13 autumn health care principles
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Autumn is a key period to protect the stomach, and morning is a simple and easy way. After a summer of "cold drink bombing", the function of the spleen and stomach will be weakened. Coupled with the windy and dry climate in autumn, you will be targeted if you don't pay attention. At this time, it is necessary to choose some nourishing foods that are easy to digest, so that the body can smoothly adapt to the process from hot summer to cool autumn. Porridge has this function. Drinking a bowl of hot porridge on an empty stomach every morning can not only nourish the stomach and reduce the burden on the digestive system, but also supplement nutrition and save energy for a day's work.
Porridge cooked with different ingredients can have different nourishing effects. Pumpkin porridge is warm and has the effects of tonifying the middle warmer, clearing away heat and detoxifying. Sweet potato and japonica rice are cooked together, which is very beneficial to drink in the morning. Constipation is easy in autumn, and black sesame has a very good moistening effect. When cooking, you can grind black sesame seeds a little and cook them with rice, which will taste more mellow. Cooking jujube and glutinous rice together, and adding appropriate amount of sugar, has the effects of strengthening spleen and stomach, benefiting qi and blood, inducing diuresis to stop diarrhea, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and is more suitable for anorexia and chronic disease patients.
2. Drink light salt water in the morning and honey water at night.
Drinking light salt water in the morning and honey water at night is a good way to replenish human body water and prevent constipation. The ancients summed up the way of "salt water in the morning and honey at night" a long time ago, that is, drinking a cup of light salt water in the morning and a cup of honey water in the evening, clearing the intestines and moistening the lungs, and maintaining beauty. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the salty taste in kidney meridian can maintain people's spirit for a day; Drinking honey at night has a two-way regulating effect on gastric juice secretion, which can not only increase gastric acid secretion and help digestion, but also inhibit gastric juice secretion, neutralize gastric acid, protect gastric mucosa and nourish stomach.
Honey should be taken with warm boiled water, or mixed with warm milk and soybean milk. It should be noted that diabetics should be careful when drinking honey, and diabetics, especially the right people, should try to avoid eating honey.
3. White food enters the lungs the most.
"Dry" is the most obvious climate feature in autumn. If you want to clear your heart and moisten dryness, you might as well eat more white food. Because white food corresponds to the lung, the organs in the same system as the lung include the large intestine, skin, throat and bronchus. In order to prevent the influence of autumn dryness on human body, diet should be based on the principle of "nourishing yin and moistening dryness" to prevent autumn dryness from damaging yin.
Therefore, people who are prone to catch a cold on weekdays, or people who are often uncomfortable with their lungs and bronchi and cough easily, people who are weak in stomach and intestines but easy to get fat, and people with bad skin color should eat more white food, such as white radish, cabbage, cabbage, cauliflower, mushrooms, tremella, sugar cane, and Chinese herbal medicines include almond, yam, poria cocos, white sesame, lily, white peony root, tremella and so on.
4. Anti-dry soup
Autumn dryness consumes body fluid, which easily leads to deficiency of yin and body fluid. Many elderly people will feel dry mouth and nose, dry throat, thirst and dry stool. People with dry nose and mouth can eat radish, sesame, tofu, soybean milk and so on.
Some elderly people can make up more soups, such as lily winter melon soup, hawthorn sparerib soup, eel soup, red bean crucian carp soup and so on. And insist on 2000 ml per day to ensure the moist lungs and respiratory tract. Eat less sex food such as ginger, onion, garlic and pepper.
5.* * * Good feet.
It is considered that Yongquan point leads directly to the kidney meridian, and Jiaoquan point in the center of the foot is the place where turbidity drops. Frequent use of Yongquan point can benefit the essence and strengthen the body, prevent premature aging, soothe the liver and improve eyesight, promote sleep, and have certain curative effects on dizziness, insomnia, tinnitus, hemoptysis, nasal congestion and headache caused by kidney deficiency.
The method of foot center is: soak your feet with warm water before going to bed every day, and then rub them with your hands. Use the left hand heart * * * the right foot heart and the right hand heart * * * the left foot heart, and rub your feet 100 times or more each time. This method has the effect of tonifying kidney, nourishing yin and reducing fire, and has a good effect on common deficiency-heat syndrome.
6. Green tea is most suitable for autumn.
Autumn is the main dry season, the climate is dry, the residual heat has not disappeared, and the body fluid has not completely recovered its balance. In fact, under careful observation, the dry situation has been more or less presented in the body. As a thousand-year-old tradition of China people, drinking tea for health can moisten dryness.
Although it is suitable for drinking tea all year round, there are certain stresses on drinking tea in four seasons, such as drinking green tea in spring and summer, which has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, detoxifying and quenching thirst; It is advisable to drink green tea and black tea in autumn and winter, which can help digestion without hurting the spleen and stomach. Among them, green tea belongs to semi-fermented tea, including oolong tea, Tieguanyin tea and Dahongpao tea. Between black tea and green tea. It can eliminate dryness and heat in human body and achieve the effect of clearing dryness and promoting fluid production.
7. Eat "fruit" instead of "melon"
There is a folk saying that "autumn melons hurt the stomach", and some delicious melons are mostly yin and cold. Eating too much will damage the spleen and stomach, so it is necessary.
But some fruits can be eaten more. Pear can moisten lung, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, and it is the most recommended fruit in autumn. Apple is rich in vitamins and potassium, which is not only beneficial to cardiovascular patients, but also can stop diarrhea. Longan has the functions of nourishing and strengthening, calming the nerves and enriching blood, and is especially suitable for the elderly who suffer from insomnia at night. Grapes can prevent fatigue, and have the functions of benefiting qi and enriching blood, strengthening bones and muscles, strengthening stomach and diuresis.
8. Get more sunshine to resist autumn shortage
Old people are most prone to autumn fatigue, which is actually. In addition to diet, we must change the habit of staying up late since spring and summer. Go to bed early and get up early, and have fun with chickens.
In addition, after autumn, the sunshine time is reduced, melatonin is relatively increased, the secretion of thyroxine and adrenaline is inhibited, and people's mood is therefore low. Therefore, it is necessary to increase sunshine, take more outdoor walks on sunny days, and guarantee half an hour every day. Drinking a cup of American ginseng tea every day also has the functions of refreshing, invigorating qi and resisting fatigue.
9. Drink a cup of almond dew for breakfast.
As the saying goes, "Radish, almond, dried ginger and pear can effectively cure cough without seeking medical advice". Almond has unique functions of relieving cough, moistening lung and relieving asthma, which can effectively deal with cough symptoms that often appear in autumn. Drinking a cup of hot almond dew this season will make your lungs more moist. Adding tremella, Sydney and other foods into almond syrup to make almond soup can double the effect of moistening lung and relieving asthma.
Almond is a kind of food with a long history. There are two kinds of almonds, one is bitter, called bitter almond or apricot, which is mostly used for treatment; One is sweet, named sweet apricot or south apricot, which is specially used for eating. Drink almond dew every day, you might as well use South Almond. The method is simple. Add water, sugar, and milk to boil the ground and deslagging almonds, or directly buy freshly ground almond powder to boil, and a cup of delicious almond dew will be ready. A cup of almond dew with whole wheat bread, eggs, etc. It's a hearty breakfast.
10 to prevent taking medicine on time.
In late September, the temperature dropped, the number of colds increased, and more than 90% patients with chronic bronchitis were prone to relapse. There is a big temperature difference between morning and evening. Don't just wear a dress that is too thin or too thick. You can wear more than two clothes in a stack, which is convenient to adjust at any time. When sleeping, you should protect your chest and back, because the acupoints of the five internal organs are all gathered on your back. If evil wind invades, it is easy to get sick.
Patients and people with "three highs" should also insist on taking medicine under the guidance of doctors, monitor blood pressure changes every day and take antihypertensive drugs on time.
1 1, go to sleep in autumn.
Farewell to the hot summer, and finally will usher in a crisp autumn, feeling much more comfortable than summer. However, some white-collar friends often feel sleepy and tired at work, which is called autumn lack. Autumn deficiency is a protective response of the human body to make up for the extraordinary consumption in summer. Although the lack of autumn will disappear naturally after a period of adjustment and adaptation, it is best to take corresponding preventive measures in order not to affect work and life.
Experts suggest that in autumn, white-collar workers should learn to slow down, reduce sleep and sleep as much as possible. In addition, it is also a good choice to fight fatigue properly, such as walking and climbing mountains, but the intensity should not be too high at first, and the amount should be gradually increased. If you exercise too much, you will feel tired, which is not conducive to physical recovery.
12, eat yam for stomach cold.
At this time, you should eat some warm food, and the staple food can be changed into japonica rice, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach and replenish qi. Yam can nourish the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and moisten the lungs. You can eat Chinese yam stewed ribs twice a week, or you can cook porridge with rice, millet and jujube.
In addition, eat steamed fish once a week and eat more eggs and lotus seeds. But eat less cold fruits.
13, it is best to smile often when raising lungs.
Laughter may be the cheapest and most effective way to moisten the lungs. There is a saying in Chinese medicine called "Laugh often and open your lungs". Modern medical research has also proved that laughter is indeed the best "exercise" for the body, and different degrees of laughter have appropriate coordination effects on respiratory organs, chest, abdomen, internal organs, muscles and other organs. Especially for me, laughter can dilate the lungs, and people will unconsciously take a deep breath to clean the respiratory tract and make breathing smooth. In addition, when people laugh, they can absorb more oxygen into the body. With the blood flowing smoothly all over the body, every cell in the body can get enough oxygen.
Experts remind that although laughter can cure diseases and strengthen the body, it must be moderate, otherwise it will bring great joy and sadness. Especially people with hypertension and arteriosclerosis and patients after surgery, don't laugh or laugh wildly. It is also inappropriate to laugh often, so as not to cause severe abdominal convulsions and lead to premature delivery or miscarriage.