? 1, diet: mainly nourishing.
An autumn rain, a cold. After the autumnal equinox, the temperature plummeted and the climate was dry. Many people will inevitably have nasal congestion, dry throat, itchy throat, dry skin, respiratory diseases, autumn diarrhea and other problems. Pay special attention to prevent autumn dryness in diet.
During the autumnal equinox, it is important to provide enough water. This kind of hydration should be comprehensive, including normal drinking water and skin moisturizing. In short, try to make your body feel moist and comfortable from head to toe.
Here, I want to remind you that the so-called autumnal equinox is different from Bailuyuan. Speaking of the dryness of the autumnal equinox, it is cool and dry, and the Millennium is warm and dry. So be sure to eat some moist food, such as sesame, glutinous rice, walnuts and so on. There are many kinds of fruits and vegetables in the autumn market, including lotus root, water chestnut, sugarcane, autumn pear, citrus, hawthorn, apple, grape, lily, tremella, persimmon, sesame and honey.
The fresh pears and radishes in the autumnal equinox have the function of promoting qi circulation and can reach all parts of the human body to moisten dryness. Pears cooked as much as possible can nourish the yin of the internal organs. Autumn dryness is easy to hurt the large intestine, so constipation and hemorrhoids often occur. At this time, you should eat more plantain, banana, sesame, walnut and Polygonum multiflorum.
In addition, remember that "autumn melons are ripe." Watermelon is a good product for clearing heat and relieving summer heat in summer, but it is not advisable to eat more watermelon, cantaloupe or cauliflower after beginning of autumn, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach. ? .
Health experts in China also advocate eating porridge every morning in the six solar terms in autumn. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, Li Ting thought that "eating porridge early, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, benefiting the stomach and producing fluid, makes people feel refreshed and makes up for the shortcomings." ? . " ? Fang said that bean sprouts should not be eaten at the autumnal equinox. At this time, bean sprouts will hurt people's nerves and cause asthma. During the autumnal equinox, it is not advisable to eat more ginger and raw garlic. Egg yolk moon cakes, bean sprouts, fresh ginger, raw garlic, lungs, pheasants, pork belly, celery and crabs are best eaten less or not.
2. Life: Go to bed early and get up early
After the autumnal equinox, the climate becomes cool, and the gastrointestinal tract is very sensitive to cold stimulation. Improper protection will lead to acid regurgitation, abdominal distension, diarrhea, abdominal pain and other gastrointestinal diseases. Or aggravate the original stomach disease. Therefore, patients with chronic gastritis should pay special attention to keeping their stomachs warm, add clothes in time, and cover the quilt when sleeping at night.
Don't put on too many clothes too quickly, so that the human body can resist the cold. This is the so-called "spring over autumn". Children and the elderly are weak. Unlike young people, they are more sensitive to the cold. Pay special attention to changing clothes in autumn. Wear more clothes in the morning and evening to avoid catching a cold.
Pay special attention to keep your feet warm and don't let your feet stay in summer-wearing sandals barefoot is easy to catch a cold, causing gastrointestinal discomfort and even catching a cold. Besides warming your feet during the day, it's good to come back for a while in the evening to soak in hot water.
In autumn, it is particularly important to form a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. Even 10 minutes earlier than before is an improvement. Especially female friends, we should pay more attention to going to bed early and getting up early. The deeper the night, the heavier the cold, and the cold can easily invade the body, laying a hidden danger for waist and leg pain and causing cough and other diseases.
Chinese medicine believes that lying on your side and bending your knees can preserve the essence. Long-lived old people usually sleep on their side. Lie more on the right bow. As the ancients said, "Lying like a bow". The correct sleeping position is to put one elbow in front of the pillow, the other hand on the thigh, lie on the right side, slightly bend your legs and relax your whole body. In this way, the spine naturally forms an arch, the limbs move freely, the muscles of the whole body are fully relaxed, the chest compression is less, and it is not easy to snore. It should be pointed out that the choice of sleeping position in autumn also varies from person to person. For example, patients with some diseases are not suitable for lying on the right side.
For patients with heart failure, semi-recumbent position should be adopted. Lying on the side of patients with cerebral thrombosis will aggravate blood flow disorder and easily lead to thrombosis recurrence, so lying on your back is appropriate. For patients with gastric ulcer, lying on the right side will greatly increase the reflux of acidic liquid from the stomach to the esophagus, causing heartburn, and it is best to lie on the left side.
Patients with hypertension should lie on their backs with pillows, which are generally about 15 cm high. Patients with emphysema should lie on their backs, with their heads slightly raised and their hands slightly extended upward to keep breathing smoothly.
Lung governs qi, which is closely related to breathing. Deep breathing in autumn helps to restore the lungs. You can lie flat in bed or get up in the morning before going to bed every day, practice abdominal breathing, take a deep breath, expand your abdomen, pause for a few seconds, then exhale through your nostrils and contract your abdomen, and repeat it 20 ~ 30 times.