Diet should follow the principle of "nourishing yin and moistening lung, increasing acidity and less pungent" to adapt to the climate characteristics of cold dew. Spicy food is easy to cause lung dryness, and autumn is the most sensitive and fragile time for the lungs, so autumn is the most unsuitable time to eat spicy food. Eat a healthy diet and make necessary adjustments according to your physical condition. There are several points to pay special attention to:
Eat more nourishing food with light sweetness: it can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and intestines to prevent dry throat. Fruits include pears, persimmons and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp and seaweed.
Eat warm food for breakfast: it is best to drink hot porridge, while japonica rice and glutinous rice have excellent functions of strengthening spleen and stomach and invigorating middle qi, such as sugarcane porridge, Polygonatum odoratum porridge, Adenophora adenophora porridge, raw porridge and Polygonatum porridge.
The elderly and patients with chronic diseases should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yams, ducks, fish, meat and other foods.
Avoid eating too much spicy food: Chili is called "spicy food" in Chinese medicine, which has a great "divergent" effect. Eating too much spicy food is easy to "consume gas". Therefore, if you eat too much spicy food, you will feel weak and easily tired. When cold dew occurs, what the body needs most is nourishing yin and replenishing essence to avoid yang leakage. Eating too much spicy food is easy to cause the loss of yin and body fluid, which makes the deficiency fire hurt the body.
2. Daily life:
Cold and warm: the weather is cold, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. Keeping warm is the first step. "Cold dew does not expose the feet", and the cold protection should start from the feet, which are farthest from the heart, so there is little blood supply, and the fat layer of the feet is very thin and easily stimulated. It is easy to get cold feet. Some women and the elderly often have cold hands and feet, and cold feet can easily cause contraction of upper respiratory mucosa and capillaries. The respiratory tract is extremely sensitive to cold air stimulation, and its resistance drops, so diseases and pathogens will take advantage of it. It can cause exogenous cough, bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases.
Another key point of cold protection work is not to go into battle shirtless. Girls in sleeveless clothes can often be seen in the street. In fact, exposing your arms just for beauty has many adverse effects on your health. "White dew hides, cold dew hides feet"-this is the best fitness method. In addition, autumn is a season with frequent diarrhea, and keeping the abdomen warm can effectively prevent diarrhea.
Go to bed early and get up early to ensure sleep: in autumn, go to bed early and get up early, ensure adequate sleep, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest, which will not only improve your physical state, but also your mental state. In the late autumn, the cold attacks people, not only to prevent colds, but also to open doors and windows frequently to keep the indoor air fresh.
Indoor moisturizing: the autumn climate is easy to dry, especially after the cold dew, the drying phenomenon is more and more obvious. At this time, the indoor moisturizing work will begin. If conditions permit, some green flowers can be planted indoors and around, which can make the environment full of vitality, purify the air and promote health. The green plants suitable for indoor display in autumn are: green radish, rich bamboo, hyacinthus orientalis, evergreen leaves and so on.
3, exercise health:
Life lies in exercise. In the cold dew season, the temperature drops seriously, and people's immunity is relatively insufficient. At this time, it is necessary to increase exercise to keep fit, and also pay attention to the choice of exercise to avoid physical discomfort caused by excessive exercise. So how to exercise healthily in the cold and dew season?
Walking and jogging: the temperature changes greatly before and after the cold dew. From the beginning of cool to cold, many people can't adapt in time. This time is not suitable for doing too strenuous exercise. Walking and jogging are the best choices, which can exercise the muscles of the whole body and increase the body yang appropriately.
Climbing high makes autumn sad: China is known as the custom of climbing high on the Double Ninth Festival. At this time, climbing can not only recall the past, cultivate sentiment, but also help people get rid of work troubles, relieve stress and relax themselves through contact with nature. Therefore, in the season of crisp autumn and clear sky in Wan Li, it is of great benefit to restrain the sad mood to climb high and overlook, shout a few times and exhale the dirty air in your chest. This is the traditional Chinese medicine meaning of "burning gold" and "happiness wins sorrow", and this climbing activity has a good effect of spreading lung.
Yoga cultivates sentiment: the ambient temperature is low in cold dew season, which is not suitable for excessive outdoor sports. Indoor exercise is a good choice, and yoga is the best choice. Yoga is also a kind of whole-body exercise, which has the effect of activating bones and muscles and dredging blood vessels in late autumn when there is little exercise. In addition, you can meditate before and after yoga to adjust people's spirit.
Note: avoid excessive exercise intensity! You can choose different exercises according to your personal situation, and long-term persistence can enhance your cardiopulmonary function. Walking and climbing mountains are all good choices. But at first, the intensity should not be too high, and the amount of exercise should be gradually increased. If you exercise excessively, it will increase the fatigue of the human body and is not conducive to the recovery of the body. Exercise until your body sweats slightly. Don't take off your clothes and hat at this time to avoid catching a cold in the cold wind. You can wear a little thinner before exercise to avoid sweating and catching a cold during exercise.
4. Mental health:
It is very important to recuperate in cold and dew season. At this time, the climate is getting colder and drier, the sunshine is decreasing, and the wind blows the leaves, which is easy to cause people's sense of desolation, emotional instability and sadness. Therefore, maintaining a good attitude is also one of the indispensable contents of health care.
Regulating emotions: Chinese medicine believes that sadness is an emotion that hurts the body, and excessive excitement makes the yang float, which is easy to cause diseases. Therefore, we should maintain a good and healthy attitude, vent bad emotions in time, and make our mood calm, optimistic and open-minded. Usually, take part in more things you like, do more exercise, cultivate sentiment and stabilize your mood.
Eliminating depression: The number of patients with depression increased significantly in autumn. In late autumn, people need to maintain a good attitude, vent their depressed emotions, cultivate an optimistic and open-minded heart, and do more exercise at ordinary times to achieve the purpose of venting their emotions. In sunny weather, going out to see the scenery, the joy is beyond words, which can make the melancholy and troubles disappear, make people relaxed and happy, and add infinite fun to life. This is a point that cannot be ignored in autumn health care.