According to the principle of “nourishing Yang in spring and summer, and nourishing Yin in autumn and winter” in Nei Jing, and as the saying goes, “after summer, there are no diseases and three points of deficiency. “Therefore, it is the best time to restore and regulate the functions of human organs by taking appropriate supplements in autumn and winter. But what and how to make up, must be different from person to person, clear deficiency, in order to achieve the best results.
The five elements of autumn are gold, the five organs of the lungs, the five gases are dry, the five chemistry is (nourishing) collection, in general, dietary health care should be to moisten dry and beneficial to the center, to strengthen the spleen, liver and lungs as the main content, to clear the sweet and sour as the general method, cold deployment for the important. In autumn, the sky is high and the air is dry, the temperature gradually decreases, the humidity gradually decreases, the weather is hot and cold, and changes rapidly. So usually drink more water to maintain the balance of water metabolism, to prevent dry skin and cracking, evil fire invasion; eat more vegetables, fruits, to replenish the body vitamins and minerals, and neutralize excess acid metabolites in the body, to play the effect of fire detoxification; eat more beans and other high-protein plant foods, less greasy and thick. Diet should be as little as possible to eat onion, ginger, garlic, leek, pepper and other spicy products, so as not to hurt the Jin dry; especially should not eat more barbecue fried things, to prevent burning Yin Jin, aggravate the autumn dryness.
The lung is the main gas, the division of breathing, open orifice in the nose. According to the ancestral medicine, autumn is corresponding to the lung qi, and dryness and cold are most likely to hurt the lung in autumn; chronic diseases of the respiratory system also recur in the late autumn when the weather is colder, so autumn health care is mainly to nourish the lung; the spleen and stomach are the origin of the innate nature, the source of food and water, and according to the five elements, the spleen and stomach deficiency also leads to weakness of the lung qi or the liver is strong to grasp the earth, so autumn health care to regulate the spleen and stomach as the first, and dredge the liver to supplement the qi; the lung and large intestine are cousin to each other The lung and the large intestine are close to each other, and the two also affect each other, so keep the large intestine functioning properly and conducting powerfully, which helps the lung qi to flow smoothly. The so-called health care due to the time, in fact, focus on regulating the function of the internal organs of the human body, so that the balance of Yin and Yang, complement each other; specific practices have the following points.
Nourish dryness and moisten the lungs
Autumn health care for the lungs first, the lungs like to moisten and evil dry, dryness hurts the lungs. The climate is dry in autumn, the air humidity is low, people often have dry skin, dry mouth and nose, itchy throat and cough, constipation and other symptoms. Attention should be paid to maintain a certain humidity in the room, and avoid strenuous exercise to make people sweat profusely, which consumes fluid and hurts liquid. Diet should be “less pungent and more acid”, “prevent dryness and protect yin”, eat more honey, walnuts, dairy products, lily, fungus, radish, autumn pear, banana, lotus root and other nourishing products, and known as “the father of all fruits The pear, which is known as the “fruit of all fruits”, has its unique curative effect on autumn dryness, and there are many ways to eat it, for different main evidence. Although it is a good fruit, but should not eat too much, too much will hurt the spleen and stomach, help Yin damp, so wind-cold cough, cold pain in the abdomen, spleen deficiency loose stool people should eat carefully.
Nourishing the spleen and benefiting the lung
Chinese medicine attaches importance to nourishing the spleen and stomach (earth) so that the lung energy (gold) can be enriched. Therefore, people who are usually physically weak should take ginseng, astragalus, yam, jujube, lotus seeds, lily of the valley, licorice and other medicinal foods to nourish the spleen and benefit the lung (which is called “cultivating the earth to produce gold” in Chinese medicine) to enhance the ability to resist disease and facilitate the prevention and treatment of lung diseases. However, it should be noted that after a long hot summer, people are greedy for cold drinks, and inevitably the spleen and stomach are injured, so if we eat a lot of tonic at this time, it will suddenly increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, so that the long-term weak digestive organs can not bear, resulting in digestive disorders. Therefore, before taking tonic in autumn, we should give the spleen and stomach a time to adjust and adapt. We should first take some nutritious and easily digestible food, such as fish, various kinds of lean animal meat, poultry eggs and yam, lotus seeds, etc.; gradually.
Soften the liver and control the lung
The principle of “less pungency and more acid” should be implemented. The lung is pungent, the liver is sour, and pungency can win over acid, so we should reduce pungency to calm the lung qi and increase acid to help the liver qi in autumn, to prevent the lung qi from winning over the liver and making the liver qi stagnant, which will damage the spleen and stomach. Sesame, glutinous rice, honey, water chestnuts, grapes, radish, pear, persimmon, lotus seeds, lily, sugar cane, pineapple, banana, silver fungus, dairy products and other soft and moist foods can be consumed; less spicy and hot and fire-supporting products can be eaten.
Protect the muscle surface
The lung is the master of the muscular surface, and the evil of wind and cold is most likely to offend the lung, triggering or aggravating respiratory diseases such as exopathia, cough and asthma, or becoming the root of other diseases. Therefore, pay attention to weather changes, timely increase and decrease clothing, appropriate tonic, is the basic requirements of autumn health care, but strengthen physical exercise, so that the body as soon as possible to adapt to the climate change from hot to cold is more important. At this time, the key points are: cold clothing, the wind in the nose (for the weak when the autumn breeze when wearing a mask), sweat not wind, heat is not greedy for cold, to prevent wind and cold and other external evil injury to the lungs, to avoid colds, is the first priority of autumn lung.
In short, autumn health care should pay attention to both internal and external balance, yin and Yang balance, not only can not be blindly indiscriminate supplementation, and not to supplement the nourishment, completely abandoned “no sickness indiscriminate supplementation, medicine instead of food, more is better, where the supplement must be meat, only supplementation not nourishment” and other erroneous ideas, only adhere to scientific and reasonable diet conditioning, moderate exercise, maintain a relaxed mood, in order to get a good health.
The autumn season is three months from the beginning of autumn to the beginning of winter, autumn is characterized by heat to cold, Yang and Yin. Therefore, autumn health care must follow the principle of “nourishing the harvest”, in which dietary health care should be centered on moistening dryness and benefiting Qi, with the main content of strengthening the spleen, tonifying the liver and clearing the lungs, with clear, sweet and sour as the main method, and cold deployment as the key.
In autumn, the sky is high and the air is dry, the temperature gradually decreases, the humidity gradually decreases, the weather is hot and cold, and changes rapidly. So usually drink more water to maintain the balance of water metabolism, to prevent dry skin and cracking, evil fire invasion; eat more vegetables, fruits, to replenish the body vitamins and minerals, and neutralize excess acid metabolites in the body, to play the effect of fire detoxification; eat more beans and other high-protein plant foods, less greasy and thick. Diet should be as little as possible to eat onions, ginger, garlic, leek, pepper and other pungent products, should not eat more barbecue, to prevent aggravating the symptoms of autumn dryness. Should implement the principle of “less pungent more acid”, the lung is the main pungent taste, the liver is the main sour taste, pungent taste can win the acid, so the autumn to reduce the pungent to calm the lung gas, increase the acid to help the liver gas, to prevent the lung gas too much to win the liver, so that the liver gas stagnation. Sesame, glutinous rice, honey, water chestnuts, grapes, radish, pear, persimmon, lotus seeds, lily, sugar cane, pineapple, banana, silver fungus, dairy products and other soft and moist foods can be consumed.
In autumn, it is advisable to eat more warm food and less cold food to protect and nourish stomach energy. If you eat too much cold products or cold, unclean melons and fruits, will lead to warmth and heat within the body, poison stagnation, causing diarrhea, dysentery, etc., so there is “autumn melon bad belly” of the proverb, the elderly, children and the frail should pay particular attention.
As a result of the transition from summer to cool autumn, the human body often feels more comfortable, due to the “bitter summer” and body wasting also gradually recovered, appetite and spirit of the turn for the better, so that autumn has become the best season for tonic. In the process of tonic, this is a tonic rule based on the cool climate of autumn and the relative balance of yin and yang. The so-called “flat tonic” is to use flat tonic products that are not obvious in terms of cold and temperature. In addition, although the relative balance of Yin and Yang in autumn, but dry is the main gas in autumn, the lungs are easily injured by dryness, should also pay attention to the Run tonic, that is, to nourish Yin, produce moisture, run the lungs, take the combination of flat tonic, Run tonic method, in order to achieve the purpose of nourishing Yin and run the lungs.
To nourish the lung and moisten dryness, we should use more soft, sweet and moist foods that contain more water, such as sesame, honey and fruits. On the one hand, it can directly replenish the body’s moisture to prevent the direct harm produced by the dry climate such as the cracking of the lips; on the other hand, through these foods or drugs to nourish the lung yin, to prevent the body from being affected by dryness again on the basis of the lung yin deficiency and produce diseases. Drinking light salt water in the morning and honey water in the evening is a good way to replenish water and prevent constipation, but also an important element of health and anti-aging. In short, autumn tonic should be sweet and warm, neither too hot, and not too cold, to not hurt the yang does not consume yin for the degree. The food is easy to take, although there are four gases and five flavors, but after all, the effect is relatively weak, as long as the consumption of the right choice, not only the effect is more obvious, and generally will not appear what discomfort.
The diet has a moderate benefit, no moderation is hurt. In the autumn diet health care should pay attention to food and drink at regular intervals, in order to allow the gastrointestinal physiological functions to maintain normal activities, so that its orderly digestion, not to disorder or overwork. The rationing of food and drink is to avoid overloading the gastrointestinal activities to prevent damage to the stomach function, resulting in indigestion or gastric disease. The elderly and children have weak digestive power, so they should eat regularly and quantitatively.
In addition, each meal in autumn should be simple rather than complicated, because the human body Yang Qi is weak, stomach gas is also weak, each meal to eat a wide variety of food, not easy to digest, easy to cause stomach disease.