Autumn is the season when the yang is gradually declining and the yin is gradually flourishing in nature. The general principle of autumn diet is to appropriately increase sour food, such as citrus, loquat, pineapple and other foods. Sour taste has the function of convergence, which can ensure that lung qi is not excessively divergent, thus playing the role of tonifying lung, while spicy taste has the function of divergence, which can release lung qi, so try to eat less spicy and irritating foods in autumn, such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers and so on.

Since autumn, the climate has gradually become dry, and autumn dryness is easy to invade lung yin, which easily leads to discomfort such as dry throat, cough and dry stool. Therefore, foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs are the first choice in autumn, such as pears, lilies, yams, tremella and honey. You can also eat some medicated diets that nourish the lung and yin, such as stewed Sydney with Chuanbei and lily tremella soup. In addition, the diet in autumn should be light. You can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, such as spinach, celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth, lotus root, carrot, apple, grapefruit, etc., and at the same time you can supplement enough vitamins and carotene.

In addition, when it is dry in autumn, we should also pay attention to hydrating the body, because a large part of the body's water is lost through evaporation from the skin, and the skin can easily become dry. Besides drinking plenty of water, drinking soup is also a good way to replenish water, such as drinking yam sparerib soup.