According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, each of the 24 solar terms has a different health care focus. The date of 65438+10.8 is cold dew, which is the beginning of alternating hot and cold seasons. What should we pay attention to during this period, and what food should we eat selectively to maintain ourselves?
Since the "cold dew" season, there has been less and less rain, dry weather, hot days and cool nights. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the biggest feature of the southern climate is the "dry" season, which is the most likely to hurt the lungs and stomach. During this period, people's sweat evaporates quickly, so there are often dry skin, increased wrinkles, dry mouth and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, and even hair loss and constipation. Therefore, the focus of health care is to nourish yin and prevent dryness, moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach. At the same time, we should avoid the loss of essence and body fluid caused by strenuous exercise and overwork.
In the diet, we should also eat less spicy, spicy, dry, smoked, roasted and other foods, and should eat more foods such as sesame, walnut, tremella, radish, tomato, lotus root, milk, lily, and adenophora with the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production. At the same time, keep a certain humidity indoors, pay attention to replenish water, and eat more fruits such as Sydney, bananas, cantaloupes, apples, persimmons and raisins. In addition, you should also pay attention to applying skin cream to protect the skin and prevent chapping.
This solar term is most likely to induce diseases of respiratory system and digestive system. The climate at this time is actually the alternation of hot summer and autumn and cool and dry autumn, and it is most prone to seasonal colds and fever. These seasonal common diseases should be fully guarded and vigilant.
Cold dew solar terms health soup should be based on moistening lung, promoting fluid production, strengthening spleen and benefiting stomach, such as stewed pig with palm melon (moon+exhibition), raw fish with carrots and figs, stewed pork with Pseudostellaria heterophylla, stewed sheep's lung with Chinese cabbage and jujube, stewed pig with glutinous rice, stewed cattle with millet, stewed chicken with coconut wolfberry and abalone soup. It is advisable to use Sophora japonica to moisten the intestines to relieve constipation, clear the intestines and detoxify.
Cold dew diet custom
In the cold dew season, you should eat more soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey and dairy products, and at the same time increase chicken, duck, beef, pig liver, fish, shrimp, jujube and yam to increase your physical fitness; Eat less spicy products, such as pepper, ginger, onion, garlic, etc., because overeating spicy food will hurt the yin essence of the body. If you can cook a hundred dates and lotus seeds, it is also a good way to keep fit. Ginkgo porridge often drinks them and often eats some yams and horseshoes.
The health care of cold dew diet should be based on a balanced diet of five flavors. According to the individual's specific situation, eating more sweet, light and moist foods can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and intestines to prevent dry throat and mouth. Fruits include pears, persimmons, water chestnuts and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp and seaweed. Eat warm food for breakfast, and it is best to drink hot medicinal porridge, because both japonica rice and glutinous rice have good functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach and invigorating the middle qi, such as sugarcane porridge, Yuzhu porridge, Adenophora adenophora porridge, raw porridge, Yuzhu porridge and so on.
Middle-aged and elderly people and patients with chronic diseases should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yams, ducks, fish, meat and other foods. Autumn has been a golden autumn since ancient times, and the lung belongs to gold in the five elements, so lung qi corresponds to golden autumn qi. "In the golden autumn season, it is dry." At this time, the dryness of pathogenic factors will easily invade the human body and consume the yin essence of the lungs. If nursed back to health improperly, the human body will have a series of autumn dryness symptoms such as dry throat, dry nose and dry skin. Therefore, the diet in late autumn should nourish yin and moisten dryness (lung). The ancients said, "In autumn, you should eat hemp to moisten it."
Now is the best season to eat female crabs.
Every cold dew, old Nanjing will buy crabs to steam. As the saying goes, "the west wind blows, the crab's feet itch", and the taste of crabs will be "positive" as soon as they are cold. "September navel ball, October tip", at present, female crabs are full of eggs and rich in yellow paste, which is the best season to eat female crabs. After October of the lunar calendar, it is the male crab's turn to eat best. However, people with allergies, stomach cold, pregnant women and hyperlipidemia should not eat crab roe. In addition, now is the season when persimmons are ripe. It should be noted that crabs should not be eaten with persimmons to avoid stomach stones.
Before and after the cold dew is the best time for tea tree growth. The tea collected three days before and four days after the cold dew every year is called "Zhengqiu tea", and Zhengqiu tea is the best in autumn tea. Cold dew tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweetness and mellow flavor, which is especially loved by old tea customers.
If last month's "White Dew" was a transition from hot to cold, "Cold Dew" was a transition from cold to cold. After the "cold dew", the weather gradually cooled down, and there is a proverb that "the white dew does not show the body, and the cold dew does not show the feet". Don't go into battle shirtless after the Millennium. Don't wear sandals and fishmouth shoes after the cold dew. As the saying goes, "it is rare to eat cold dew once."
Cold dew persimmon red, eating persimmon on an empty stomach is the most unfavorable.
There is a folk proverb, "beginning of autumn walnut white dew pear, cold dew persimmon red skin." Persimmon has high nutritional value and is rich in sucrose, glucose, fructose, protein, carotene, vitamin C and other nutrients. The content of vitamins and sugar is about 2 times higher than that of common fruits1~, and it is generally better not to exceed one a day. Persimmon has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, moistening lung and resolving phlegm, softening hardness and quenching thirst, promoting fluid production and strengthening spleen, and treating dysentery and stopping bleeding. Persimmon is rich in pectin, which is a kind of water-soluble dietary fiber. It has a good effect of moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, and has a good effect on correcting constipation and maintaining the normal growth of intestinal flora. It can also relieve dry cough, sore throat and hypertension. Therefore, persimmon is a natural health food for patients with chronic bronchitis, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and internal and external hemorrhoids. Fresh persimmons also have a high iodine content.
Because persimmon contains more tannic acid and pectin, it will form lumps of different sizes under the action of gastric acid on an empty stomach. If these masses cannot reach the small intestine through pylorus, they will stay in the stomach and form gastric persimmon stones. Small belly persimmon stones are like apricot stones at first, but they will accumulate more and more. If the stomach persimmon stone cannot be discharged naturally, it will cause digestive tract obstruction, severe pain in the upper abdomen, vomiting and even hematemesis.
Cold dew and feet are not exposed
After the cold dew, the weather turns from cold to cold, and it is even colder after night. As the saying goes, "cold dew does not show your feet." This is to warn people to pay attention to weather changes, especially to keep warm and change clothes in time to prevent the invasion of cold evil. The foot is farthest from the heart and has less blood supply. Because the fat layer of feet is thin, they are particularly vulnerable to cold stimulation. Experts remind that cold feet are particularly easy to cause capillary contraction of upper respiratory tract mucosa, which leads to the decline of human resistance. The respiratory tract is extremely sensitive to the stimulation of cold air. Sudden cooling will reduce the resistance of respiratory organs, and pathogenic factors will take advantage of it. It can cause exogenous cough, bronchitis, asthma and other respiratory diseases.
After the cold dew, you should not only wear warm clothes and shoes and socks, but also get into the habit of washing your feet with hot water before going to bed. Soaking feet with hot water can not only prevent respiratory infectious diseases, but also reduce the occurrence of lower limb pain.