Because the autumnal equinox solar term has really entered the autumn, as a solar term with equal time between day and night, people should also maintain their health according to the law of balance between Yin and Yang in health care and the principle of "both Yin and Yang are secret", and according to the theory of Su Wen's "On the Truth", "carefully observe the place of Yin and Yang and regard it as a peaceful period", and the place of Yin and Yang should not be biased.
Mental rehabilitation
The most important thing in mental recuperation is to cultivate optimism, maintain psychological peace, avoid cold air, and converge and adapt to the calm air in autumn. For health care, you can choose the custom of climbing the mountain and viewing the scenery on the ancient Double Ninth Festival in China, which can make people relaxed and happy, and all negative emotions such as depression and melancholy will dissipate immediately. This is one of the ways of keeping in good health, and it is also a good medicine to adjust the spirit.
Diet recovery
In terms of diet care, Chinese medicine also takes the balance of yin and yang as the starting point and divides diet into appropriateness and taboo. Should be conducive to the secret of Yin Pingyang, and vice versa. Different people have different taboos. For example, those elderly people with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang should avoid eating products with big heat supplements. For developing children, if there is no special reason, it is not appropriate to supplement too much; People with phlegm-dampness constitution should avoid greasy food; Wood fire people avoid spicy food; People with skin diseases and asthma should avoid eating seafood such as shrimp and crab; People with a cold stomach should avoid eating cold food.
No matter what kind of person, its essence should prevent the real person from being more real and the virtual person from being more virtual, which will lead to the imbalance between yin and yang. In the aspect of diet conditioning, it is necessary to embody that "deficiency supplements it, but actually purges it"; The principle of "cold is hot, hot is cold". Do what "Su Wen Gu Naive Theory" said: "Those who know, the law lies in Yin and Yang, but in tricks and moderate diet."
In terms of food collocation and diet regulation, Chinese medicine also pays attention to reconciling yin and yang. In the concept of integrated nutrition of food and medicine, it is emphasized that traditional Chinese medicine and food are both natural products, and both have certain attributes, especially the nourishing functions of nourishing yin, yang and qi and blood, which are interlinked and inseparable.
It is not difficult to find examples of homology of medicine and food from herbal classics and prescriptions. Ancient doctors regarded black-bone chicken, mutton, donkey skin, onion, ginger and jujube as yin and yang, qi and blood, or as regulating stomach qi; In a large number of recipes and dishes, it is not difficult to find many medicinal materials, such as Lycium barbarum, yam, astragalus, poria cocos, clove, cardamom, cinnamon and so on. When drugs and food are properly mixed, the efficacy of food health care and disease prevention can be improved.
Thousands of years' history of food culture shows that China people's eating habits are a comprehensive diet with vegetarian food as the mainstay and a combination of vegetarian food and vegetarian food. The so-called comprehensive diet requires long-term or frequent diversification of diet content, and pays attention to the reasonable collocation of meat and vegetables, main and non-staple food, dinner and snacks, drinking and diet.
Ancient doctors advocated that the diet should not be biased and the amount should not be excessive. Should not blindly pursue delicacies, chicken, duck, fish, wine and tea to eat and drink, too lonely and dull. Li Shizhen once said: "Eating and drinking is also the lifeblood of human beings", which tells us that if we want to prolong life, we must understand the performance of food and the function of diet.
In the long-term life practice, ancient doctors divided the attributes of food into three categories, namely, cold, flat and warm. Among them, according to the statistics of more than 300 kinds of common Chinese food, the food with flat sex is the most, followed by warm food and cold food.
As far as its function is concerned, cold food has the functions of nourishing yin, clearing heat, purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. These foods include watermelon, melon, banana, sugarcane, mango, loquat, apple, pear, persimmon, water chestnut, water chestnut, mulberry, tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd, wax gourd and so on.
Warm food has the functions of warming meridians, supporting yang, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals and dispelling cold. Pepper, pepper, mustard seed and trout are hot foods, such as cherry, litchi, longan, apricot, pomegranate, chestnut, jujube, walnut, garlic, pumpkin, raw onion, ginger, leek, fennel, eel and silver carp.
Sexual foods include plums, figs, grapes, ginkgo, lilies, lotus seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, black sesame seeds, auricularia auricula, day lilies, onions, potatoes, black, red, soybeans, lentils, cowpeas, Chinese cabbage, taro, carrots, Chinese cabbage, Toona sinensis, Artemisia annua, kohlrabi, jellyfish and soybeans.
People should distribute food reasonably according to the nature and function of food on weekdays, so that it varies with time, place, person and illness, which is also one of the important conditions to avoid premature aging and ensure healthy qi. Doctors and health experts of past dynasties paid attention to the maintenance of healthy qi because it was regarded as the foundation of keeping fit.