Autumn is the most suitable tonic season for human body, which can reduce virus infection and prevent the recurrence of old diseases when winter comes. Autumn tonic should choose "anti-dry and not greasy" flat supplement. Foods with this function include water bamboo, pumpkin, lotus seeds, longan, black sesame, red dates, walnuts and so on. People with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion can take lotus seeds, yam, lentils and so on. In autumn, if you have "autumn dryness syndrome" such as taste and burning lips, you should choose food that nourishes and moistens dryness, and benefits the middle and qi. This kind of food has tremella, lily, etc., which can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, nourish the stomach and produce fluid. After the summer heat, the time series came to early autumn. Autumn is a cold season, which indicates the arrival of autumn. The almanac says, "Fighting refers to the beginning of autumn in the southwest, where everything is killed when it goes out of the ground. According to the instructions of autumn, the grain is ripe. " At this time, the longitude of the sun is 135 degrees. From this day on, the sky was crisp, the moon was bright and the wind was clear, and the temperature gradually dropped from hot. There is a saying, "It's cool in early autumn", that is to say, the beginning of autumn is the beginning of the cool season. However, due to China's vast territory and different latitudes and altitudes, it is practically impossible to enter the cool autumn in beginning of autumn at the same time. From the climate characteristics, beginning of autumn is called "autumn tiger", because of the residual temperature in midsummer and the scorching sun in autumn, especially around beginning of autumn, many areas are still in hot weather. Meteorological data show that this hot climate often lasts until the middle and late September, and the weather can really cool down.
Beginning of autumn is the beginning of autumn. "Guanzi" records: "Autumn begins in the shade, so everything is harvested." In autumn health care, Su Wen's theory of four seasons' spirits points out: "The man of four seasons' yin and yang is the root of all things, so saints raise yang in spring and summer and yin in autumn and winter to follow their roots, so they rise and fall with all things at the door of growth. If you go against its roots, you will break its roots and destroy its truth. " This is the purpose of the ancients to adjust the four seasons, warning people to understand the natural laws of Tibet in spring, summer, autumn and winter in order to adapt to the four seasons. In order to achieve the purpose of prolonging life, we must conform to it and follow it. The change of the whole nature is a gradual process. The climate in beginning of autumn is a transitional solar term from hot to cool, and it is also a period when the yang is gradually closing, the yin is gradually growing, and the yang is gradually becoming cloudy. It is also a season when everything is ripe and harvested, and it is also a long transition period for the metabolism of yin and yang in the human body. Therefore, keeping in good health in autumn, all spiritual feelings, diet, daily life and exercise are based on the principle of nourishing and harvesting. Specifically, in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the five elements of things (wood, fire, earth, gold and water) are classified and summarized: for example, the five tones of nature (horn, sign, palace, business and feather); Five flavors (sour, bitter, sweet, spicy and salty); Five colors (green, red, yellow, white and black); Five modernizations (birth, growth, culture, hiding and hiding); Five qi (wind, summer heat, dampness, dryness and cold); Five sides (east, south, middle, west and north); Five seasons (long spring and summer, long summer, autumn and winter). Five internal organs of human body (liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney); Six fu organs (gallbladder, small intestine, stomach, large intestine, bladder, triple energizer); Five senses (eyes, tongue, mouth, nose, ears); Five shapes (tendons, veins, meat, hair, bones); Five emotions (anger, joy, thinking, sadness, fear); Five tones (shouting, laughing, singing, crying, moaning).
It can be seen that autumn belongs to the lungs, and the lungs are sad (worried), and sorrow is easy to hurt the lungs. Lung-qi deficiency can reduce the body's tolerance to bad stimuli and easily lead to sadness and anxiety. Therefore, in self-care, we must not deviate from the laws of nature and follow the outline of the ancients, "make the mind calm, slow down the punishment in autumn, converge the air, and make autumn calm;" Without ambition, the lungs are clear, and this autumn gas should be the way to raise and collect. "
First, mental conditioning: achieve inner peace, mental peace, ease of mind, and avoid sadness. Even if you encounter sad things, you should take the initiative to resolve them to avoid cold air, and at the same time, you should converge to adapt to the calm air in autumn.
Second, the daily life is nursed back to health: beginning of autumn season is the time when the sky is crisp, so we should start to "lie down early and get up early, and have fun with chickens" in order to conform to the convergence of yang, get up early to stretch lung qi and prevent excessive convergence. Beginning of autumn is the season of early autumn, and the heat is not over. Although there is a cool breeze, 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 body's ability to adapt to the cold climate and it is easy to catch a cold.
Third, diet nursed back to health; Su Wen on the Method of Dirty Qi says: "The lung governs autumn ... the lung converges, and when eating acid, it is harvested urgently, supplemented with acid, and diarrhea". It can be seen that sour taste converges lung qi, while pungent taste diverges and clears lung. It should be harvested in autumn. Try to eat less irritating products such as onions and ginger, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables. In autumn, lung gold is smooth, but lung gold is too abundant, which hinders liver wood. Therefore, it is said in synopsis of the golden chamber that "you don't eat lungs in autumn" that dry air in autumn is in season, which is easy to hurt body fluids, so 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". There are even people who advocate eating raw porridge in autumn to nourish yin and moisten 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.
4. Exercise and recuperation: Entering autumn is a good opportunity for all kinds of exercises. Everyone can choose different sports according to their own specific situation. Here, I will introduce you to an autumn health exercise, that is, the "autumn breathing fitness method" in the Taoist Zang Zhouyu Classic. The specific method is: after washing in the morning, sit quietly indoors with your eyes closed, knock your teeth 36 times first, then stir with your tongue in your mouth until the liquid is in your mouth. When inhaling, lick the upper jaw with your tongue and inhale through your nose in order to send it to Tian Dan. Exhale slowly from your mouth. When you exhale, you should say the word silently, but don't make any noise. Repeat 30 times. Adhering to this work in autumn has the effect of protecting the lungs and strengthening the body. Raw porridge:
[Formula] 25g of Radix Rehmanniae, 75g of rice and a little sugar.
[Practice] Rehmannia glutinosa (fresh) is washed and chopped, and boiled with appropriate amount of clear water for about 30 minutes, then the decoction is decanted and decocted again, and the two decoctions are combined and concentrated to 100 ml for later use. Wash and cook rice porridge, add the juice of Radix Rehmanniae while it is hot, stir well and add some sugar to taste.
【 Efficacy 】 Nourishing yin and benefiting stomach, cooling blood and promoting fluid production. We can also cook for patients with tuberculosis and diabetes.
Polygonatum simmer elbow:
[Formula] 9 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, 9 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 5 jujubes, 750 grams of pork elbow, 0/5 grams of ginger/kloc-and appropriate amount of onion.
[Practice] Slice Polygonatum sibiricum, cut Codonopsis pilosula into short sections, wrap them in gauze bags and tie them up; Wash jujube for later use. Scrape the pig's elbow clean, blanch it in a boiling pot, and take it out for later use. Wash ginger and onion and pat well for later use.
Put the above food into a casserole, inject a proper amount of water, boil it with strong fire, skim off all floating foam, continue to simmer with slow fire until the juice is thick, take out the medicine bag, and put the elbow, soup and jujube into the bowl at the same time.
[Efficacy] Strengthen the spleen and moisten the lungs. Suitable for patients with spleen and stomach weakness, improper diet, cough due to lung deficiency, and weakness after illness.
Multicolored honey beads:
[Ingredients] Apple 1, pear 1, half pineapple, Myrica rubra 10, water chestnut 10, lemon 1, and appropriate amount of sugar.
[Practice] Wash and peel apples, pears and pineapples, dig them into round beads with a round bead spoon, wash and peel water chestnuts, and wash bayberry for later use. Add sugar to 50 ml of clear water, put it in a pot and heat it to dissolve. After cooling, add lemon juice, put five kinds of fruits into a favorite pattern, and pour sugar juice on the fruits when eating.
【 Efficacy 】 Promoting fluid production to quench thirst, harmonizing stomach and promoting digestion.
Pepper fish:
[Ingredients] 1 Yellow croaker, coriander, onion, ginger, pepper, yellow wine, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, fresh soup, white vinegar, salt and vegetable oil.
[Practice] Wash the yellow croaker and cut it into flower knife patterns for later use. Wash onion and ginger and shred. Heat the oil pan, fry the fish on both sides of the pan until they turn yellow, and take out and drain the oil; Put a little oil in the pot, heat it, stir-fry the pepper and shredded ginger in the pot, then add fresh soup, wine, salt and fish, cook until the fish is cooked, scoop it up and put it in a deep dish, sprinkle with shredded onion and shredded coriander; Boil the soup in the pot, add white vinegar, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil, stir well, and pour into the fish dish.
【 Efficacy 】 Spleen is used to stimulate appetite and fill lean qi. Diet is very important in keeping in good health, so what adjustments should we make in diet after beginning of autumn?
"Acidification" in diet.
In order to increase the function of the liver and resist the invasion of lung qi excess. The following foods are available:
1, Apple: Chinese medicine believes that apple has the functions of promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs, relieving annoyance, stimulating appetite and sobering up. , indigestion, asthma can be juiced to take.
Modern medicine believes that apples can also prevent and eliminate fatigue, and potassium in apples can combine with excess sodium in the body and be excreted. When eating too much salt, you can eat apples to help eliminate it, so eating apples or drinking apple juice is beneficial to patients with hypertension.
2, grapes: sweet and sour, sweet and sour fresh food, quenching thirst, appetizing, digestion, but people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more, eating more makes people diarrhea.
3, carambola: sweet, sour, flat, its fruit can quench thirst. If you suffer from wind-heat cough in autumn, you can wash the carambola and eat it fresh; If you suffer from heat and urine astringency, use 2 ~ 3 fresh carambola, wash, chop and mash it into juice, and take it with warm boiled water twice a day; If you have a sore throat, wash the fresh carambola and eat it raw, 2 ~ 3 times a day, 1 ~ 2 tablets each time. However, eating too much of this product is harmful to the stomach, especially for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
4, grapefruit: sour and cold, can eliminate abdominal distension, phlegm and cough, strengthen stomach and digestion, reduce swelling and relieve pain, suitable for stomach diseases, indigestion, chronic cough, phlegm and asthma. Grapefruit is famous for its rich vitamin C, which is beneficial to patients with cardiovascular diseases and obesity. Most of the organic acids contained in grapefruit are citric acid, which can eliminate human fatigue.
5. Lemon: It tastes extremely sour, and has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, dispelling summer heat and preventing miscarriage. Citric acid is named after the most organic acid in all kinds of fruits. Patients with hypertension and myocardial infarction often drink lemon drinks, which is of great benefit to improving symptoms.
6. Hawthorn: sour, sweet and warm, it has the functions of removing blood stasis, promoting digestion, resolving phlegm, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation, refreshing, clearing stomach, refreshing brain, preventing heatstroke and stimulating appetite. It has obvious curative effect on more than ten diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes.
According to the principle of "nourishing yin in autumn and winter" put forward in Huangdi Neijing.
In other words, eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten dryness to prevent autumn dryness from hurting yin. There are several diets to choose from:
1, Tremella fuciformis: Also known as Auricularia auricula, it is a valuable tonic. Contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, and has the effects of invigorating stomach, moistening lung, promoting fluid production, refreshing, nourishing stomach, invigorating qi, and strengthening brain. It is often used to treat fatigue cough, blood in sputum, weakness of the elderly, emaciation, loss of appetite and so on. Compared with auricularia auricula, it is cooler and has stronger effect of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production.
2. Pear: cold in nature and sweet in taste. It has the effects of moistening lung, resolving phlegm, relieving cough, reducing fire and clearing heart fire. It is suitable for dry cough, thirst and constipation caused by autumn dryness or yin injury caused by fever, and polydipsia, cough and wheezing caused by internal heat and yellow phlegm.
3. Sesame: sweet in taste and flat in nature, has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, tonifying kidney and strengthening brain, relieving cough and asthma, and is suitable for constipation caused by insufficient vaginal fluid, dry skin, dizziness, premature graying of hair, soreness of waist and knees and other symptoms caused by insufficient liver and kidney essence and blood.
4, lotus root: sweet and cool, is a good medicine to stop bleeding and promote fluid production, rich in starch, calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of nutrients, especially vitamin C.
5, spinach: sweet and cool, can nourish yin and moisten dryness, nourish blood and stop bleeding, and benefit the stomach. Can be used for thirst, constipation, anemia, etc.
6. Soymilk: It is made by soaking soybeans and grinding them into juice, filtering off residues and cooking them. Sweet, nourishing deficiency and moistening dryness, clearing lung-heat and resolving phlegm. It is often used for chronic lung deficiency cough and phlegm-fire asthma.
7, duck eggs: sweet and salty, cool, nourishing yin and clearing heat, can be used for cough, dry throat pain caused by yin deficiency, as well as thirst, cough, dry stool and other symptoms caused by lung and stomach deficiency heat.
8. Honey: It is not only a good tonic, but also a good medicine for many diseases. Honey contains 39% fructose and 34% glucose, both of which can directly supply heat, replenish body fluids and nourish the whole body. It has certain curative effect on various symptoms such as body fluid deficiency and epigastric pain caused by spleen and stomach yin deficiency or qi deficiency.