1. Autumn diet: less bitterness.

Dry in autumn, spicy food can make people's superficial qi appear and get rid of body surface dampness, but it consumes body fluid while promoting qi and blood, and it is dry in autumn. At this time, if too much body fluid is lost, it will lead to dryness and dryness of the lungs, so it is necessary to "be less literate" in autumn.

Acidic food has the function of invigorating spleen and stimulating appetite. When it is combined with sweet food, it can produce yin and body fluid, which is called "polybasic acid".

Suitable food: Chinese cabbage, radish, spinach, white gourd, tremella, banana, duck, lotus root, pear and hawthorn.

2. Autumn dryness hurts the lungs: food that moistens the lungs is essential.

Autumn is full of dryness and evil, which is easy to hurt lung yin. Therefore, while eating and nourishing the lungs, we need to pay attention to eating more moist food, but we should choose according to our personal physique and gastrointestinal function.

Foods for moistening dryness and nourishing lung: sesame, walnut, fungus, kiwi fruit, eggplant, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, bitter gourd and honey.

3. Coping with autumn dryness: an indispensable ingredient

In the season of alternating summer and autumn, although the weather becomes dry, the temperature is still high, which is what we usually call "autumn tiger".

At this time, autumn dryness is mainly manifested as: dry mouth and cold drinks, coughing up blood and phlegm, nosebleeds, dry stool, red tongue and so on. Autumn is the harvest season, so all kinds of fruits and vegetables should be cooked in season to adjust the temperature and dryness. You can choose the following ingredients.

1. Lotus root: appetizing and clearing away heat, moistening dryness and quenching thirst, clearing heart and calming nerves. However, people with cold constitution are not suitable for eating.

2. White: Known as "ginseng in water", it can clear away heat and promote fluid production, diuresis and dehumidification, and relieve alcoholism.

3. Horseshoe: clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, promoting fluid production and appetizing, promoting digestion and sobering up.

4. Water chestnut: detoxification, antipyretic, diuretic and detoxification.

5. Autumn pear: moistening lung and resolving phlegm, clearing heat and promoting fluid production.

6. Sagittarius: sweet and flat in nature, promoting fluid production and moistening the lungs, and invigorating the middle and qi.

7. Honey: nourish yin and moisten dryness, moisten lung and tonify deficiency, moisten intestines and relieve constipation.