How to manage diarrhea

  Compared with spring and summer, the dry climate in autumn and winter makes the human body vulnerable to injury and yin, so Chinese medicine has had the health tip of “nourishing yin in autumn and winter” since ancient times. However, modern people due to changes in lifestyle, even in autumn and winter, there are still many habits that damage Yang Qi, these people should not ignore the Yang Qi conditioning.  Eat a lot of melons and be wary of damaging your stomach yang. Watermelon, cantaloupe, winter melon, cucumber …… refreshing and delicious melon many people still love to eat in winter. The deputy chief herbalist Liu Wanli, a specialist in spleen and stomach diseases at the Nanjing Hospital of Integrative Medicine, reminds that the winter is cold and that eating too many fruits and melons can easily damage the stomach yang. In addition to pumpkin, all melons are cold, eat with their own constitution to choose. People with cold bodies and pale faces should eat less cold melons. In addition, citrus, bananas, pears, persimmons, etc. are also cold. Warm fruits include dates, peaches, apricots, longan, etc. Sweet and flat fruits include hawthorn, apple, etc.  Morning diarrhea more, pay attention to warm kidney yang. Many elderly people are prone to diarrhea symptoms in winter, many people think it is caused by cold, but if always in the morning diarrhea will pay attention to whether the kidney Yang is damaged. Wang Yuanzhao, deputy director of the Department of Anorectal Medicine at Nanjing Hospital of Integrative Medicine, said that morning diarrhea, also known as chicken diarrhea and five-shift diarrhea, is a common disease in the anorectal department. The Chinese medicine believes that morning diarrhea is mostly due to the deficiency of kidney yang, the failure of the vital gate fire and the internal strength of yin and cold. Patients with five-shift diarrhea can use ginger, dates and other ingredients in soup under the guidance of a physician to assist in treatment. In addition, these patients should pay attention to avoid getting cold in their daily life, especially pay attention to keeping the waist, abdomen and lower limbs warm.  Sweating a lot, pay attention to the consumption of Yang Qi. It is not advisable to exercise to the point of sweating in the winter, because Chinese medicine believes that autumn is the main astringent, so it is not advisable to do too much exercise. In addition, autumn is the “Yang and Yin” stage, if sweating too much easily hurt Yang. It is recommended that older people should not choose a lot of exercise in winter, sweating more exercise projects, but should choose some relatively gentle projects, such as jogging, walking, playing taijiquan, etc., so that you can achieve the effect of exercise, but also not to lose Yang Qi.