1, autumn regimen principle
1, regulating diet: A healthy diet in autumn should focus on nourishing yin and moistening lung. For the elderly with weak stomach and intestines, porridge can be used to benefit the stomach and promote fluid production in the morning, such as lily lotus seed porridge, tremella rock sugar glutinous rice porridge, almond fritillary bulb, glutinous rice porridge and black sesame porridge. In addition, we should eat more sour fruits and vegetables and less spicy food, which is of great benefit to protecting the liver and benefiting the lungs.
2, get up early and go to bed early: go to bed early to adapt to the gathering of yin essence, get up early to relax the yang. Getting up early in autumn can reduce the chance of thrombosis; It is also meaningful to lie down for a few minutes before getting up to stretch your whole body and prevent thrombosis. The incidence of this kind of disease is very high in late autumn and early winter, and the onset period is mostly in the late stage of long sleep. This is because the blood flow of cerebral vessels slows down during sleep, which is easy to form thrombus.
3, enhance physical strength: the autumn climate is getting colder, clothes should not be increased too much at once, deliberately let the body freeze, and carry out some cold-proof exercises, which is also an important way to enhance the body's adaptability to the cold climate in winter. It's cool in autumn, which is a good time to exercise. Especially pay attention to cold-resistant exercises, such as morning exercises, jogging, cold water bath, etc., to improve the resistance to diseases.
4. Disease prevention: The cold weather in late autumn is the peak of stroke and myocardial infarction, which can easily lead to sudden death. People with chronic bronchitis, emphysema and cor pulmonale are also very sensitive to climate change, which can easily lead to recurrence and deterioration of the disease. Therefore, patients with such diseases should pay special attention to vigilance, strengthen prevention, and have first aid and treatment drugs at home to prevent accidents.
5, prevention of autumn dryness: autumn climate is dry, so the skin moisture evaporates quickly, so it is easy to cause symptoms such as dry skin, increased wrinkles, dry throat pain, constipation, so preventing autumn dryness in autumn is an important health care principle. Keep a certain humidity indoors, pay attention to replenish water in the body and avoid the loss of body fluids caused by overwork and strenuous exercise. In order to prevent dry skin, you can apply various skin creams. However, it should be noted that chapped lips should not be rubbed with glycerin, and frequent licking of lips with tongue is not allowed, otherwise chapped lips will be aggravated.
6. Eat fruits and vegetables carefully: Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables in summer will not cause diseases of the spleen and stomach, but it will reduce the disease resistance of the stomach and intestines. Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables after autumn will definitely help spleen yang to be damaged by dampness. Spleen yang will not transport water and dampness, and acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery and loose stool will follow. Therefore, eat less fruits and vegetables after autumn, especially those with spleen and stomach deficiency.
7, timely tonic: when tonic, you need to be careful not to make tonic without illness, and make up indiscriminately. The treatment principle of traditional Chinese medicine is to tonify deficiency, and patients with deficiency syndrome should not use tonics. Deficiency can be divided into yin deficiency, yang deficiency, qi deficiency and blood deficiency. Only the right medicine can make up the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive. Also pay attention to the appropriate amount of tonic, avoid using drugs instead of food, and advocate the method of food tonic. Such as black-bone chicken, pig lung, nail fish, bird's nest, tremella, honey, sesame, walnut, lotus root, autumn pear and so on. These foods are compatible with Chinese medicine, and the effect is better.
8, drink more soup: the air is dry in autumn, and it is more appropriate to make tonic items into soup. Generally speaking, people should adopt the method of food supplement, that is, choose fresh Chinese cabbage, radish, lotus root and fish to make soup, such as peanut chicken feet soup, lotus root beef soup, spinach pork liver soup, radish ribs soup and so on. You can also eat some cold fruits with diuretic and antipyretic effects, such as apples, Sydney, oranges, water chestnuts and grapes. , can supplement a lot of vitamins and trace elements. The climate in autumn is dry and thirsty, but it is not advisable to drink more carbonated drinks. You can choose rock sugar boat-fruited Sterculia or honey chrysanthemum to soak, which can not only replenish water in the body, but also play a role in health care and treatment.
2, autumn health food
1. Staple food: rice, millet, corn, buckwheat, barley, wheat, glutinous rice, brown rice, sorghum, tofu, soybean milk, lentils, etc.
2. Choice of meat, eggs and milk: mutton, beef, duck, fish, pork loin, pig lung, nail fish, silky fowl, abalone, eel, eggs and milk.
3. Vegetable selection: bean sprouts, cauliflower, spinach, carrot, eggplant, lotus root, sweet potato, potato, yam, taro, celery, Chinese cabbage, lettuce, cabbage, pumpkin, water chestnut, lily, mushroom, etc.
4. Fruit selection: orange, grapefruit, grape, persimmon, pear, apple, jujube, banana, hawthorn, strawberry, etc.
5. Others: chestnuts, walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds, honey, medlar, tremella, snails, etc.
3. What diseases should be prevented in autumn?
(1) hoarseness
Lung dominates sound: the production of sound is related to the function of lung. People with lung qi deficiency have a loud voice, while those with weak lung qi deficiency have a low voice. Wind-cold attacks the lungs, and lung qi is blocked, which may lead to hoarseness or loss of voice.
(2) Rhinitis
The lung opens in the nose: the nose is the passage of gas in and out, which is directly connected with the lung. When the lung qi is normal, the nasal orifices are unobstructed and the sense of smell is sensitive. If the lungs are sick, there may be nasal congestion, runny nose, abnormal sense of smell, and even agitation of the nose and difficulty breathing. Especially allergic people, it is difficult to adapt to this climate change in autumn, so it is easy to suffer from rhinitis or rhinitis attacks. If you have a headache, chest pain, stomachache, etc. It is caused by frequent sneezing, so we must pay more attention to it, because it is a typical symptom of allergic rhinitis. At this time, we should pay special attention to keeping warm, avoiding colds and ensuring a light diet, so as to stay away from allergens.
(3) itchy skin
Lung and fur: fur refers to the muscle surface and pores of the human body, which is a barrier for the human body to resist external evils. The lung can transport Wei Qi and body fluids to the muscle surface to warm the fur, thus maintaining its normal growth function. When the lung qi is sufficient, the fur is moist, the sweat pores are open and closed normally, and the body is not easy to be attacked by external evils. If the lung qi deficiency is weak, the qi outside the Wei is insufficient, the muscle surface is unstable, and it is easy to sweat, and it is easy to catch a cold due to the invasion of foreign pathogens and invade the muscle surface, which will cause lung diseases. The skin is mainly lung, and skin itching is a very common disease in autumn. Under normal circumstances, eating irritating food or rising temperature is easy to induce or aggravate. Don't bathe too often this season, and don't use some alkaline ingredients in soap and shower gel.
(4) catching a cold
Autumn is a season of alternating cold and summer, and the climate is characterized by very hot and humid early autumn; After the Millennium, the rain decreased, the climate was dry, and the days were hot and the nights were cool. It gets cold quickly after the cold dew. Due to the increasing temperature difference between day and night, it is difficult for many people to adapt to the climate change, and it is easy to have diseases or lead to the recurrence of old diseases.
(5) Autumn dryness
Autumn dryness is the most harmful to human body, and dryness is the most likely to cause lung injury and body fluid consumption, which leads to "autumn dryness" such as dry mouth and nose, hoarse cough and dry stool. In autumn, you should eat more foods that produce fluid and increase fluid, such as sesame, pear, lotus root, banana, apple, tremella, lily, persimmon and other foods to moisten and nourish the lungs. The skin is easy to dry in autumn, so pay attention to maintaining the skin.
(6) Oral ulcer
The causes of oral ulcer are not only caused by dry climate, but also by oral injury, nutritional deficiency, hormonal changes and other factors. Pay attention to keep your mouth clean, rinse your mouth with light salt water, eat less spicy food and keep your stool smooth. In addition, oral ulcer is largely related to personal physique, so oral ulcer is also considered as a signal of physical weakness, so patients should strengthen physical exercise and improve their physical fitness.
The five elements belong to gold in autumn and soil in summer, and the natural soil in autumn decreases, and the spleen and stomach belong to soil. Gastrointestinal diseases such as acute gastroenteritis should be prevented.
In autumn, special attention should be paid to the prevention of acute gastroenteritis. After entering autumn, the disease resistance of human intestines began to weaken. It is prone to acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery and loose stool. Pay attention to food hygiene and eating rules in life, and don't overeat. We should try to eat less irritating food and keep a good mood. Excessive mental stimulation, such as long-term tension, fear, sadness, depression, etc., will cause dysfunction of cerebral cortex, promote dysfunction of vagus nerve, lead to spasmodic contraction of gastric wall blood vessels, and then induce gastritis and gastric ulcer.
(7) Habitual constipation
The lungs and large intestine are in the exterior and interior. After autumn, due to the climatic characteristics, it is easy to cause dryness and difficulty in defecation, mainly manifested in the reduction of defecation times and hard feces. Patients are often accompanied by abdominal distension in the left lower abdomen and poor defecation desire. Therefore, patients with habitual constipation in autumn should drink at least 2000 ~ 3000 ml of warm water every day to effectively prevent constipation.