Compared with meat, leaves, cauliflower and some fruits and vegetables have more prominent light tonic effects, such as eggplant, fresh lotus root, mung bean sprouts, loofah, cucumber, wax gourd, bitter gourd and other light foods have the function of clearing heat and drying dampness. Chinese medicine also advocates drinking porridge every morning after beginning of autumn, which is beneficial to strengthening the spleen, nourishing the yin of the spleen and stomach, and balancing the yang.
After beginning of autumn, we should remember that "autumn melons are bad for our stomachs". No matter watermelon, cantaloupe or cabbage, you can't eat more at will, otherwise it will damage the spleen and stomach yang. Eating a lot of melons in summer will not cause diseases of the spleen and stomach, but will reduce the disease resistance of the stomach and intestines. After beginning of autumn, eating a lot of fruits and vegetables raw will definitely help damp evil, damage spleen yang, and acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases such as diarrhea and dysentery will follow.
In addition, beginning of autumn is a long transition period of yin and yang metabolism. Although the general trend after beginning of autumn is to gradually cool down, it does not mean that the temperature will drop immediately, and people will experience a bitter summer with high temperature and hot flashes. Chinese medicine believes that the summer heat has not subsided at this time, and health care should be careful of "yin heat". Although the climate in beginning of autumn has gradually turned cold, the food in summer can't disappear from the table at once, and the diet should continue the summer diet appropriately. Beginning of autumn's diet should be nourishing, not too greasy.
The temperature difference between day and night in early autumn diet should be increased in early autumn. In diet, we should persist in dispelling summer heat and eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs. Chinese medicine believes that rising heat in autumn is easy to hurt body fluid. Therefore, the diet should nourish yin and moisten the lungs, and you can eat some soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, milk, etc. to benefit the stomach and promote fluid production. In addition, eat more beans and other foods, and eat less greasy and sticky foods. Considering that the weather may still be hot, citizens can eat more vegetables and fruits to relieve summer heat, and they can also supplement vitamins and minerals in time to neutralize the excess acidic metabolites in the body, thus clearing away heat and detoxifying. It should be reminded that eating a lot of fruits and vegetables after beginning of autumn's birth is easy to cause gastrointestinal diseases, and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat too much.
Autumn diet should start to get wet. For a long time after beginning of autumn, the weather was still very hot, with plenty of rain and high air humidity. At this time, the focus of health care is dehumidification. Attention should be paid to regulating the spleen and stomach, focusing on clearing heat, strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, so as to drive away the evil of damp-heat in the body and promote the recovery of spleen and stomach function. It is advisable to eat some foods beneficial to the stomach to promote the recovery of spleen and stomach functions, such as Euryale ferox, yam, coix seed and so on. You can also eat more vegetables and fruits to get rid of dampness. Vegetables should be fresh and juicy, such as melons, tomatoes and celery. Fruits should be eaten with products that nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as grapes, watermelons, pears and bananas.
The early autumn season should be wet and dry. Chinese medicine believes that the lungs correspond to autumn, and autumn is often dry and hurts the lungs, which is prone to various diseases, so it is necessary to moisten and nourish the lungs. At this time, the liver, heart, spleen and stomach are still in a weak stage. Therefore, after autumn, lung function began to be in a vigorous period. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the aftercare, and don't let the lung qi be too biased, which will affect health. Experts pointed out that it is necessary to properly moisturize, replenish more water, and eat more nuts or tremella porridge, winter melon soup and other foods. If you eat a lot of nourishing food at this time, especially nutritious food that is too greasy, it will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach. Spleen and stomach weakness in this situation for a long time, but it will make digestive function disorder. So in the early autumn, you should choose to make up, and don't be bored. The daily diet should eat some foods that moisten dryness and promote fluid production, such as raw pears, lilies, lotus seeds, tremella, jujube, lotus roots, red beans and honey.