This season is a day of keeping in good health, and we should deal with autumn dryness with warmth.
The human body is particularly prone to feel hot and dry in autumn, with symptoms such as dry skin, sore throat and dry mouth, which is called "autumn dryness" by Chinese medicine. Due to the large temperature difference between morning and evening in autumn, all kinds of respiratory germs and viruses are also active, especially prone to respiratory diseases such as colds. Therefore, the autumn diet should be based on nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and eat more warm foods.
Meat suitable for autumn: black-bone chicken, pig's trotters and soft-shelled turtle.
Fruits suitable for autumn shopping: Sweet and sour fruits can stimulate saliva secretion and help digestion, so apples, grapes and oranges are especially suitable for autumn consumption.
Autumn lung-nourishing food: autumn dryness is easy to hurt the lungs. In autumn, you should eat more lung-nourishing food rich in water, such as tremella, yam, lily, lotus root, sesame and walnut.
The most suitable soup for autumn: among all kinds of foods, soup is undoubtedly the most nourishing one. The following soups are indispensable nourishing products in autumn.
West Lake Water Shepherd Soup: Water Shepherd is a natural aquatic plant, which is rich in mucus and colloid and has rich nutritional value. Using water shield to make soup is not only smooth in taste, but also appetizing.
Watermelon and black-bone chicken soup: Watermelon peel and black-bone chicken both have moisturizing effects, which are especially suitable for women to supplement in autumn. Take fresh watermelon, remove the pulp, cut the skin into small pieces and stew it with black-bone chicken and candied dates.
Old duck soup with melon and dried tangerine peel: Duck soup should be drunk in autumn, but it should be cooked for a long time. Take an old duck, mix it with appropriate amount of wax gourd, coix seed, dried tangerine peel and red dates, and stew it on low fire for more than 3 hours to make a pot of old duck soup with good color and flavor.
Agrocybe aegerita sparerib soup: cut Agrocybe aegerita into small pieces and stew with small ribs and red dates. First fire 15 minutes, then fire for 30 minutes, which can clear the intestines and nourish the stomach. It can also be stewed with various mushrooms to make the soup more delicious.
Self-made drinks instead of carbonated drinks
Drinking more water is naturally the most common supplement. If you can't find the taste of life with a glass of pure and transparent white water, you can also make more fuss about drinks to relieve discomfort.
Brewing medlar, jujube and chrysanthemum together instead of daily carbonated drinks is helpful to replenish lung and qi, improve immunity and resist virus invasion.
Drink with roses, chrysanthemums, etc. In turn, it can alleviate the irritability and tension in autumn, clear away fire and detoxify, and replenish sufficient water for the body.
Boil tremella and pear together, or stir with a blender to make juice, and drink a cup before going to bed every night to relieve the symptoms of dry throat. Tremella fills the lungs and pears moisten the lungs. The combination of the two is the best aftercare product in autumn, and it also has the effect of beauty beauty if used for a long time.
Drinking a bowl of hot porridge after getting up in the morning can warm the stomach, which can make the whole body comfortable and has a remarkable effect of invigorating qi. You can try pear+millet porridge, or add purple rice and jujube together to cook porridge to tonify the kidney and strengthen the spleen. The latter is especially suitable for women who often feel cold and have cold hands and feet.
Vegetarian food is the best for health.
When the weather gets cold, people's appetites get better. Many people think that when autumn comes, they must eat more meat to stick on the "autumn fat", so they often go out to rinse hot pot and eat all kinds of high-fat beef and mutton, which will easily lead to excessive calorie intake, obesity and the accumulation of "bad fat" in the blood. In addition, after the summer heat, the human spleen and stomach are weak and cold, and it is difficult to bear the stimulation of big fish and big meat, which is easy to cause indigestion. In autumn, the scientific method of health preservation should be to use vegetarian supplements skillfully. Some special vegetarianism not only has incomparable nutritional value of meat, but also tastes delicious, and is an indispensable and important member of the autumn table.
Taro: Rich in protein, carbohydrates and vitamins. It can be eaten with various dishes and is easy to digest. Especially suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.
Mushrooms: You might as well eat more "mushroom feast" in autumn. Fungi are rich in protein, with extremely low fat content and rich in vitamins and trace elements. Cooking or frying various wild fungi can well maintain the original flavor and nutritional value of mushrooms.
White radish: contains a lot of water, vitamin C and minerals such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, and also contains beneficial components such as lignin, choline and oxidase. Chinese medicine has long said that radish competes for ginseng after autumn, which shows the high nutritional value of radish. Radish entering the lung and stomach meridian can eliminate food stagnation, eliminate phlegm and clear heat, ventilate the lower qi and detoxify, and has a good effect on regulating the spleen and stomach. It has a good auxiliary treatment effect on dyspepsia, wind-heat cold, sore throat and other symptoms caused by autumn climate change.
Pumpkin: rich in beta carotene and vitamin E, it can enhance human immunity and help improve the symptoms of autumn dryness. The best way to eat pumpkin is to cook porridge or steam it with red dates.
Sweet potato: it can provide a lot of mucin, sugar and vitamins for the body, replenish deficiency and qi, strengthen the spleen and stomach and strengthen kidney yin.
Chinese cabbage: rich in trace elements such as molybdenum and manganese, it is an essential raw material for human body to make active substances such as enzymes and hormones, which can enhance human metabolism and improve vitality. It contains a lot of vitamin C, and it can also enhance the body's resistance.
Celery: It is hot and dry in autumn, and it is easy to constipation. Many green vegetables are rich in cellulose, which can effectively promote intestinal peristalsis and prevent constipation. Although these cellulose itself can't provide energy for the body and can't be converted into high-nutrient substances, they are like loyal guards in the intestines, cleaning up the garbage in the body at any time and removing toxins for the body. Celery is one of the vegetables with the richest cellulose content and is called "the king of cellulose". Eating a little celery every day can make you easily get rid of autumn constipation.
Autumn food that is not suitable for tonic
Eat less ginger. Ginger is hot and dry, and it is easy to get angry after eating, which aggravates autumn dryness. There is a saying in Chinese medicine that you should not eat ginger in August and September, which is a valuable experience summarized according to the different physical characteristics of the human body in four seasons. In addition, spicy products such as onions, garlic and leeks should also be avoided.
Most people like to rinse hot pot in autumn. It seems that the spicy taste is enough, but it is easy to accumulate internal fire in the body, causing constipation and acne on the face. When eating hot pot in autumn, rinse with vegetables and mushrooms, and don't rinse too much meat. It is not advisable to eat more dog meat in autumn. Dog meat is high in calories and easy to get angry. Don't drink tea at the same time, especially when you rinse hot pot. Tannic acid contained in tea combines with protein in meat to form a substance called tannic acid protein, which has a strong astringent effect and easily leads to constipation.
Autumn tonic should be arranged reasonably according to the type and degree of physical weakness, and it can't be supplemented indiscriminately. If people without deficiency disorder take tonics indiscriminately, it will have a negative impact. Deficiency can be divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only by taking supplements according to the symptoms can we achieve good results. For example, some people eat a lot of longan, ginseng and other sexual hot supplements in autumn, which can easily cause abdominal distension, irritability, nosebleeds, elevated blood pressure and other adverse reactions.
Autumn is also the season of high incidence of gastrointestinal diseases, so we should eat less cold salad and salad to reduce the stimulation of cold food, so as not to cause stomach cold. Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables raw in autumn is easy to cause diarrhea, reduce the resistance of gastrointestinal system, help damp evil and damage spleen yang.