"Autumn equinox, equinox, day and night equal equinox". After the autumn equinox, the temperature gradually drops, the cold becomes heavier, the weather is dry, and the main external evil is dry evil. Therefore, the autumn equinox health should be based on "running".
Eat warmly
Supplement appropriately
Autumn dry qi is ordered, dry is yang evil, the most easy to consume lung yin, the appearance of lung dryness and resistance decline, will cause colds, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia. However, the dryness after the autumn equinox is cool and dry, which is different from the warmth and dryness of the summer heat before the autumn equinox, so in terms of diet, we should pay attention to eating more moist and warm foods.
▶ Lily
Chinese medicine believes that the lily taste sweet, slightly bitter, cool in nature, not tepid and dry, return to the heart, lungs, large intestine and other menstruation, suitable for tuberculosis caused by long cough, phlegm with blood, fatigue and palpitations, insomnia and dreams, mental trance and other medical evidence, as well as poor resolution of bowel and bladder.
Lilies have a good lung moisturizing effect and are most suitable for eating in autumn when the climate is dry. Symptoms such as dry mouth, dry throat, cough and less phlegm, dry stool, short urine, and dry skin caused by "autumn dryness" can be applied. Lily also has a good calming effect, and can also be used for the treatment of insomnia and dreams.
Recommended recipe: Lily white duck soup
Ingredients: 1/2 white duck (about 750 grams), 20 grams of dried lilies (if it is fresh, take 40 grams), 10 grams each of northern sand ginseng, goji berries, jujubes, ginger, green onion, rice wine, salt, pepper and other seasonings.
method:
1. Wash and cut the white duck into pieces, blanch in boiling water to remove the blood stains. Other ingredients are washed, put into a gauze bag, and tightened at the mouth of the bag;
2. Put the duck pieces and gauze bag and the appropriate amount of ginger, green onion, rice wine, clear soup (or water) into the saucepan, bring to a boil on high heat, and simmer for about 1 hour on low heat.
3. Fish out the gauze bag, according to personal taste, add fine salt, pepper to taste. Serve with meals, eat meat and drink soup.
Suitable for people: suitable for "autumn dry disease" or yin deficiency constitution. There is a conditioning of people with symptoms such as dry throat and bitter mouth, dry cough and less phlegm, coughing up phlegm with blood, dry stool, upset and insomnia.
▶ Honey
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that honey has five functions, clearing heat, toning, detoxifying, moisturizing, and relieving pain. Therefore, often eat some honey in autumn, which not only moisturizes the lungs and nourishes the lungs, but also reduces the damage of autumn dryness to the body. The honey brewed in cold boiled water can moisturize the lungs and relieve cough, especially for relieving dry cough.
Recommended recipe: Honey Sydney pear soup (Note: dry cough warm, cool, honey sydney soup is only suitable for warm patients. ）
Ingredients: 2 sydney pears, honey to taste.
Directions: Wash the sydney pear with the skin, slice it, put it in a pot, add water and cook on high heat until it is soft, turn off the heat, wait for the pear soup to cool, add the right amount of honey and stir well, eat the sydney pear, drink the soup.
Suitable for people: dry cough without sputum or cough up a little and sticky, or accompanied by dry lips and throat, upset and thirsty, red tongue, little moss or no moss.
▶ Radish
White radish has a cool and sweet taste, which has the effect of clearing heat and vitality, lower qi wide, appetizing and strengthening the spleen. Eating radish raw can moisturize the lungs, clear heat and detoxify. Especially after the autumn throat pain, or even suffering from tonsillitis, drinking raw radish juice can alleviate discomfort; those with mouth ulcers can also gargle with radish juice.
Recommended recipe: Mutton broth with white radish
Ingredients: Prepare 1000 grams of green radish or white radish, 500 grams of lamb, green onion, ginger, rice wine, salt and monosodium glutamate.
1. Wash the lamb to remove the fascia, cut into small cubes, boil with cold water, blanch the blood water, and wash it out of the pot;
2. Wash and peel the radish, cut into hob pieces and blanch the water and set aside;
3. First put the lamb into the pot, add water and green onion, ginger and rice wine, simmer until five ripe;
4. Add the radishes again, simmer over low heat until crispy, seasoning and serve.
Suitable for people: eating lamb in autumn and winter can dispel the cold, warm the heart and stomach, and also replenish qi and blood, nourish the liver, and improve blood circulation. The two can be used together to assist dietary therapy in patients with tuberculosis and bronchiectasis.
Living sports should also be "run"
Health care should be based on "harvesting"
After the autumn equinox, the yang in nature tends to converge from drainage, and the physiological activities of the human body should also conform to the changes in the yin and yang of nature, and it is advisable to go to bed early and get up early; it is advisable to choose sports that are relaxed and gentle and have little activity.
You can choose traditional tai chi, five bird plays, baduanjin and other "punching and lying bull land" kung fu to improve the physique from the inside of the body. If you really don't have time, concentrating and taking a deep breath for three minutes in the morning is also of great benefit to the body.
In addition, due to the gradual increase in temperature difference between day and night during this season, the temperature suddenly decreases, and the scene gradually depressions, people will inevitably have a depressed mood, which is easy to cause the seasonal disease of autumn depression.
Combined with the onset characteristics of autumn depression, this season should go to bed early and get up early, wake up at dawn, and make the mind stable, so as to alleviate the killing atmosphere in autumn, converge on the spirit of wanting to float, and make the heart calm and comfortable.
Source: Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine
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