Eat more sour food

Autumn is an important healthy season, and it is also the season when the body stores energy to spend the cold winter. However, after beginning of autumn, many people experienced severe autumn dryness.

Judging from the solar terms of traditional Chinese medicine, Mid-Autumn Festival is the dividing point of climate change. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival is early autumn, and the dryness in early autumn is called "warm dryness"; After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather turned cool obviously, and the temperature difference between morning and evening was large. At this time, it is "dry", easy to catch a cold and cough, and some people even have diarrhea and gastrointestinal dysfunction.

So how to adjust the diet, let us break through the blockade of "autumn dryness"?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "excessive lung qi can inhibit liver wood, so excessive acidity can strengthen liver wood" and "sweet and sour nutrition" Therefore, eating more acidic foods can stimulate the body to secrete more body fluids, thus achieving the purpose of reducing dryness and moistening the lungs.

On weekdays, you can add more vinegar to your meals. Hawthorn, autumn pear cream and grapefruit are also acidic foods for nourishing yin and moistening dryness.

It should be noted that some people like to eat sour plums, which are actually not bad, but sour plums are alkaline. Eating too much will affect the digestive function of the stomach and easily cause ulcers.

In addition, eat more digestible food in autumn. It is best to blanch vegetables before eating, and eat less cold food such as salad. Cool fruits such as watermelon and cantaloupe are easy to hurt spleen and stomach yang, so you can eat apples, grapes and oranges in moderation.