Health and wellness in early autumn

An autumn rain a cold, after the autumn, the weather slowly from hot to cool, especially in the morning and evening began to have cool, but the short-term back to heat and will make the temperature high and low. In this time of seasonal change and temperature change, our delicate body will get sick if we are not careful, so we should pay more attention to health care and health at this time. Although it is after autumn, but now is still the connection between summer and autumn time: long summer season, the weather characteristics are still mainly hot and humid, but also accompanied by the summer heat has not dissipated, summer heat attack will cause lung heat, and autumn gradually cold will also be easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so in the view of traditional Chinese medicine, the current season should be to nourish the spleen to clear the lungs and eliminate dampness. 1, the spleen has always attached importance to the seasonal health, although there is the autumn “autumn fat”, but now the autumn fat is too early, because the weather is still very hot, people’s gastrointestinal function is still relatively weak, if you eat too much meat and other high-protein food, will increase the gastrointestinal burden, affecting gastrointestinal function. Especially the elderly, as they get older, the spleen and stomach function is weakening, not only should not eat too much meat, but also pay attention to the spleen to strengthen the spleen. Such as usually eat more yam, lotus seeds, poria and other spleen food, the main food, rice, millet, purple rice are better choices. 2, clear the lungs in early autumn, many people will have a sore throat or dry nose, mostly due to lung fire. The diet should be less spicy food, eat more food to nourish Yin and moisten the lungs, such as pears, radish, etc.. When it comes to clearing lung fire, honeysuckle is the best tea substitute, daily use 6 to 10 grams of honeysuckle to make water to drink, you can effectively get rid of lung fire. If you feel the taste of honeysuckle is bitter, you can also add the right amount of rock sugar. 3, dispel dampness long summer season, the person’s tongue is thicker, whiter, unshaped stool, is the performance of heavy dampness. In this regard, you can eat more winter melon soup, not only to dispel dampness and lose weight, but also has the effect of clearing lung heat. Chinese medicine believes that food in the winter melon dampness effect is very good, “the compendium of materia medica” records, winter melon, sweet, slightly cold, the main treatment: small abdominal water distension, urine, thirst. Clinically, winter melon is mainly used to treat edema. In Chinese medicine, the skin of winter melon is mostly used. In terms of dietary regimen, more winter melon can be eaten, and the effect of the medicinal use of winter melon skin is similar. In addition to winter melon, there are also many foods that can dispel dampness, such as lotus leaves and barley, are foods that are more effective in dispelling dampness. The health of any season should be in accordance with the time of day, autumn main astringent, so the autumn exercise should not be too hairy, too violent, it is advisable to static brake, take a more astringent exercise, such as Tai Chi, jogging, walking, etc. to raise the astringent Qi of autumn.