1, how to maintain health in autumn
1, reasonable diet, preventing dryness and protecting yin, nourishing yang and moistening lung are the criteria.
Autumn diet should be light, eat less fried things and eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. Vegetables should choose Chinese cabbage, spinach, wax gourd, cucumber and tremella. Meat can be eaten rabbit, duck, herring, etc. ; Eat more sour food, such as oranges and hawthorn. Drink plenty of water, eat carrots, lotus roots, bananas, pears, honey and other foods that moisten the lungs and promote fluid production, nourish yin and clear dryness; Try to eat less or not to eat hot and dry products such as onions, ginger, garlic, peppers, liquor, and fried and greasy things.
Old people with weak constitution and weak spleen and stomach and patients with chronic diseases can mainly eat porridge in the morning, such as lily lotus seed porridge, tremella borneol porridge, black sesame porridge, etc., and eat more nourishing products such as red dates, lotus seeds, lilies, medlar, etc., so as to strengthen the body, get rid of diseases and prolong life, but they can't eat big fish and big meat, and melons and fruits can't overeat, so as not to hurt the stomach.
In addition, we should pay special attention to clean diet, protect the spleen and stomach, eat more warm foods, and control cold foods and cold drinks to avoid diseases such as enteritis and dysentery.
2. Take an active part in physical exercise and keep healthy.
Autumn is the golden season for outdoor activities. In this season, the elderly must strengthen physical exercise, which is the most active method in autumn health care. Go to bed early and get up early in autumn and take an active part in physical exercise after getting up in the morning. You can choose mountain climbing, jogging, brisk walking, cold water bath and other exercise programs.
The dry climate in autumn and the large temperature difference between morning and evening are favorable conditions for the reproduction and spread of some bacteria and viruses. With the dry dust, some bacteria and viruses fly in the air, which often causes the spread of respiratory diseases, which is the high season of chronic bronchitis and asthma. Therefore, while participating in physical exercise, the elderly should strengthen their warmth and do a good job in prevention.
3. Wear appropriate clothes and beware of catching cold.
The temperature drops gradually in autumn, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large; In this season, the elderly should not only pay attention to cold and warmth, but also not add clothes too early; In this season, as long as it is not too cold, we should try our best to keep our bodies cool, get exercise and have the ability to resist the cold.
However, in the autumn season, the climate is changeable, so the elderly should adapt to the climate change, pay proper attention to keep warm, prevent colds and respiratory diseases, and change clothes in time according to the weather conditions, so as to prevent cold and keep warm, prevent diseases and protect health.
4. Stay optimistic and rest your mind.
Autumn is a good time for everything to mature; But autumn is also the season when everything gradually withers and presents a scene of decline. At this time, festivals are most likely to cause sadness such as decline and decadence. Therefore, we should pay attention to adjust our emotions, learn to adjust ourselves, remain optimistic, maintain inner peace, and appropriately extend our sleep time at night. You can often chat with others and family members, or go for a walk in the park, watch movies and TV properly, or plant flowers and raise fish, all of which are conducive to self-cultivation and cultivate sentiment.
5. Autumn diet is learned.
Autumn dryness hurts the lungs, so eat less irritating food: in autumn, the air is crisp, the air is dry and the humidity is low, and people are prone to symptoms such as dry throat and dry cough, which is caused by dryness and evil spirits hurting the lungs. At this time, you should eat less spicy food, such as onion, ginger, pepper, pepper, etc., to prevent pungent warming and heat, and aggravate the symptoms of lung dryness.
Lung dryness hurts liver and eats acid: from the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine, lung belongs to gold, liver belongs to wood, and Wang Jin can resist wood and damage liver wood. Therefore, we should eat sour food properly, because "acid entering the liver" can strengthen the liver and prevent lung qi from damaging the liver. Sour food can inhibit liver qi and protect the liver, but it should not be overdone. Because many acidic foods, such as vinegar and ebony, will irritate the stomach and easily get diseases such as gastric ulcer and gastritis, which is not good for the health.
Autumn melons spoil the stomach and eat less cold: many people have this feeling. Eating fruit in autumn will spoil your stomach if you are not careful, which is related to the climate in autumn. It's cold in autumn, the temperature drops, and the spleen and stomach are yang-deficient. Eating more fruits and vegetables with yin and cold will naturally make things worse, leading to insufficient yang and diarrhea and abdominal pain. So don't eat too cold food in autumn, protect the stomach and lungs.
Drinking water in moderation is the most important thing: drink more water in summer and dry season in autumn. Proper drinking water is an indispensable maintenance measure for moistening and preventing dryness in autumn. A small amount of water should be drunk frequently, not binge drinking. Drinking a lot of water at a time will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract and cause discomfort. Only a small amount of slow drinking can make the mouth, nose, pharynx, larynx, esophagus and even trachea get more moisture.
Nourishing yin and benefiting qi is the key: for middle-aged and elderly people, the most important thing in autumn is nourishing yin and benefiting qi. Nourishing yin can prevent lung dryness, benefiting qi can warm lung qi and encourage Yang Qi, so we should eat more yam, lily, tremella, pig's trotters, lotus seeds, lotus roots, pears, medlar and other foods in autumn to spend the autumn.
6. Pay more attention to scientific naps in autumn.
As the saying goes, "spring is lacking, autumn is sleepy, and summer is a nap." In autumn, people are easily sleepy. Although they have a lot of sleep time, they still yawn and feel sleepy during the day. Experts suggest that taking a nap in autumn can relieve the cardiovascular system and reduce the tension of the human body.
2. What if autumn is missing?
Mental conditioning: be calm inside, feel at ease and avoid being sad. Even if you encounter sad things, you should take the initiative to solve them to avoid cold air, and at the same time, you should converge to adapt to the calm air in autumn.
Life recuperation: In autumn, we should start to "go to bed early and get up early, and have fun with chickens". Going to bed early conforms to the convergence of yang, and getting up early stretches lung qi to prevent excessive convergence. Although there is a cool breeze in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is changeable. Even in the same area, there will be a situation of "four seasons in one day and different days in ten miles". Therefore, it is not advisable to wear too many clothes, otherwise it will affect the adaptability of the body to the cold climate, and it is easy to catch a cold in bad weather.
Diet conditioning: Autumn harvest is appropriate, try to eat less spicy products such as onions and ginger, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables. Dry qi in autumn is in season, which is easy to hurt body fluids. Diet should nourish yin and moisten lungs. "Diet to Start" says: "Autumn is dry, so you should eat hemp to moisten it, but not drink cold". I also advocate eating porridge in autumn. The main ingredients of porridge, such as rice and glutinous rice, can strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish middle qi and prevent autumn dryness, such as lotus seed and lily pot, tremella, medlar, lotus seed and jujube soup, and barley water chestnut porridge, etc., which are all suitable. Nourishing yin and moistening dryness. In short, you can eat some soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, loquat, pineapple and dairy products in autumn, which will benefit your stomach and promote fluid production. From the health point of view, we should eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs, such as pears, longan, lilies, sugar cane, taro, taro, radish, tremella, candied dates and so on. In addition, porridge is also suitable for drinking in the Millennium. In addition, when the weather turns cold in the Millennium, watermelons and cold drinks can't be eaten casually. People with a history of asthma should eat less or no fish, shrimp and seafood at this time.
Exercise aftercare: Autumn is a good time for all kinds of sports, and everyone can choose different sports according to their own specific conditions. The climate changes greatly in autumn, so we should pay attention to cold protection and warmth. The so-called "covering spring and freezing autumn" also has certain scientific significance. Young people who often live in office buildings and are extremely uncomfortable without air conditioning should also reduce air conditioning at the moment and take more physical exercise to make their stiff bodies stretch in summer.
Acupoint conditioning: moisten the lungs in autumn, and the lungs belong to gold. Therefore, the large intestine meridian and lung meridian are in the most prosperous state. From the perspective of the five elements, Wang Jin ke mu, wood governs the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to protecting the spleen and stomach and strengthening the functions of the gallbladder and liver meridians in autumn. Moxibustion with moxa sticks can be used at Bailu Solar Term, Qumen, Xiawan, Zhangmen, Ququan, Yanglingquan and Hanging Bell.