The wind blows a leaf, everything has been alarmed by autumn. After autumn, the temperature is getting cooler, the climate is changing, the morning and evening cool breeze arrives, the autumn wind and autumn rain gradually, the human body has experienced the consumption of the summer heat, the immunity is relatively low, various diseases are prone to take advantage of the situation, so it is called “eventful autumn”. At this time, middle-aged and elderly friends must pay attention to health, improve health and enhance the ability to fight diseases.
Five types of diseases need to be prevented in autumn.
1, respiratory diseases
Autumn is one of the most serious seasons for influenza, the season of hot and cold is not only difficult for people to adapt, but also difficult for the entire immune system to adjust. “An autumn rain is a cold”, a little inattention will be cold colds. Allergic rhinitis The incidence of allergic rhinitis is higher in autumn because of the dry weather and serious air pollution, which increases various allergic factors, and allergens can stimulate the nasal mucosa. Pharyngitis The dry climate in autumn makes people most prone to fire, and they mostly see symptoms of pharyngitis such as dry and painful pharynx, red and swollen pharynx, and even fever. Bronchial asthma Asthma is an allergic disease that mostly starts in late summer and early autumn, and develops to a peak after mid-autumn, and in some cases even more so in the cold winter months. The attacks are mostly recurrent due to climate change. Asthma attacks are often preceded by aura symptoms, such as repeated coughing, chest tightness, and continuous sneezing, etc. If left untreated, acute wheezing may occur. Because the sputum is sticky and not easy to cough up, patients are often forced to sit up due to difficulty in breathing. In severe cases, symptoms such as blue lips and nails, cold extremities, sweating and fast heartbeat may appear. The duration of attacks varies from a few minutes to several days.
2.Digestive tract diseases
Autumn is the season of various fruits harvest, people tend to eat raw and cooked. As the saying goes, “autumn melon bad belly eat less cold”, plus into the autumn, the human body’s digestive function, the intestinal tract resistance to disease began to decline, so accidentally will have gastrointestinal disease troubles.
3.Cardiovascular disease
Autumn is the season of cardio-cerebral vascular diseases. According to the statistics, the incidence of cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage is much higher in late autumn and early winter than in other seasons. As the weather becomes cooler, the skin and subcutaneous tissue vasoconstriction, peripheral vascular resistance increases, resulting in higher blood pressure. Cold can also cause coronary artery spasm, which directly affects the blood supply to the heart and induces angina pectoris or myocardial infarction; stroke. Cold can also increase the concentration of blood fibrin, causing blood viscosity, leading to thrombosis.
4, skin diseases
Autumn is also the season of various skin diseases, mostly manifested as skin rashes, itching, scratching pain and other symptoms. Usually the skin on the chest and abdomen, thighs and inner calves are common, and around joints are also common. The skin disease in autumn is paroxysmal, the duration of the onset and the severity are not the same.
5.Depression
The autumn wind and leaves, miserable wind and rain, often make people touched by the scene, especially the middle-aged and elderly people easy to produce a sense of dying, inducing negative emotions, serious, depressed all day, less lazy, easy to suffer from depression. According to psychologists, the rate of mental illnesses such as depression is significantly higher in autumn than in other seasons due to changes in climate and the influence of “sad autumn” emotions.
Autumn health points (autumn health attention “three appropriate a not”)
1.Moderate autumn freezing
There is a folk saying “spring cover autumn freezing”, meaning “cold exercise from early autumn”, although the autumn breeze is cool, not busy adding clothes, excessive clothing will make sweat evaporation, Yin and Jin depletion, Yang Qi leakage. But autumn freezing should be moderate, excessive autumn freezing, cold easy to hurt the lungs, wind and cold attack, easy to cause colds, coughs, rhinitis, pharyngitis, pneumonia, asthma and other respiratory diseases occur. A simple principle of dressing in autumn is “the body feels slightly cool, but does not feel cold”. Young children, middle-aged and elderly people and patients with respiratory diseases, gastroenteritis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and other chronic diseases should always add or subtract clothes.
2, moderate autumn practice
The golden autumn, the sky is high, is the golden season for sports and exercise. At this time, the elderly to strengthen physical exercise, is the most positive way in the autumn health care. Autumn organism activities with climate change and in the state of “collection”, yin essence and yang energy in the convergence of the internal stage, so autumn exercise to moderate, not too strenuous. Sun En Miao “thousand gold to formula” pointed out: “the way to nourish sex, often want to small labor, but not big fatigue and strong can not be ears”. Exercise fitness must be gradual, moderate exercise, not too much intensity, too long. The exercise program depends on the person, can choose low intensity, rhythm, can last a long time, in the exercise can achieve aerobic metabolic effect, convenient and feasible, easy to adhere to the project, such as walking, running, swimming, fitness dance, taijiquan, gymnastics, Yangge, etc., the elderly can choose one or two of them to exercise according to their interests and physical conditions.
3.Moderate autumn tonic
Autumn tonic mainly refers to dietary tonic and drug tonic. As the saying goes: “a summer without disease three points of deficiency”, the summer heat, sweating like rain, energy consumption, coupled with a decline in appetite, the body’s caloric supply is insufficient, resistance is mostly reduced. In the autumn, there is traditionally “autumn and winter tonic, to spring tiger” and “autumn fat” said, people pay more attention to “autumn tonic”. Pork lung, green fish, etc.; can eat some sour food, such as mandarin, hawthorn, banana, pear, honey and other moisten the lungs, nourish Yin and clear dry food; physical, spleen and stomach weakness of the elderly and chronic disease patients, the morning can be porridge food, such as lily lotus seed porridge, silver fungus ice porridge, black sesame porridge, etc., two should avoid cold fruit, eat cold fruit in autumn, a careless will suffer from abdominal pain diarrhea and other digestive diseases, which is Due to the fall in temperature, the human spleen and stomach Yang Qi deficiency, such as eating more cold fruits, vegetables, etc., is naturally added to the snow, resulting in Yang Qi and diarrhea, abdominal pain. Therefore, do not eat too cold food in autumn to protect the spleen and stomach.
Autumn tonic First, we should take tonic for the body type. The deficiencies of yin, yang, qi and blood can be distinguished and the right medicine can be taken to benefit the body, otherwise it will be counterproductive. Pay attention to the moderate tonic, do not make up for the dire tonic. From a clinical point of view, autumn is dominated by yin deficiency, so the basic principle of medicine should be to nourish yin. The commonly used drugs are American ginseng, sage, gorgonian, yu zhu, asparagus, maitake, lily of the valley, lady’s maidenhair, hu ma ren, dried ground yellow and so on. The second is to focus on nourishing the lungs. Autumn energy should be internal to the lungs. The lung is an important respiratory organ of the human body, is the source of the body’s true qi. The dry climate in autumn is very easy to hurt the lung yin, resulting in dry nose and sore throat, coughing and chest pain and other respiratory diseases, so the drug supplementation focuses on nourishing the lungs. It is advisable to eat more products that nourish Yin and moisten the lungs, such as lily, wolfberry, silver fungus, bird’s nest, honey, olive, sesame, walnuts, etc. In addition, you can also take some medicinal meals. In addition, you can also consume some medicinal meals, such as: ginseng and wheat stewed fish, honey steamed lily, etc.. In short, eating some tonic products in autumn can help to enhance physical strength, improve the body’s resistance and reserve energy for entering the cold winter. It is also beneficial for fitness to get rid of diseases and prolong life.
4.Don’t be sad about autumn
”Sadness” is actually a psychosomatic disease, more women than men, because women are sensitive, sentimental, rapid reaction to changes in the external environment, easy to touch the scene, floating thoughts, resulting in a variety of negative emotions. Autumn is a transitional stage of Yang and Yin, flowers and trees withering, autumn breeze, people are also very easy to touch the scene, often appear bleak, melancholy, sadness and other sentimental emotions, especially in the hearts of the elderly is most likely to cause decline, decadence, bitterness and dying and other sentimental emotions. Therefore, in autumn, we should pay special attention to psychological health. Maintain a good state and happy mood. You can watch some comedy movies to make you laugh. Chinese medicine believes that laughing often to promote lung, can also exercise lung capacity. The most effective way to prevent “sad autumn” is psychological adjustment, sports, food, entertainment are good methods.
Recipes for autumn health
Health porridge
1.Pecan porridge
Pecan meat 20 grams, 100 grams of rice. The pecans are pounded and cooked with japonica rice, the walnut meat is washed and put into the pot, with the rice porridge, boil over high heat, and then simmered over moderate heat until cooked. It has the function of tonifying the kidney, benefiting the lung and moistening the intestines. Regular consumption of walnut porridge, not only can tonify the kidneys, but also prevent impotence, spermatorrhea, and have a prolonged anti-aging effect.
2, chestnut porridge
Chestnuts 50 grams, 100 grams of rice. Boil chestnut flesh and round-grained rice with water to make porridge. It has the function of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the tendons, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach. Because chestnut has a good stomach, strengthen the spleen, kidneys and tendons, blood circulation and stop bleeding, especially for the elderly back and leg pain, joint pain, etc..
3.Lily and almond porridge
Fresh lily, almonds and japonica rice are cooked together, add sugar in the right amount to serve warm, can moisten the lungs and stop cough, clear the heart and calm the mind, used for deficiency heat after illness, dry cough and strained cough.
Soup for health
1.C prince’s ginseng and lily soup
Ingredients: 25 grams of prince’s ginseng, 15 grams of lily, 1/4 of Luo Han Guo, 250 grams of lean pork (with meat tube bones instead of can) This soup has a beneficial effect of Qi, moisten the lungs to stop cough, clear the heart and calm the mind. It is suitable for people with cough and shortness of breath, dry mouth and tongue, dry throat and cough, insomnia caused by deficiency of qi and lung dryness.
2.White silver soup
Ingredients: white radish, silver fungus, duck soup in appropriate amounts. Cut the radish into shreds, divide the silver fungus into halves, put them into the light duck soup and stew them on low heat, taking care not to take too long. Duck soup nourishes the yin, has the effect of clearing heat and removing fire, moistening the bowels and opening the bowels. Can effectively relieve “autumn dryness” and other post-autumn discomfort, is a better Qing tonic good.
3.Papaya carrot corn soup
Ingredients: half a catty of green papaya, one carrot, one sweet corn, half a catty of pork with skin (to pick the lean part of the meat), three pairs of chicken claws, 1,500 ml of water. Pork, chicken claws with water first boil in a tile pot, skim off the froth, then add in papaya, carrots and corn simmer on low heat for one and a half hours. Autumn health soup of papaya carrot corn soup taste sweet, very nourishing, in the dry autumn health drink can prevent autumn dryness, simple and delicious.