After beginning of autumn, the autumn wind and autumn rain gradually increased, and the weather turned from hot to cold. Because the temperature difference between day and night increases, it is also a season when people get sick more. Common bronchitis, asthma recurrence, increased gastrointestinal diseases, "cold" and so on. Therefore, we should pay attention to health care in autumn to prevent problems before they happen. Autumn is the high incidence period of chronic bronchitis, including people with recurrent old diseases and new patients with colds. The disease lasts for a week or two, and many months will not heal. People with old diseases should pay attention to exercise, strengthen their physique, keep warm and prevent cold, eat less spicy food, and it is best to quit smoking in stages to prevent recurrence. Normal people should also increase or decrease their clothes appropriately to prevent catching cold and getting sick. In autumn, the temperature changes alternately, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large. Asthma is most likely to recur at this time. This disease is allergic. People with this history are sensitive to humidity and climate change, and their adaptability is weak, which is easy to induce upper respiratory tract infection. Autumn is also the season when grass dies and leaves fall, and allergic substances in the air increase. Therefore, people with a history of asthma should minimize exposure to allergens. If there are known allergens, you should pay attention to avoid contact and prevent attacks. When the temperature drops in autumn, a series of physiological changes will occur after the human body is stimulated by cold, such as increased secretion of thyroxine and adrenocortical hormone, which is very unfavorable to patients with gastric diseases such as gastric ulcer. In addition, in autumn, because the yang is weak and the yin is long, the gastrointestinal resistance decreases, and germs easily take advantage of it, damaging the spleen and stomach and leading to gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, patients with stomach diseases should pay special attention to keeping their abdomen warm and take part in more exercise activities to improve the blood circulation of gastrointestinal tract and enhance their adaptability to climate. Diet should be quantitative and regular, eat less cold drinks and fruits, avoid overheating, being too hard and too spicy, so as not to aggravate stomach problems. As the weather gets colder and colder in autumn, few people put on a lot of clothes early because they are afraid of catching a cold, but they don't know that they are easy to catch a cold. As the saying goes, "Spring covers autumn" and "Children are always hungry and cold if they are safe". This is because the regulation of human body temperature is realized by the contraction and expansion of subcutaneous capillaries. If you don't hurry to put on more clothes and let your body gradually adapt to the environment, you can reduce the occurrence of colds and colds. But this doesn't mean not to wear clothes, but to pursue "cool" blindly. The problem is to add them up properly. 1 autumn diet pay attention to what enters autumn and the temperature becomes cool and pleasant. When the temperature drops, people's appetite is gradually enhanced, and their digestive ability is also improved, which is a good season to make up for the nutritional deficiency caused by high temperature in summer. At the same time, it is also the harvest season. All kinds of animals are delicious and delicious, as well as all kinds of vegetables and fruits, which is the best season to arrange diet. However, if the arrangement is improper, it is easy to cause overnutrition or improper eating habits. So what should we pay attention to when arranging the diet in autumn? Attention should be paid to prevent excess heat energy. In autumn, most people tend to eat too much because of the pleasant climate and abundant food. Eating too many calories will turn into fat accumulation, which will make people fat. As the saying goes, it is called "long autumn fat", which is not pleasant to hear. Autumn diet, we should pay attention to the right amount, can not indulge appetite, eat and drink. Chinese medicine says "hemp should be eaten to moisten dryness". How? First of all, we should eat less pungent and spicy foods, such as peppers and peppers, and eat more fruits and vegetables, such as wax gourd, radish, zucchini, eggplant, green leafy vegetables, apples and bananas. In addition, avoid the accumulation of various damp and hot gases. So it is recommended to eat some spicy food, such as celery. "Autumn should be warm" and avoid cold. Because the weather turns from hot to cold in autumn, in order to adapt to this change, the physiological metabolism of the human body also changes. If the diet is too cold, it will cause indigestion and prone to various digestive tract diseases. Therefore, there is a proposition that "autumn should be warm" in diet, that is to say, we should avoid eating raw and cold food in autumn and eat more warm food. In addition to the adjustment of daily life, we should also carry out cold-resistant exercise to enhance the body's ability to adapt to climate change. According to the characteristics of autumn, we should take ginseng, American ginseng, lily and other traditional Chinese medicines for health care. Pay attention to self-care in autumn. In autumn, people feel that the skin becomes tense, even peeling and desquamation, dry and dull hair, increased dandruff, dry or chapped lips, dry nasopharynx and dry stool. All these manifestations are brought about by autumn climate change. Some diseases, such as bronchiectasis and tuberculosis, are prone to relapse or aggravation under the action of autumn dryness. Therefore, how to spend the autumn safely, self-care and prevention of autumn dryness are very important. First, increase or decrease clothes in time. After beginning of autumn, the temperature difference between day and night is large, so it is not appropriate to be shirtless or to wear too much or too warm. Second, drink more boiled water, light tea, juice drinks, soy milk, milk and other liquids to nourish yin and moisten dryness, and make up for the loss of yin deficiency. However, when drinking liquid diet, especially liquid drinks such as drinks and water, the drinking method is quite particular, and it is better to drink a small amount often. Third, eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. Autumn dryness is the most harmful to body fluids. Most fruits and vegetables have the effects of nourishing body fluid, moistening dryness, clearing heat and relaxing bowels. Vegetables, fruits, etc. contain a lot of water and can replenish body fluids. In addition, you can eat more nourishing products such as honey, lily and lotus seeds to conform to the clearing nature of the lungs. Fourth, eat less spicy fried hot food. Spicy foods and condiments such as leek, garlic, onion, ginger, star anise and fennel, as well as fried foods such as fried chicken legs and fried quail, will help dry and hurt yin and aggravate autumn dryness. Fifth, pay attention to mental conditioning. People with yin deficiency are easy to get angry and lose their temper, which is what people often say. Excessive liver fire will consume yin and body fluid for a long time. In autumn, its dryness is more obvious. Therefore, another link to prevent autumn dryness is to pay attention to mental conditioning and treat everything with a peaceful attitude in order to adapt to the convergence of autumn and spend this eventful autumn calmly. Pay attention to the fire in autumn. Autumn has come, the temperature has changed, and it is time for common diseases, especially children and the weak. According to Treatise on Febrile Diseases, most diseases of human body are unbalanced problems. In autumn, the climate outside suddenly gets cold, while the heat in the human body is still in its original position. In summer, the temperature in the human body will be adjusted to the corresponding state with the outside world. ), the outside is cool and the inside is hot, and the inside heat is not easy to dissipate, so there is an imbalance. At this time, there will be a series of symptoms, such as increased acne on the face, sore throat, inflammation of the gums and dry cough in the morning. In addition, dry cough in autumn, analyzed from this principle, is because the lung belongs to water in the five internal organs, and it is most likely to get angry and cause dry cough. Don't be busy taking anti-inflammatory drugs at this time. But you can eat some Qingkailing to clear away heat and detoxify. Qingkailing is mainly composed of mother-of-pearl, gardenia, buffalo horn, isatis root, scutellaria root, golden flower and other traditional Chinese medicines. Indications: high fever, restlessness, sore throat, red tongue, upper respiratory tract infection, viral cold and other symptoms caused by excessive fire poison. This is a good medicine and should be kept at home. Prevention-oriented, you can continue to eat mung bean soup, gold and silver dew, turtle paste and other foods to reduce fever in autumn. Many people think that it is not necessary to eat these when the weather is cold. In fact, your body is still hot, and you still need to eat it for a while. If you have a bad dry cough, as mentioned in the last article, you can eat sesame oil at night or when you get up in the morning. This is moistening lung and nourishing lung.
Six strategies of autumn health care
1. Diet conditioning. Diet should be based on "nourishing yin and moistening lung", in addition to "less pungent and more sour", that is to say, eat more sesame seeds, walnuts, glutinous rice, honey, sugar cane and so on. Can nourish yin, moisten lung and nourish blood; Eat less spicy food such as onion, ginger, garlic and pepper; Eat more oranges, hawthorn, fresh vegetables and sour food. For the elderly with weak stomach and intestines, you can drink porridge in the morning to benefit bones and promote fluid production.
2. Increase or decrease clothes. Although it is hot at noon in early autumn, it is breezy in the morning and evening, so we should pay attention to increasing clothes to prevent the invasion of "cold". But don't wear too much and cover it too tightly to avoid catching a cold when you put it on and take it off.
3. Be careful in daily life. The ancients said, "Early to bed and early to rise, chickens make you happy." It means early to bed and early to rise in autumn.
4. Strengthen exercise and aftercare. In autumn, it is cool and dry. So breathe more fresh air, walk, run and exercise in the cool morning breeze. This is not only a good "air bath", but also a cold-resistant training, so that the body can adapt to the cold stimulation and make full preparations for the coming winter.
5. Keep the indoor humidity. In autumn, the humidity in the air is low, the wind is strong, and the sweat evaporates quickly, which makes people's skin dry and their hair fall off easily. Therefore, we must pay attention to maintaining a certain humidity indoors and properly supplementing the water in the body.
6. Drug health care. According to the characteristics of autumn, you can take some vitamin preparations appropriately. In addition, you can also take traditional Chinese medicines for health care, such as American ginseng, Adenophora adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, Lily, Almond, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae and Boat-fruited Sterculia. People with yin deficiency can use Liuwei Dihuang Pill and Dabuyin Pill.
Three Persistences of Health Preservation in Autumn
First, insist on autumn training. Autumn exercise refers to actively exercising, improving health and enhancing disease resistance. Do more physical activities and keep your body "frozen". As the saying goes: "Spring covers the autumn", the temperature drops, but don't rush to add too many clothes to make your body have the ability to resist the cold. Exercise varies from person to person. Like walking. Play ball. Do exercises. Play Tai Chi Chuan. Qigong. Jogging, etc.
Second, adhere to the autumn defense. Autumn prevention refers to the prevention of some common and frequently-occurring diseases that are easily infected in autumn. Such as cold, tracheitis and gastritis. Arthritis and so on. "It freezes in autumn ... not too much, with bronchitis. People with a history of gastritis. , should pay attention to keep warm properly, don't get cold, to prevent the recurrence of old diseases.
Third, insist on autumn ploughing. Autumn tonic refers to diet conditioning and proper rest. Autumn is the harvest season. Whole grains. A large number of vegetables and fruits are mature and listed. Su Wen, a work of traditional Chinese medicine, pointed out: "Five grains are the supplement, five fruits are the help, five dishes are the supplement, and the smell is just a combination of essence." Dry climate in autumn: Drink plenty of boiled water and light tea. Soymilk, milk and other beverages should also eat more soft products such as sweet potatoes, corn, sesame seeds, vegetables, persimmons, bananas, honey and red dates.
Proper rest is also a good way to keep fit. Work and labor should be moderate during the day, entertainment should not be late at night, and it is not advisable to sleep for 8 hours every day.