Chinese medicine believes that the autumn climate is mainly dry. In fact, the maturity of all things in nature just needs such drying. However, this special climate is prone to "dryness", and the diseases caused by human body feeling "dryness" are collectively called "autumn dryness". Autumn dryness can be divided into warm dryness and cool dryness. One is hot and the other is cold. The former is seen in the early autumn, and after entering the late autumn, the autumn is more intense, and the "cool and dry" is more prosperous, which is the most likely to hurt the lungs.
The lung is the most vulnerable organ of the human body. Chinese medicine believes that the lungs are wet and dry, and the weather is just dry in autumn, which is easy to hurt the lungs, especially the elderly. If you hurt your lungs because of "autumn dryness", you will either get sick immediately or get infected with many lung diseases in winter. Then, what symptoms will appear when the human body feels "dry evil"?
Autumn cough can occur after feeling dry in autumn, mainly manifested as cough, dry cough without phlegm or sticky phlegm. The throat and pharynx are the portals of the lungs and the channels of lung qi. When autumn dryness strikes, it will cause discomfort such as dry throat, dry mouth and hoarse voice, while when the human body hurts the lungs due to autumn dryness, it will cause dry nose and even runny nose.
Health preservation in autumn is mainly to nourish the lungs, and "preventing lung dryness, protecting yin and protecting body fluid" is the key.
1. "Salt water in the morning, honey soup in the evening" means that you should pay attention to proper drinking and hydrating in autumn, and you can choose lung-moistening tea, such as Qingyan tea, Radix Platycodi licorice tea, Sangju loquat tea and so on.
2. Properly regulate lung, regulate lung, spread lung, take Chinese medicine orally or choose acupoint application, moxibustion therapy, balanced cupping and other external treatment methods to treat autumn cough. Acupoint sticking is selected from Tiantu, Zhongshan, Dingchuan and Shu Fei. Moxibustion selects points such as Fengmen, Shu Fei and Dazhui to dispel cold.
3. If you are constipated in autumn, you can choose Chinese medicine to relieve constipation. Symptoms can be relieved by moxibustion or abdominal massage.
4. Appropriate supplements for nourishing lung and moistening dryness, such as celery, spinach, lily, almond, yam, honey, dark plum, pear, banana and pitaya.
Dietotherapy recommendation:
1. Cook lean meat with lotus seeds and lilies (practice: select about half a catty of lean pork, then add 10g lotus seeds and lilies and appropriate amount of water, stew and season).
2. Tremella rock sugar soup (practice: choose tremella 10 to 20g, soak in cold boiled water for about 1 hour, then put tremella and appropriate amount of rock sugar into a bowl, add appropriate amount of cold boiled water, and stew together for 2 to 3 hours).
"March autumn, this is called tolerance, the weather is urgent, and the atmosphere is cool. Go to bed early and get up early, and have fun with chickens. " A calm mind can delay the punishment in autumn. "-Huangdi Neijing. Going to bed early can better collect essence, while getting up early can stretch lung qi as much as possible. In fact, the best time to raise the lungs in a day is from 7: 00 to 9: 00 in the morning, when the lung function should be the strongest, so jogging, playing Baduanjin, Tai Ji Chuan and other sports can all play a certain role in strengthening the lung function. At the same time, you can go out for a walk in the crisp autumn season, breathe the fresh air of nature, keep your mood comfortable and deal with "autumn dryness".