Frostfall is the last solar term of autumn and a transition period from autumn to winter. At this time, the weather becomes cold, and the dew condenses into frost, so it is called "frost fall".
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After the frost falls, the weather gradually becomes colder, and many people are prone to coughing, catching a cold, or relapsing respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis at this time.
The ancients often said: "Autumn is dry, it is advisable to eat hemp to moisten dryness." At this time, it is recommended to eat some yin and dry products, such as sesame, glutinous rice, rice, honey, red dates, yams, etc., to enhance physical fitness.
At the same time, eat less spicy foods, such as peppers, ginger, onions, garlic, because eating spicy is easy to hurt the body's yin essence.
It is recommended to eat warm food for breakfast, porridge is especially good, grains can strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish the qi, not only can avoid autumn dryness, but also can enhance the body's yang.
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In ancient times, frost fell into three seasons: "one waits for the jackal to be sacrificed to the beast; the other waits for the grass and trees to fall yellow; and the third waits for the sting to be salty." This means that animals like jackals have to reserve food for the winter from the beginning of the frost.
It is usually said that the jackal tiger and leopard are fierce beasts, but here the other side of the jackal is emphasized, and after the jackal catches the prey, it is displayed like a sacrifice and then slowly enjoyed.
At this time, everything stopped growing, the leaves of the plants turned yellow and fell, and the hibernating animals began to hide in caves and prepare for the winter.
During the frost season, nature is in the transitional stage of preparing for winter, and it is recommended to pay attention to keeping warm when going out at this time, especially the knee joint. When the knee joint is stimulated in the cold, the local circulation will become worse, which is easy to aggravate the pain, and it is not advisable to do knee flexion for a long time, and the burden on the knee joint should be reduced as much as possible.
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1. Cloves
Clove warm, spicy, into the spleen meridian, stomach meridian, kidney meridian, has the effect of reducing the reversal in temperature, dispersing cold and relieving pain, warming the kidney and helping the yang. Female cloves have the same taste as male cloves, and can also be used to dispel wind chills, warm and relieve pain, but the effect is not as good as male cloves.
Modern pharmacological studies have found that eugenol has the effect of aiding in local anesthesia and pain relief. Early cleaning of the mouth contains clove essential oil, which has a good bacteriostatic effect.
Legend has it that in ancient times, when jin saw the emperor, he should contain cloves in his mouth to kill bacteria. The Han Dynasty called cloves "chicken tongue incense", and the han dynasty ministers must contain chicken tongue incense to remove bad breath when playing to the emperor.
How to eat: During the frost season, people with a cold constitution can eat more cloves to enhance their physique. In the "Kaibao Materia Medica", it is recorded that cloves can warm the spleen and stomach; Li Shizhen believes that cloves can cure stomach weakness and vomiting.
Modern pharmacological studies have found that cloves have anti-ulcer, promote gastric juice secretion, inhibit gastrointestinal movement, promote bile secretion and other effects. Therefore, in the frost festival, people with chronic gastritis can eat cloves to protect the gastric mucosa and improve the cold deficiency in the stomach.
It should be: People with cold constitution diet when the frost falls, and using cloves can enhance their physique.
Avoid: People with febrile venereal diseases and yin deficiency and internal heat should not eat.
Therapeutic remedy: Cloves steamed pears
Ingredients: 10 cloves, 1 pear.
Directions: Wash the duck pear, cut a piece at the top, pitted, add the cloves, cover the top of the pear, steam in a steamer, pour out the cloves and eat.
Benefits: 2 times daily to stop vomiting.
apple
●Quench thirst, prevent high blood pressure and anti-fatigue
Chinese medicine believes that apples have a sweet taste, acidic taste, cool sex, and have the effect of quenching thirst and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Apple medicine has the effect of improving mild diarrhea, constipation, high blood pressure, etc., and can also fight fatigue. The pectin in apples can help lower cholesterol in the blood.
●It is suitable for people who drink too much alcohol and have cancer
Apples are rich in vitamin C, chromium, zinc, etc., especially suitable for indigestion, insufficient gas, hot and thirsty, excessive alcohol consumption, mild diarrhea, constipation, neurocolitis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease and cancer patients.
●Contains flavonoids to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease
As the saying goes, "One apple a day, the doctor stays away from me." "It can be seen that eating more apples is good for the body. The polyphenols contained in apples help lower cholesterol; flavonoids also help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
But to remind everyone, do not eat apples as soon as you are full, because this will make the stomach bloated and not conducive to digestion.
Therapeutic recipe: Steamed apples
Ingredients: 1 apple, rock sugar to taste.
Directions: 1. Wash the apples, cut them in half, use a spoon to dig out the apple cores, then cut them into large and even pieces, plate them, and put an appropriate amount of rock sugar.
2. Put in the steamer, after the water is boiling, steam on high heat for 5 minutes.
Efficacy: Raw and appetizing, lowering cholesterol, helping to prevent high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and so on.
persimmon
Autumn is the ripening season for persimmons, which can be harvested from mid-September to November every year. Persimmon generally has two kinds, one is a sweet persimmon, the fruit is small, mostly soft persimmon, commonly known as "persimmon", the fruit can be de-astringent on the tree, and can be eaten after harvesting. The other is astringent persimmon, the fruit shape is larger, commonly known as "crisp persimmon" and "soaked persimmon", astringent persimmon flesh with astringency, need to be artificially deastringent before eating. Persimmons can be processed into persimmon cakes, dried persimmons, persimmon wine, persimmon vinegar, etc.
●Frost drop eats persimmons, and does not catch a cold in winter
Frostfall is the last festival of autumn and the season when persimmons ripen, when the persimmons have thin skin and delicious flesh. As the saying goes, "it is better to make up for it in a year, it is better to make up for the frost", and it is also said that "frost falls to eat persimmons, and winter is not cold".
The wisdom of the ancestors has been confirmed by modern research that persimmons are rich in carotene, vitamin A and vitamin C, and that a persimmon contains vitamin C equivalent to half of the body's daily demand. Vitamin C has an antioxidant effect, which can regulate human immunity and reduce the occurrence of colds.
●Moisturize the lungs and relieve dry and hot cough
Chinese medicine believes that persimmons are flat in nature, sweet in taste, have the effect of reducing heat and annoyance, quenching thirst, moisturizing the lungs and dissolving phlegm. These characteristics of persimmons are in line with the key points of autumn health "moisturizing the lungs and removing dryness". It is mentioned in the "Diet Recipe for Living with The Breath" that fresh persimmons "nourish the yin of the lungs and stomach". Winter is dry and cold, people often feel thirsty, dry throat, eat more persimmons can moisturize the oropharynx, relieve hot and dry cough.
●Persimmon, persimmon skin, persimmon leaf, persimmon cake, persimmon cream each have a therapeutic effect
In addition to the edible flesh of persimmons, persimmon stems, persimmon skins, persimmon leaves, persimmon cakes, persimmon creams, etc. have therapeutic effects. Chinese medicine believes that persimmons are warm and bitter, and can cure nausea and nocturia. Persimmon peel has the function of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can also moisturize the oropharynx and relieve hot cough. Persimmon leaf can cure wheezing cough, emphysema, drink persimmon leaf tea as appropriate, can maintain the cardiovascular system.
Persimmon cake tastes sweet and astringent, cold, has the effect of moisturizing the lungs and astringent intestines, and can alleviate hot cough, coughing up blood, blood in the stool and other symptoms. Persimmon cream is a white cream naturally produced on the surface of persimmon cake during processing, containing mannitol, glucose, fructose, sucrose, etc., which can be used to alleviate lung heat and dry cough, dry throat, mouth and tongue sores, vomiting blood, coughing up blood and other symptoms.
Food reminder
It should be noted that unripe persimmons will "bite the tongue", because the tannin acid contained in immature persimmons is easy to combine with proteins on the surface of the oral mucosa and coagulate, which will make the tongue have a tight astringency. Ripe persimmons contain very low tannic acid and are not astringent to eat. Although you can supplement your health by eating persimmons with frost, you cannot eat persimmons on an empty stomach, nor can you eat unripe persimmons.
Diabetes, chronic gastritis patients, or cold constitution, indigestion should not eat persimmons.
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This article is selected from the "Twenty-four Solar Terms Health Book", which is authorized by Hainan Publishing House.