Today Autumnal Equinox . After the autumnal Equinox, the rainy season in most parts of the country will gradually end and will enter a climate characteristic mainly drier. "The Spring and Autumn Festival" records that "the autumnal equinox is half of yin and yang, so day and night are even while cold and heat are even." Astronomy regards the autumnal equinox as the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. The Autumnal Equinox health should adhere to the balance of yin and yang, and do "carefully observe where yin and yang are in order to maintain a balance."
Ancient Chinese divided the Autumnal Equinox into three phases: "One time the thunder begins to collect the sound; the second time the hibernox is hibernox; the third time the water begins to dry up." Today, the editor will use these three phases to summarize the Autumnal Equinox health of traditional Chinese medicine~
One time the thunder begins to collect the sound
[Prevent cool and dry, more moisturizing]
After the Autumnal Equinox, cool and dry main qi, and health should be paid attention to prevent cool and dryness and more moisturizing. Cold and dry cough is a dry and cold type. It is afraid of cold when it occurs, and the fever is very mild, with headache, nasal congestion, itchy or dry throat, unpleasant cough and phlegm, dry mouth and lips, thin white tongue coating, dry and dry, cool and dry. Although it is not a serious disease, if not prevented and treated in time, the disease will go deeper and the disease will worsen.
It is necessary to prevent autumn dryness from damaging the lungs. From the dietary aspect, it should be mainly clean and warm, and eat more foods such as sesame and , walnuts, glutinous rice, honey, dairy, pears, sugarcane, etc. It can nourish yin, moisten the lungs and nourish blood. Due to the dry climate, you should try to eat less spicy foods, such as onion, garlic, ginger, fennel, , chili, etc., and eat more, such as citrus, hawthorn, apples, pears, grapes and other fresh fruits, so as to achieve "less spicy and more sour". You can also drink more warm water, light tea, soy milk, dairy products, juice and other beverages to achieve the purpose of benefiting the stomach and promoting salivation. The elderly have weak constitution and can eat porridge in the morning, such as Tremella rock sugar glutinous rice porridge, almond Sichuan Bei glutinous rice porridge, etc.
Anti-cooling and dry dietary therapy recipe
Remove the cool dry tea
Method: 30 grams of hawthorn or 15 grams of dry product, wash and slice, place it in a cup to brew with boiling water, cover and simmer for a while.
典: Hawthorn is slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste, strengthens the spleen and liver, can nourish the stomach and digest food, refresh the mind and brain, and softens blood vessels. Suitable for coronary heart disease , hypertension , hyperlipidemia, abdominal distension, incomplete flesh accumulation, inability to eat stagnation, abdominal pain and diarrhea, enteritis dysentery.
Second-phase hibernating insects are
[ adapt to cold and warm, protect the intestines and intestines and stomach ]
5 days after the autumnal equinox, insects can enter the ground wind competition nest and prepare to hibernate, but humans must learn to adapt to cold and warmth. The climate gradually cools after the autumnal equinox, which is the frequent season for stomach diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the gastrointestinal tract is very sensitive to the stimulation of cold. If the protection is improper and the diet and life are not paid attention to, it will cause gastrointestinal diseases and cause acid reflux, stomach bloating, diarrhea, abdominal pain, etc., or worsen the original stomach disease. Therefore, people with chronic gastritis should pay special attention to keeping their stomach warm, add clothes appropriately, and cover them with a quilt when sleeping at night to prevent the abdomen from catching a cold, causing stomach pain and recurrence of old diseases.
Patients with stomach disease should eat warm, soft, light, vegetarian and fresh in autumn, and make regular and regular quantities, eat less and more meals, so that food and gastric acid are often present in the stomach to neutralize, thereby preventing gastric acid from eroding the gastric mucosa. Patients with stomach problems should pay attention to avoid eating foods that are too cold, too hot, too hard, too spicy, or too sticky. They should avoid overeating, quit smoking and alcohol.
gastrointestinal dietary therapy recipe
orange peel porridge
Method: Take 50 grams of orange peel and 100 grams of japonica rice, grind the orange peel and set aside, wash the japonica rice and put it in a pot, add water and boil until the porridge is ready, add the orange peel and cook for another 10 minutes, once a day.
Effect: Orange peel can regulate qi and stomach, strengthen the spleen and help the movement, and japonica rice replenishes qi and strengthens the spleen. It is a recipe for regulating qi and spleen. It is suitable for those with spleen and stomach stagnation, stomach and abdominal distension, indigestion, and not thinking about diet.
The third season of water begins to dry up
[Replenish more water, nourish the lungs]
The water in spring and summer will dry up in autumn and winter, but the human body cannot "dry up". The climate in autumn is dry, causing the human body to lose a lot of moisture.To make up for these losses in a timely manner, drink at least 500 ml of more water every day than in other seasons to maintain normal humidity in the lungs and respiratory tract.
The "lung" in traditional Chinese medicine is still different from the "lung" in Western medicine. The lungs referred to in traditional Chinese medicine do not only refer to an organ. For example, traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the lungs are responsible for water circulation". In layman's terms, it means that lung qi has the function of promoting and regulating the distribution and excretion of water throughout the body. The "moisturizing" here is commonly understood as "moisturizing". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lungs are delicate organs, and moistening the lungs can help the lungs to maintain health. Therefore, eating more foods such as lily , pears, yam , white radish, water chestnuts and other hydrating lungs in autumn is very helpful for the health of the body.
Lung-nourishing dietary therapy recipe
Five Juice Drink
Method: Peel pear, raw lotus root, sugarcane, water chestnut, add Ophiopogon japonicus, and 5 ingredients and other portions to squeeze juice together.
一生活: Eating pears to clear lungs and moisturize dryness, eating lotus roots to moisturize dryness, sugarcane nourishes yin, moisturizes dryness, and nourishes liquid, water chestnuts to nourish yin and moisturizes the lungs, Ophiopogon japonicus clears lungs and eliminates phlegm, clears the heart and eliminates irritability. Four of them are ingredients, so this bowl of five juice drink tastes very good.
