(1) Early to bed and early to rise
Autumn morning is the time when the air is freshest and the oxygen content is the highest in the four seasons. Old people should get up early, stride in court, breathe fresh air, go to the old and welcome the new. The temperature turns cold in autumn night, so the elderly should go to bed early to recuperate, so as to conform to the health-keeping law of "Yin essence astringing qi", help to store Yin essence and maintain the harmony between Yin and Yang.
(2) A clean diet
Tonifying "nourishing yin" diet has the functions of harmonizing yin and yang, nourishing viscera, nourishing qi and blood, and regulating emotions. Therefore, the diet of the elderly in autumn and winter should be based on the principle of preventing dryness, nourishing yin and moistening lung, eating less spicy and hot products and animal liver, reducing pungent and increasing acid, and eating more foods that nourish yin and moisten lung, such as pears, tomatoes, seasonal fruits and fresh vegetables, honey, dairy products, etc., in order to improve viscera, nourish yin and moisten lung, and replenish deficiency and dispel dryness.
(3) Moderate exercise
Autumn and winter are good opportunities to exercise, but the elderly should not do strenuous exercise like young people, so as to avoid excessive physical exertion, damage to yin and body fluid, and discharge yang, which violates the health-keeping law of "Yin storing essence and Yang accumulating inside". Whether running, climbing mountains or practicing, moderate and gentle movements or moderate and low exercise are appropriate. If it is slightly hot and sweaty, as long as it persists, it will have a good effect.
(4) Appropriate autumn freezing
Preventing diseases and nourishing yin, ancient and modern health experts advocate "adding clothes in autumn is not busy, and freezing properly" to enhance the body's ability to keep out cold and prevent diseases. Even if you dress in late autumn, you should control it. Don't wear too many clothes too early, which will lead to excessive body heat and sweating, and sweat evaporation will lead to yang leakage. There is also a folk saying that "the Millennium is not exposed", which means that the climate is changeable after the Millennium, and it is easy to catch a cold or relapse. Therefore, the autumn freezing of the elderly should be properly controlled according to their own situation. If they don't add clothes when adding clothes, they will barely freeze, which will violate the original intention of "autumn freezing" fitness.
(5) Clever use of drugs
The dialectical evil of "nourishing yin" and autumn dryness will hurt human essence, qi, blood and semen, resulting in yin deficiency. Yin deficiency is divided into heart yin deficiency, lung yin deficiency and kidney yin deficiency, each with its own symptoms, which can be supplemented by dialectical medication. There are many drugs to tonify yin deficiency, and their usage is different. Only under the guidance of doctors can we get rid of illness and strengthen our health and spend the troubled autumn safely.
In autumn and winter, Chinese medicine says to take care of your energy and replenish your physical strength to avoid being disturbed by external stimuli and causing diseases. Therefore, we must understand these health care theories for the elderly, so that people can reduce the harm caused by many diseases and let the elderly spend their old age healthily.