will usher in the Frost Descent solar term on October 23 this year. Frostfall is the last solar term in autumn and the transition from autumn to winter. "HTML April Order 72 Collection of Interpretations " says: "In the middle of September, the air is solemn and condensed, and the dew turns into frost." At this time, it was late autumn, and the temperature dropped, and the dew condensed into frost, falling on the surface or vegetation, which can be said to have fallen frost.
During the frost season, some areas of my country have the custom of eating persimmons. There is a health-preserving proverb in Fujian, Quanzhou, etc. "If you eat persimmons during frost, you won't have a runny nose" and "If you eat persimmons during frost, you won't catch a cold in winter."
Associate Professor Tan Chao, Department of Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that there is a record in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Permaceutical is the fruit of the spleen, lungs, and blood. Its tastes sweet and has a flat qi, and is astringent in nature and can be collected, so it has the effect of strengthening the spleen and astringing the intestines and treating cough and stopping bleeding."
Persimmons "There are five functions of using medicine. It is to clear heat, tonic, detoxify, moisten dryness, and relieve pain. It is cool when it is born, so it can clear heat; it is warm when it is cooked, so it can replenish the middle; it is sweet and calm, so it can detoxify; it is soft and moisturizes the worm, so it can moisten dryness; it can relieve urgency, so it can stop the pain of heart and abdomen muscles; it can cause the middle, so it can harmonize all medicines, and it works the same as licorice . "According to the experience of Li Shizhen , eating persimmons during the Frost Descendant solar term can not only taste fresh and satisfy the taste, but also be beneficial to the body.
But it should be noted that persimmons are cold in nature. Modern research shows that they contain tannin , which has astringent effect and can cause constipation. They are prone to combined with iron and protein to cause adverse reactions. Therefore, constipation patients fast; they should not eat with iron-containing foods such as animal blood and liver to avoid affecting the body's absorption of iron; they should not eat with foods with high protein content like crabs, etc., to avoid causing abdominal pain and stomach stones.
During the frost season, how can you maintain health in addition to eating persimmons? Associate Professor Tan Chao, Department of Internal Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, gave a detailed introduction.
Frost Descent and Medicinal Diet
There is a folk saying, "It is better to supplement the frost Descent than to supplement it in one year." The weather gradually becomes cold during the Frost Descent solar term, and the dew condenses into frost. It is transitioning towards winter, which is also a good time to supplement and gain weight in autumn.
Traditional Chinese medicine treatment follows the principle of "replenish the deficiency, and benefit the damage", and avoid supplementing without illness; or excessive supplementing or excessive supplementing without distinction; or dispose of medicinal materials indiscriminately; or blindly pursue expensive ingredients, so the frost should be supplemented in moderation. For deficiency syndrome, you should distinguish Qi deficiency , Blood deficiency , Yin deficiency , and Yang deficiency . Only by taking the right medicine can you nourish the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive. You should also pay attention to taking appropriate amounts of supplementation and avoiding using medicine instead of food. Medicine is worse than food supplementation.
Frost Descent Guide and scraping
Gold and water are combined. Practice the two-hand foot climbing style
During the frost Descent, the sky is getting colder, frost begins to fall, the autumn wind is fast, and the leaves are yellow. The yang energy of nature gradually converges and hides. For the human body, metal and water are generated, and the focus of guidance, health preservation and health care is gradually added to the kidney practice from the lungs to correspond to the energy of heaven and earth.
Associate Professor Tan Chao suggests that you can do two-hand foot climbing exercises. When you climb your feet with your hands (yang) and feet (yin) and yin and yang intersect, and the heart and kidneys complement each other; when you lean over and pull your spine and stretch your waist and legs, you can soften your tendons, strengthen your bones, strengthen your waist, nourish your kidneys, and benefit your liver, and delay aging. Baduan Jin 's two-hand climbing feet to strengthen the kidney and waist, Shaolin Yijin Jing 's tail-falling posture, twelve-stage Jin 's leaning foot climbing style, etc. are all similar techniques, and can be studied together.
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frost cools down and dryness can easily damage the lungs and cause cough. Associate Professor Tan Chao recommends an acupoint with good cough-relieving effect - "Kongzui acupoint". The Kongzui point is located on the inner side of the forearm and 7 inches above the horizontal line of the wrist. It is the Xi point of the Taiyin lung meridian of , and Xi treats acute diseases. You can use two horizontal fingers to continuously tap the Kongzui acupoint 200-300 times, or scrape locally at the Kongzui acupoint to achieve the purpose of unblocking meridians and relieving cough.
Frost Descent Prevention of Diseases
1, Preventing Sadness
During the Frost Descent, the autumn wind is bleak, everything is depressed, and people are easily sad. Chen Zhi, a health preservationist in the Song Dynasty, once said: "In autumn, the wind and rain are terrible, and the elderly are often sad. If the colors are not harmonious, they must be tempted and tempted. When the time is used, they will forget their worries and thoughts."
"Huangdi Neijing·Suwen·Four Qishuo Dashu" also says: "Make the ambitions peaceful and relieve the punishment of autumn. Concentrate the spirits and calm the autumn air. No external ambitions, so that the lung air is clear. This is the response of autumn air and the way to nourish and harvest."
It can be seen that in autumn, you should know how to adjust your emotions, maintain a peaceful and optimistic attitude, not be happy with things, not be sad with yourself, and an optimistic and open-minded attitude towards life will help alleviate the "sad autumn" mood and reduce the depression caused by the solemn and murderous aura of frost.
2, prevent autumn dryness
The lungs are delicate organs, like moisturize and hate dryness, and the lungs also control the qi of the whole body, control breathing, open the orifices in the nose, combine with the skin and fur, and are in the outer part and inside with the large intestine . Dryness is the main energy of autumn, and when the Frost Descends solar term becomes cool and dry. Therefore, frost falls in late autumn, and it is easy to cause cough , chronic bronchitis , bronchial asthma is likely to recur or worsen at this time.
Associate Professor Tan Chao recommended dietary therapy recipe "Lily Horseshoe Peach Lotus Lotus Juice" to prevent and treat autumn dryness: Lily 30 grams, water chestnut ( Horseshoe ), pear juice, and lotus root, wash and squeeze juice, remove residue, and adjust appropriate amount of honey. After drinking, you can promote saliva to prevent autumn dryness.
3, Anti-arthritis
The arrival of frost means that winter is about to begin. At this time, the weather is damp and cold, which can easily damage joints and even cause rheumatism.
Associate Professor Tan Chao reminds you that you should pay attention to wearing long clothes and trousers in time. You can do exercises from top to bottom, from the end of your fingers to the wrists and shoulders, with your shoulders as the center points, and use your shoulders to perform front and back shoulder exercises. You can also exercise your spine, stretch from the cervical vertebra to the lumbar vertebra, and then do joint movements of the lower limbs. You can use the method of flexion, stretching, and turning the joints to move.
4, prevent stomach pain diarrhea
After the weather turns cold, the stomach is prone to cold, causing spasms, stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting; coldness in the abdomen, it is prone to abdominal pain and diarrhea, especially for those who are thin. Because subcutaneous fat is thin, you should pay more attention to keeping your stomach warm.
As the saying goes, "One autumn rain and one cold, ten autumn rains should wear cotton." You should add clothes in time as the weather changes. You should cover your quilt when sleeping at night to prevent the stomach and abdomen from catching a cold and causing the disease to occur. Strengthen physical exercise, improve blood circulation of gastrointestinal tract, enhance human body quality, improve the body's ability to adapt to weather changes, thereby reducing the incidence of diseases.
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Hunan Medical Chat Special Author: First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Tan Chao
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