The hot days are not over yet, and the season has reached autumn. The change in the south may not be obvious, and the temperature in the north has dropped significantly after the autumn festival in the first two days, especially in the morning and evening.
From summer to autumn, in addition to temperature changes, nature and the body are quietly changing, and the lifestyle and diet should also be changed to avoid the stolen qi and blood in life.
Eat less spicy and less chili peppers
"The people take food as the sky", and the biggest impact on the body is food.
Nutrition analyzes the effects of food on the body by analyzing the composition of food, such as trace elements such as calcium and iron. Thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine used its own methods to understand food and its relationship with physical health and disease.
Chinese medicine believes that food has different "sex" and "taste", and the impact on the body is also different. For example, watermelon, milk, dandelion and other cold foods are not friendly to people who are afraid of cold, which is more familiar to everyone.
The five flavors of "sour bitterness, bitterness and saltiness" also have a great impact on the body, especially in the autumn period, it is best to eat less spicy foods, such as peppers.
Why?
"Spring, summer, long autumn, harvest and winter", autumn is the time when nature and body yang qi are adducted, eating spicy food, and nature and body conflict, it is easy to hurt qi and blood.
In summer, the body's yang qi is strong on the body surface, the pores are open and vented, and people are more energetic and more likely to sweat. The yang qi in the body is weak and cold, and the spleen and stomach are easy to eat cold and uncomfortable, and diarrhea. The yang qi on the surface of the body is blown by the cold wind of the air conditioner, and the cold and hot are opposed, and it is also easy to have problems such as nasal congestion, cough, runny nose, headache and other air conditioning diseases.
After the autumn, the yang qi on the surface of the body will be recycled, the pores will gradually close, sweating will become less, the yang in the body will be full, the appetite will gradually recover, more want to eat, and digestive problems will be less.
This change starts from the early autumn, throughout the autumn gradually complete the process of yang qi into the body, some insensitive friends do not have any feelings, partial friends, these two days appetite may begin to get better.
Spicy food "can do and can disperse", good at qi and divergence, and the change of the body in early autumn is just the opposite. The body should converge qi and blood backwards, and the spicy food will emit qi and blood outward, and this "reversal" hurts the body the most.
At this time, the body should gradually sweat less, and spicy foods, especially spicy and warm: peppers, green onions, ginger, leeks, perilla, osmanthus flowers, ginger, garlic, fennel, green peppers and so on. It is most likely to help the yang, sweat, lose the body's qi and blood, and eat less in the early autumn.
The seasonal influence is little by little, so is the food, once or twice there may be no obvious discomfort, but there are more bad habits, it is easy to break out when you stay up late, get angry, and eat spicy.
2 kinds of people must eat less spicy!
Eat less spicy food in autumn, suitable for a peaceful constitution and most people, while some constitutions require extra attention.
1. Yin deficiency, damp heat
The strength of the early autumn festival is not obvious, if the previous autumn and winter are prone to acne, mouth ulcers, sore throat, red and swollen eyes, headaches, constipation and other friends who are worried about fire, early autumn will have to eat less spicy food.
Eating too much spicy every day, the body has heat, there are the above troubles, you can eat more houttuynia cordata.
Houttuynia cordata is the "folded ear root" often eaten in sichuan and Chongqing, and it is also the salvation of the body when eating spicy. Its roots are natural anti-inflammatory. Not only clear the lung heat, but also reach the upper and lower levels of the human body. No matter where the inflammation is in the whole body, it can help you extinguish the fire.
If there is also dry and yellow skin, blackheads, dry skin, dry body, easy to upset, dry mouth want to drink water but do not quench thirst, you can add some lilies, jade bamboo, lemon, mint together to soak water to drink, help the body nourish yin + clear heat.
2. The body is weak and easy to get tired
Daily rest is not good, itself uses a lot of brains, neurasthenia, mental loss of friends, but also eat less.
Itself is too weak, forcibly use spicy food to mobilize the yang qi, consume reserves, and after a long time, it is easy to be empty in the heart, mental atrophy, or inner irritability, can not settle down, sleep is not stable, insomnia and dreams, etc.
"Spring should be upgraded, summer should be cleared, autumn should be flat, and winter should be warm." Weak friends do not eat spicy stimulating foods in early autumn except daily. More suitable for flat supplementation, you can eat some lilies, guiyuan, lotus seeds to nourish the heart and calm the spirit, as well as yam, jujube, peach and other tonic qi and blood, first make up for the body.
2 cases are suitable for eating some spicy
There is a story of chili peppers in the "Gangmu Collection": a child drinks cold water in the summer to sleep in the shade, and in the autumn, the chest and diaphragm have cold phlegm, eat chili peppers and drink porridge, and the illness is actually better. Because chili peppers "dissipate from sexual heat, they can also get rid of moisture".
Spicy food "can be moved and can be dispersed", which can make the body's yang more active, which is very suitable for the situation where the yang is trapped.
1. Body cold and humidity are heavy
Moisture traps the yang qi, causing the limbs to sink and not want to move, the head feels that something is wrapped, not awake, unresponsive, the limbs are heavy, soft flesh, and the tongue is white and thick, which can be paired with some spicy food.
The south is humid environment, belongs to the external humidity from the outside to affect the body qi and blood, so eat some spicy, their own yang qi uplifted, sweat a little, let the yang qi themselves to drive the moisture out is also very suitable, just into the autumn, do not eat too much at once, the body slightly sweaty, do not always sweat.
Xin is to mobilize their own yang qi, for friends who are already very wet, it is suitable to use bitter taste "can dry and can drain" to directly clean up the body moisture, such as bitter taste: tangerine peel, bergamot, etc., friends who are also weak in qi and blood, then add some sweet flavor supplements, such as poria, red adzuki beans, barley, etc.
Now is the tail of the sky, just from the sweltering hot weather, humid and hot friends are very suitable for daily use of red beans, barley, lotus leaves and tangerine peel, poria soaked water to drink, especially friends in the south, now is the best time to clear the humid heat.
2, eat too much cold, after catching a cold
Eating a lot of cold, the spleen and stomach are cold, or blowing air conditioning, cold wind and cold, body soreness, nasal congestion, fear of wind and cold.
You can use 3 slices of ginger, 1 to 2 pieces of green onion white, boiling water to drink, drink while hot, cover sweat, runny nose. Help the body to mobilize the yang qi and dissipate the wind chill on the surface of the body, and the body will be much more comfortable.
Each ingredient has a different power, and different seasons have their own characteristics.
Following the seasons, finding ingredients suitable for your own physique, and taking care of and nourishing your body little by little is the simplest health care and the best "medicine" for diseases.
Pay attention to your health troubles, care about your diet and living, pay attention to the way of life, every day a fresh health dry goods to send to you, we pursue a better life and health care together. Thanks for reading, see you tomorrow!