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When the weather gets cold, many people are prone to some diseases. What should the elderly pay attention to in autumn?
Old people should pay attention to these in autumn health care. "Autumn is dry, so you should eat hemp and moisten it." In other words, the climate in autumn is dry, so we should eat more sweet foods such as honey and sesame. In autumn, we should also reduce spicy food and increase sour food.

At this time, everyone should get up early and go to bed early, which seems to be similar to the theme activity law of chickens, keeping delirium and calm. Otherwise, it will first damage people's lung qi, because the lung and intestine are similar, lung qi deficiency injury in autumn, and digestive tract diseases in winter, which will endanger the role of human body in storing sperm in winter. In autumn, health preservation should focus on nourishing yin, astringing yang and balancing the internal organs. Its general principles are: nourishing yin and moistening lung, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening spleen and stimulating appetite.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lungs are fine and dirty, and they like to moisten and hate dryness. In autumn, the main qi is dryness. When dryness and evil damage the human body, it is most likely to damage the yin meridian of the human body (that is, essence, blood and body fluid). If the yin meridian is insufficient, the lung in the five zang-organs system software will be damaged first, so there will be symptoms of lung yin deficiency such as dry mouth, sore throat, dry cough, less phlegm, difficult adhesion of phlegm and blood in phlegm. Therefore, the autumn health express train focuses on nourishing yin and moistening lung. Only by paying attention to nourishing yin and moistening lung in autumn can the human body maintain the balance of yin and yang and keep the five internal organs healthy and safe under the condition that the dryness and evil are swept away.

Dryness is most abundant in autumn. Dryness will not only damage the lungs, but also further damage other internal organs. For example, the lung and intestine are in the same phase, and the damage of dryness and evil to the lung will further damage the gastrointestinal fluid. Insufficient gastrointestinal fluid will often lead to diseases such as dry stool and constipation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lung governs the fur and is connected with the nose. Therefore, dryness can easily lead to a series of dryness, such as nasal dryness, dry skin and withered body hair. The key to prevent this dryness is to nourish yin and moisten dryness. Therefore, nourishing yin and moistening dryness is also the key standard of autumn health care.

Chinese medicine believes that the kidney governs the essence of the human body, the liver governs the blood and essence of the human body, and nourishing the liver and kidney can make the human body rich in essence and blood, thus having the effect of "nourishing yin". Drying in autumn usually damages the body's yin and can damage the liver and kidney. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen nourishing the liver and kidney in autumn. If the liver and kidney function is normal, the essence will of course be abundant. In addition, nourishing the liver and kidney in autumn can lay an excellent foundation for the collection of personal qi and blood in winter and the prevention and growth of qi and blood in spring, which is particularly important for health preservation in the four seasons.