The autumn equinox season has a strong sense of autumn, so keep in mind health knowledge

I believe everyone has discovered that the recent night has come earlier than before. Today is the autumn equinox, the day and night of the year are divided equally. After today, we will officially enter the golden autumn season. So what are some health care issues that we need to pay attention to during this seasonal shift? If you want to know the specific content, please read the text quickly!

The autumnal equinox is the sixteenth of the twenty four solar terms.

The autumnal equinox is the midpoint of the ninety days of autumn, so it is called the autumnal equinox. Just like the vernal equinox, the sun shines almost directly onto the equator, and the length of day and night is once again equal. Astronomy regards the autumnal equinox as the end of summer and the beginning of autumn.

After the autumnal equinox, the number of precipitation increases. "One autumn rain, one cold rain, ten autumn rains are good for wearing cotton." After the autumnal equinox, winter wheat is sown in northern China, and rice is sown in southern China. Starting from the autumnal equinox solar term, the symptoms of autumn dryness change from warm dryness to cool dryness. Before the autumnal equinox, the weather had a surplus of heat and heat, known as warm and dry; After the autumnal equinox, the weather gradually becomes cold and dry, which is called cool and dry. Of course, warm dryness and cool dryness are also related to people's physique. The characteristics of cool dryness are different from warm dryness, which is characterized by a relatively mild fever, while a severe aversion to cold, headache, stuffiness of the nose, lack of sweat, itching or dry pain in the throat, dry mouth and dry lips, coughing, vomiting clear and thin phlegm, and thin, white, and dry tongue coating. In terms of treatment, traditional Chinese medicine often considers "cool dryness" as "small typhoid fever", which is a cold cold and is often treated with Guizhi Decoction and Jingfang Baidu Powder. It is only necessary to add some yin nourishing and lung moistening drugs, such as ginseng, polygonatum, ophiopogon japonicum, and lily, to the treatment prescription to prevent the pungent and warming drugs from damaging yin.

In the late autumn, the main line of diet regimen should be to balance yin and yang. In the upcoming winter season, you can eat some warm foods to supplement the body's yang, in preparation for the use of winter yang. However, it should not be too bitter, warm, and dry, otherwise it will damage the yin of the liver and kidney. "The yin consumption of the liver and kidney is much damaged, and the yang qi has no place to hide. Wouldn't it not become the" solitary yang "?". Common warm foods include jujube, walnut kernel, garlic, ginger, cherry, pomegranate, apricot, chestnut, leek, longan, chicken, sea cucumber, lamb, goose egg, lychee, etc. Cold foods include watermelon, bananas, sugarcane, white pears, water chestnut, water chestnut, loofah, balsam pear, cucumber, winter melon, white radish, lotus root, bamboo shoots, purslane, celery, kelp, crabs, etc. There are also some plain foods, which are not too warm or too cold, and are somewhat neutral. Such as fig, ginkgo, lily, peanut, black sesame, black and white fungus, cauliflower, potato, soybean, lentil, cabbage, taro, turnip, yellow croaker, pig's hoof, goose, quail eggs, honey, milk, etc.

In the season of cool dryness dominating qi, it is easy to develop gastrointestinal diseases or relapse old gastrointestinal diseases. This is closely related to improper maintenance. To maintain the gastrointestinal tract, it is not only necessary to pay attention to the warmth of the stomach, but also to regulate the diet. The diet should be warm, soft, light, vegetarian, and fresh. Regular and quantitative, eat less and eat multiple meals, avoid eating too cold, too hot, too hard, too spicy, or too sticky food, avoid overeating, and stop smoking and limiting alcohol. People suffering from gastrointestinal diseases should pay more attention to dietary hygiene, calmly recuperate their personality, and take moderate physical exercise to improve their disease resistance.