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Autumnal Equinox Health Knowledge and Solar Terms
Autumnal Equinox Health Knowledge and Solar Terms

1. Go to bed early and get up early in daily life.

In autumn, we should especially form the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early. Even 10 minutes earlier than before is an improvement. Especially female friends, we should pay more attention to going to bed early and getting up early. The deeper the night, the heavier the cold, and the cold can easily invade the body, laying a hidden danger for waist and leg pain, and also leading to cough and other diseases.

2, the diet must be warm.

An autumn rain and a cold. After the autumnal equinox, the temperature plummeted and the climate was dry. Many people inevitably have problems such as dry nose, dry throat, itchy throat, dry skin, respiratory diseases and autumn diarrhea. Pay special attention to prevent autumn dryness in diet. The most important thing in the autumnal equinox season is to fully replenish water. This hydration should be comprehensive, including normal drinking water and skin moisturizing. In short, try to make your body feel moist and comfortable from head to toe.

3. These sports are mainly relaxed and gentle events.

Autumn is crisp, and it is also a good season for exercise. However, because both yin essence and yang spirit are in the stage of convergence and internal nourishment, exercise should also follow this principle, that is, the amount of exercise should not be too large, especially for the elderly, children and the physically weak, in order to prevent excessive sweating and loss of yang spirit. Exercise should choose relaxed and gentle events with little exercise.

4, emotional conditioning should walk more to get rid of depression.

After autumn, from the perspective of "the correspondence between man and nature", the lung belongs to gold, which corresponds to autumn qi. Lung governs qi activity, aiming at worry. People with lung-qi deficiency are more sensitive to the change of autumn climate, especially some middle-aged and elderly people witness the cold autumn rain, flowers and trees wither, and everything is depressed in late autumn, which makes people feel sad, desolate and lifeless and prone to depression. Therefore, it is an important task to pay attention to mental health care in autumn.

Matters needing attention in autumnal equinox health care:

1, moistening lung

"dryness" is the main qi in autumn, which is called "autumn dryness" by Chinese medicine. Autumn dryness can lead to dry skin, dry stool, nosebleeds, cough and other symptoms. Because autumn dryness is easy to damage the lungs, so autumn equinox health care should be "moist", and you can eat more moist foods, such as Sydney, lotus root and radish.

2. Nourishing Yin

In autumn, the climate is getting drier and drier, and the loss of qi and blood is great. Pay attention to nourishing blood and yin in health care. Especially for people with yin deficiency constitution, they often have symptoms such as facial dryness and heat, less tongue coating, dry mouth and throat, and hot hands and feet. They can eat nourishing food, such as yam, lily and fig.

3. Strengthen the spleen

In summer, people prefer to eat cold food. Cold and dampness trap the spleen and stomach, which easily leads to weakness of the spleen and stomach, so strengthen the spleen in the autumn equinox. You can promote the recovery of spleen and stomach function through food supplements, such as poria cocos cake, cowpea and millet. In addition, you should eat less cold food and anti-seasonal cool fruits, such as watermelon and cantaloupe.

4, kidney

Autumn is the high incidence of asthma. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney has the function of absorbing qi, and asthma is a symptom of shortness of breath, excessive breathing and less inspiration caused by weak renal function. Therefore, the autumnal equinox should tonify the kidney. Black sesame seeds, walnuts, medlar and lotus seeds are all good foods for tonifying kidney.