🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Are you experiencing frequent health warnings in summer—rising blood pressure, rapid breathing? Perhaps you haven’t mastered seasonal health strategies.
Yoga Therapy: Though seemingly simple stretching, yoga fully relaxes body and mind, providing mental space to alleviate restlessness caused by intense heat.
Technique: Sit in lotus position (or stand, hands clasped behind back), close eyes, focus mind, breathe deeply. Inhale slowly from 1 to 5, then exhale slowly—repeat at least three times.
Benefits: Deep breathing instantly calms the mind. When anxious, breathing becomes shallow, restricting oxygen flow and worsening anxiety. Deep breathing improves oxygen circulation.
Hypnosis Therapy: Allows full physical and mental relaxation, accessing subconscious mind to trace the root of inner agitation.
Technique: Close eyes and recall a time in life when you felt confident.
Benefits: Summer anxiety is worse than in other seasons. This therapy boosts confidence, helping break free from daily tension.
Eat Some “Bitterness”: Nutritionists suggest eating more bitter foods in summer—because bitterness is the natural enemy of heat.
The best heat-relieving bitter food is bitter melon. Can be eaten raw, stir-fried, or in soup—best when cooked just enough to retain its green color and texture. Wash, sprinkle salt and sesame oil, then toss—preserves nutrients. Alternatively, slice and brew as tea or extract juice—raw bitter melon juice allows rapid absorption of active compounds. To reduce bitterness, soak in salt water before eating—removes some bitterness and oxalic acid, preventing calcium absorption interference.
Beyond bitter melon, other bitter foods include almonds, bitter greens, kuding tea, celery, buckwheat, mustard greens, and evening primrose. Fresh celery leaves boiled in water or blanched then juiced offer similar heat-clearing benefits. Besides bitter foods, summer offers abundant fruits and vegetables—eat more sweet, refreshing fresh produce. Experts note that kale, cauliflower, watermelon, hawthorn, apples, and grapes are rich in minerals—especially calcium, magnesium, and silicon—with calming and heat-reducing effects. Thus, consume these regularly in summer.
Aromatherapy:
1. Lavender: Its soothing presence tames heat—lavender reduces inflammation, lowers heat, and alleviates mental tension. Plant lavender in your yard, add 8 spoons of lavender essential oil to bathwater, or place a few spoonfuls in your pillow—experience the breeze of summer sea, instantly dissolving anxiety.
2. Aromatic Massage: If heat causes mental unrest and headaches, aromatherapy massage helps. Essential oils of lemon verbena, chamomile, lavender, frankincense, bitter orange blossom, geranium, and sandalwood all relieve mental tension and anxiety. Mix these oils into massage oil and apply to body—gradually relaxing the mind.