1, after beginning of autumn, moisten dryness and nourish lung.
After beginning of autumn, the weather will get hot in a short time, but this kind of heat is different from that in summer. Although the temperature is hot in summer, our body's pores are open, which can make sweat evaporate. But in autumn, the cool breeze comes immediately. As we all know, although the sun is very hot in autumn, it will feel cool as soon as it reaches the shade.
When the cool breeze strikes in autumn, the body can immediately feel the coolness, sweat and body fluids, but if it converges too much, it will make the body surface feel dry, such as dry nostrils, dry throat, dry skin, dry hair, red and yellow urine and dry stool.
Chinese medicine believes that lung governs autumn, and dryness is the main qi in autumn. The lungs are "delicate and dirty" and are not resistant to cold and heat. The lungs communicate with the outside world through the nose and are easily injured by autumn dryness.
In autumn, dryness is a major cause of lung injury, and the respiratory system is an open organ, from the nasal cavity to the trachea to the lungs. Once dry cold air invades in autumn, it is easy to damage mucosa and cause respiratory diseases.
Therefore, autumn dryness hurts the lungs, and the focus of autumn health care is to moisten the lungs.
2. How to moisten the lungs in autumn?
During this period, it can be adjusted by dietotherapy, taking "nourishing yin and moistening lung" as the basic principle, and eating more sesame seeds, walnuts, glutinous rice, honey, Sydney, sugar cane and yogurt. Of course, in order to benefit the stomach and promote fluid production, it is better to cook some medicated porridge, such as lily lotus seed porridge, tremella rock sugar glutinous rice porridge, black sesame porridge and so on.
After beginning of autumn, it was no colder than summer, and the bleak autumn wind blew a chill. At this time, it is a critical moment to soften the stomach. Don't be greedy for all kinds of greasy and spicy food. Instead, we should choose some methods of clearing away heat and penetrating heat, and cooperate with some medicinal materials that nourish body fluid, such as Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Scrophulariae, Dendrobium, Radix Adenophorae and so on.
In addition to medicated porridge to relieve dryness, it can also increase exercise and sweat to relieve dryness. For the elderly, doing some soothing exercises, such as Tai Ji Chuan, Wuqinxi, Baduanjin, jogging, breathing exercises and brisk walking, are all good choices, but the intensity of exercise should not be too great, as long as you sweat slightly.
3. Foods that nourish and moisten the lungs in autumn
(1) lotus root
Lotus root contains many easily absorbed carbohydrates, vitamin E, zinc, manganese, potassium and magnesium. Fresh lotus root can make the baby clear away heat and promote fluid production, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, especially suitable for getting angry. You can fry the lotus root and eat it cold, or you can put kelp, lotus root and ribs together to make soup.
(2) sugarcane
Sugarcane juice is flat and sweet, which is a good product for relieving fever, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness and nourishing. It can help the spleen to harmonize the middle energizer, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough, treat choking and stop vomiting, and has the reputation of "Natural Fumai Decoction". Traditional Chinese medicine often uses it as a refreshing agent to treat dry mouth, insufficient body fluid, dry stool, high fever, polydipsia and so on.
(3) Auricularia auricula
Auricularia auricula has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening lung, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Boiled water with rock sugar is an ideal product for nourishing yin and moistening lung, which can be used to regulate lung dryness and cough in autumn. The nutritional components of auricularia auricula are similar to those of auricularia auricula. Auricularia auricula is rich in iron and can improve iron deficiency anemia.
(4) taro
Taro tastes soft, sweet and delicious, and its nutritional value is similar to that of potatoes, so it is easy to digest. Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C and B vitamins, and its rich nutritional value can improve the body's resistance.
(5) Pears
Pear meat is sweet and delicious, tender and juicy, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening lung and promoting fluid production, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. It can be eaten raw, squeezed, stewed or boiled, and has a good therapeutic effect on cough due to lung heat, measles, cough in children and bronchitis. If you take it with water chestnut, honey, sugar cane and other juices, the effect will be better.