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Four kinds of food are essential to health.
1, moistening dryness, lotus root is preferred.

Lotus is a treasure, and autumn lotus root is the most helpful.

After beginning of autumn, the air was dry and people were easily excited. At this time, you should eat more foods that clear your heart and moisten dryness to eliminate autumn dryness, such as pears, sugar cane, tremella, chrysanthemum, duck meat, rabbit meat and so on. Lotus root is the first choice.

The edible method of lotus root is "raw and cooked". As a raw fruit, it tastes sweet and cool into the lungs; Steamed with glutinous rice and honey, it is tender and transparent, soft and moist, and it is a delicious side dish in autumn; Pork ribs soup, invigorating spleen and appetizing, is nutritious and suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to nourish and preserve health.

2, lung, almond is the first choice.

Radish, almond, dried ginger and pear are effective in treating cough and do not seek medical advice.

Among them, almonds are the best in this season. There are two kinds of almonds: sweet almond and bitter almond. Sweet almond has a strong effect of nourishing and benefiting lung, and can relieve dry cough without phlegm and chronic cough due to lung deficiency.

Almonds and coix seed are best cooked together according to the ratio of 1: 5, and drunk when warm. Pork lung stew soup also has nourishing and relieving effects. Of course, roasted almonds as snacks can also be eaten properly.

3, nourishing yin, honey is the first choice

Salt water in the morning and honey soup in the evening.

In autumn, the primary task is to maintain the Yin Qi in the body. There are also many foods that nourish yin, such as loach, sesame, walnut, glutinous rice, milk, peanuts, fresh yam, ginkgo, pears, red dates and so on. Honey is the most representative.

Honey is sweet and flat. It has been used as food and medicine since ancient times. Has the effects of clearing away heat, invigorating middle warmer, moistening dryness, removing toxic substances and relieving pain. It is a nourishing product suitable for all ages. It is rich in glucose and fructose that can be directly absorbed by the human body, as well as vitamins, minerals, amino acids and bioactive enzymes, and has almost all the nutrients in vegetables. Regular consumption is helpful to tonify the spleen and stomach, dispel dryness and moisten intestines, relieve pain and detoxify, resist bacteria and diminish inflammation, and whiten and beautify the face.

4, more acid, grapes are the first choice.

Honey moistens intestines and prolongs life, and grapes add color and youth.

More acid in autumn means eating more sour fruits, such as oranges, hawthorn and green apples, and eating less sweet watermelons and melons.

Grape is a fresh fruit in season, which is flat in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of replenishing qi and blood, benefiting liver and kidney, promoting fluid production and strengthening tendons, and is called "plant milk". A variety of fruit acids in grapes are helpful for digestion, health and stomach strengthening; Grape is the fruit with the most complex iron element, and with vitamin B 12, it is a nutritious food for anemia patients. Flavonoids contained in it are powerful antioxidants, which can scavenge free radicals in the body and resist aging. Resveratrol, a trace element contained in grape skin, can prevent cancer cells from spreading.