When autumn comes, the temperature drops gradually, and people are used to thinking about nourishing. Because people spend a lot of energy and eat less after a hot summer, they should adjust their bodies when the weather turns cold. However, many tonics and supplements, such as ginseng, velvet antler, chicken and mutton, are concentrated and eaten suddenly, which is called "tonic", which is unscientific. It is not only harmful to health, but also wastes financial and material resources and even harms the body.
Therefore, the diet principle of the six solar terms in autumn is nutritious and easy to digest and absorb. At the same time, when people's resistance is the weakest in the season, it is very easy to get sick if they are in poor health. At this time, eating more foods that can enhance human immunity and body resistance is of great benefit to health.
(2) It is less irritating and more acidic.
The so-called less spicy means eating less spicy food, because the lungs are golden, and the lungs are full of air in autumn. Eat less pungent taste to prevent lung qi from overflowing. Chinese medicine believes that Jin Kemu, that is, excessive lung qi will damage the function of the liver, so it is necessary to "increase acid" in autumn to increase the function of the liver and resist the invasion of excessive lung qi. According to the principle of traditional Chinese medicine nutrition, during the six solar terms in autumn, we must eat less spicy products such as onions, ginger, leeks, garlic and peppers, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables.
In addition, remember that "autumn melons are ripe." In summer, watermelon is a good summer product, but after beginning of autumn, you can't eat more watermelon, cantaloupe and cabbage, otherwise it will damage the yang of the spleen and stomach. Chinese health experts also advocate eating porridge every morning during the six solar terms in autumn. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, Li Ting believed that "eating porridge in the morning is new, benefiting the diaphragm and nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, refreshing and replenishing a lot".
(3) Sweet and moist
There is an ancient saying: "thick taste hurts people and doesn't know anything." Sweet, soft and weak are my teachers. Since then, 3,000 people have been weak, and they have made up for it. " It can be seen that the combination of vegetarian diet and light diet is beneficial to health. In Su Wen-Zhi Zhen Da Lun, it is said that "Gan enters the spleen first". Among the five elements, the spleen and stomach belong to the soil, and the soil produces gold, while the lung and intestine belong to gold. Sweet taste nourishes the spleen, and spleen exuberance is full of gold (lung) and qi. Sweet food produces body fluids, while salty food makes people feel thirsty easily. "Eight Notes on Respect for Life" also pointed out: "Autumn is dry, and it is easy to eat hemp to moisten it." That is to say, when the six solar terms in autumn are dry, we should eat more moist and sweet foods, such as honey, sesame seeds, almonds, etc., which can nourish the spleen and stomach, moisten the lungs and intestines, and prevent physical discomfort symptoms such as dry cough, dry throat and dry mouth, constipation, or signs of skin loss of luster and hair withering. Therefore, the diet of six solar terms in autumn should be sweet and moist. You can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables that moisten your lungs and dryness, such as pears, persimmons, oranges and bananas. Fruits and vegetables can eat more carrots, white gourd, tremella, beans and bean products, as well as edible fungi, kelp, seaweed and so on. After scientific processing, they can make delicious food. It can also be made into meals or drinks, such as honey fried tremella, various fresh fruit and vegetable juices, etc. Or processed into soup porridge, such as mushroom bean curd soup, bean porridge, lotus root starch soup, etc. , rich in nutrition, can moisten dryness. Fruits and vegetables are rich in water, vitamins, fiber and so on. This is of great benefit to prevent dry mouth and nose, rough skin and constipation that are most likely to occur during the six solar terms in autumn.
(4) Drink porridge in the morning.
Traditional Chinese medicine health experts advocate eating porridge every morning in the six solar terms in autumn, especially in early autumn, and many places are still steaming in damp heat, which leads to the internal demand of the spleen and stomach and the decline of resistance. At this time, if you can eat some warm food, especially drink some medicated porridge, it is very good for your health. The reason is that japonica rice or glutinous rice, as an important part of medicated diet, has excellent functions of strengthening spleen and stomach and benefiting qi, which has been praised by predecessors. Among the six solar terms in autumn, the most popular porridge at present is sugarcane porridge, Polygonatum odoratum porridge, Radix Adenophorae porridge and Polygonatum porridge.
(5) Balanced nutrition
Nutritionists point out that only the diversification of food can provide comprehensive nutrition for human body. Such as cereals, mainly supply heat energy and vitamin B1; Beans and bean products are mainly supplied to protein; Vegetables and fruits mainly supply vitamin C, inorganic salts and dietary fiber. In autumn, we should pay more attention to the diversity of food and the balance of nutrition to supplement the nutritional deficiency caused by the hot summer climate and decreased appetite, especially to eat more chewy and fiber-rich foods.
On the basis of balancing the five flavors of diet in autumn, the intake of sweet, light, sour and wet foods should be appropriately increased according to individual specific conditions, but not too much.
Chew slowly when eating, which is not only conducive to the full digestion of food and the complete absorption of nutrients, but also can maintain the function and chewing of intestinal water through fiber food, thus promoting fluid production and moistening dryness, and achieving the purpose of preventing and treating adverse reactions such as dry throat, intestinal dryness and constipation in autumn.
(6) Avoid bitterness and dryness.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bitter and dry products are easy to hurt body fluids and consume gas. "Su Wen-Wu Zang Gen Pian" said: "Too much bitterness, wrinkled skin and plucked hair." Autumn dryness is in season, the lungs are fine and dirty, and it is susceptible to autumn dryness. Many chronic respiratory diseases often recur or worsen in autumn. Therefore, in the synopsis of the golden chamber, fish and insects are not taboo, and the twenty-four histories, the viewpoint that "lung disease forbids suffering" ....... "Don't eat lung in autumn" is put forward based on the biological restraint relationship among diseases of five internal organs, five flavors and four seasons. Therefore, the autumn diet should be bitter and dry.