Maintaining the heart of the summer, eat more seeds and bitter gourd to relieve heat and calm

 9:45am, 15 August 2025
The rice seedlings are high in the beginning of summer, and rice seedlings are planted in flat fields, weeding is used to ensure moisture conservation, and the heat sheds should be well controlled. ──Twenty-four Festivals Song

【Food Festivals. Nutritional post]

The beginning of summer is a good day, and salivates all seasons: red beans, okra, mustard greens, white beans, urine beans, pumpkins, winter melons, etc.

The beginning of spring, summer, autumn and winter are collectively called "Four Status", which are the four most important days of the twenty-four days. Generally speaking, the method of recuperation mentioned by Chinese medicine emphasizes "spring, summer growth, autumn harvest, and winter storage". The beginning of summer is the peak season for all things to grow.

"Huang Emperor's Inner Canon. Suyou further pointed out: "In March of summer, this is the beauty of the world, and the atmosphere of heaven and earth are in harmony, and everything is in harmony. When you wake up early at night, you will not be angry at the sun, make the ambitions look beautiful, and make the air feel relieved. If you love it outside, this is the way to nourish the summer air." The three main points of care: get up early; be suitable for exercise, sweating, and sunshine; be kind-hearted and not get angry at will.

"Huangdi Neijing" further explains that if the above-mentioned way of nourishing is contrary to the above-mentioned way of nourishing: "If you are indifferent, you will feel sick in autumn. There are few people who receive it. If you are seriously ill in the winter solstice." Many physical problems are caused by this kind of infection, so you must be careful.

For diseases in autumn and winter, prevention begins in summer, and follow the rules of the body and nourish the energy. When the weather changes, you will naturally avoid getting sick.

┃Care the heart in the beginning of summer, relieve the heat and enter the silence┃

During the beginning of summer, due to the continuous rise in temperature, the heat is prone to injure and sticky, and naturally it is easy to have irritability and irritability, which may cause yang evil, leading to excessive sweating, heartbreak, fatigue, swelling, abdominal distension, and loss of appetite.

At this time, you can use seeds, bitter melon, licorice, mustard greens, red beans, etc. to help relieve the heat and dryness by allowing your diet, and at the same time eliminate the heart fire, so as to achieve the effect of nourishing the mind and calming the heart, clearing heat and promoting water.

Pu Qianqing, a famous nurse practitioner in the Song Dynasty, wrote "The Essentials for Preserving Life", which mentioned: "Those who cultivate themselves need to have small bodies and no greater fatigue. Therefore, the water flows are clear and defiled. People who cultivate themselves want to keep their blood flowing, like water flowing. They sit and do not want to be tired, and do not want to be tired, and they do not want to be tired, but they should keep moving a little. It is the method of small bodies."

The "small bodies" mentioned here reminds people that nourishing themselves is like water flowing. People who flow naturally can naturally be clear and dirty. Water that cannot flow will prevent the smell. Therefore, people who have a fixed posture for a long time, such as students sitting and studying, office workers sitting and working on their computers for a long time, have their bodies stiffened and stopped. In fact, they are not conducive to health, so don’t settle for “stagnation.”

On the hot summer, the wind is warm and the weather is long. Don’t spend a long time in the cold room. You can make yourself "small sweat" and "sweat" suitable for your time. In addition to work, sports and sports, playing games and other entertainment is the way to avoid summer heat and be at peace with your body and mind.

【Xu Ling Food. Home-style flavor]

Green beans, Xigu Rice

Ingredients: 60 grams of green beans, 30 grams of Xigu Rice (Simi Lu), suitable rock sugar

Method:

1. Wash the green beans first, soak for about 20 minutes, then dry and use.

2. Take the pottery and add appropriate amount of water, add green beans and cook.

3. After the green beans are removed, they will be lifted up, and finally put in the western rice. After it is cooked thoroughly, it will be done.

Stir-fried bean sprouts and fresh cabbage

Ingredients: 100 grams of bean sprouts, 150 grams of cabbage, suitable salt, suitable sesame oil

Method:

1. Wash the cabbage, cut into sections, and prepare.

2. Stir-fry Chinese cabbage and bean sprouts.

3. After it is cooked thoroughly, add salt and sesame oil and it will be done.