It’s that time of the year again. While you feel the coolness in the morning and evening, do you feel the dryness of the climate? Do you feel dry mouth? Are your lips flaky? Is your skin dry? Is your rhinitis coming back? …… The characteristic of autumn season is the word “dryness”. Autumn is dominated by lung gold, therefore, dryness first hurts the lungs, and the lungs dominate the skin and open the nose. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand the above symptoms. At this time, you should eat more foods that moisten the lungs and nourish the yin, such as: lotus root, yam, white radish, lily and other white foods. You can also drink some honey every day. Eat less spicy, warm food, such as: chili, mutton, fish, shrimp, etc. Some small children usually have a strong body, damp and hot constitution, often love fire and nosebleeds, at this time, we should be more careful, chocolate is dangerous, you can drink more lotus root water, boil the lotus root also keep together, has the effect of stopping bleeding. For those patients with yin deficiency, dryness may further damage your yin fluid and aggravate your symptoms. For example, dizziness caused by Yin deficiency and Yang hyperactivity; for example, insomnia caused by deficiency of Heart Yin and loss of nourishment for the mind; for example, depression and anxiety caused by Yin deficiency and internal heat; especially in patients with cerebrovascular disease, improper adjustment in autumn will make the condition easy to recur in late autumn and early winter. In addition, the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says: “The west wind is born in autumn, the disease is in the lungs, and Yu is in the back of the shoulders” “Those who suffer from autumn qi are sick in the back of the shoulders”, so they are prone to shoulder discomfort and pain in autumn. These patients above, in addition to daily dietary supplements, may be more in need of the appropriate herbal regimen. “Nourish Yang in spring and summer, nourish Yin in autumn and winter”, you can usually take some flat tonic medicine such as Liu Wei Di Huang Wan. If you have Yin deficiency and heat, you can use Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan. If you have a dry mouth and throat, you can take a cream to nourish the yin and clear the lungs. If you have symptoms, you should seek medical attention in a timely manner and not wait for them to worsen. One of the major advantages of Chinese medicine compared to Western medicine is the prevention of diseases, which is called the idea of “treating the disease before it happens”. The people have a saying called “broken can boil a good can”, that is, some people have some minor ailments are very serious, come to the hospital to see the doctor, holding the jar of medicine for years and years to eat medicine, as if the body is very bad; and some people rarely see a doctor, some problems to carry a shoulder will pass, usually very strong body. But in the end, it is often which sick and crooked people live long, strong people die young. In fact, to put it bluntly, there is a disease early treatment, no disease first adjustment of the truth. And then far away, the following introduction of several autumn health recipes for your reference. [Snow pear lily ice sugar soup] Ingredients: snow pear 1, lily 15 grams, ice sugar appropriate amount. Method: Wash and cut the snow pear, and lily together into the pot and boil, add rock sugar, and then stew for 1 hour. Meals: take the juice to drink frequently. Uses: pear taste sweet, slightly sour, cold. Can nourish Yin and clear heat, moisten the lungs to stop coughing, remove fire and clear the heart. Lily taste sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold in nature. Can moisten the lung to stop cough, clear the heart and calm the mind. Taken together, it can moisten the lung to stop cough and remove irritation. It is especially suitable for symptoms of heart and lung yin deficiency. Spinach and silver fungus soup] Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh spinach, 15 grams of silver fungus, salt, monosodium glutamate appropriate amount. Method: Wash spinach, blanch slightly in a pot, chopped. Silver fungus hydrated. Boil the soup in a pot, seasoning is ready. Directions: Take 1 dose daily for several days. Uses: Silver fungus is sweet in taste and flat in nature. It can nourish Yin and moisten the lung, benefit the stomach and produce body fluid. Spinach is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It can nourish Yin and moisten dryness, clear heat and eliminate thirst, nourish the liver and brighten the eyes, nourish blood and stop bleeding. Both of them have the function of nourishing Yin and generating fluid, clearing heat and relieving cough. Note: Spinach is cold and slippery, so people with cold abdomen and diarrhea should not eat it. Spinach contains a lot of oxalic acid, should not be eaten with calcium-containing foods (such as soy products), is not conducive to the body’s absorption of calcium, quick blanching can remove most of the oxalic acid. Children should not eat more. Radish, green fruit and water chestnut soup] Ingredients: 500 grams of white radish, 250 grams of green fruit, 250 grams of water chestnut, ice sugar. Preparation: wash and cut white radish, water chestnuts peeled, with the green fruit into the pot and cooked, add sugar stew is ready. Serving method: 2-3 times a day, for 5-7 days. Uses: White radish raw taste pungent and sweet, cool in nature. Cooked ones are sweet in taste and calm in nature. It can clear heat and produce fluid, cool blood and stop bleeding, resolve phlegm and cough, eliminate food and lower gas, diuretic and detoxification, stop thirst and disperse blood stasis. Green fruit is olive, sour and astringent in taste and flat in nature. It can clear the lung and detoxify the throat. The Materia Medica Rejuvenata says it: “calms the liver and appetite, moistens the lungs and nourishes the yin, relieves phlegm and Qi, stops coughing, and treats vomiting of blood.” Water chestnut is sweet, moist and descending, which can clear the heat of the lung and stomach and dissolve phlegm and produce fluid, and can also clear intestinal heat and laxative. Bing sugar clears heat and generates body fluid, benefits Qi and moistens the lung.