daily life
The lungs are afraid of cold, so pay attention to adding clothes in autumn, don't travel with thin clothes, ensure enough warmth and prevent the lungs from being injured by cold. (Ps: It is worth noting that clothes should not be worn too tightly, especially scarves, so as not to cause insufficient blood supply. )
Go to bed early and get up early, and do some soothing exercises before going to bed to improve sleep quality and relieve lung pressure. The specific method is as follows: lie flat before going to bed and breathe smoothly. When inhaling, make a fist with both hands and fix your feet and toes at the center of your feet. When exhaling, relax your hands and feet at the same time, repeat 49 times, and then calm down and slowly fall asleep. Usually you can get a good sleep after a few days' practice. Don't cover your head with a quilt when sleeping, especially for patients with chronic lung diseases, so as to avoid causing and aggravating carbon dioxide retention in the body and affecting breathing.
The room should be ventilated regularly. When using air conditioners, heaters and other equipment, pay attention to keeping the appropriate indoor temperature to prevent the airway from drying. Here's the trick: putting a basin of water at home can effectively moisturize the air! )
sports
Exercise is an important way to strengthen the lungs. You can choose different sports according to your personal situation, such as climbing mountains, playing Tai Ji Chuan and swimming. Long-term persistence can enhance cardiopulmonary function. Walking, gymnastics, qigong, etc. It can also strengthen the lungs, especially Qigong. For example, before going to bed every night, sitting in a chair, the upper body is upright, the knees are naturally separated, the hands are placed on the thighs, the head is closed, the whole body is relaxed, and it will stay in the abdomen. Inhale in the chest, raise your hand and pat from top to bottom on both sides of the chest at the same time, and pat from bottom to top when exhale, lasting about 10 minute. Finally, while breathing, pat Shu Fei point on the back with the back of your hand for dozens of times.
spirit
Keeping inner peace, optimistic mood, relaxed state of mind, putting aside all troubles and avoiding sadness are good ways to nourish the lungs in autumn. When you laugh, the chest muscles stretch, the chest expands and the vital capacity increases, which can relieve chest tightness and restore physical strength. Moreover, laughing heartily can produce lung qi, so that the lungs can inhale enough clear gas, exhale waste gas, accelerate blood circulation, and achieve the purpose of harmonizing heart, lung, qi and blood.
prescribe a diet
Eat more acidic foods, such as apples, oranges, kiwis, white radishes and Pak Lei. To restrain lung qi.
Eating less spicy food, such as onions, can avoid loose knots and diarrhea.
Tremella, tofu, lily, honey, glutinous rice, japonica rice, bean sprouts, etc. It has the effect of moistening the lungs and should be eaten regularly.
In addition, you can also drink some chicken soup and bone soup.
Since eating is mentioned, here are some ways to raise lung food for everyone:
Stewed Sydney Cup with Lycium barbarum and Tremella fuciformis
1. Prepare ingredients: 2 Sydney, half tremella, 5 Lycium barbarum, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Soak tremella for later use
3. Cut the top of Sydney and dig out the stone with a spoon.
4. Put Sydney in a container, put tremella and rock sugar in it, boil the water, put it in a pot, and steam for about 30 minutes on low heat.
5. After steaming, add Lycium barbarum and stew for 5 minutes.
Function: Sydney can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, nourish the stomach and produce fluid, resolve phlegm and relieve cough, and has a good maintenance effect on the throat. It can be used in combination with crystal sugar to enhance the efficacy of moistening dryness and relieving cough, and can be used to treat children's dry lung cough, dry cough without phlegm, dry mouth and dry throat. Moreover, there are many sugars and vitamins in pears, which are easily absorbed by the human body.
Shashen Yuzhu old duck soup
1. Prepare ingredients: Radix Adenophorae, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, and old duck.
2. Choose an old duck (be sure to choose an old duck), remove hair and dirt, and wash it.
3. Choose Radix Adenophorae and Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, 30-50g each, put them in a casserole with slow fire 1 hr or more, and season.
Function: Adenophora adenophora can nourish yin, clear lung, nourish stomach, promote fluid production, dispel deficiency-heat and treat dry cough. Polygonatum odoratum can nourish yin and moisten dryness, moisten intestines and relieve constipation. Old ducks can nourish yin and replenish blood. This soup is enough to cure lung dryness, dry cough and so on. It is also effective for constipation caused by physical weakness, insufficient body fluid and intestinal dryness after illness.
Stewed lean meat with lotus seeds and lilies
1. Prepare ingredients: lean meat 100g, lily 20g, lotus seed 20g (pitted), and a little ginger.
2. Soak the lotus seeds for about two hours, wash and soak the lily, cut the pork into strips, marinate with a little cooking wine, and chop the ginger.
3. Put cold water in the pot, add pork, lotus seeds, lilies and ginger, bring to a boil, and skim off the floating foam.
4. Turn to the purple casserole and stew for three hours.
Functions: Lily clears the heart and moistens the lungs, lotus seeds maintain the health of skin and mucosa, ginger reduces adverse reactions, stops vomiting, eliminates phlegm and relieves cough, and dispels cold and relieves exterior syndrome. The combination of lily and lotus seed can not only moisten dryness and nourish lung, but also treat neurasthenia and palpitation and insomnia.
That's all for this health tip. I hope everyone will protect their lungs and have a moist and dry autumn! (Finishing: Fang Xueyan)
[Editor: Zeng Yuxi]