Autumn, starting from beginning of autumn, has experienced six solar terms, namely summer fever, millennium, autumnal equinox, cold dew, first frost and winter solstice, namely July, August and September of the lunar calendar. Dryness is the basic feature of autumn climate. Chinese medicine believes that "dryness is better than dryness", so dryness is a disease, which is easy to hurt vaginal fluid and cause various dryness phenomena. Such as rough skin, dry lips and other symptoms of external dryness; Dry mouth and tongue, dry cough without phlegm, dry stool and other symptoms. Therefore, the daily diet should be arranged reasonably according to the solar terms.
In ancient China, beginning of autumn was divided into three periods: "A cool breeze blows gently; Second, wait for the white deer to be born; Third-class chilling. " The wind at this time is different from the wind in summer, and it feels cool when blowing on people; Then, there will be fog on the earth in the morning. ? There is a folk saying: eggplant grows in summer, and beginning of autumn eats eggplant. Early autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Folk custom beginning of autumn put melons, steamed preserved eggplant and delicious glutinous soup in the yard the day before, and beginning of autumn ate them. After beginning of autumn, the temperature changed from hot to cold, human consumption gradually decreased, and appetite began to increase. At this time, it is necessary to absorb nutrition and scientifically adjust diet to supplement the consumption in summer and prepare for wintering. There is a folk saying in the north called "autumn fat attached". What is "autumn fertilizer"? In the hot summer, I feel anorexia. As soon as I arrived in beginning of autumn, it meant that the cool weather was coming, so I began to sprout the idea of making something delicious. The fat I lost in summer was made up by eating stew, so it was called "sticking autumn fertilizer". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the key to beginning of autumn's health preservation is to protect the yang, nourish the heart, prevent heatstroke and prevent moisture. Summer and long summer are the seasons with the highest yang in a year. The weather is hot and full of vitality, which is the peak period of human metabolism. In modern life, it is very common to use air-conditioned cold drinks to cool off the summer heat, and excessive reliance on air-conditioned cold drinks will hurt the yang in the body. Traditional Chinese medicine often says "nourishing yang in spring and summer", which means that even in the scorching sun, attention should be paid to protecting the yang in the body. Specifically, we should pay attention to taking proper nourishing things, and at the same time, we can add more soup and porridge, which can not only relieve summer heat, promote fluid production and quench thirst, but also nourish the body.
Being in the heat is the season when the heat ends. Being in the heat means hiding and ending. As the name implies, being in the heat indicates that the heat is coming to an end, and the focus of health care after the heat season is to prevent "autumn dryness". After the intense heat, the climate is relatively dry. Although it is cool at night, sometimes the temperature is high during the day. Heat damages body fluid and gas, while dryness consumes body fluid. Therefore, according to the principle of "dryness is moist", foods that nourish yin and clear heat, moisten dryness and quench thirst, and clear heart and soothe the nerves are the main foods, and pears, honey, tremella, milk and other foods with moisturizing effects can be selected.
The best way to prevent autumn dryness in the Millennium season is to eat more foods rich in vitamins, and you can also choose some Chinese medicines such as ginseng, adenophora root and fritillary bulb. Everyone knows that ginseng is a good thing, so why is it a good thing? There is an old saying in China that "one side of the soil and water will nourish one side of the people", and animals and plants all taste according to their soil and water. Some people say that ginseng tonifies qi, which belongs to yang, while others say that body fluid is yin. Ginseng is generally produced in the humid land of the northeast forest, so it is first affected by the moisture of water and humid air; Besides, we can take a closer look. Ginseng has three branches and five leaves. The ancients thought that "three" and "five" were yang numbers, so ginseng was the most yang thing in yin, and it was the yang in yin. This is its precious place.
The autumnal equinox solar terms have entered autumn. As a solar term with equal time between day and night, people should follow the law of balance between yin and yang in health care and let the collective keep the principle of "both yin and yang are secret". According to Huangdi Neijing Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun, it is said: "Look at the place of Yin and Yang carefully, and make peace for a period", and the place of Yin and Yang should not be biased. Ancient doctors regarded black-bone chicken, donkey skin, mutton, onion, ginger and jujube as the purpose of yin and yang, qi and blood, or regulating stomach qi. In our usual diet, we should make reasonable allocation according to the nature and function of food, so as to make it suitable for the time, place and people.
Cold dew is around June 8 10 every year, and attention should be paid to maintaining yin in the body during the solar term. When the climate turns cold, it is the time when the human body's yang converges and the yin essence is hidden inside, so it is necessary to give priority to maintaining the yin essence, which means that the cold dew cannot be separated from the principle of "nourishing and harvesting". Cold dew and solar terms diet should nourish yin and moisten dryness. "Autumn is dry, so you should eat Ma Runrun." At this time, you should eat more sesame seeds and glutinous rice. And eat less spicy food, because eating too much spicy food is easy to hurt the yin essence of the human body.
The first frost solar term is the last solar term in autumn around 65438+23,00 in the solar calendar. The five elements belong to gold, and the five hours belong to autumn. According to the viewpoint of TCM health preservation, the first frost should be mainly supplemented with light, enriching blood, benefiting qi and nourishing stomach, and the diet should be regular. Patients with chronic gastritis and gastric and duodenal ulcers should eat a soft and warm diet.
Second, eat melon seeds in autumn.
The ancient food culture in China emphasized eating seeds, and the seeds of plants were equivalent to the eggs of oviparous animals. For seed plants, regardless of the length of life, they all start with seeds and end with seeds. The roots, leaves and fruits of plants, which grow hard and do their duty until they wither, are all for seeds. The shell and seed coat are hard, bitter and unremarkable, but the seeds are full of vitality. Incredibly, the archaeological discovery of lotus seeds for thousands of years still has the ability to germinate. Seeds store highly dehydrated and high-energy nutrients, providing nutrients for the early growth of plants in the future. In particular, seeds contain all the genes of new life and rich auxin. Where auxin is concentrated, the other is tender leaves.
Traditional food culture encourages people to drink millet porridge instead of milk. For mothers who have just given birth, the best feeding food must be millet porridge; In addition, in ancient times, babies were not given milk powder, but millet porridge. Why? When milk is spilled on the ground, nothing grows. Although millet is small, it is a seed and can germinate. Therefore, China people attach great importance to the "sex" of food. I remember that in the countryside, every household would buy chickens in spring, so what should they feed? Xiaomi. Chickens generally grow very fast, but sadly, all kinds of milk powder are given to children, which is why the health of modern people is always one of the problems.
Autumn is the season of harvest, and it is the time of harvest. At this time, young people can eat new grain and new seeds. However, it should be noted that if the elderly eat it, it is easy to evoke their old roots. Therefore, in autumn, the diet of the elderly should be based on old grain, and don't eat too much new grain. This is an important principle of diet in autumn.