How to relieve autumn dryness in the 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. 1, pear: taste sweet, slightly sour, cool, has the effect of moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, stopping cough and phlegm, generating fluid and moistening 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 more, especially the usual is often thin stool, 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. 2, lotus root: taste sweet, cold. It has a variety of effects such as nourishing Yin and clearing heat, moistening dryness, clearing the heart and calming the mind, benefiting the blood and muscle, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding. Folk have long been “lotus and lotus all treasure, autumn lotus root most complementary people” such as the saying. 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”. Can be eaten raw, cold or juice to drink can be cool into the lungs; can also be steamed with glutinous rice, honey to eat; can also be stewed with duck meat. 3, almonds: with lung, cough, laxative, clear food and other effects, dry cough without phlegm, constipation and other diseases have some relief. 4, honey: has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, moistening the lungs and replenishing deficiency, laxative, detoxifying medicine, pleasing color, etc. 5, water chestnut: sweet, cold, with the effect of clearing heat to quench thirst, dampness and phlegm. Cure Yin deficiency lung dry cough can be used fresh water chestnut and, lotus root, pear together with the juice stirred together. 6, lily: taste sweet, slightly bitter, flat, has the effect of moistening the lungs to stop cough, clear the heart and calm the mind. Lily can be eaten in many ways, as a dish to eat, such as celery lily, lily fried beef, these are known as 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, and 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.