After these solar terms, it means that the real autumn has arrived. From the point of view of TCM health preservation, we should also maintain the law of balance between yin and yang in autumn.
In autumn, the yang in nature is gradually closed, the yin is getting longer, and the climate is dry, "dryness hurts the lungs." Therefore, in the autumn equinox season, if you want to pay attention to health, you must raise your lungs.
Some universities also ask about raising lungs. Moistening the lungs in autumn depends on the type.
Generally speaking, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the summer heat has not dissipated. The cough at this time belongs to dry cough, which is also called warm dry cough in Chinese medicine. The specific symptoms are hypohidrosis and dry cough, which are caused by the invasion of dryness and evil.
In autumn, we need to pay more attention to health preservation. Due to the large temperature difference between day and night, the human body's resistance will decrease, which makes it easier for germs to invade the human body and cause colds and coughs.
Similarly, dry air in autumn can invade our lungs and respiratory tract, causing dry cough. The symptoms of "dry cough" are mostly dry respiratory tract, itchy and uncomfortable nasopharynx, burning pain, less dry expectoration and frequent cough.
If dry cough is not treated in time, it will damage our respiratory tract, lead to bronchitis or bronchitis, and hurt the lungs, thus inducing paroxysmal severe dry cough and other symptoms, which is often called autumn dry cough.
According to the principle of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment, autumn dryness can be divided into warm dryness and cold dryness, but both of them will make us lose vaginal fluid and body fluid, leading to dry mouth, cleft lip, sore throat, paroxysmal cough, and even nosebleeds or coughs with blood.
At the same time, because our lung is an organ that likes moistening and hates dryness, our lung function will be inhibited by autumn dryness, resulting in symptoms such as insufficient oxygen supply, body fluid consumption, itchy skin, hair withering and constipation.
In view of autumn dryness, how to nourish yin and moisten the lungs?
In the autumn equinox, the temperature difference between morning and evening is large. Besides keeping warm, you need proper exercise to enhance your own immunity.
Internally, dry weather is easy to harm lung health. In autumn, our skin and throat are prone to dryness and discomfort, and we need to replenish our lungs and moisten them as much as possible. We can eat foods that moisten lung and clear heat like Sydney, or take (Tianyitang) Sydney cream, which has the effects of clearing lung heat, moistening dryness and relieving cough. It is very suitable for people with dry and chronic cough in autumn, clearing away heat and moistening lung, relieving cough and reducing the harm caused by autumn dryness.
Emotionally, according to the theory of health preservation in traditional Chinese medicine, Su Wen's Theory of Four Qi Regulating the Spirit points out that "calming the mind, delaying the punishment in autumn, astringing the qi, and calming the autumn qi; Without ambition, the lungs are clear, and this autumn gas should be the way to raise and collect. "
This means that autumn is easy to cause our inner decline, decadence, sadness and other bad emotions, and it is easy to hurt our lungs and liver. We need to pay attention to emotional conditioning, learn to adjust ourselves properly, maintain an optimistic mood and a calm heart, come out to relax appropriately, and do something we like to cultivate our self-cultivation and cultivate our temperament.