(In Neijing, it is said: "Man and heaven and earth are born with qi, and the four seasons are achieved." "Dirty Elephants in the Sixth Period of Internal Classic Su Wen" said: "Heaven eats people with five flavors, and the earth eats people with five flavors." All these show that the human body must rely on the material conditions provided by the qi of heaven and earth to survive, and at the same time, it must adapt to the changing law of yin and yang in the four seasons to develop and grow. Zhang Jingyue, a medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, said: "Spring is based on the liver, summer on the heart, long summer on the spleen, autumn on the lung and winter on the kidney." It shows that the physiological activities of the five internal organs of the human body must adapt to the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons in order to maintain a harmonious balance with the external environment. This is basically consistent with the view of modern science that "the condition of life is the result of the interaction between matter and energy between heaven and earth". Humans need to ingest food, breathe air and exchange substances with nature in order to maintain normal metabolic activities.
1. The relationship between the four seasons and the human body is closely related to the human body, mainly in the following aspects:
(1) The 24 solar terms in four seasons affect people's mental activities. There is an article in Huangdi Neijing, an ancient medical masterpiece of China, which specifically discusses the influence of climate change at four seasons on people's spiritual activities, that is, the second article of Su Wen's Four Qi Tunes the Spirit. For this article, the direct explanation in Huangdi Neijing pointed out: "The four qi can adjust the spirit, and with the qi of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the spirit of the five internal organs of liver, heart, spleen, lung and kidney can also adjust the spirit." Wu, a well-known medical scientist, also said: "Speaking with the qi of four seasons can adjust the mind and cure the disease before the hospital", so the article called "four qi can adjust the mind". The "four spirits" here are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter; "God" refers to people's spiritual will. Climate change in the four seasons is the main aspect of the external environment, and mental activities are the masters of dirty activities in the human body. Only by achieving the unity and coordination of dirty qi in the body and the external environment can we ensure good health.
(2) The four seasons and the twenty-four solar terms affect human qi and blood activities. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the influence of external climate change on human qi and blood is also significant. For example, the book Neijing on Eight Righteousness Gods said: "When the weather is warm and the sun is shining, people's blood is full of body fluids, so blood is easy to diarrhea and qi is easy to run; When the weather is cold and cloudy, people will clot and cry, and they will be depressed. " That is to say, in hot weather, qi and blood are smooth and easy to run, while in cold weather, qi and blood are stagnant and unsmooth.
It is also said in Neijing Su Literary Theory: the pulse of four seasons is slippery in spring, like a fish swimming in water waves; The summer pulse is above the skin, and the pulse is full of everything; The autumn pulse is under the skin, as if the sting insect is about to hide; The pulse of winter is buried in the bone, just like a stinging insect hiding tightly, and like a person who shelters from the cold in the room in winter.
The above fully shows that the influence of climate change in nature on human qi, blood and meridians is remarkable. If the climate changes beyond the range of human adaptation, it will hinder the operation of qi and blood. For example, Huangdi Neijing said: "The meridians are endless. When the cold enters the meridians, it is too late to cry. The guest is outside the pulse, the blood is less, and the guest is in the pulse, and the qi is blocked, so it is painful to die. " Crying without doing it here means that cold evil invades the pulse and makes the blood circulation not smooth; If the cold pathogen invades the pulse, the blood disease will affect the qi movement, and if the pulse is not smooth, it will suddenly hurt.
(3) The four seasons and the twenty-four solar terms are closely related to the activities of the five internal organs. In the book Su Wenjin Kui Yan Zhen in Neijing, it is clearly put forward that "the five internal organs should have four seasons, and each has its own influence", that is, the five internal organs correspond to the four seasons of Yin and Yang in nature. In Neijing Su Wen's Six Stages of Dirty Images, it is clearly stated: "The heart is the foundation of life ... the yang in the yang is connected with the summer air; The lung is the source of qi ... it is the Taiyin in the yang and communicates with autumn qi; Kidney ..... is the deficiency of yin in yin, which leads to winter qi; Liver, the ultimate essence ... is the deficiency of yang in yang, which leads to the qi of spring ... "In addition, it is clearly recorded in Huangdi Neijing that the liver governs spring, the heart governs summer, the spleen governs summer, the lung governs autumn and the kidney governs winter.
In fact, the influence of the four seasons climate on the five internal organs is very obvious. Take summer as an example. Summer is the most active period of human metabolism, especially when there is a lot of activity outside, the activity is relatively increased. In addition, in summer, the days are long, the nights are short, the weather is particularly hot, and the sleep time is less than other seasons. In this way, the body consumes a lot of energy, accelerates blood circulation and sweats a lot. Therefore, in summer, the burden on the heart is particularly heavy, and it is easy to be damaged if we do not pay attention to strengthening the health care of heart function. Thus, it is correct for Chinese medicine to put forward the view that "the heart governs summer".
What needs to be explained here is that there have been two ways to divide the four seasons in ancient China: four seasons and five seasons. Because the human body has five internal organs, the five internal organs and the five seasons are often combined to explain the seasonal changes of the five internal organs.
(4) Four seasons and twenty-four solar terms affect the water-liquid metabolism of human body. It was discussed as early as Huangdi Neijing. For example, "Neijing Lingshu Wujinyue" said: "Thick clothes in midsummer make the body loose, so you sweat ... It's cold, the body is closed, and the body is not wet, so stay in the underwater bladder. That is to say, in spring and summer, qi and blood tend to be exterior-interior, showing skin relaxation and sweating; In autumn and winter, the yang is absorbed, and qi and blood tend to be inward, which is characterized by dense skin, less sweating and more water to maintain and regulate the unity of man and nature.
2. Harm to the human body that does not conform to the "four seasons law" The so-called "four seasons law" means that human beings can only develop and grow if they adapt to the law of yin and yang changes in the four seasons. The change of natural climate in spring, summer, autumn and winter is also contrary to human life activities, and the human body must adapt to the climate changes of the four seasons to maintain life activities. Otherwise, it will disturb the physiological rhythm of the human body and reduce the disease resistance and adaptability. Even if it is not caused by exogenous pathogenic factors, it will lead to visceral dysfunction and pathological changes.
The "Four Gods Theory" in Su Wen of Neijing clearly points out that:
"Yin and Yang cold seasons, the root of all things. Therefore, saints nourish yang in spring and summer and yin in autumn and winter to follow their roots, so they rise and fall with everything at the door of growth. If you violate its roots, you cut off its roots, which is really bad. Therefore, the four seasons of Yin and Yang are the end of all things and the foundation of life and death. On the contrary, it is a disaster. From it, it is unbearable, which is the way. "
This clearly shows that people should conform to the four seasons yin and yang when raising cattle.
It revolves around the basic viewpoint of "being born in Yin and Yang, and going against it will lead to death", discusses the principle of health preservation, and puts forward the theory of balance between Yin and Yang and the combination of four seasons, that is, actively adjusting the coordination between the internal organs and the external environment can ensure good health.
What happens if people don't meet the four seasons of yin and yang? "Neijing Su Wen Si Qi Tiao Shen Lun" said:
"If the spring is reversed, the yang will not be born, and the liver will change internally; Contrary to summer, the sun is not long and the heart is hollow; Contrary to autumn qi, it is too cloudy and full of lung qi; Against the winter, the yin is not hidden, and the kidney is alone. "
The general idea of this passage is: if you don't keep in good health in spring, it violates the qi you are born with, and the qi of shaoyang in your body can't grow, which will cause the disease of stagnation of liver qi; If you don't pay attention to maintenance in summer, it will be contrary to the summer qi. If the sun qi can't grow, it will cause the disease of insufficient heart qi. In autumn, if the qi of autumn harvest is violated, the qi of Taiyin can't converge, and lung heat will flatulence and gasp; In winter, if you don't keep in good health, you will violate the qi stored in winter, and the qi with less yin can't be stored, so the pathological changes of kidney qi can't be stored.
This passage warns people that if the normal law of the five internal organs adapting to the changes of yin and yang at four seasons is destroyed, it will inevitably lead to the imbalance of the internal and external environment of the human body, resulting in pathological changes and even life-threatening.
Therefore, TCM health care regards adapting to the four seasons of Yin and Yang as an important condition for all living things to survive. The so-called "survival of the fittest" is still an insurmountable objective law in biology.
3. Six solar terms in spring and human life and health (1) The physiological changes of human body caused by spring are the season that brings vitality to everything. When the yang in nature begins to sprout, "man corresponds to heaven and earth", at this time, the yang in the human body also diverges upward and outward in line with nature, and its physiological changes are mainly reflected in the following points:
① Qi and blood activities are strengthened, and metabolism begins to flourish. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the influence of external climate change on human qi and blood is remarkable, such as blood running smoothly in hot weather and stagnation in cold weather. The climate in spring is between hot summer and cold winter, and the climate is mild, so the qi and blood activities are also between the two seasons, that is, the qi and blood activities in spring are gradually increasing. This situation can be reflected from the pulse condition, as "On Meridian Pulse" said: "A fish swims in Apollo in spring", which means that the pulse of the human body is floating and steady in spring, just like a fish swims in Apollo. In a sense, Yang Qi represents the ability of human metabolism, and the appearance of Yang Qi means that human metabolism has begun to flourish.
② Liver governs spring, and liver qi begins to flourish. Su Wenjin Kuiyanzhen once explicitly put forward the problem that "the five internal organs should be affected by the four seasons, and each has its own influence", that is, the five internal organs of the human body correspond to the four seasons of Yin and Yang in nature. Specific to spring, it is "liver" ... it is the deficiency of yang in yang, and it is in spring. In addition, Huangdi Neijing recorded that "the liver governs the abdominal cavity". The so-called "liver governs spring" means that the human liver corresponds to spring, and the function of the liver is relatively strong in spring, which shows that the function of storing blood and dispersing qi is gradually strengthened. Due to the mild climate, people's outdoor activities are gradually increasing, so the blood stored in the liver flows to the limbs. In spring, with the warming of the climate and the increase of outdoor activities, people's spiritual activities begin to become active. These physiological changes put forward new requirements for spring diet.
(2) Influence of harmful substances on human body in spring However, some harmful substances in the six solar terms in spring, such as pathogenic microorganisms, bacteria and viruses, will also take advantage of this opportunity, and various diseases and insect pests will wreak havoc, causing great harm to people, especially in southern China.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the climate in spring is dominated by ethos, and the common cold can be used as a pathogenic factor alone, often combined with other pathogenic factors. When common cold invades the human body, the following pathological changes generally occur:
First, it hurts the upper part, such as headache, stuffy nose, runny nose and itchy throat, which are common symptoms of colds. For example, the first disease of geomantic omen is also characterized by eyelid edema.
Second, the range of lesions is wide. Because the number of good deeds in common cold changes, it is uncertain and often disturbed up and down. Therefore, the range of lesions is wide, and the exterior can stay between fur or muscles, or swim in meridians; Facing the top, you can reach your forehead directly; It can invade the waist, knees, tibia and fibula, etc.
Third, "wind sign and movement" is characterized by movement. Therefore, whenever you see abnormal body movements, such as convulsions, spasms, tremors, peristalsis, and even symptoms such as varus arch and stiff neck, it is often attributed to the wind and classified as wind disease.
Fourth, miscellaneous diseases, that is, common cold is often combined with other pathogens to attack the human body. For example, in the long summer, the common cold often invades the spleen together with dampness, and symptoms of spleen and stomach damage such as indigestion, abdominal distension and diarrhea are often seen; If it is combined with heat, it is wind-heat; if it is combined with cold, it is wind-cold, or wind-cold and dampness, which will invade the human body, that is, people often say that wind-heat is exogenous, wind-cold is exogenous and rheumatism is static. In addition, wind can also be combined with pathological products such as phlegm in the body to form wind phlegm, which can cause many diseases.
Medical meteorology has confirmed that when the wind howls, the collision and friction noise in the air will make people feel upset, especially the audio frequency is too low, even reaching the standard of "infrasound". Scientists have found that infrasound waves are killing sound waves, which can directly affect the human nervous system, causing headaches, nausea, irritability and even death. At the same time, strong winds often seriously reduce negative oxygen ions in the air, leading to changes in chemical processes sensitive to weather changes in the human body, and a large amount of serotonin is secreted in the blood, which makes people feel nervous, depressed and tired, and will cause some people's thyroid burden to be overweight.
In addition, strong winds make the surface evaporate strongly, drive away a lot of water vapor, reduce air humidity, make people dry cleft lip, dry nasal mucosa, and reduce disease prevention function, so that many germs take advantage of it and lead to respiratory diseases, such as bronchitis, influenza and tuberculosis. The widespread prevalence of these diseases is often the result of "wind helping the disease". Therefore, Huangdi Neijing also said: "Wind is the beginning of all diseases."
(3) The influence of six solar terms in spring on life and health ① beginning of spring and beginning of spring are the first season of spring. After beginning of spring, the climate became warmer, the sun was shining and the temperature gradually increased. After beginning of spring, the human body began to change. Liver wood should be in spring. Since the day of beginning of spring, the body's shaoyang began to rise, and liver yang, liver fire and liver wind also rose with the rise of yang in spring. Therefore, after beginning of spring, we should pay attention to the physiological characteristics of the liver, relieve the liver qi, maintain emotional stability, and make the liver qi unobstructed without affecting other viscera.
② In rainy season, liver yang, liver fire and liver wind of human body will increase with the rise of yang in spring, so we should pay more attention to the release of liver qi. Nature is full of vitality, especially in the southern region, where everything is thriving. People who keep in good health should also be refreshed, full of vigor, determined and have something to do.
⑤ During the period of fright, the qi of liver yang in human body gradually rises, and the yin blood is relatively insufficient. Health care should conform to the characteristics of the rise of yang and the beginning of everything, so that people's spirit, emotions and qi and blood are as smooth as spring. Diet and daily life should conform to the nature of the liver, help temper and make the five internal organs calm. Old people should pay more attention to physical maintenance. In Yuan Dynasty, Qiu Chuji said in "On Style News": "In spring, the taste of food should be degraded to sweet and sour to nourish the temper. ..... The weather is cold and warm, so we can't go to cotton-padded clothes. Old people are weak and sick, and cold air is easy to hurt their minds. Clothes are easy to prepare when they are warm, and they are getting heavier and heavier. Don't run away. " This is the so-called "spring" as the saying goes.
As far as the human body is concerned, the vernal equinox is second only to the summer solstice and the winter solstice, and it also has great influence on health.
Hypertension occurs frequently in spring, and it is also easy to get dizzy and insomnia. And this is also a good time for mental illness, so it is very important to lose your emotions.
People should conform to the characteristics of spring full of vitality, do more outdoor activities and adjust their emotions. Such as flying kites in the wild, bathing in the sunshine, breathing fresh air, playing and having fun, putting aside all troubles, facing the weather and sending your worries with the wind.
⑤ During the Qingming Festival, the humid climate makes people feel tired and sleepy, while the changeable weather that is warm and cold at first makes people catch cold, resulting in tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; Spring is also the season of respiratory infectious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, chickenpox, meningitis and other diseases. After Tomb-Sweeping Day, many chronic diseases are easy to recur, such as arthritis, psychosis and asthma. People with chronic diseases should avoid eating foods that are easy to get sick, such as sea fish, shrimp, crab, pickles, bamboo shoots, hairy bamboo shoots, mutton, roosters, etc., so as to avoid recurrence of old diseases.
⑥ In Grain Rain and Grain Rain, the rising temperature and increasing rainfall make people more sleepy during this period, so we should pay attention to exercise.
4. Six solar terms in summer and people's health in summer. In order to adapt to the changes in nature, in the long process of evolution, human beings have formed an ability to recognize the changes in the external environment and automatically adjust their physiological activities to adapt to environmental changes.
(1) The physiological changes brought to the human body in summer are mainly reflected in the following points:
① Qi and blood flow vigorously in summer, which is the extreme of yang rising. Yang is abundant, the temperature is high, and it is abundant in the exterior. The yang of the human body runs outside, and the qi and blood tend to the body surface. In addition, even during the day, the temperature changes in the morning and evening have a corresponding impact on the rise and fall of human qi and blood. The yang of the human body "dominates the outside in one day, and the sun is healthy in the middle of the day, and the sun is strong in the middle of the day and weak in the west, and it is closed in the valve." It can be seen that the rise and fall of human yang is rhythmically changing with the rise and fall of yin and yang day and night, which provides a theoretical basis for the selection and deployment of three meals a day for diet and health. On the other hand, the pulse condition of human body can further reflect the changes of qi and blood activities. "Su Wen Pulse Diagnosis" says: "The change of heaven and earth, the response of yin and yang ... four changes in movement. The pulse rises and falls with it ... Summer should be in the middle of this moment ... On the 45th day of the summer solstice, the yin is slightly higher and the yang is slightly lower ... ". It means that the climate changes in the four seasons, and the pulse condition of people changes up and down, so the pulse condition in summer should be consistent with the time. From summer to forty-five days later, the yin in nature gradually rises, and the yang in summer begins to decline, which is the characteristic of the ups and downs of yin and yang in summer and the change of pulse condition.
(2) leakage of body fluids. It is hot in summer, so it is easy for the body to excrete and leak body fluids. The amount of sweating (sweat refers to the liquid discharged from sweat pores after evaporation and gasification of yang) is much more than that in other seasons. Under normal circumstances, the excretion of human sweat depends on the opening and closing effect of Qiwei on acupoints. When the acupoints are opened, sweat will be excreted, but when the acupoints are closed, sweat will not come out. Because sweat is transformed from body fluid, blood and body fluid are homologous (Chinese medicine says that blood and sweat are homologous), and blood is mainly based on the heart, so it is also called "sweat is the fluid of the heart". Summer is also connected with the heart. Sweating in summer is easy to relax the heart instead of collecting it, so it is very important to preserve or replenish body fluids in summer. Therefore, this physiological change should be fully considered in the diet and health preservation in summer, so as to achieve the purpose of timely supplementing the consumption of yin essence caused by insufficient body fluid and excessive leakage of body fluid.
⑤ In summer, the functions of human heart and five internal organs change with the changes of four seasons, yin and yang and five elements. Su Wen's six story theories clearly point out: "The heart is the foundation of life ... The sun in the sun is connected with the air in summer." The so-called "heart is connected with summer qi" means that the human heart corresponds to summer, and the physiological function of the heart in summer is relatively strong, which is embodied in the fact that the heart controls the blood, and the blood is vigorous and runs smoothly; Increased sweat excretion; Yang is full, floating outside, functional activities are also strengthened and energetic. Therefore, in order to better apply summer diet, we must grasp the relationship between seasons and viscera, replenish the energy consumed by the heart purposefully in summer for three months, and protect the heart.
(2) The influence of six solar terms in summer on human health ① Long summer, which is the first solar term in summer. In the long summer season, you should go to bed early and get up early, get more sunshine, pay attention to emotional conditioning, and keep your liver qi unobstructed, otherwise you will feel sad and make you easily get sick in autumn and winter.
Long summer is the turn of spring and summer, and it is the fastest time for children to develop. Therefore, we should pay attention to the nutrition needed for children's growth and development in daily diet, supplement calcium, vitamins and food nutrition in time, and pay more attention to the clothing and physical exercise of children and adolescents.
At the turn of the end of summer, attention should be paid to avoiding eating things with rising fever in diet, so as not to consume gas and hurt body fluid; At the same time, it is not advisable to eat cold food too early, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach yang. With the gradual increase of temperature, daily food is easy to deteriorate, so unclean food should be avoided in summer to prevent intestinal diseases.
(2) In the full season, everything flourishes and grows most vigorously, and human physiological activities are also in the most vigorous period. The four seasons consume the most nutrients. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement it in time to protect the body from damage. From summer to summer, the drugs used to treat diseases should be cool, such as chrysanthemum, reed rhizome, adenophora adenophora, Scrophularia, lily, mung bean, lentil, yam, wax gourd, etc., which can replace porridge with tea and be decocted to avoid being too warm and damaging yin and body fluid; It should not be too cold and greasy, which will make the summer heat hidden and impenetrable. When it is full, it will be "sleepy in spring and lacking in summer", which makes it difficult to concentrate. They should often go outdoors to absorb the clear sun of nature to meet the needs of various human activities.
In the tent season, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China will enter the rainy Huangmei period. The rainy season of Huangmei usually lasts for about a month, and it usually "enters the plum" ("enters the plum") a few days after the awn is planted. Huangmei season, rainy and humid, because moisture will hurt the spleen and stomach, so at this time we should pay attention to protect the spleen and stomach, eat less greasy, so as not to affect the digestive function due to external humidity.
At that time, the sun was strong and the weather was hot. A little carelessness could easily lead to diseases, such as acute gastroenteritis, heatstroke, solar dermatitis and solar ophthalmia. , are frequently-occurring diseases in summer. Dysentery, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid fever, etc. All infectious diseases are prone to occur in summer, so we should pay attention to prevention.
(3) After the summer solstice, the sun gradually moves south and the days gradually shorten. However, because the heat radiated by the sun to the ground is still much more divergent than that radiated by the ground to the air, the temperature will continue to rise in the short term.
The dog days from summer to autumn are the hottest stage of the year, and it is also one of the best periods for the human body to recuperate and treat chronic diseases. Summer solstice is the key to the exchange of yin and yang in a year. The chronic diseases that are easy to occur in winter can be adjusted and supplemented by using the stable period in summer, which has a good effect on curing or reducing the recurrence of chronic diseases. Therefore, Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the treatment of winter diseases in summer. As the old saying goes, "nourishing yang in spring and summer" means that in summer, it is necessary to warm up the yang of the human body and adapt to the vigorous changes of the yang in summer, which is especially important for patients who are prone to feel yin cold and yang deficiency.
In the light summer, everything is prosperous and beautiful, and heaven and earth blend together. People can go to bed late and get up early, be happy but not angry, and exercise properly to let the yang in their bodies vent outward, so as to adapt to the spirit of "long summer" and meet the opportunity of raising "long summer" Take part in outdoor activities properly during this time. Appropriate recreational activities, such as listening to music, can make people forget the hot troubles in summer. The melodious and soothing melody, rhythm and tone of music are a kind of benign stimulation to human body, which can improve the functions of brain and various systems, coordinate the normal activities of various system organs, promote blood circulation, increase the secretion of digestive juice and improve people's cultivation. "Listening to music is better than taking medicine." In addition, movies have the same effect, but you should avoid being too tired. After watching TV, washing your face with soap can wash away the pollution caused by static charge on the TV screen. However, the elderly, children and the infirm should appropriately reduce outdoor activities to avoid heatstroke.
⑤ The high temperature in summer is around midsummer, and most parts of China have entered the hottest period of the year.
Due to the hot weather and loss of appetite, food choices should be light and fragrant, light and easy to digest, and aroma stimulates appetite. At the same time, eating regularly and quantitatively can improve gastric juice secretion and increase appetite. Drink plenty of boiled water and add some salt when drinking. Eating some fruits and cold drinks properly can reduce the temperature and prevent heatstroke, especially fresh juices, such as orange juice, apple juice, lemon juice, tomato juice, watermelon juice and pineapple juice. However, it should be noted that cold drinks should not be eaten excessively, otherwise cold drinks will stimulate the inner wall of the gastrointestinal tract and reduce the secretion of digestive enzymes, which will lead to gastrointestinal diseases, loss of appetite, indigestion and other symptoms. Watermelon, for example, is a good product for relieving summer heat and diuresis. Eating too much will make your stomach swell, which is bad for digestion. And if you urinate too much, you will feel tired, especially children, the elderly and patients with qi deficiency such as chronic bronchitis, chronic gastroenteritis and visceral ptosis. It is not advisable to eat more. The temperature is very high during this period, so we should pay attention not to eat spoiled or unclean food, raw seafood, drunk, bad and cooked food to prevent the occurrence of digestive tract diseases.
5. Six solar terms in autumn and people's life and health. The main qi in autumn is "dryness". In the human body, the lung is dry and golden, and its qi should be autumn. Autumn is crisp and the air is fresh, which is beneficial to the function of lung governing qi and regulating breathing; However, after the autumnal equinox, excessive dryness and wind will attack the fur and nasal orifices of the lung master first. If the lungs are normal, they can react quickly and transmit the defensive qi to the skin and nasal orifices, so that the skin and hair are moist and dense, and the nasal orifices are unobstructed, so that no matter what dry qi can enter the body, people can spend the autumn smoothly. If the qi of autumn dryness is too strong, which exceeds the human body's defense ability, or the qi of autumn dryness is not strong, and the lung's own function of controlling qi and generating hair is weak, which can't adapt to the climate change in autumn and resist external evils, then the fur, nasal orifices and lung itself dominated by the lung will bear the brunt, and will be damaged by dryness and evil, resulting in a series of pathological changes.
Dryness is a kind of disease, which is divided into external dryness and internal dryness. External dryness refers to natural dryness starting from nose and fur, often starting from lungs, but it can be divided into warm dryness and cool dryness. Internal dryness is mostly due to excessive sweating, or internal loss of essence and blood, or insufficient body fluid in old age, which leads to dryness of vaginal fluid.
The main pathological features of dryness-evil as disease are:
First, dryness is easy to hurt the lungs. Because the lungs like to be moist, and they are connected with the atmosphere because of the main breathing and fur, external dryness is easy to hurt the lungs and the place where the lungs belong.
Second, dry is better than dry. In nature, fields can crack, seedlings wither and leaves turn brown. In the human body, dryness consumes body fluids, and there will also be dryness, such as dry nose, dry throat, dry throat, dry mouth, dry tongue, dry skin, dry stool and so on. Therefore, regardless of external dryness or internal dryness, once the disease occurs, the above-mentioned symptoms of body fluid dryness can appear. Of course, internal dryness is not limited to the lungs, and yin deficiency of other organs can also form the syndrome of internal dryness.
In early autumn and July, the heat is still hot and there is a lot of rain. Chinese medicine calls July of the lunar calendar a long summer. Long summer governs dampness and spleen governs long summer, so spleen and stomach diseases are more common in early autumn and July. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, and dampness is the easiest way to trap spleen. Dampness is yin evil, which is easy to inhibit qi movement and damage Yang Qi, leading to spleen-yang deficiency, no right to transport and transform, and water-dampness stops gathering, resulting in edema or diarrhea; What's more, it is long in summer and July, and the weather is still hot. People like to eat cold fruits and frozen drinks, which are helpful to damp evil and damage spleen yang. Therefore, abdominal distension and diarrhea are prone to occur in autumn and July. Spleen-yang is weak, so it can't transport water and dampness, and water and dampness don't gather and produce phlegm. In early autumn, the spleen is injured by dampness, which can lay the foundation of epilepsy for the recurrence of chronic bronchitis and other diseases in winter. Therefore, "Su Wen Yin Xiang Da Lun" said: "Autumn is wet injury, and winter is cough". Dampness is heavy, and external dampness invades the meridian muscles, so that the meridian muscles block arthralgia syndrome, which may lead to "dampness arthralgia" and "arthralgia arthralgia".
As can be seen from the above, due to the complicated climate change in autumn, not only diseases caused by dryness of main gas are common, but also diseases caused by dampness in the long summer have laid the foundation for common chronic diseases in winter. Therefore, we should choose the corresponding diet according to the changing characteristics of heaven and earth and the physiological and pathological characteristics of human body.
(3) The impact of six solar terms in autumn on human health ① beginning of autumn and beginning of autumn, about the end of summer. Although the temperature has begun to drop, the power of the "autumn tiger" is still there. The temperature in Jiangnan can be as high as 35℃ or above, and the afterglow of summer is still there. After beginning of autumn, although the temperature is still high, it will be lower in the morning and evening than in summer. People should pay attention to exercise and avoid doing morning exercises on roads with too many vehicles; Morning exercise should not be done too early, but after the sun rises; Dry with a dry towel after sweating, or take a shower and change clothes in time to prevent colds.
After beginning of autumn, the yang declined and the yin flourished, and the nature changed from growth to collection. Therefore, the principle of health preservation should be transferred to convergence of mind, lowering qi and moistening dryness, suppressing lung and nourishing liver, so as to make the five internal organs impartial. People who are good at keeping in good health must go to bed early and get up early to get angry; Convergence, avoid murderous look. Diet increases acidity, reduces acrimony and helps liver qi.
(2) In midsummer, the temperature in most parts of our country gradually drops, the rainfall decreases, and the humidity in the air is relatively reduced, which makes people feel crisp in autumn. But at this time, the feeling of dryness also begins to appear, and people will feel that their skin, mouth and nose are relatively dry. Therefore, we should pay attention to prevent autumn dryness and eat more foods with sweet and cold juices, such as various fruits, Ophiopogon japonicus and reed roots.
In midsummer, people should go to bed early and get up early to keep their mood stable and quiet, so as to prevent the influence of the cold of nature on people; Convergence, so that emotions and "autumn harvest" correspond, in line with the opportunity to raise "harvest" in autumn The human body is also in the harvest period, and the body has changed from an active, extroverted and dedicated stage to a quiet, introverted and economical stage. Because the human body consumes more and absorbs less in summer, it is necessary to pay attention to the supplement of the body when the weather is a little cold, so autumn is an important season for tonic. In autumn, the yang tends to sink from rising to falling, the physiological function tends to be calm, and the yang gradually declines. Pay attention to the adjustment of daily life to prevent colds. Although the temperature is still hot sometimes (such as autumn tiger weather), it is not advisable to eat more cold drinks such as sorbet to protect the digestive function of the spleen and stomach.
③ In the Millennium season, the climate in most parts of China turns cool and the weather tends to be dry. Autumn qi should be in the lungs, and dryness can damage milk yin, so it will produce symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, dry skin and constipation. These are all factors to be considered in autumn health care and nourishing. "Those who are dry should moisten it", "upper dryness and clearing qi, middle dryness and increasing fluid, and lower dryness and nourishing blood" are important principles of autumn tonic. The choice of drugs should be warm and tonic, but it is always important to be warm but not hot, cold but not cold, and not to hurt or consume yin. Qingzao Jiufei Decoction (Radix Adenophorae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Mulberry Leaves, Sesame, Glycyrrhrizae Radix, Almond, Gypsum Fibrosum, Colla Corii Asini and Loquat) is one of the important tonic prescriptions in autumn. For autumn dryness, eat more fruits and vegetables, such as raw pears, water chestnuts and sugar cane. , moistening the lungs and promoting fluid production, especially grapefruit is the best fruit.
White dew is also the season when rheumatism and hypertension are easy to recur. Pay attention to keep warm, cover with a thin quilt at night, and don't be shirtless and greedy. As the saying goes, "White dew is not exposed" so as not to cause old or new diseases. When you go out in the morning, keep warm clothes, don't eat on an empty stomach, but don't eat too much to avoid blood stasis, which is not conducive to the operation of qi.
4 Autumn Equinox Autumn equinox season, the autumn wind is cool, which is the most comfortable season for people, so people should go outdoors more at this time. The combination of motion and static, conditioning the heart and lungs, exercising the body, smoothing the expression and regulating qi and blood is of great benefit to physical and mental health. The infinite charm of elegant art will arouse the infinite interest in life.
⑤ During the cold dew season, the weather turns cold in most parts of China, especially children and the elderly should always pay attention to avoid the cold. However, we should pay attention to the appropriate "autumn freezing", that is, the "thin clothing method" of China's traditional maintenance method. "Thin clothing method" is a method of gradually increasing clothes to exercise the body's cold resistance when the climate begins to turn cold. When the pores of the human body are closed, the ability to resist cold will be greatly enhanced, which is extremely beneficial for people with weak health to prevent colds. Of course, the "thin clothing method" does not ask people to catch cold. Its principle is to wear clothes without sweating, change clothes in time with the temperature and exercise intensity to avoid sweating.