Lung belongs to gold, which has the function of clearing nose and promoting qi circulation, and likes moistening dryness. The dry climate in autumn is easy to damage the yin and body fluid of the lungs. Common symptoms include dry nose and mouth, hoarseness, dry cough without phlegm, constipation, oliguria, dry skin and so on. Can induce or aggravate chronic pharyngitis, bronchitis, tuberculosis, pulmonary heart disease and so on. Therefore, the prevention and treatment of autumn dryness syndrome is of great significance to lung health care.
Traditional Chinese medicine has the principle of "moistening dryness", and commonly used products that nourish yin and moisten the lungs can prevent autumn dryness. These methods are as follows:
Comply with the four seasons and pay attention to life adjustment.
To adapt to the four seasons, for autumn dryness, keep the indoor humidity moist and dry; At the same time, drink plenty of water, eat juicy fruits and vegetables to supplement water and vitamins, and eat less spicy fried food to prevent body fluids from being damaged by heat.
Eat autumn pears to prevent autumn dryness.
Autumn is the harvest season of pears. At this time, the pear juice is full, sweet and delicious. They have the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, quenching thirst, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and have a good effect on dry mouth, itchy throat, hoarseness, dry cough and constipation caused by autumn dryness. Commonly used are Yali pear, Sydney and Dongguo pear. We want to introduce the following usage:
(1) Qiuli rock sugar beverage: take 250g of Qiuli, 30g of rock sugar, and add water1000ml. Drinking boiled water together can promote fluid production to quench thirst and prevent autumn dryness.
(2) Qiuli Loquat Lugen Decoction: Take 250g of Qiuli, 50g of Loquat, 30g of Phragmites communis, 65438 05g of Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch, add 65438 0000ml of water, and decoct, with 65438 000ml each time, 2-3 times a day. It can be used for dry mouth and nose, dry throat, itching, dry cough and scanty phlegm caused by autumn dryness.
(3) Autumn pear raw japonica rice porridge: take autumn pear 250g, peanut 50g, japonica rice 100g. Wash peanuts and japonica rice, add appropriate amount of water and cook together. After boiling, cook porridge with slow fire. It is especially suitable for people with yin deficiency, dryness-heat and deficiency of both spleen and lung.
Lily is a good product for nourishing lung and moistening dryness.
Dryness is the most likely to damage the lungs and easily cause diseases such as yin deficiency and lung dryness. Lily is sweet, slightly cold, and has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening lung. It is often used for symptoms such as mouth and nose cracking, dry cough and less phlegm caused by yin deficiency and lung dryness, and also has good curative effect on chronic bronchitis, repeated colds, tuberculosis and pulmonary heart disease. It is a good product for nourishing lung and moistening dryness, and preventing and treating various chronic diseases. Its usage is as follows:
(1) Cooking porridge: Cooking porridge with lily is the most convenient lung health care method. Break the fresh lily into petals and wash it with clear water for later use. Wash rice, glutinous rice and millet, add appropriate amount of water and boil for 20 minutes, then add lily and cook for 10 minute. You can also add or subtract porridge according to different physique and symptoms, which is convenient to eat. If you add sweet almonds, you can moisten your lungs and relieve cough; Adding tremella and honey can moisten the lungs and reduce fire; Adding lotus seeds and longan pulp can nourish the heart and soothe the nerves; Increasing jujube can strengthen the spleen and replenish blood; Adding Lycium barbarum can benefit lung and kidney. In short, drinking lily porridge regularly can not only benefit the lungs and moisten dryness, but also improve the body's anti-fatigue ability, which has a good preventive effect on many diseases.
(2) Stir-frying: Lily is as white as jade and consists of many scales and petals, which means "a hundred years of harmony". It is rich in starch, protein, alkaloids and vitamins. It is recognized as a good tonic at home and abroad, an indispensable dish on the table, and has a good health care function. For example, celery fried with lily can nourish the heart and lungs, clear the liver and improve eyesight.
(3) Medicine: Lily has a long history of medicine, which can be used alone or in combination according to syndrome differentiation. For example, the famous Lily solid gold soup, gold is lung, which means tonifying lung. Medicinal lily is the monarch medicine, nourishing yin and moistening dryness; Nourishing yin, moistening dryness and nourishing blood with Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Radix Paeoniae and Radix Angelicae Sinensis; Reduce lung qi with platycodon grandiflorum; Licorice. It can be used to reconcile various drugs and form a famous prescription for nourishing yin and moistening lung, benefiting qi and tonifying lung. Can be used for treating chronic lung diseases such as yin deficiency and lung dryness, and chronic hemoptysis such as chronic bronchitis and pulmonary tuberculosis.