The Chinese calendar divides a year into twenty-four solar terms, one every 15 days, and each solar term represents the time, climate, and phenology, which are different changes in the "three weathers". Frostfall is the last festival of autumn, and this year enters the frost season from October 23 and ends on November 6. Today is the last day of the frost season.
During the frost season, the weather turns from cool to cold, but the "frost first frost" mainly reflects the climatic characteristics of the Yellow River Basin, Guangdong is located on the southeast coast, and the frost in the cities near the Pearl River Delta generally does not take until after New Year's Day. According to previous meteorological data, the daytime temperature before and after the frost fall in Guangdong can reach up to 28 °C, while the early morning and night temperature is about 18 °C, and the temperature change is often difficult to adapt, and it is easy to feel cold or recur. During the frost season, the rainfall is significantly reduced, and the climate is getting drier, at this time, the TCM health care should focus on flattening and moisturizing, strengthening the body and resisting the cold.
Keep warm and cold legs at the right time
After the frost falls, the temperature difference between morning and evening increases, and people need to prevent the "autumn frost" from being injured, and should add clothes in time according to the temperature changes to avoid getting cold. When the cold wave strikes, the elderly especially need to beware of the "old cold legs" attack, especially after the waist and legs are cold, they are prone to cold pain and unfavorable activities in the waist and knees. In the early morning and evening, the temperature is low, and it is best to wear loose long clothes and pants when exercising outdoors, especially to keep the waist and lower limbs warm.
The onset of "old cold legs" is related to the evil of feeling the wind and cold. Medical Jingyun: "Those who are in pain, there is a lot of cold, and there is cold and pain." The cold evil attaches to the wind and enters the body, and the evil of the wind and cold obstructs the veins of the waist and knees, and the qi and blood are blocked, and if they do not pass, it is painful.
Modern medicine believes that the waist supports the entire upper body, which is the most vulnerable part when bearing weight and exercise; and the knee joint is the largest joint of the human body, almost bearing the weight of the whole body, heavy burden, large movement, joint ligaments are easy to strain, joint cartilage is easy to wear, both of which are important and easy to damage parts during human movement. During the frost period, due to the drop in temperature, the blood vessels of the muscle ligaments will be reflexively caused by the contraction of blood vessels, the blood flow will be reduced, and the blood flow rate will be slowed down, which will easily cause the nerve, blood vessel and soft tissue dysfunction of the waist and knee joints, thereby aggravating the occurrence of waist and leg diseases.
In addition to the symptoms of cold legs in the elderly, some young and middle-aged women who are beautiful "frozen" people still wear short skirts and shorts due to the frost season, and they are also prone to the precursor symptoms of "old cold legs" such as soreness, numbness, swelling and pain in the legs, and a sense of heaviness. It is recommended that beauty-loving ladies pay close attention to temperature changes, change into knee-length skirts, trousers, or match leggings to protect legs that are prone to cold.
There is a way to supplement dietary therapy
Frost fall is the autumn to winter transition of the solar terms, the temperature drop is greatly increased, the human body needs to eat more calories to resist the cold to enhance the physique, so the folk attach great importance to the frost to supplement, there are more "winter is not as good as frost drop" "frost drop into supplement, the next year to fight the tiger" and so on. Nowadays, the concept of "eating more tonics, treating diseases and strengthening the body without disease" is not scientific, and young and strong people who are healthy and disease-free have good adaptability to the seasons and climate change, generally do not need to be medicated, and can be selectively nourished through dietary therapy. Pumpkin warm in the qi, spleen and stomach, chestnut through the kidney qi, thick stomach, strong muscles and blood, persimmon raw liquid, in addition to dry heat, moisturizing the lungs and phlegm, lotus root to adjust the spleen, run the lungs to nourish the yin, yam spleen to nourish the lungs, solid kidneys and refined, white radish shun qi wide, phlegm and so on are suitable for the frost season of health food.
"If you are weak, you will make up for it, but in fact, you will be diarrhea", and the supplement for people with weakness can play a role in enhancing physical fitness and eliminating diseases and strengthening the body according to specific conditions. Generally, the general principle of qi deficiency and blood deficiency, blood deficiency and blood replenishment, yin deficiency nourishing yin, yang deficiency and warm yang is the general principle, and those with complex symptoms can also treat qi and blood as needed, and yin and yang double supplements. Among the tonic herbs such as ginseng, ganoderma lucidum can replenish qi, ejiao, angelica can nourish blood, deer antler velvet, bayonet can supplement yang, turtle plate, turtle nail can nourish yin, etc., must be divided into the yin and yang qi and blood under the condition of false reality, if necessary, can be carried out under the guidance of Chinese medicine practitioners. If you suffer from acute symptoms such as fever, rash sores, abdominal pain and constipation, and evidence, you should suspend supplementation so as not to stay behind closed doors and aggravate your condition.
Nourish the soup to remove autumn dryness
It is late autumn, and as the rainfall decreases, the weather becomes drier and the water that the human body evaporates through the surface of the body also increases greatly. Chinese medicine believes that autumn qi should be lungs, lungs are delicate and clear dirt, the skin, hair, mucous membranes on the surface of the human body are dominated by the lungs, and the autumn dryness is too strong to damage the lungs, resulting in hair frizz, dry skin, itchy skin, increased fine lines, dry mouth and nose and other evidence of yin deficiency and lung dryness.
The lungs have the characteristics of moisturizing and dry, so the diet during the frost season needs to pay attention to supplementing soft and nourishing products to moisturize the lungs and nourish the yin, which is the best time to nourish the soup. Soup is considered one of the most nutritious and easily digestible dishes. The soup takes water as the medium, uses meat, vegetables, fruits, medicinal materials and other materials for appropriate collocation, and after steaming, or boiling, or stewing, or boiling and other different cooking processes, the various nutrients of the ingredients penetrate into the soup and fully integrate to form a delicious dish full of aroma. The soup is characterized by juicy and delicious beauty, and has the effect of nourishing jin liquid, nourishing the face and moisturizing the skin. Autumn lungs, autumn soup can also be appropriately added to almonds, Scallops, white fruits, etc. can be used to reduce lung qi, or with sand ginseng, dendrobium, wheat dong, jade bamboo, lilies to nourish the yin lungs, but also according to the physical condition of flexible loading. Frost and autumn dryness, cook the "autumn health soup" by yourself, can bring you and your family a different kind of moisture and sweetness in autumn.
Fitness and health maintenance
Nowadays, the climate is cool and the night is cold, which is the period of high incidence of respiratory diseases such as rhinitis and bronchitis, knee osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and so on, so it is called "eventful autumn". In addition to avoiding evil spirits and preventing diseases, TCM health care also advocates appropriate exercises to enhance physical fitness and improve the body's disease resistance. Here are two simple and easy regimens:
1. Rub your face and ears: first rub your hands together, then rub your hands up and down on your face, from light to heavy, until your face is hot; then rub your ears, use your thumbs and index fingers to massage the pinna from top to bottom 20 times, and massage the earlobes 30 times. Long-term persistence can play a role in strengthening the vitality, benefiting the lungs and replenishing the kidneys, so as to achieve the effect of unclogging the face qi and blood, awakening the brain and refreshing, and preventing colds.
2. Percussion: sit cross-legged, relax the whole body, close the lips slightly, concentrate and close the eyes, and then rhythmically tap each other with the upper and lower teeth. At the beginning, you can tap about 20 times, and as the exercise progresses, you can gradually increase the number and strength of the teeth, generally 36 times is appropriate. After tapping the teeth, pranayama, with the tongue in the mouth against the upper and lower gums, the tooth surface stirring, soft and natural, first up and down, first inside and then outside, stirred 36 times, when the feeling of saliva production and gradually increased, with the tip of the tongue against the palate to gather saliva, and then swallowed slowly in three times. This exercise can play a role in strengthening the spleen and stomach, and absorbing qi and tonifying the kidneys.
Cream drop diet remedy
Ginkgo biloba radish porridge
Ingredients: 20 g ginkgo biloba, 75 g white radish, 75 g glutinous rice, sugar to taste.
Preparation method: Wash and cut the white radish into strips, blanch them in boiling water and then pick them up and set aside. Ginkgo biloba is peeled off, boiled in boiling water, then put into the pot with glutinous rice, boil on high heat and turn to low heat and cook for about 45 minutes, add sugar and cook for another 5 minutes, then mix in the shredded radish to eat.
Effect: Relieve cough and asthma, strengthen the spleen and nourish the lungs. Suitable for people with dry lungs and cough, lungs and spleen deficiency.
Purple potato silver earring
Ingredients: 100 grams of purple potatoes, 50 grams of white fungus, 15 grams of lotus seeds, rock sugar to taste.
Preparation method: diced purple potatoes, cored lotus seeds, washed and torn off small pieces after white fungus foam. Put the purple potato, white fungus and lotus seeds into a blender, add the appropriate amount of water, crush into a pulp, then pour into the pot, add rock sugar, and simmer over medium heat while stirring until boiling.
Effect: Strengthen the spleen and lungs, nourish the yin and calm the spirit. Suitable for people who are restless at night or have dry stools.
Lily jade bamboo old pigeon soup
Ingredients: 1 old pigeon, 30 grams of jade bamboo, 15 grams of lilies, 15 grams of goji berries, 10 grams of cinnamon balls, 2 slices of ginger.
Preparation method: jade bamboo, lilies, goji berries washed and set aside, the old pigeons are slaughtered and de-haired, washed, cut into large pieces, put into the pot with other materials, add an appropriate amount of water, first boil on high heat, then turn the heat to a low simmer for 2 hours, and finally add salt to taste.
Effect: Nourish yin nourish blood and calm the spirit. Suitable for people with yin deficiency in the lungs and kidneys, and people who are restless and sleep at night.
Raw fish soup with bamboo almonds
Ingredients: 500 g of raw fish, 50 g of curd bamboo, 30 g of southern almonds, 50 g of horseshoe, 3 slices of ginger.
Preparation method: humus bamboo bubble soft cut section, horseshoe peeling after washing and cutting into two halves, raw fish to scale, gills, intestines, wash and set aside. Put all the ingredients into the soup pot, add the right amount of water, bring to a boil on high heat and reduce the heat, then simmer for another 1 hour, add salt to taste.
Effect: Moisturize and dry phlegm, suppress cough in the lungs. Suitable for people who cough for a long time and have a lung strain.
【Source: Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Zhuhai Hospital Treatment Center Cheng Jiehui Chief Chinese Medicine Physician]