1. Pay attention to prevent excessive heat energy. Autumn diet, we should pay attention to the right amount, do not indulge appetite, eat and drink.

2. Chinese medicine says that "hemp should be eaten to moisten dryness". First of all, we should eat less pungent and spicy foods, such as peppers and peppers, and eat more fruits and vegetables, such as wax gourd, radish, zucchini, eggplant, green leafy vegetables, apples and bananas. In addition, avoid the accumulation of various damp and hot gases. So it is recommended to eat some spicy food, such as celery.

From summer to autumn, the temperature drops. In order to adapt to this change, the physiological metabolism of the human body has also changed. If the diet is too cold, it will cause indigestion and prone to various digestive tract diseases. Therefore, there is a proposition that "autumn should be warm" in diet, that is to say, we should avoid eating raw and cold food in autumn and eat more warm food.

4. Seaweed is rich in protein, cellulose, vitamins and minerals. Seaweed is rich in soluble cellophane acid, which can protect human body from radiation damage.

5. Autumn pear is a good autumn fruit, which has a good effect of relieving cough and moistening dryness.

6. Autumn dryness mainly depends on prevention. First of all, it is advisable to drink more water, porridge and soybean milk, and eat more foods such as radish, lotus root, water chestnut and pear, which moisten the lungs and promote fluid production, nourish yin and clear dryness. Pear, in particular, has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and reducing fire, moistening lung and removing dryness, and is very suitable for people with internal heat, cough due to lung heat, dry throat and sore throat, and dry stool.

7. Try to eat less or not to eat hot and dry products such as peppers, onions, ginger, garlic and peppers in autumn, and eat less fried and greasy foods to prevent the symptoms of autumn dryness from getting worse.

8. Autumn diet should be based on nourishing yin and moistening lung. Autumn dryness is easy to hurt the lungs. You can eat some soft foods such as sesame, honey, lily, almond, dairy products, etc., which is beneficial to the stomach and body fluid, and is good for health. At the same time, you can eat more sour fruits and vegetables, and put them away when they are sour.

9. In early autumn, the temperature is still relatively high and dry, and the tonic should be mainly "clear". Suitable foods for autumn are:

Lily: It has the functions of nourishing lung and moistening lung, clearing away heart fire and calming nerves, eliminating fatigue, moistening dryness and relieving cough.

Yam: it is characterized by tonic without stagnation, neither hot nor dry, and is suitable for men, women and children.

White lentils: Cooking porridge or soup with white lentils in early autumn can relieve summer heat, relieve summer heat, strengthen spleen and stomach, and stimulate appetite.

Lotus root: raw lotus root can clear away heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst; Cooked lotus root can strengthen spleen, stimulate appetite and benefit blood. There is a saying that "lotus roots should be cooked in summer and autumn, raw food should be fresh and tender, and cooked food should be old and strong".

Monopterus albus: Eating Monopterus albus in autumn not only has a strong nourishing effect, but also has a certain regulating effect on human blood sugar. Can be used for barbecuing eel segments, stewing eel, frying eel shreds and eel porridge.

Chestnut: It has the functions of strengthening spleen and stomach, tonifying kidney and strengthening bones.

Walnut: It can tonify kidney, solidify essence, warm lung and relieve asthma, invigorate qi and nourish blood, moisten dryness and intestines.

Peanuts: When peanuts are ripe in late autumn, they should be ground with fresh peanuts to make soup or boiled, not fried.

Jujube: Eating jujube in autumn is a tonic food for nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting lung and invigorating qi. If it can be stewed with tremella, lily and yam, the effect will be better.

Bitter gourd: Bitter gourd has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxicating, improving eyesight, benefiting qi and replenishing essence.

Lotus root: Lotus root is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It has the effects of diminishing inflammation, removing blood stasis, clearing away heat and dampness, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.

In addition, pears, water chestnuts, jellyfish, carrots, shepherd's purse, Pleurotus ostreatus, kelp, tomatoes and rabbit meat are also suitable for autumn consumption, while astragalus, ginseng, adenophora, medlar and Polygonum multiflorum are suitable for tonic.

10. Don't eat too many warm foods or drugs, such as mutton, dog meat, ginseng, velvet antler, cinnamon, etc., except those with yang deficiency. Otherwise, it is easy to aggravate autumn dryness.

Common sense of self-care and health preservation in autumn

1. Increase or decrease clothes in time. After beginning of autumn, the temperature difference between day and night is large, so it is not advisable to be shirtless or wear too much and too warm.

2. Drink more liquids such as boiled water, light tea, fruit juice drinks, soybean milk and milk. To nourish yin and moisten dryness, and make up for the damage of yin. However, when drinking liquid diet, especially liquid drinks such as drinks and water, the drinking method is quite particular, and it is better to drink a small amount often.

3. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. Autumn dryness is the most harmful to body fluids. Most fruits and vegetables have the effects of nourishing body fluid, moistening dryness, clearing heat and relaxing bowels. Vegetables, fruits, etc. contain a lot of water and can replenish body fluids. In addition, you can eat more nourishing products such as honey, lily and lotus seeds to conform to the clearing nature of the lungs.

4. Eat less spicy fried hot food. Spicy foods and condiments such as leek, garlic, onion, ginger, star anise and fennel, as well as fried foods such as fried chicken legs and fried quail, will help dry and hurt yin and aggravate autumn dryness.

5. Pay attention to mental conditioning. People with yin deficiency are easy to get angry and lose their temper, which is what people often say. Excessive liver fire will consume yin and body fluid for a long time. In autumn, its dryness is more obvious. Therefore, another link to prevent autumn dryness is to pay attention to mental conditioning and treat everything with a peaceful attitude in order to adapt to the convergence of autumn and spend this eventful autumn calmly.

6. The therapeutic principle of Chinese medicine is tonifying deficiency. It does not mean that patients with asthenia should not use tonics. Deficiency is divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only the right medicine can make up the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive and will hurt the body.

7. Excessive supplements are harmful. It is unscientific to think that "take more tonics, treat diseases and strengthen the body without diseases".

8. Getting up early in autumn can reduce the chance of thrombosis; It is also of great significance to lie in bed for a few minutes before getting up to stretch the whole body and prevent thrombosis.

9. Pay attention to be optimistic at ordinary times, often go to places with fresh air, spit out the old and absorb the new, so as to converge the "qi" and protect the lungs from dryness and evil.

10. After the White Dew, the climate gradually became cold, which aggravated the chill in the morning and evening. If you are naked again at this time, you will easily catch cold, catch a cold and get lung disease. Because autumn qi governs dryness, dryness is easy to hurt the lungs.

1 1. The folk proverb "autumn melons rot the belly" means that if beginning of autumn continues to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables raw, it will easily lead to gastrointestinal diseases. After beginning of autumn, eating a lot of fruits and vegetables raw will certainly help damp evil and damage spleen yang. If the spleen yang is weak and cannot transport water and dampness, acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery and loose stool will follow.

12. The treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to tonify deficiency, not to use tonics for patients with deficiency. Also pay attention to the appropriate amount of tonic, avoid taking medicine, medicine tonic is not as good as food tonic. The food tonic mainly nourishes yin and moistens dryness, including black-bone chicken, pig lung, turtle meat, bird's nest, tremella, honey, sesame, soybean milk, lotus root, walnut, coix seed, peanut, duck egg, spinach and pear. When combined with other beneficial foods or traditional Chinese medicines, the effect is better.