The summer heat is not over, the autumn cool has arrived, and the human body’s tonic season has begun. How should we eat this solar term? How to maintain health?
How does beginning of autumn keep fit?
Nourishing yin, clearing dryness and moistening lung qi
Autumn is dry, and dryness hurts the lungs, so it is necessary to moisten dryness, nourish yin and moisten the lungs. You can properly eat soft foods such as sesame, honey, lily, almond and dairy products. It is advisable to drink more water, porridge and soybean milk, and eat more radishes, lotus roots, water chestnuts and pears to moisten the lungs and promote fluid production.
Coarse grains and miscellaneous beans for clearing away heat and dryness: cereal, yellow millet, corn, mung bean, white kidney bean, etc.
Seasonal fruits and vegetables: radish, lotus root, taro, pumpkin, pear, persimmon, grape, citrus, jujube, water chestnut, etc.
Nourishing yin and moistening dryness: duck, river fish, river shrimp, etc.
Beginning of autumn raises the lungs and remembers these three points.
1. The best time to raise lungs: 7: 00 am to 9: 00 am.
The best time to raise lungs in a day is from 7: 00 am to 9: 00 am, when the lung function is the strongest. At this time, aerobic exercise such as jogging can strengthen lung function.
2. The simplest way to nourish the lungs: a cup of hot water.
The main cause of lung injury in autumn is "dryness", so the key point of nourishing the lungs is "moistening", and the lungs can be moistened by directly inhaling water vapor.
The method is very simple: pour hot water into the teacup, aim your nose at the teacup and inhale water vapor for about 10 minutes each time, once in the morning and once in the evening. In addition, make sure to drink 2000 ml of water every day.
3. The cheapest way to nourish the lungs: laugh.
When people are laughing, it can help the body absorb more oxygen and travel all over the body with smooth blood. At home at ordinary times, we can spread our arms, expand our chest as much as possible, then breathe with our abdomen, take a full breath quickly, and "blow" it out slowly when exhaling, so that the gas in our lungs can be exchanged more fully.
Beginning of autumn keeps fit and avoids doing these five things.
1. Avoid spicy food
Pay attention to eat less spicy food such as pepper and ginger. After the autumn, the climate is gradually dry. If you eat spicy food again, it will be bad for nourishing your lungs. You can eat more lotus root, water chestnut, lily, tremella, etc., which has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, moistening lung and relieving cough.
2. Avoid excessive exercise
Harvest in autumn and store in winter in a year, nourishing yin and nourishing yin is the first task after beginning of autumn. It is best to exercise in the morning and evening, choose some gentle projects, such as playing Tai Chi, walking, etc. Don’t be exposed to the sun to avoid heatstroke.
Step 3 avoid falling asleep with wet hair
In late summer and early autumn, sleeping with half-dry hair will make the water in the hair take away a lot of heat during evaporation, and the cold will invade the human body, which is easy to catch a cold, especially for the elderly, and it is easy to cause blood pressure fluctuations when the head is stimulated.
Step 4 avoid staying up late
After beginning of autumn, we should go to bed early and get up early to adapt to the seasonal changes. We should go to bed early to recharge our batteries and get up early to stretch our lungs.
Step 5 avoid blowing cool breeze
Don’t be too greedy for the cool breeze in autumn. It is best to avoid the skin being directly blown by the wind when blowing air conditioners, especially on sensitive faces and necks. You can cover your neck with silk scarves. After beginning of autumn, we should guard against "autumn tigers". It is suggested to soak our feet at night, which can relieve summer heat and help us to sleep.
Beginning of autumn presses three points.
1. Missing points: moistening lung and nourishing throat.
After autumn, I often feel dry mouth, nose and throat or have symptoms such as dry cough. At this time, rubbing Lieque points often can achieve the function of moistening lung and nourishing throat, and can also play a certain role in the auxiliary treatment of chronic pharyngitis.
Methods: Open your hands in a figure of eight, and then gently lock the tiger’s mouth. The index finger is gently placed on the wrist of the other hand along the radius direction, and then a crack can be felt at the fingertip, which is the Lieque point.
Pinch and press Lieque points with the fingernail of the thumb, usually once every morning and evening, about 3 minutes each time, with local soreness and comfort as the degree.
2. Hegu point: relieve constipation
The climate in autumn is dry. Pressing Hegu point can relieve mild constipation.
Method: Put your hands together and put your thumb in hard. The highest point of this muscle is where Hegu point is pressed. When you press from the highest point to the metacarpal position, you will feel acid, numbness, swelling and pain.
This acupoint can be pressed 30 to 40 times at a time, one tight and one loose, once every morning and evening.
3. Yingxiang point: remove dryness and moisten lungs, and promote nasal orifices.
Rubbing Yingxiang point has the functions of clearing heat, dispelling wind, removing dryness, moistening lung and dredging nasal orifices.
Methods: Yingxiang point is located in the nasolabial sulcus about 0.5 inch on the outer edge of the alar. Before massage, the whole body is relaxed, and the tip of the tongue touches the palate. Point the fingertips of the middle fingers of both hands at Yingxiang point. After feeling sore and swollen, rub them with the middle fingers or forefinger of both hands for 20 to 30 times, depending on the degree of soreness, swelling and fever at Yingxiang point.
Press it once every morning and evening for about 3 minutes.
Eat less watermelon and eat more beans.
Watermelon is a good fruit for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. It can go through a hot summer, and the human body consumes a lot. In particular, some elderly people are mostly deficient in spleen and stomach, so they should eat less fruits that are too cold, so as not to hurt the spleen and stomach and cause diarrhea. Beans have the function of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, so you can drink more Sandou soup.
Mung beans: clearing away heat and toxic materials to relieve summer heat
Adzuki bean: diuresis to reduce swelling
Black beans: invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney
Sandou decoction can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis.
Don’t blindly stick autumn fat:
1. People who usually eat high-fat and high-protein foods should not stick on autumn fat;
2. People who are obese and overnourished, and suffer from hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and hypertension should not stick to autumn fat.
note:People who are thin and usually have poor appetite are suitable for sticking autumn fat. Due to chronic diseases, people who are malnourished can stick on autumn fat.
Vegetarian food can also play a role in putting on autumn weight:
1. Choose vegetarian foods with high protein content, such as beans and fungi. Bean products contain not only high-quality protein but also sterols, which can reduce blood lipid.
2. The protein content of dairy products and egg foods is also relatively high, which can be used as a choice for the middle-aged and elderly people to make up for their needs.
What does beginning of autumn eat for health?
Beginning of autumn eats more of these two kinds of dishes.
1. cauliflower-preventing colds
Supplementing enough vitamin C is a good way to prevent colds. The content of vitamin C in cauliflower is 3 ~ 4 times higher than that in Chinese cabbage and soybean sprouts.
2. celery-lowering blood pressure and promoting sleep
Celery has the functions of lowering blood pressure, cholesterol and calming the mind.
Beginning of autumn eats these two kinds of melons more.
1. Luffa-clearing away heat and phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying.
Luffa can be eaten from late spring to early autumn, which has the functions of diuresis, cooling blood, detoxification and laxative.
2. Papaya-dispel dryness and moisten intestines
In addition to being a fruit, papaya can also be used to make soup in autumn to replenish water and remove dryness. Papaya is rich in enzymes that can help digestion and is suitable for people with constipation and indigestion.
Beginning of autumn drinks these two kinds of substitute teas more.
1. Sydney lily juice-clearing heat and moistening dryness
Sydney and lily are boiled together with water to clear away heat and moisten dryness, which has a good health care effect.
2. Chrysanthemum, ebony and licorice drink-dispersing lung and relieving sore throat
Put 2 grams of chrysanthemum, 1 piece of dark plum and 1 gram of licorice into a cup and brew it with boiling water, which can play the roles of dispelling wind, dispersing lung qi and relieving sore throat.
Editor-in-Chief Ni Liqi
Source Pudong release
Shangguan author: Pudong observation
