourish the "Great Heat"? Chinese medicine: cold fruits and melons relieve heat and promote fluid, and add this balanced coldness

 9:01am, 25 August 2025

 

From the perspective of traditional medicine, many diseases follow the weather, and make different physical prevention and treatment as the weather changes. This is the way to survive through the ancestors.

The coming "Great Heat" is the twelfth day of the twenty-fourth day. It is from July 22 to 24th of the year, which is the coolest time of the year.

{9 How to survive? Yang Pei-ling, the attending physician of the Department of Traditional Medicine at the University of Taipei Medical University, said that due to the relationship between climate and humidity, due to the high temperature of the Great Heat, the most important thing is to be careful about "heat stroke". Among them, the elderly, children, and people with insufficient gas and blood need to pay attention to it.

Because sweating is a mechanism for the body to dissipate heat, but people with insufficient gas and blood are prone to not sweating. Older people have poor control over the surface of the hair, and both are difficult to adjust the body temperature by sweating. As for children, the temperature adjustment system is not very mature, and the new Chen Daihui is faster, so it is necessary to replenish more water, and it is best to drink water every 15 minutes to half an hour. Others like people with cardiovascular diseases, sweat too much, and exercise too much will increase the burden of heartbeat, and the peripheral nerves of diabetic patients are less sensitive. They are not sensitive to the temperature reaction of the outside world, and are more rapid in pregnant women. Their heartbeat is higher than those of ordinary people. These people should pay special attention to the Great Heat Festival and be careful of heat dissipation to prevent heatstroke.

However, it is not only important to pay attention when the sun is high. Sometimes the humidity is too heavy, which will also affect the sweat evaporation rate and the heat dissipation will be slower. Especially when the thunder and rain are not going to fall in the afternoon, it is very hot, so you should also be careful of heatstroke at this time.

Eat more foods to refresh the heat and replenish more water

As for the nourishment of "Great Heat", Yang Pei-ling pointed out that it is mainly to pay more attention to your diet and you can eat more foods to refresh the heat. Many fruits and melons of the season are: squid melon, cucumber, winter melon, and watermelon. Green beans that are clear and detoxified are also very suitable, and have the effect of clearing the heat and promoting salivation. However, just like the commonly heard saying "Eat ginger in winter and ginger in summer, without giving doctors the prescriptions." While eating these cold foods or green bean soups and other ginger products, you might as well listen to the wisdom of our ancestors. Add more hot ginger or purple sugar to balance the coldness of the dishes. However, for people who have heatstroke, because they may have gastric symptoms, do not eat too cold food.

It should be noted that although cold foods include ice products, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is very important to eat ice on hot days, because when you are sweating, the ice products will instantly close the hair holes, causing sweating to not be clean. Over time, it will cause discomfort and skin irritation. Eating too much ice products will also cause damage to the stomach tract, which may cause abdominal pain and abdominal pain.

Yang Peiling reminds everyone that during the Great Heat Festival, it is best not to engage in activities under the sun from 11 am to 2 pm. In fact, as long as the temperature is higher than the temperature, it is not suitable for outdoor activities, otherwise even if you sweat, you will not be able to dissipate the heat; you should also pay attention to moisture replenishment. Adults should drink at least 1,500cc per day; indoor air temperature should not be too low, otherwise the temperature of cold and heat can easily catch a cold or heat stroke.

If you have heat stroke, the scraping of the middle medical doctor will have an immediate effect, which will force local blood circulation to improve and strengthen the mechanism of heat dissipation on the body surface. However, do not scrape too often. It is also recommended that it is best to find a qualified Chinese medical hospital for insurance. If you keep recurring heatstroke, it may be related to your own blood and blood. It is best to use Chinese medicine to regulate your body.