Keep heatstroke medicine on hand around the Summer Solstice
Around the Summer Solstice, temperatures are high and rainfall is abundant across the country, and crops grow vigorously. After the Summer Solstice, the hottest period of the year is about to arrive. The function of the human gastrointestinal tract is stimulated by summer heat, causing its function to relatively weaken, making one prone to discomforts such as a heavy head, fatigue, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and loss of appetite. It can even lead to heatstroke, harming one's health.
In hot weather, try to avoid outdoor work or activities in strong sunlight, especially during the high-temperature period in the afternoon and for the elderly, weak, sick, and young. When engaging in outdoor work or activities, avoid prolonged exposure to the sun and take sun protection measures: wear light-colored or plain-colored clothing, wear a sun hat, straw hat, or use a sunshade; drink plenty of water, especially salt water, and carry heatstroke medicine with you, such as: Ren Dan, Qing Liang You, Feng Jing Jing, etc. In high-temperature workplaces, companies must take effective heatstroke prevention and cooling measures, strengthen the promotion of heatstroke prevention and cooling knowledge among workers, reasonably schedule work times to avoid outdoor work during high-temperature periods, and reduce labor intensity. You can also adjust your diet by drinking mung bean soup. Congee made with lotus seeds, mint, lotus leaves, japonica rice, and rock sugar is not only fragrant and delicious but also an excellent remedy for clearing heat and relieving summer heat, which can effectively prevent heatstroke and avoid heatstroke. If heatstroke occurs, the patient should be moved to a cool, ventilated place, laid down to rest, their clothing buttons should be undone, a cold towel should be applied to the patient's head and neck, and then they should be sent to the hospital for treatment.
Keep heatstroke medicine on hand around the Summer Solstice
The scorching heat of midsummer often makes people lose their appetite and sleep poorly, leading to symptoms such as dizziness, headache, fatigue, and even nausea and vomiting. To get through the summer safely, it is very necessary for families to prepare some heatstroke medicine. These medicines include:
Honeysuckle: Has effects such as removing summer heat, clearing heat, detoxifying, and stopping diarrhea. Can be steeped in boiling water as a tea substitute.
Chrysanthemum: Has effects such as relieving summer heat, calming the liver, and promoting urination. Especially suitable for patients with high blood pressure. Can be steeped in boiling water as a tea substitute.
Lotus leaf: Suitable for those with irritability, chest tightness, dizziness, and headache caused by heatstroke. Especially suitable for patients with high blood pressure. Can be steeped in boiling water as a tea substitute.
Ren Dan: Can clear summer heat and remove dampness. It is mainly used for dizziness, stuffiness in the chest, abdominal pain, and diarrhea caused by heatstroke and heat. It can also be used for motion sickness and seasickness, as well as for acclimatization.
Shi Di Shui: Can clear summer heat and dispel cold. Suitable for dizziness, nausea, vomiting, chest tightness, diarrhea and other symptoms caused by heatstroke.
Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui: Can clear summer heat and release the exterior. Suitable for those with prominent dizziness, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea caused by cold during summer days.
Qing Liang You: Can clear summer heat and detoxify. Can treat dizziness and headache caused by summer heat, or diarrhea caused by overindulgence in coolness.
Wu Ji Dan: Can clear heat and remove summer heat, calm the mind, and stop vomiting.
Bi Wen San: A good medicine for preventing heatstroke and relieving fever. Can remove summer heat, transform turbidity, aromatically open the orifices, and relieve pain.
Often drink cooling beverages. To prevent heatstroke, besides paying attention to your physical condition, environment, diet, and keeping some heatstroke medicines like Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui, Shi Di Shui, and Ren Dan on hand, drinking more cooling drinks is also one of the best ways to prevent heatstroke.
The following are several cooling drinks:
1. Hawthorn Soup. Boil 100g of hawthorn slices and 50g of sour plums in 3.5kg of water until soft. Add 100g of white chrysanthemum, bring to a boil and remove. Then add an appropriate amount of sugar and let it cool before drinking.
2. Iced Watermelon Dew. Peel and seed the watermelon, cut the flesh into cubes, and pour it into a basin with its juice to chill. Then, boil an appropriate amount of rock sugar and white sugar with water, skim off the foam, and refrigerate. When eating, pour the watermelon cubes into the chilled sugar water.
3. Mung Bean and Sour Plum Soup. Boil 150g of mung beans and 100g of sour plums in water until soft, add an appropriate amount of sugar, and let it cool before drinking.
4. Honeysuckle (or Chrysanthemum) Soup. Use 30g of honeysuckle (or chrysanthemum), add an appropriate amount of sugar, steep in boiling water, and drink when cooled.
5. Watermelon Rind Soup. Wash the watermelon, cut off the thin green rind, simmer in water for 30 minutes, remove the dregs, add an appropriate amount of sugar, and drink when cooled.
6. Coconut Milk and Tremella Soup. Wash 30g of tremella fungus, soak it in warm water until soft, remove the hard skin. Boil with 125g of coconut milk, rock sugar, and an appropriate amount of water until it boils.
Other summer heatstroke prevention tips
1. Eat smaller, more frequent meals: The more you eat in one meal, the more metabolic heat your body will produce to digest that food. Pay special attention to eating less high-protein food, as it produces particularly high metabolic heat.
2. Eat spicy food: Doctors believe that although eating these things in the hot weather is unimaginable, spicy food can stimulate the heat receptors in the mouth, improve blood circulation, and cause excessive sweating, which helps lower body temperature.
3. Take a warm water shower: It is best to take a shower or bath with warm water slightly lower than body temperature, especially before bedtime.
4. Drink plenty of water: Doctors recommend drinking less alcohol and more water, as alcohol can lead to dehydration. Mineral water or low-sugar soda are better choices.
5. Avoid strenuous exercise: Strenuous activities will activate the body's energy and increase internal temperature.
6. Use ice packs: Reusable ice packs are a great tool for lowering skin temperature; the pre-filled liquid has a cooling effect.
7. Choose the right pillow: Use a feather or down pillow, preferably with a cotton pillowcase, as synthetic fiber pillowcases will accumulate heat.
8. Drink chrysanthemum tea: Chrysanthemum tea can cool you down and refresh your mind.
9. Rinse wrists with cool water: Every few hours, rinse your wrists with tap water for 5 seconds, because the wrist is where arteries pass, which can lower blood temperature.