Relieve Autumn Dryness – Diet

  When autumn arrives, many people will experience some uncomfortable symptoms, such as dry eyes, dry skin, dry mouth, and dry tongue. Chinese medicine calls this “autumn dryness”. The most important thing to do is to nourish Yin and moisten dryness in autumn. In terms of diet, “less spicy and more acid” is one of the most important principles in autumn, that is, we should eat less spicy and stimulating foods, eat more sour fruits and vegetables, and choose foods with the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness. In autumn, the yang energy is gradually collected and the yin energy grows, so maintaining the yin energy in the body becomes the first task.  Autumn should eat more white food. Such as: pear taste sweet, slightly sour, cool, has the effect of moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, cough, moisten dryness, nourishing Yin and lowering fire, etc., can solve sore poison, wine poison. “The raw one clears the heat of the six internal organs, the cooked one nourishes the yin of the five organs.” But the pear is cold, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, can not eat, especially the usual often thin stool, fear of cold and warm, belong to the spleen deficiency or Yang deficiency physique and maternal best eat less. In addition, the pear contains high sugar, diabetic patients, do not choose.  Lotus root: sweet taste, cold nature. It has a variety of effects such as nourishing Yin and clearing heat, moistening dryness and generating fluid, clearing the heart and calming the mind, benefiting the blood and generating muscle, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding. There is a long-standing saying that “lotus is a treasure, autumn root is the most tonic”. Autumn is the time when fresh roots should be marketed. The weather is dry at this time, and people who have Yin deficiency and dry heat are very suitable to eat more lotus root. The lotus root can be eaten “raw or cooked”. It can be eaten raw, cooled or juiced to cool the lungs; it can also be eaten steamed with glutinous rice and honey; it can also be stewed with duck meat.  Almond: It has the effect of moistening the lung, relieving cough, laxative, clearing accumulated food, etc. It has a certain alleviating effect on dry cough without phlegm and constipation.  Honey has the effect of nourishing Yin and moistening dryness, moistening the lungs and replenishing deficiency, laxative, detoxifying medicine and pleasing color.  Water chestnut: sweet in taste and cold in nature, it has the effect of clearing heat and quenching thirst, relieving dampness and resolving phlegm. Cure Yin deficiency lung dry cough can use fresh water chestnut with, lotus root, pear together with the juice stirred together.  Lily: sweet taste, slightly bitter, flat, has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, clearing the heart and calming the mind. Lily can be eaten in many ways, as a dish, such as celery lily, lily fried beef, these are called a delicious dish; can also be cooked porridge to eat, such as lily and glutinous rice made of lily porridge, put a little rock sugar, not only delicious, but also calm the mind, help sleep; can also use lily, lotus seeds and red dates cooked into a soup, can be beneficial to calm the mind.