In this case, it is not enough to make up. The crisp autumn is a godsend opportunity to make up for the summer losses. In addition, we can use autumn health care to enhance our ability to prevent and resist diseases and prepare for winter.
But you can't make up for it, otherwise it will be counterproductive. Health experts tell us: autumn should only be moistened and tonic, not warm and dry tonic.
Why should autumn tonic be moist?
Recently, the reporter met a "bad" reader. The lady said that she had been weak. Following the folk saying of "autumn tonic", she tried her best to invite people to bring ginseng back from the northeast and stew it with an old hen. I didn't expect to eat a few times, and the deficiency fire increased greatly. Not only did I have a nosebleed and a sore throat, but I also had a small acne that I hadn't seen for many years. At the hospital, the doctor said that she had acute pharyngitis.
Motherland medicine believes that dryness is the main qi in autumn. People often call it autumn dryness, clear qi, dry nature and easy consumption of body fluids. Hot summer consumes body fluids, and autumn dryness further aggravates dryness: dry mouth, dry lips, dry nose, dry throat, dry tongue, dry stool, dry skin and even chapped skin. Dry evil invading the lungs is prone to cough or dry cough without phlegm and dry mouth. "Dry is moist", and the correct tonic method is to clear away heat, nourish yin and prevent dryness. If you use incorrect warming drugs at this time, it will make people feel even hotter, just like adding fuel to the fire. Just like the lady who made it up, it caused a "blood heat rash", nosebleed and sore throat. Therefore, it is not appropriate to "warm up" in autumn, and it should be based on nourishing yin and moistening dryness.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the autumn is over half, and it enters the late autumn. Cold air often invades, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, the climate is dry, and the temperature is changeable, which makes it difficult for the human body to adapt, and it is prone to respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases or recurrence. At this time, tonic and moisturizing can also protect health and prevent problems before they happen.
Eat less spicy, dry and greasy food.
In diet conditioning, it is necessary to prevent dryness, protect yin, nourish yin and moisten the lungs as the criteria. It is advisable to eat soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, dairy products, honey, pears, lotus seeds, tremella, grapes, radishes and vegetables. And pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables and a balanced diet. After the hot summer, people tend to have weakened spleen and stomach functions, especially those who are physically weak. So we should pay attention to give the spleen and stomach a stage of adjustment and adaptation. In autumn, you can supplement some nutritious and digestible foods, such as fish, lean meat of various animals, eggs, yam, red dates, lotus roots and so on.
The most important thing to pay attention to is to eat less spicy and dry food, such as pepper, raw onion, ginger, star anise, fennel, hot pot mala Tang and so on. Eat less greasy food, which not only aggravates autumn dryness, but also increases the burden on the stomach, making people depressed and exhausted. People who have a cold and fever, people who have been ill for a long time, and patients with gastrointestinal diseases should avoid eating spicy, dry and greasy food in autumn.
10 months later, the essence of human body began to be closed, and eating nourishing food was easier to be absorbed and stored. For patients with chronic diseases or elderly people with physical weakness, you can eat some chicken, duck, fish, eggs, lean pork, jujube, walnuts and so on. , help to keep fit, get rid of diseases and prolong life. But at this time, the climate is changeable and the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is easy to cause abdominal cold and gastrointestinal diseases often recur. The autumn diet of patients with gastrointestinal diseases should be warm, soft, light, vegetarian and fresh.
Drink more water and eat more porridge.
To prevent autumn dryness, the first task is to protect human body fluids, and drinking more water is the easiest way to keep fit. The dry climate in autumn makes people lose a lot of water. According to estimates, the water evaporated by human skin every day is more than 600 ml, and the water exhaled by nasal cavity is not less than 300 ml. To make up for these losses in time, you should drink at least 500 ml more water every day in autumn than in other seasons to maintain the normal humidity of the lungs and respiratory tract.
But autumn is cooler than summer. When people are in a hurry, they often forget to drink water. So be careful not to wait until you are thirsty or even have smoke in your throat to remember to drink water. The best way to drink water is to drink it often and in small quantities. People need at least 2000 ml of water a day, which can be taken in four to seven times. In a day, in addition to a certain amount of water for three meals, you should consume 300 ~ 500ml of water in the morning, around 10, around 3pm and before going to bed at night. The best time to drink water is to have a drink after getting up in the morning to improve the relative water shortage of the body overnight and dilute the blood concentration. This method is especially beneficial to people with hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and constipation. Besides drinking boiled water, you'd better drink more tea. Black tea is the best drink for the elderly, while light green tea is the best drink for women and children.
If you can drink porridge often, it is a better way to moisturize. Eating porridge can benefit the stomach, promote fluid production, nourish yin and moisten dryness, such as lily lotus seed porridge, tremella crystal sugar glutinous rice porridge, almond fritillary bulb glutinous rice porridge, black sesame seed porridge, sweet potato porridge, beef porridge, black chicken soup porridge, ear porridge, walnut porridge, wolfberry porridge, carrot porridge, chestnut porridge, lily almond porridge, red date glutinous rice porridge, lotus seed porridge and so on. , have a good nourishing effect, very suitable for dry autumn.
What should I do if I drink the tap and it dries?
Some people drink water and their mouths are still dry. What happened? Simple and costly. If you drink a lot of water or a lot of soup and porridge, but get angry because of a little thing, then no matter how much water you drink, your lips will still dry. If you drink tea all afternoon, but there are big fish and big meat at noon, or you eat a lot of sweets, then the water you drink will not help.
Specifically, there are four reasons why drinking water is not good. One is too greedy. Eat greasy, too sweet, too spicy, too salty and too warm food. The second is constipation. You can eat more coarse grains and things rich in cellulose and minerals to promote defecation and diarrhea. Third, there are too many words. Don't underestimate "talk big, talk big", which will damage body fluid. The fourth is upset. Excessive emotions will lead to heart fire and dry mouth.
Fruits are heavy in autumn, so eat more appropriately.
In the autumn season, a large number of melons and fruits are on the market. At this time, if you can eat some fruits that can quench your thirst and moisten your throat, it will make people feel refreshed and comfortable. Fruit is not only rich in vitamins and nutrients, but also contains a lot of water, which has the effects of nourishing body fluid, moistening dryness, clearing heat and relaxing bowels.
Among them, the most suitable fruit in autumn is pear. Pear is slightly cold and sweet, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, nourishing blood and promoting granulation, moistening lung and removing dryness, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels. It is very effective for autumn dryness symptoms such as upset thirst, lung dryness and cough, dry throat and tongue, and dry stool. Some experts pointed out that eating two pears a day can prevent autumn dryness. Pears also have the effect of clearing away heat and calming the nerves, and have a good auxiliary effect on patients with hypertension, heart disease, oral constipation, dizziness, insomnia and dreaminess. Pear is also a health fruit for patients with hepatitis and kidney disease in autumn. Different ways of eating will produce different effects. There is a folk saying that "the living can clear the heat of the six internal organs, and the cooked can nourish the yin of the five internal organs". Eating pears raw can obviously relieve symptoms such as dry throat, itching, pain, hoarseness, constipation and red urine in patients with upper respiratory tract infection. Steamed pears with rock sugar can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm, and have a good moisturizing and protective effect on the throat.
However, although the autumn fruit is good, don't eat more. Eating too many pears will hurt the spleen and stomach and help damp. Eating too many apples is bad for the heart and kidneys. Eating too many dates will help damp heat, hurt the spleen and stomach and damage teeth. Persimmon contains a lot of tannin and persimmon gum phenol, which is astringent and easy to constipate, and it is easy to form persimmon stone when eaten on an empty stomach or with crabs. Eating too many chestnuts will lead to indigestion. Oranges are warm and easy to get angry when eaten too much, which can cause toothache, red eye, hemorrhoids and skin macula. Constipation should not eat more grapes. In addition, the sugar content of fruits is generally high, and overeating will lead to an increase in blood sugar and increase the burden on the pancreas, so diabetics should eat less.
Dry cough can be dietotherapy.
In late autumn, acute and chronic bronchitis and colds can cause dry cough, which is often manifested as persistent dry cough, unpleasant expectoration, dry mouth, sore throat, hoarse voice, red tongue and scanty body fluid. For the frail old people, dry cough is really a severe test. It is a relatively simple method for young and middle-aged people to contain throat tablets, while it is best for the elderly to take moistening foods that moisten the lungs and nourish yin, such as Sydney, longan meat, honey, sesame seeds, tremella, etc., and cooperate with diet therapy to treat dry cough.
The more economical method is: 2 Sydney, washed with skin, cut into small pieces, add 3 bowls of water to fry into 2 bowls, and then take 25 grams of rice to cook porridge. Tremella fuciformis is a kind of nourishing food and medicine, which contains about 10% of protein, 65% of carbohydrates and 4% of inorganic salts. It also contains vitamin E, phosphorus, iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium. Medicinal use has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. Rock sugar tremella helps to nourish and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm. Using it to make tea can induce diuresis, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire, and has anti-inflammatory effect. Wash 20 grams of tremella first, and stew 20 grams of rock sugar with water (don't use cotton sugar); Then soak 5 grams of tea leaves for 5 minutes, take the juice, add the tremella soup, and stir well before taking. It has the effects of nourishing yin, reducing fire, moistening lung and relieving cough, and is suitable for dry cough due to yin deficiency. In addition, if conditions permit, it is best to have a piece of American ginseng in your mouth every morning and evening.