Coughs are usually worse in winter and many people do not realize that autumn is a good time to combat winter coughs. First of all, autumn is connected to winter, and as long as proper care is taken in autumn, the cough will generally be lighter and shorter in winter. If you don’t take care of your cough in the fall, it will start to get worse in the fall instead of waiting until winter. It can be said that autumn is the key to maintenance for chronic cough sufferers. By paying attention to keeping warm in autumn and paying attention to the regularity of living in autumn, you can well prevent coughing in winter, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms. Secondly, autumn is associated with the lungs. External evils such as wind, cold, heat, humidity and dryness in autumn can injure lung energy. In early autumn, there is autumn tiger dryness and heat that injure the lungs, and in late autumn, there are damp and cold evils that injure the lungs. Autumn health care is more complicated due to the large changes in climate. In general, from the diet and warmth two aspects of maintenance is familiar to many people, in fact, a regular life especially not stay up late is more important. Excessive staying up late will damage the body’s resistance, and Chinese medicine says the body resistance is precisely the first lung function, so staying up late will damage the lung gas. The root cause of winter coughs is the lack of proper maintenance in autumn. “If you hurt yourself in autumn, you will have a cough in winter.” This is the ancient summary of the fact that if you feel external evil in autumn, you are bound to have a cough in winter. In fact, external evils such as wind, cold and dryness can also cause coughing in winter after being injured in autumn. Therefore, it is very important for people with a history of chronic cough to take care of themselves in autumn.