Why do so many people cough easily in autumn?
It is easy to cough in autumn, which is likely to be "dryness invading the lungs" in autumn. The lung is arrogant and dirty, and autumn dryness invades the lung, which is easy to cause cough. This seasonal symptom has been affirmed and valued by many doctors since ancient times.
For example, Yu, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, once said that "autumn hurts in dryness", and Ye, a febrile disease scientist in the Qing Dynasty, also said: "Dryness begins in the lungs and makes people cough." So in autumn, the number of patients with cough in hospitals and clinics suddenly increased. ...
According to the principle of "harmony between man and nature" and "philosophy of five elements", the five elements in autumn correspond to gold, and the five elements in human lungs also correspond to gold. In autumn, dryness is easy to hurt the lungs, and the lungs are "delicate and dirty", covered with fur to control breathing. When exogenous pathogens invade the human body, it is easy to attack the lungs and cough, whether it is inhaled from the nose and mouth or invaded from the skin.
Treatment of autumn cough with three tonic methods
In the alternate season of dry weather and dry things, more and more people cough around them. Many times a bad cough will affect work and life more or less. I would like to share with you a few simple and easy ways to deal with autumn cough, which is worth collecting.
1. Distinguish cold, heat and dry cough.
There are many prescriptions for relieving cough, but cough is divided into cold, heat and dryness, and syndrome differentiation is the key. To put it simply, cold should dispel cold, that is, dryness should nourish yin and heat should dissipate heat.
colds cough
The temperature drops in the morning and evening in autumn. If people still blow the air conditioner violently, it is easy to cause colds and colds, which will lead to colds and coughs. The physical manifestations of cold and cough are: runny nose, cold hands and feet, slight fear of cold and wind, light tongue coating, light tongue quality and no obvious sore throat.
It is the key to dispel cold in time when coughing due to exogenous cold. I recommend a delicious and effective diet remedy for all ages-roasted oranges. The outermost layer of orange peel is called orange, which is spicy, bitter and warm. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian. It can dispel cold, dry dampness, benefit qi and resolve phlegm. Used for cough due to wind-cold, itchy throat and excessive phlegm.
Recommended diet: roasted oranges
Wash the oranges and bake them on the stove with chopsticks; In the process of baking, turn the oranges constantly to make each side heated evenly; When the oranges are all black, you can turn off the fire; When you heat an orange, you can peel the orange and eat its flesh.
dry cough
Autumn is a season full of dryness, which is easy to damage body fluids. The typical symptoms of cough caused by dryness are: dry throat, dry expectoration, chapped mouth and lips, dry stool, and easy fever in hands and feet.
In the early stage of this kind of cough, you can eat more foods that moisten the lungs and remove dryness, and you can nourish the lungs, such as mulberry leaves, Polygonatum odoratum, lilies, almonds and pears. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Pears, the living clear the heat of the six fu organs, and the ripe ones nourish the yin of the five internal organs." It is suggested that you can eat rock sugar to stew Sydney, promote fluid production to quench thirst, relieve cough and phlegm, clear away heat and reduce fire, moisten lung and dispel dryness.
Recommended diet: Stewed Sydney with rock sugar.
Cut the whole pear into pieces, add water and cook with rock sugar. After the fire boils, simmer for 5 to 10 minutes. You can eat soup and pear meat together when eating.
cough due to wind-heat evil
Autumn is hot and dry, and everyone is prone to cough because of excessive internal heat or wind-heat cold. Physical manifestations of heat cough: dry stool, fever in hands and feet, stuffy nose, yellow greasy tongue coating and yellow phlegm.
At this time, it is necessary to properly clear away heat and purge lung fire. Su Wenzhi's Theory of Truth says: "Those who are hot are cold". So I recommend you to eat stewed pears with Chuanbei. Fritillaria cirrhosa is cool and sweet. Entering the lung meridian and stomach meridian has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma, and clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Compatible with pears, it is better to moisten dryness and clear heat.
Recommended diet: stewed pear with Chuanbei.
Use about 3g of Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, cut the upper end of a Pak Lei at the same time, remove the pear core, add Fritillaria cirrhosa powder, then cover it, put the pear into a bowl, add a proper amount of water into the bowl, and then put it into a steamer to start steaming for about 30 minutes; Finally, take out the bowl to warm it, eat pears and drink soup.
It is worth mentioning that, among the two therapeutic prescriptions mentioned above, pear soup and stewed pear with Chuanbei have pears as blind food.
Pear is one of the most common fruits in the world in daily life. Pear has been known as the "Sect of Hundred Fruits" since ancient times, which can relieve cough and phlegm, clear away heat and reduce fire, and is a good diet for autumn dry cough. If you don't have time to stew dietotherapy remedies or think the steps are too troublesome, I'll introduce you to a platycodon grandiflorum pear flower soup.
According to pear's characteristics of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, it can not only clear away heat and relieve sore throat, but also moisten lung, nourish yin and resolve phlegm. You can keep it at home in autumn.
2. Stop coughing and massage more.
Yuji point is a special point on lung meridian-Xing point, and it is also an important point to strengthen lung health. This acupoint has the function of clearing heat, and has the best effect on relieving hot cough and dry cough caused by autumn dryness. At the same time, it is also called "Mingmen point", which can introduce the lung meridian surface into the body through water and expel the qi from the lung meridian in the body. It can be said that sticking to fish every day has many benefits.
Specific practice: Fishbone point is the bone margin point, and the first metacarpal bone can be used as a marker to find the point. Open your palm and stroke down along the outer edge of the first metacarpal bone to find a depression, which is the thenar point. When pressing the fishbone point, you need a pointer. You can press the fishbone point with your opposite thumb.
3. Daily adjustment
Based on the principle of harvesting yin in autumn, nourishing yin and moistening lung. Autumn is a transitional period of yin and yang metabolism, and human life activities should adopt Yin Qi as the principle.
"Su Wen On the Method of Dirty Qi" says: The lungs converge, eating acid in a hurry to collect it, supplementing it with acid, and pungent diarrhea. Sour taste will converge lung qi, while pungent taste will disperse and purge lung, so we should try to eat less irritating foods such as onion and ginger, and eat more sour vegetables, foods and foods that nourish yin and moisten lung, such as lily, lotus root, radish, yam, tremella, grapefruit and apple.
Traditional Chinese medicine from Yunnan