1, the meaning and time of frostfall Frostfall is the last festival of autumn, is the transition from autumn to winter festival. Every year around October 23 of the solar calendar, when the sun reaches 210 degrees of the yellow longitude is the frost in the twenty-four solar terms. The ancient text “The Twenty-Four Solar Terms” says: “The frost falls when the air is sober, and the yin begins to condense.” At this time, there is a lot of heat dissipation on the ground at night, and the temperature suddenly drops below 0 degrees. The water vapor in the air condenses directly on the ground or plants to form fine ice needles, and some become hexagonal frost flowers, white in color and loose in structure. This year, frost is October 24, 2011. After the frost is from the frost to before the winter, that is, from October 24 to November 8 before. 2, after the frost is prone to disease (1) frost, the human spleen function is at its peak, and due to the stimulation of cold, the body’s plant nervous function disorders, the normal pattern of gastrointestinal motility is disturbed, will certainly increase the burden of gastrointestinal function, so gastrointestinal diseases increase or recur. (2) before and after the frost is also the peak incidence of diseases of the whistle system, although the weather does not change much, but the weather is gradually becoming colder, if not properly regulated, some common whistle diseases such as allergic asthma, chronic bronchitis, on the sense began to aggravate or onset. (3) After the frost, as the weather starts to get cold, the temperature difference between day and night increases, the cold easily causes vasoconstriction, blood does not run well, so the incidence of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, cerebral infarction also began to increase. (4) Other, such as the elderly are also very susceptible to “old cold leg” (osteoarthritis of the knee joint) problem. 3, the frost health points how to make up for the frost – frost is suitable for warm and flat tonic, suitable for individualized adjustment tonic as the saying goes: “supplement winter is better than supplement frost”, emphasizing the “autumn tonic” in the folk health of the importance. This emphasizes the importance of autumn tonic in folk health. According to the viewpoint of Chinese medicine health science, in the interrelationship of the five tonics in the four seasons (spring tonic, summer tonic, light tonic, autumn tonic, and winter tonic), the principle of flat tonic should be adopted. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, the weather is still hot in early autumn and the summer heat has not yet receded, so it is appropriate to be cool and moist, while frostfall is the last festival of autumn, the weather becomes cold, and autumn dryness hurts the fluids, so it is appropriate to be warm and moist, and the medicine and food should be supplemented according to the theory of Chinese medicine, according to the nature and taste of the meridians. During the period of frost and fall, after entering winter, the foundation in front is good, the base is thick, the effect of winter tonic will be better, such as people in our Suzhou area often take poultices after winter to tonic, so that the next year’s health, to achieve the purpose of disease prevention and treatment, strengthening the body. Finally, tonic pay attention to different people, the spleen and stomach weakness, the elderly or chronic disease patients for dietary supplements, to strengthen the spleen and liver to clear the lungs, should be selected with a flat taste, the role of mild food, eat warm cooked food, soup, porridge is most suitable, both nutritious tonic, but also conducive to absorption, can enhance physical fitness, maintain vigor, prevention and reduction of disease. 4, during the frost to three prevention – prevent autumn dryness, prevent autumn depression, prevent thieves wind (1) prevent autumn dryness Autumn dryness is easy to hurt the body’s fluids, fluids are depleted, there will be dry images, manifested as dry mouth, dry lips, dry nose, dry throat, dry tongue and less fluid, dry stool, dry skin and even chapped. The lung likes to moisten but hates dryness, so the function of the lung is bound to be affected, resulting in a series of autumn dryness such as dry nose and throat, hoarse voice, dry cough with little phlegm, thirst and constipation. The Yuan dynasty physician Kusi Hui said in the “Drinking food is about to”: autumn dryness, it is appropriate to eat hemp to moisten its dryness. Therefore, autumn health should eat more sesame, honey, silver fungus, green vegetables and other moist food, as well as apples, grapes, bananas and other water-rich, nourishing and lung fruits. You should go to bed early and get up early in your life. Early to bed can nourish yin, early to get up whistling fresh air, in order to Shu lung, can make the body sufficient fluid, full of energy. (2) prevent autumn depression late autumn, miserable wind and rain, grass withered leaves fall, people feel the change of the seasons easy to get worried. The bottom of the human brain, there is a gland called the pineal gland, can secrete a melatonin, which makes people depressed, depressed. And after autumn, the pineal gland secrete melatonin relatively more, people’s mood correspondingly low negative. Autumn health to prevent autumn depression, first of all, the rule of life should not be broken at will, bad mood, what to do or what to do; secondly, we should eat more high-protein food, such as milk, eggs, pork, mutton and beans; but also to participate in some physical and mental recreational activities, such as singing and dancing, hiking, etc.. (3) to prevent thieves wind autumn climate morning and evening temperature difference, hot and cold irregularities, often make people caught off guard, thieves wind will often take advantage of the false entry, making people sick, known as thieves wind by Chinese medicine. When attacked by thieves’ wind, the whole body will be sore and weak, and it will also cause pharyngitis, bronchitis, distorted mouth and eyes, and facial nerve paralysis. Therefore, we must pay attention to keep warm, especially the elderly, and for young women, leg warmth also requires special attention. 5, the frost of the food should be selected when the food is warm and moist, should eat more rich in antioxidants and scavenging the body free radicals and remove harmful substances in the gastrointestinal tract food, such as sweet potatoes, dates, tofu, cabbage, milk, carrots, spleen and stomach; apples, grapefruit, grapes, oranges, wind pears, to prevent fat accumulation, tonic heart benefit Qi Jin thirst; kelp, seaweed, black beans, soybeans, mung beans, red beans, millet, chestnuts, to prevent vascular sclerosis and beauty; walnuts, black beans, black beans, soybeans, mung beans, red beans, millet, chestnuts. Anti-vascular sclerosis and beauty; walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, cinnamon, peanuts and other nut foods can be timely replenishment of trace elements, conducive to bone health. The following is the introduction of some commonly eaten foods and fruits: pear “sexual taste and meridian” cool, taste sweet slightly acid, into the lung, stomach meridian. “Efficacy” to produce moisture, moisten dryness, clear heat, resolve phlegm. If in the labor thirst when eating pear to give a person to cool in addition to dry feeling, after eating pear can be said to be sweet and fragrant, meaning in the jade pulp fresh beauty, wine will all disappear. Apple “nature and taste” is cool, taste sweet. “efficacy” to produce Jin, moisten the lungs, eliminate food, quench thirst. The efficacy of apples has been recorded in the “Thousand Gold Food Cure” of the Tang Dynasty. Westerners had the saying “Eat an apple every day, the doctor stays away from me”, and there is also the proverb “An apple after a meal, an old man will be a young man” in the apple producing area of China. Olives are flat in nature and sour and sweet in taste. “Effects: Clears the lungs, improves the throat, increases thirst, and detoxifies. This herb seeks truth: “Olive, the lung and stomach family fruit, also, the performance of the thirst, the most appropriate to chew after drinking. People serving puffer fish liver and son, bewildered to death, take this boiled juice to drink both to solve. White fruit “sex taste and meridian” sex flat, taste sweet astringent bitter. Into the lung and kidney meridian. “Efficacy” astringent lung Qi, fixed asthma and cough, reduce stool, stop cloudy. The leaves of the ginkgo tree resemble the palm of a duck, so it is known as the duck’s foot. Song Dynasty writer Ouyang Xiu had “duck feet born in Jiangnan, the name of the real originally floating. The ginkgo is expensive in Central China because of the tribute to the descending capsule.” The sentence. The ginkgo tree is also known as the grandson tree, because the tree grows slowly, “the male planted the tree and the grandson gets food”. Onion is warm in nature and pungent in taste. Enters the lung meridian. “Efficacy: Clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Lowering fat and sugar. Onion as a diuretic and expectorant widely spread in folklore, but also an indispensable senior seasoning base in Western cuisine. In recent years, medical research found that onions contain hypoglycemic substances – methylsulfonylurea, often eaten for diabetics is quite beneficial. Mustard (potherb mustard) “Sexual taste and meridian” is warm, pungent. It enters the lung and large intestine meridians. “Efficacy” promotes the lung and expels phlegm, warms the stomach and disperses cold. For acute and chronic bronchitis, cold phlegm, cough white sticky phlegm, chest and diaphragm stuffy people should eat. 5, frost exercise points of attention (1) the morning exercise should be late morning easily collect fog, as the temperature drops, frost may also appear. Therefore, the time of our morning exercise can be appropriately pushed back. Especially people suffering from gastric ulcers and other stomach diseases, come out too early to exercise is easy to inhale cold air, causing vasoconstriction of the gastrointestinal mucosa, resulting in gastrointestinal mucosa ischemia and hypoxia. This is not good for the repair of ulcers. (2) to do enough preparatory activities in outdoor sports, pay special attention to the protection of joints, must be done after the regular preparatory activities, and then increase the range of activities of the joints, must do the preparatory activities are ankle exercise, knee exercise and hip exercise. Before playing ball, in addition to jogging activities, you can also join the cross-step running, rapid S-bend change of direction running, etc., after running to focus on wrist and ankle activities, the first activity open and then on the field. Autumn swimming is a good exercise, the lungs have exercise, this time to pay attention to the first rinse with cool water before entering the water, adapt in advance to prevent the occurrence of cramps. When exercising in the gym should properly extend the preparation time, pay attention to the stretching of ligaments, and do leg presses, standing forward bends and other movements when the body is hot.