Autumn is getting deeper, the recent temperature plummeted, for days, the strongest since the beginning of autumn this year, a cold air from west to east affect many places in the north. With the arrival of cold air, many places in the north really “into the autumn”. The weather changes a lot, the external sensation of people began to more up, the main symptoms are dry throat, sore throat, high fever, accompanied by a variety of cold symptoms. Why do so many people get “struck” in autumn? Because the change of the season makes our body more evil qi to mess up! What are the specific evil spirits? There are mainly heat, dryness and cold evils. The weather in autumn gradually becomes comfortable and dry, but the midday temperature is still quite hot, the air transparency has increased, the sun shines on the head will have a kind of hot feeling. This heat evil causes the body to lose fluids, making the meridian circulation carriers insufficient, resulting in defensive troops not being able to reach their designated combat positions, just like a troop carrier cannot sail when the water inside a canal dries up. At the same time, the heat evil causes the loss of fluids, which will aggravate the dry state and dry the mucous membrane in the mouth and nose, making it easy for external evil to enter. The combination of heat evil and the dryness of gold in autumn is called warm dryness, which is an important cause of illness in autumn. How should we prevent warmth and dryness from arising? Chinese medicine prescriptions There are many prescriptions to regulate warm and dryness in Chinese medicine, such as Mulberry Apricot Soup and Clear Dryness and Save Lung Soup, which are very classic prescriptions, and if needed, you can ask your doctor to prescribe them. Food therapy You can also use a simple food therapy to assist in regulating, that is, three beans plus black plum and white sugar soup. If you feel dry, your mouth and nose are hot, your throat is very dry, and the amount of urine becomes less, you can drink it as a drink. Here is the specific practice with a handful of black beans, a handful of soybeans, a handful of green beans, five plums, two small spoons of sugar, boil water, two hours later when the soup to drink. But to drink the same day, the effect of the next day is not good. Another external evil that messes up at this time is the cold evil. The temperature difference in autumn, “cold” easy to attack the body, the disease is therefore more frequent. Immediately after the eleventh ushered in the cold dew season, often said: “cold dew feet do not show”, is to caution people should pay attention to weather changes, pay special attention to warmth, timely increase and decrease clothing to prevent the invasion of cold, especially do not barefoot, to prevent “cold from the foot”. The feet are farthest from the heart, the blood supply is less, plus the foot fat layer is very thin, especially vulnerable to the effects of cold stimulation. After the cold dew, but also to develop the habit of washing feet with hot water before bed, hot water soaking feet in addition to prevent respiratory infectious diseases, but also vasodilatation, blood flow accelerated, improve the skin and tissue nutrition of the feet, and reduce the occurrence of lower limb pain, relieve or eliminate a day of fatigue. To prevent cold better replenish Yang In the upcoming frost to winter solstice season, food therapy to replenish Yang is most suitable. Angelica, cinnamon and ginger are all good ingredients. Get up early in the morning and have a bowl of ginger soup, it is very good for your body. People can also try to make some nourishing soups, such as angelica and ginger lamb soup, which is very helpful to replenish yang. Once you get cold and start sneezing, what should you do? Go to the sun and let yourself sweat again, this will have a certain rate to solve the problem. Once you feel cold and sneeze, you can boil water with wai yam and drink it. It is a great tonic for the spleen and lung, and makes the circulation of qi and blood smooth. Drinking it while it is hot has a sweating effect and disperses the cold very well.