Talking about health during the autumn equinox

       The autumn equinox has arrived, the temperature has dropped significantly, and the temperature difference between morning and evening has increased. How to grasp the “autumn freeze” in this time of year, to prevent colds and other diseases? In addition to colds, what other diseases should be prevented at this time of year?  Since ancient times, “spring cover autumn freeze” is a health proverb. Autumn freezing means not to add clothes too early and too much in autumn, but to freeze properly, so as to stimulate the body to gradually adapt to the cold and prevent many diseases in winter.  Autumn freezing has some truth to it, but it is not a freezing to the end. When the weather changes calmly, wear less clothes, so that the body slightly cool, but do not feel cold, is possible. And when there is strong cold air activity, the temperature drops sharply, you can not just pursue the autumn freeze, otherwise it is easy to suffer from colds or respiratory diseases. Another thing to note is that the feet must be kept warm.  Some elderly friends need to pay special attention to be especially alert to the onset of cardiovascular diseases, stomach diseases, chronic bronchitis and rheumatism due to the cooler weather.  Cold is an important factor in triggering a variety of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. In a cold state, the body transports blood from the surface to the inside of the body to conserve energy. This leads to vascular tension, increased blood pressure and faster heartbeat, which will inevitably increase the load on the heart, making the already diseased heart aggravate ischemia and hypoxia, and in severe cases even lead to myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular pathologies.  People suffering from cerebrovascular disease: the cold will lead to sympathetic excitation, capillary constriction, increased peripheral resistance to blood circulation, increased blood pressure, increased load on the brain, prone to cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral infarction.  People suffering from gastric ulcer, chronic gastritis: patients with gastric disease should pay more attention to keep warm, the human body stimulated by cold, will lead to increased histamine in the blood, gastric acid secretion, gastrointestinal spasmodic contraction, so that the original old gastric attack, and even cause gastric bleeding, gastric perforation and other serious complications.  Patients with chronic bronchitis: After being stimulated by the cold, old patients with chronic bronchitis will experience spasms in the trachea and bronchi, aggravating the original symptoms of coughing and wheezing and affecting their lives.  Rheumatism patients: rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases, usually swollen and painful joints, activity restrictions, if the blind autumn freeze, will aggravate the disease, resulting in joint pain.  After the autumn equinox, the weather gradually turns cooler, how should the diet be adjusted? What foods are good for health at this time of year?  In terms of dietary regimen, Chinese medicine also takes the balance of yin and yang as the starting point and divides the diet into appropriate and contraindicated. The general principle is that different people have their own contraindications, such as for those elderly people who have insufficient yin qi and surplus yang qi, they should avoid eating hot and harsh tonic products; for developing children, without special reasons, they should not take excessive tonic; for people with phlegm and dampness, they should avoid eating greasy food; for people with wood and fire, they should avoid eating spicy food; for people with skin disease and asthma, they should avoid eating shrimp, crab and other seafood; for people with cold stomach, they should avoid eating cold food, etc.  For most people with a calm constitution, try the following ingredients to nourish the body during the autumn equinox: 1, lily lung lily is rich in protein, fat, desmethyl colchicine and calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins, etc., Chinese medicine as a tonic to stop bleeding, blood, lung dryness, nourishing Yin and clearing heat, spleen and stomach. Lily has obvious effects of cough suppression, asthma and hemostasis, and can also inhibit the growth of tumors. The lily washed, boiled, plus round-grained rice boiled porridge, put rock sugar after eating, can clear heat and moisten the lungs, nourishing and beneficial.  2, Chinese wolfberry warm tonic Chinese wolfberry has the therapeutic effect of relieving heat, treating diabetes, cough and phlegm, etc., soaking tea can treat the body cold, sexual coldness, stomach, liver and kidney disease, tuberculosis, constipation, insomnia, low blood pressure, anemia and other diseases. Since wolfberry is a warm tonic, people suffering from high blood pressure and too anxious temperament should not consume it. On the contrary, if the body is weak, often cold, poor resistance to people can often eat.  3, silver fungus to produce Jin Silver fungus is the same source of medicine and food, medicinal properties and calm, have to support the root and good tonic moistening effect. It can moisten the lung and nourish the yin, nourish the stomach and produce fluid, nourish the kidney and benefit the essence, strengthen the heart and the brain, and is effective for coughing with false labor, blood in the phlegm, and thirst with false heat. Autumn dryness, gingko lotus seed porridge can be said to clear heat to dry, nourishing Yin and stomach.  4, radish appetite eating more radish, can effectively relieve throat discomfort, to achieve the effect of cough and phlegm. Autumn equinox is prone to gastrointestinal discomfort, due to the change of seasons, the transformation of food is prone to weaken the function of the stomach and intestines, allowing bacteria to take advantage of, causing gastrointestinal diseases. The radish can promote the peristalsis of the intestines and stomach, the complete digestion of food, but also can stimulate people’s appetite, to avoid the problem of loss of appetite in autumn.  5, pear to clear the lung Pear is the best fruit in autumn, with the effect of generating moisture, moistening dryness, clearing heat, resolving phlegm, etc. It is suitable for fever and thirst, thirst disorders, hot cough, phlegm and heat fright, choking, thirst and loss of voice, red eyes, swelling and pain, indigestion and other diseases. Pear is the most common food to clear the lung, it can be steamed, cooked in soup, and also mashed into pear cake, which is excellent for lung fever, cough, sore throat.  In addition to eating more lungs to dry fruits and vegetables, but also timely replenishment of water, daily can drink more chrysanthemum tea, wolfberry tea, gardenia tea or lemon tea, but also can be put into icing sugar, Luo Han Guo, etc., to help the body remove autumn dryness, maintain vigorous energy and relaxed mood.  Autumn equinox, in life and living, outdoor sports pay attention to what health care details?  1, the first is to pay attention to spiritual conditioning. Yin deficiency people, liver fire is easy to be vigorous, easily lose temper, this is often said to be “can not hold the fire”. The liver fire is strong, for a long time, the internal consumption of Yin and Jin. In autumn, its dryness is more obvious.  Therefore, another part of the prevention of autumn dryness is to pay attention to the spiritual conditioning, and to treat everything with a calm mind, in order to comply with the nature of autumn convergence, calmly through this eventful autumn. Usually should pay attention to maintain optimism, often to the fresh air to go for a walk, exhale the old and new, in order to collect “Shen Qi”, so that the lung gas is not attacked by the dryness of evil. You can use the holiday time autumn travel, climbing high and looking far, not only to adjust the mood and exercise the body.  2, because of the autumn morning and evening temperature difference, dry climate, exercise should pay attention to prevent cold and cold. Autumn morning and evening temperature difference, especially in the early morning temperature is relatively low, do not wear a single coat to outdoor activities, should increase or decrease clothing according to the outdoor temperature changes. In the exercise should not take off too much at once, but should wait until the body is hot, before you can take off the clothes. Exercise after also avoid wearing sweaty clothes in the cold wind to prevent the body from catching cold.  3, to prevent sports injuries. As the human muscle ligaments in the environment of falling temperatures will reflexively cause vasoconstriction, muscle extension significantly reduced, the physiological mobility of the joints reduced, the nervous system on the control of the locomotor organs decreased, thus very easy to cause muscle, tendon, ligament and joint sports injuries. Therefore, before each exercise must pay attention to do a full preparation activities.