Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, doing the right thing can make them healthier and more energetic.
Autumn is the season when the sun's spirit goes down and tends to sink, the physiological function tends to be calm, and the climate gradually turns cold. It is also the season when middle-aged and elderly people are prone to illness.
Therefore, in order to adapt to the characteristics of autumn climate change, every family should pay more attention to autumn health. I have compiled some common sense about keeping in good health in autumn and winter for you, and I suggest collecting them and watching them regularly:
After autumn, people usually feel thirsty, and sometimes their throats are dry and itchy. If they don't do enough skin care when they go out, some dry skin will appear on their faces. These are all manifestations of autumn dryness. Don't underestimate it, or it will get angry and hurt its lungs.
Prevention of autumn dryness focuses on diet conditioning. Choose some foods that can moisten the lungs, clear dryness, nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as pears, sugar cane, water chestnut, lily and tremella.
If it is dry skin, it is best to choose some skin care products suitable for your skin after washing to prevent the skin from being too dry.
Autumn deficiency, scientifically speaking, is a protective reaction of human body to make up for the extraordinary consumption in summer. Generally manifested as burnout, fatigue, listlessness and so on. The best way to prevent autumn deficiency is to take proper physical exercise, but pay attention to gradual progress, which is especially critical for the elderly.
In addition, adjusting work and rest and keeping enough sleep can also prevent autumn deficiency.
In late summer and early autumn, the temperature is characterized by excessive temperature difference between morning and evening. The high temperature during the day will immerse us in the illusion that it is still summer, so some people are used to opening windows or turning on air conditioners at night.
But when the cool evening breeze blows into the house, it is easy to catch a cold, which must be remembered. Especially the elderly should pay more attention to: the indoor air conditioning temperature should not be too low, generally at 25℃ ~ 27℃ for the best. Autumn is a period of high incidence of diseases, so you must seek medical advice in time to avoid delaying your illness.
As the old saying goes, "Spring covers autumn". At this point, Hu Mingde suggested that young people or people with excellent physical resistance should be frozen in autumn. For women and the elderly, feet, navel and abdomen should always keep warm.
Cold feet can easily cause some diseases of respiratory system and digestive system, such as cold, cough, respiratory infection, chronic diarrhea and so on. Women may have menstrual disorders, such as dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea.
It is suggested to wear suitable socks all year round, do not walk barefoot on the floor, and choose thick and soft velvet shoes when it is cold; Don't wade, change your shoes and socks as soon as possible when they are wet; Get into the habit of soaking feet at night. Of course, the temperature of hot water and the time of soaking feet should be controlled well, and don't sweat too much.
The navel is different from the abdomen and other parts of the body. There is no muscle and fat tissue under the navel, but there are rich blood vessels. After the navel catches cold, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and digestive system diseases such as vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Old people with arthritis should also pay attention to the warmth of joints to prevent weather changes from aggravating inflammation.
Tonic in autumn, tiger in winter. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that autumn food supplement is mainly based on nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and those who are weak need to supplement it. However, when taking supplements, we should be careful not to take disease-free supplements and not to mess with them. Yin deficiency, Yang deficiency, Qi deficiency and blood deficiency can only be supplemented according to the symptoms, otherwise it will be counterproductive.
For example, eating too much cod liver oil will lead to poisoning, and eating glucose for a long time will lead to obesity and elevated blood cholesterol, which is easy to induce cardiovascular diseases.
Black-bone chicken, pig lung, turtle, sea cucumber, bird's nest, tremella, honey, sesame, walnut, lotus root, autumn pear, etc. These foods work better with Chinese medicine.
For those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, at the turn of summer and autumn, they should eat less cold food or a lot of fruits and vegetables raw, focus on clearing away heat and strengthening the spleen, eat less meals and eat more cooked, soft and appetizing food, which is easy to digest. We must pay attention to clearing the stomach fire, so that the evil of damp heat in the body can be discharged from the stool, and then tonic can be made after the stomach fire subsides.