To raise your lungs, you must first be comfortable and avoid being sad. Even if you encounter sad things, you should take the initiative to resolve them, and at the same time, you should converge to adapt to the depression of everything in autumn.
Generally speaking, being calm is the best way to moisten the lungs. The lungs are respiratory organs, and the most obvious place for emotional changes is breathing. Shortness of breath not only increases the burden on the lungs, but also causes the gas in the body to leak out, which is just the opposite of the "autumn harvest". Therefore, the spirit of autumn aftercare is very important.
Life is moderate and autumn is crisp.
It's crisp in autumn, so going to bed early and getting up early is beneficial to the "autumn harvest". After entering the late autumn, the weather is changeable, even in the same area, there will be a situation of "four seasons in one day, different days in ten miles".
Therefore, clothes should increase or decrease with the weather, otherwise it will affect the body's ability to adapt to the cold climate and easily catch a cold. Protect your chest and back when you sleep, because the acupoints of the five internal organs are concentrated on your back. If the evil wind attacks, it is easy to have a stroke.
Autumn tonic should nourish yin and moisten dryness.
China folks have had the custom of "pasting autumn fertilizer" since ancient times. Every beginning of autumn season, every household begins to "eat meat for tonic". In this regard, in terms of diet conditioning, we should follow the principle of "nourishing yin in autumn and winter" proposed by Neijing, that is to say, we should eat a diet that nourishes yin and moistens dryness to prevent autumn dryness from hurting yin. From "The Way of Keeping Healthy"
Edible tremella, sugarcane, bird's nest, donkey-hide gelatin, pear, sesame, lotus root, spinach, black-bone chicken, pig lung, soybean milk, duck eggs, honey, etc. If the spleen and stomach function is low, abdominal distension and diarrhea often occur, it is best not to eat the above foods and medicated diets, because they are all cold, so you should adjust the spleen and stomach function first, and then eat less nourishing yin foods and medicated diets after the spleen and stomach function is restored.
Diet should be less spicy and more sour.
Pay attention to "less spicy and more sour" in autumn diet. In other words, eat less spicy food to prevent lung fire from being too strong. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that excessive lung fire will damage the function of the liver. Therefore, in autumn, in addition to "less pungent", it is also necessary to "increase acid" to increase the function of the liver and resist the invasion of excessive lung fire.
According to this principle of TCM nutrition, we must eat less spicy food such as onion, ginger, garlic, leek and pepper in autumn, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables. Sour fruits include apples, pomegranates, grapes, grapefruit, lemons, hawthorn and so on. In short, eat more sour food in autumn, so as to achieve the purpose of nourishing lung and liver at the same time.
Balanced diet to prevent autumn dryness
Traditional health-preserving culture holds that form complements shape, and things complement each other. Is to make up what you eat. Then eat lung tonic in autumn, but the function of lung is too strong, which is easy to hurt liver. In addition, autumn itself is the seasonal season of the lungs. If it is supplemented, the balance of the body will be destroyed.
"Food is on the way" says: "Autumn is dry, you should eat hemp to moisten it, not drink cold." In order to alleviate the "autumn dryness", the diet should nourish yin and moisten the lungs. Some people even advocate eating glutinous rice gelatin porridge (Ejiao plus glutinous rice) in autumn to nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Sit still and spit out your body and mind.
After washing in the morning, close your eyes and sit still indoors, close your teeth 36 times, and then stir in your mouth with your tongue. When your mouth is full of body fluids, swallow it three times.
Then stop for a while and take a deep abdominal breath slowly. When inhaling, press your tongue on the upper jaw and inhale through your nose.
Then slowly exhale from your mouth. When exhaling, you should say the word "mouth four" silently, but don't make any noise. Do this 36 times. Insisting on doing this health-keeping exercise can protect the lungs and strengthen the body.
You can also rub your hands and apply them to your eyes for 3 seconds, repeating 8 times. Persisting in this work can not only improve eyesight, but also benefit the liver, lungs and heart.
Autumn meridian health
The core of meridian health preservation and exercise health preservation is the same. However, the purpose of meridian health preservation is to keep the meridians unobstructed and correct the imbalance of the functions of zang-fu organs and meridians. Long-term persistence will be beneficial.
Specific practice: soak your feet in warm water for 9 minutes; Then press Taiyuan point and Zhongshan point 36 times each; Finally, take six deep breaths, rinse your mouth six times and swallow.