Under the influence of global warming, Taiwan’s summers are getting hotter and hotter every year, breaking new records for high temperatures. Not to mention going out to play, commuters and outdoor workers are often dizzy from the hot sun, so they hide in air-conditioned rooms and drink ice water. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, drinking ice water will make the body temperature drop, but not conducive to heat dissipation, the body temperature is lower than the room temperature, will feel hotter; stay in the air-conditioned room for a long time, easy to cause the body surface microvascular constriction and capillary closure, so that heat, sweat can not be smoothly discharged, may also lead to heat stroke. How to avoid heat stroke in general? If outdoor workers can’t drink ice water, how can they beat the heat?
Chinese medicine doctor Sheng-Pu Lee said that eating too much ice products can only get a short period of coolness. In fact, ice will make the gastrointestinal temperature drop, slowing down the speed of food fermentation; imagine that food is broken down and fermented into small molecules for cellular energy, once the gastrointestinal temperature drops, the speed of decomposition can not catch up with the speed of energy supply, the body does not have enough energy, which is the so-called qi and blood deficiency in Chinese medicine, and the nutrient molecules are cold or even condensed and cannot be supplied to the cells properly.
The human body is always in a state of heat dissipation, and sweating is a normal way to dissipate heat, sweat will lubricate the skin and form a protective effect on the skin surface. Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee explained that once drinking ice water, it will affect the heat dissipation effect, if the heat in the body does not dissipate, it will accumulate in the body, which is the so-called heat accumulation in Chinese medicine. In other words, when nutrients are broken down into energy, they are interfered with and cannot be broken down into molecular state, forming waste in the body, which will thicken the walls of the blood vessels and cause three highs or stones in the organs. When the heat is not discharged, it will cause headaches, dizziness, fever, back pain and other symptoms, is heat stroke.
Therefore, drinking ice water will not really eliminate the heat, but will cause the body to misunderstand the temperature as the arrival of winter, and begin to store energy, accumulate heat does not go away. Dr. Sheng-Pu Lee reminded that the correct way to beat the heat should be to drink room temperature or warm water, so that the body can metabolize normally and sweat normally to dissipate heat so as not to feel hotter. If you really can’t stand it, you can try to cool down from the outside, such as taking a cold shower or wiping your body with a cold water towel.
Originally from: Healthnews.com.tw
Healthnews/ Reporter Xin-Ying Huang reports 2015/08/14
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