It's fall here. Tianjin is full of pear, fragrant pear, tribute pear, sand pear and crystal pear. It is very convenient to buy a pear at any time to clear away heat and moisten the lungs. However, it turns out that eating too many pears can also cause trouble. I have a patient, Miss Tan, who once had a sore throat. She thinks pear juice can clear away lung heat, so she drinks a big glass every morning, afternoon and evening. Unexpectedly, the next day, it was so dizzy that she couldn't get out of bed and go to work. In fact, it is correct to use pears to clear heat. The problem is that Miss Tan uses "medicine" too hard. It should be noted that a glass of pear juice contains several pears, and three cups a day is equivalent to eating ten pears, which is not only "hot" but also "cold". Miss Tan coincides with her menstrual period and is in poor health. Of course, she can't stand such a cold diet. Pear has been honored as the "Sect of Hundred Fruits" since ancient times, which can cure cough and moisten the lungs. It's a pity that everyone only knows its efficacy and ignores whether its nature is suitable for their own physique. Pear has the function of clearing heart and moistening lung, but it is cold. People with cold and cough due to deficiency should not eat it raw. They must be steamed with water, or put in soup, or stewed with herbs. The most popular pear diet can be regarded as boiling sugar water or soup with apricots, pears and tremella, which is quite effective for dry mouth. However, it should be noted that this recipe is cold in pear and cold in snow ear, which is more suitable for people who need to clear away heat due to excess heat or deficiency fire. In case of physical weakness and cold, you don't need snow ears. If this prescription is slightly modified, it can strengthen the effect of 3 yuan (9g) Fritillaria cirrhosa on invigorating lung qi. If matched with lily, it can nourish yin and soothe the nerves. [David, Xixi River, cchere.net] When it comes to the problem of pear coldness, we should study it more deeply, and we can see that different kinds of pears have different degrees of coldness. For example, Tianya pear, which we often eat, is almost as cool as small and exquisite fragrant pear and large tribute pear, while thick-skinned sand pear and imported pear are even colder. The main climate characteristics of autumn are dryness, lack of water in air and human body. However, drinking boiled water alone cannot completely resist the negative effects brought by autumn dryness. In ancient China, there was a good diet to deal with autumn dryness: "Salt water in the morning and honey soup at night." In other words, drinking boiled water is easy to lose water. If you add a little salt to boiled water, it is not so easy to lose water. Drinking salt water during the day and honey water at night is not only a good way to replenish human body's water, but also a good diet for health preservation and anti-aging in autumn. At the same time, it can also prevent constipation caused by autumn dryness, which really kills two birds with one stone. Honey is a gift from nature. It is rich in nutrients, mainly glucose and fructose, with a content of 70%. In addition, it also contains protein, amino acids, vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin D, etc. Honey has the functions of strengthening physique, improving intelligence, increasing hemoglobin and improving myocardium, and can prolong life if taken for a long time. Modern medicine has proved that honey is effective for neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary arteriosclerosis and lung disease. Taking honey regularly in autumn is not only beneficial to the recovery of these diseases, but also can prevent the injury of autumn dryness to the human body, and play a role in moistening and nourishing the lungs, thus making people healthy and live longer. In the dry season in autumn, we should also pay attention not to eat or eat less spicy barbecue foods, such as pepper, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, onion, wine, etc., especially ginger. These foods are hot and lose a lot of water in cooking, so they are easy to get angry after eating. Of course, a small amount of onion, ginger and pepper as seasoning is not a big problem, but don't eat it often, eat more. For example, ginger contains volatile oil, which can accelerate blood circulation, and contains gingerol, which can stimulate gastric juice secretion, excite intestines and promote digestion. Ginger also contains gingerol, which can reduce the occurrence of gallstones. Such a "warning" also appeared in ancient medical books: "Don't eat ginger in autumn within one year; Don't eat ginger at night for one day. " It seems reasonable not to eat or eat less spicy food such as ginger in autumn, which has long attracted the attention of the ancients. Autumn is the season when people are most likely to get fat. This is because after beginning of autumn, the weather is getting colder, people's appetite is getting bigger, and it is much more comfortable to rest at night. In leisure time, a tired body would rather rest quietly than take part in activities that consume a lot of physical strength. In this way, most of the calories consumed by the human body every day exceed the calories consumed, which makes the fat accumulate bit by bit. If you don't adjust, people will gain a lot of weight after autumn and winter. Year after year, people will soon get fat. What's more, obesity not only hinders people's physical beauty, but also brings "civilized diseases" such as high blood pressure, coronary heart disease and cerebral arteriosclerosis, which must not be "indulged". There is a saying in the poem: "Autumn is crisp" and "It's already cold but not cold". People take advantage of this lukewarm climate to take tonics and keep fit for the winter. Therefore, there is a saying in Xiamen that "it is better to make up for the first frost" and "make up for the double ninth festival" before "make up for the first frost". Autumn is more important than winter. The ancients used the word "sheep" instead of "auspicious", saying that "sheep" and "yang" were homophonic, and there were folk food customs such as "three sheep opening Thailand", "stewed mutton" and "stewed sheep's head", which were often seasoned with ginger and jujube, and could be eaten by men, women and children. As the saying goes, "eat the brain to replenish the brain", and eating boiled sheep's head is helpful to treat diseases such as "head wind". In addition, "four treasures" and "eight treasures" are added to make stewed mutton, and there are records of adjuvant treatment of lung disease and malaria in Chinese medicine books. Chestnuts have the reputation of "king of dried fruits". Steamed chestnut cake in autumn has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening tendons, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach. Chestnut porridge can replenish qi, be steamed and fried separately, and be eaten without skin, which not only tastes good, but also has high nutritional value. The first frost is the last solar term in autumn, followed by "beginning of winter". As the saying goes, "it is better to make up the first frost than the winter." Qiubu eats both mutton and rabbit meat. As a fashionable food, fruit is well known. But fruits can also be used as a supplement, such as pears and persimmons in autumn. In autumn, besides not being frozen, the core problem is the choice and collocation of diet, including the following aspects: daily breakfast in cold and warm weather, warm food, such as jujube and ginger porridge, walnut kernel, sweet almond, grapes and so on. There are also soybean milk, Hu spicy soup, mutton soup, vinegar cabbage, sugar and garlic. Eliminating dampness and expelling wind In case of rainy and humid weather or wet body in loose stool, we should increase the diet for dispelling wind and removing dampness, such as rice, lentils, adzuki beans, coix seed, lotus seeds, chestnuts, onions, ginger, pepper, fennel, clove and pepper. Moisturizing and nourishing yin When the weather is dry or dry, you should choose a diet that moistens and nourishes yin. This diet can enhance immunity, and you can choose whole wheat flour, wheat kernels, bean sprouts, soybean milk, peanuts, sesame seeds, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkins, radishes, Chinese cabbage, lotus seeds, lilies, fungus, pears, apples, grapes, medlar, jujube, sweet almonds and so on. Convergence of yang can be restrained by properly adding sour food such as hawthorn, Schisandra chinensis and persimmon vinegar in the diet. If the weather is not cold and you don't catch a cold, you should use as little or no food as possible to relieve sweating, such as green onions, ginger, peppers and mustard greens. Harmony of five flavors is one of the eight cornerstones of health, and the following relations should be paid attention to: spicy taste and sour taste or bitter taste restrict each other; Sweetness and salty or sour taste restrict each other; Salty taste and bitter taste or sweet taste are mutually restricted. The above summary can be summarized as follows: (1) cold protection and warm air exhaust; Moisten dryness, nourish yin and increase righteousness; Cooling, relieving summer heat and strengthening yang; Five flavors harmonize less diseases. Especially in autumn, a transition season from hot summer to cold winter, people's resistance is relatively weak. If you don't pay attention at this time, you will easily get sick. Therefore, eat more foods that can enhance the body's resistance and immunity in autumn. So, let's take a look at some autumn foods we introduced to you. Seaweed-Seaweed is rich in protein, cellulose, vitamins and minerals. Seaweed is rich in soluble cellophane acid, which can protect human body from radiation damage. Ginger-Ginger can strengthen the immune system, relieve cough, relieve fever and pain, and effectively inhibit diseases. Ginger is a good antitoxic substance, which can kill bacteria and prevent mildew. It is an effective food for treating colds and influenza. Fruit-autumn pear is a good autumn fruit, which has a good cough relieving and dryness moistening effect. Garlic and onion-Garlic and onion can refresh people and enhance human immunity. Garlic can lower cholesterol. Eating garlic and onions regularly can also make people breathe smoothly.