Spring and autumn do not touch all diseases.
The popular saying is that in spring, don't take off your thick winter clothes in a hurry, but cover them properly; Don't wear thick clothes when the temperature drops slightly in autumn, and freeze it properly.
"This is similar to the warm-up of athletes. The weather turns cold in autumn, which gives the body an adaptation process. A little freezing can improve the body's resistance, and winter will not be particularly afraid of cold. " Mai Yanfang, deputy chief physician of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guilin Second People's Hospital, said that proper cooling stimulation is helpful to exercise cold tolerance. After a period of exercise in an environment with gradually decreasing temperature, it can promote the body to produce heat and improve its adaptability to low temperature. However, she stressed that we should also pay attention to the appropriate increase or decrease of clothes, not too thin. "If children are properly frozen in autumn, their ability to keep out the cold in winter will be stronger and they will not catch a cold easily."
Autumn melon hurts the stomach and spleen.
The so-called bad belly of autumn melon means that it is not advisable to continue to eat a lot of melons and fruits after beginning of autumn, otherwise it is easy to eat a bad belly, causing gastrointestinal discomfort such as vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Mai Yanfang explained that after entering autumn, the yang in nature began to converge and settle, so people should maintain the yang, but most melons are cold, and eating more will damage the yang in the spleen and stomach. "In summer, people tend to eat a lot of fruits and cold drinks, and their spleen and stomach are already weak. If they continue to eat after the weather gets cold, they are easy to get sick. People with spleen and stomach deficiency should eat less cold fruits and vegetables in summer and eat less in autumn. "
Eat free food in autumn to nourish yin and moisten lungs.
The "free food" in this sentence refers to white food, such as yam, radish, lotus root, pear, lily and so on.
"Autumn main lung qi, diet should be based on nourishing yin and moistening lung. According to the five elements, white food is mostly nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, which is very suitable for autumn consumption. " Mai Yanfang said that in autumn, many people still have summer heat toxin, dry mouth, bitter taste, constipation, etc., and they need to purge lung fire. "Free food" can play a role.
"This is the same as' autumn radish ginseng', because radish is suitable for digestion and can sort out lung qi." Mai Yanfang said.
Don't eat ginger in autumn to avoid getting angry.
As the saying goes, it is not advisable to eat more ginger in autumn within one year, and it is not advisable to eat more ginger in the evening within one day.
Mai Yanfang pointed out that ginger is irritating and does not meet the requirements of nourishing yin and moistening dryness in autumn diet, so "don't eat ginger in autumn"; Moreover, ginger has the effect of pungent smell. Eating at night is easy to get angry, and getting angry will affect people's normal rest at night, so "don't eat ginger at night."
But she stressed that eating ginger still has many benefits, just pay attention to it. "The so-called' eat radish in winter and ginger in summer, without a doctor's prescription', people will eat a lot of cold food in summer, so it is more appropriate to eat some warm ginger to neutralize."
Drink more soup in autumn.
The dry air in autumn is more suitable for making tonic into soup. Ordinary people should use food for tonic, that is, choose fresh Chinese cabbage, radish, lotus root and so on. And add fish to make soup, such as peanut chicken feet soup, lotus root beef soup, spinach pork liver soup, radish sparerib soup and so on. You can also eat some cold fruits with diuretic and antipyretic effects, such as apples, Sydney, oranges, water chestnuts and grapes. , and can supplement a variety of vitamins and trace elements. The climate in autumn is dry and thirsty, but it is not advisable to drink more carbonated drinks. You can choose rock sugar boat-fruited Sterculia or honey chrysanthemum to soak, and drink it often, which can not only replenish water in the body, but also play a role in health care and treatment.