As we all know, three-hypertensive seriously endangers people's physical and mental health, especially the elderly. Due to the occurrence and development of diseases, there are many reasons such as genetics, psychological stress, medical conditions, diet, lifestyle, and work pressure. So how to maintain health from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine and prevent the three highs?
Traditional Chinese medicine health theory has its unique advantages and is a hot topic that has been widely concerned in recent years. Traditional Chinese medicine theory believes that nourish yang in spring and summer, and nourish yin in autumn and winter. What does this mean? In spring, everything revives, grass grows and doves fly, and the yang energy begins to rise. In summer, yang energy is the richest. After autumn, the yang energy gradually fades away and the yin energy gradually becomes strong. Winter is the most vigorous season for yin energy. The same is true for the human body. Therefore, in summer, we should fully protect the yang energy in our body to prevent the invasion of cold winter. This requires us to pay attention to the following points in our life and diet:
1. Choose fruits according to our specific situation
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fruits can be divided into three categories: cold, hot, and sweet. Most of the fruits in summer are cold, such as apples, bananas and various melons. People with hot constitutions can eat more fruits, but they cannot eat too much. People with weak constitutions are best to eat a small amount of fruit after lunch or before dinner, while hot fruits such as apricots, lychees, longan can be eaten more. Pineapple, grapes, mangoes, plums, etc. are between hot and cold, and people with all physical constitutions can eat them. Diabetic patients generally have a yin deficiency and internal heat constitution. They can eat appropriate amounts of low-sugar fruits, such as watermelon, apple, strawberry , etc., and try to avoid high-sugar fruits such as grapes, bananas, lychees, and sugarcane. However, diabetic patients must first meet two prerequisites: one is that the blood sugar after meals of is less than 11.1 mmol /L (200mg/dl); the other is that the glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) must be less than 7%. In addition, the daily fruit consumption should not be too much, such as 1 piece of watermelon, 200 grams of apple or pear, 300 grams of strawberries, kiwi or grapefruit , etc., and the amount of staple food can be reduced accordingly.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that summer belongs to fire, heat, and is open to heart, and is responsible for long-term care, and the evil in summer should be in good condition. In other words, the heart is fire among the five elements. The evil of fire is the most likely to hurt the heart and often leads to heart disease, such as anxiety, palpitations, insomnia, dizziness, etc. Moreover, traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweating is the fluid of the heart. In summer, large amounts of sweating will not only damage the heart qi, but also lead to heart yin deficiency and are more susceptible to heat evil energy. Therefore, you should pay attention to nourishing the heart in summer. Eating some foods that clear heat and relieve heat can not only relieve the calories brought by the high temperature in summer, but also relieve the internal heat generated by the body. You can also take Chinese medicines such as chrysanthemum, mint, lotus leaves, honeysuckle , forsythia , etc., which are beneficial to heart fire and heat dissipation.
In addition to eating some heat-clearing foods to protect your yang energy, you should also consume salt, fat and sugar in your daily life. At the same time, we should also exercise moderately to ensure adequate sleep and get rid of bad living habits such as smoking and drinking.
2. Edible low-salt, low-fat, low-saccharide food
salt is an indispensable seasoning in daily life, and is also the main source of human sodium and chloride ion . It plays an important role in maintaining human life activities, but excessive consumption will cause harm to the human body. A high-salt diet can lead to hypertension and , which is recognized, so low salt is an important aspect of dietary regulation in patients with hypertension. " Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents " recommends that the daily salt intake should not exceed 6g (equivalent to a small beer bottle cap). Excessive intake of cholesterol is the direct cause of increased blood lipids. High fat, , high cholesterol, and diets, including excessive cooking oil, are all risk factors that lead to increased blood lipids. Many people like to cook with more oil and think more oil and vegetables taste delicious, but the "Diet Guide for Chinese Residents" only recommends 25-30 grams, which is a small spoonful. Therefore, cooking uses more methods such as steaming, boiling, and stewing to reduce the intake of fried foods.
3. Moderate exercise
Moderate exercise can help us consume too much fat in our body, strengthen our physical fitness, and reduce the occurrence of diseases, especially aerobic exercise (low-intensity, long-term exercise, basically aerobic exercise, such as walking, jogging, long-distance slow swimming, cycling, dancing, etc.). Aerobic exercise can effectively exercise the heart, lungs and other organs, improve the functions of the cardiovascular and lungs, and effectively prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases.
4. Make sure you have enough rest
The summer is long during the day and you will feel very tired after a day. This is because the yang energy is excessively dissipated. If you can take a nap at noon, your work and life efficiency will be greatly improved. We normally need about 8 hours of sleep every day, and sleep less than or more is unhealthy.
5. Quit smoking and quit drinking
Smoking is harmful to the heart and lungs, especially for patients with three highs. Statistics show that smokers are 4 times more likely to die or become disabled than non-smokers, while the probability of patients with three highs is significantly increased. There are many confusing views on drinking. Some people believe that wine is a safe factor for cardiovascular disease, so it is recommended to drink regularly, but this view is biased because this view is not completely certain, and only a small amount of observational studies believe that it is beneficial to cardiovascular disease; wine damages the digestive system, especially the liver, and long-term drinking significantly increases the incidence of cirrhosis and cannot damage another important organ - the liver, because wine may be beneficial to cardiovascular. Therefore, most cardiovascular experts do not advocate alcohol consumption to prevent cardiovascular disease.
Diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia are currently incurable diseases. Relying on diet control alone does not make the indicators ideal. Therefore, standardized treatment should be continued if necessary, and do not think that no symptoms mean no disease. Preventing adverse events is our most important purpose.
6. Do not eat raw and cold food
Overeating raw and cold food can easily hinder the spleen yang, damage the stomach yang, and also hinder the outward delivery of yang energy. If the spleen yang is blocked, symptoms such as fatigue and cold limbs will appear. If the stomach yang is damaged, the stomach pain will appear. It will cause stomach pain and , which will worsen after eating cold foods, and symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea. If the yang energy is blocked from the external transmission, it will also show signs of fear of cold and coldness on the body surface, which can also affect the outflow of evil qi. The sweating method in traditional Chinese medicine is to use spicy and warm medicine to encourage the yang qi, causing the human body to sweat, so that the evil qi will go out with the yang qi, so that the disease will be cured.
