Drink plenty of water in autumn to keep the balance of water metabolism and prevent chapped skin and invasion of evil fire; Eat more vegetables and fruits to supplement vitamins and minerals in the body, neutralize excess acidic metabolites in the body, and play the role of clearing away fire and detoxifying; Eat more high-protein plant foods such as beans and eat less greasy foods. Try to eat less spicy food, such as onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, peppers and so on. It is not advisable to eat more barbecue to prevent the symptoms of autumn dryness from getting worse. The principle of "less spicy and more sour" should be implemented. The pungent taste is mainly lung, and the sour taste is mainly liver. Spicy taste can overcome sour taste. Therefore, in autumn, it is necessary to reduce pungent taste and calm lung qi, increase acid to help liver qi, and prevent lung qi from being too strong for liver, leading to stagnation of liver qi. You can eat soft foods such as sesame seeds, glutinous rice, honey, water chestnut, grapes, radishes, pears, persimmons, lotus seeds, lilies, sugar cane, pineapples, bananas, tremella, dairy products, and you can also eat health-care Chinese medicines such as ginseng, radix adenophorae, radix ophiopogonis, bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae, almonds, boat-fruited Sterculia, cordyceps sinensis, etc.
In autumn, it is advisable to eat more warm food and less cold food to protect stomach qi. If you eat too many cold products or raw and unclean fruits and vegetables, it will lead to warm connotation and toxic stagnation in the body, causing diarrhea and dysentery. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "autumn melon is not good for the stomach", especially for the elderly, children and the weak.
Autumn is the best tonic season. To moisten the lungs and dry, use soft foods such as sesame, honey and fruit. Drinking light salt water in the morning and honey water at night is not only a good way to replenish water and prevent constipation, but also an important part of health preservation and anti-aging.
In autumn diet health care, we should also pay attention to the timing of diet, so that the gastrointestinal physiological function can maintain normal activities and digest in an orderly manner, so as not to be disordered or overworked. Quantitative eating and drinking is to avoid gastrointestinal overload, prevent gastric function from being damaged, and cause indigestion or stomach trouble. Old people and children have weak digestive ability, so they should eat regularly and quantitatively.