The weather is dry and dry, and the weather is cool. TCM health care should have been known for a long time.

Autumn is a season connecting the preceding with the following. As the saying goes, "cold comes and summer goes", the weather turns from hot to cold, the temperature difference between morning and evening becomes larger, and the physiological function of human body begins to "yang disappears and yin grows". It's cool outside, and the dry environment inside is easy to be out of balance. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to adjusting diet according to the changes of the four seasons in order to achieve the effect of strengthening the body, so the autumn diet is mainly based on "nourishing yin and moistening dryness". Specifically, the autumn diet should follow the following principles:

1, the climate in autumn is dry, and all kinds of bacteria bred under high temperature in summer also begin to struggle at last. The human lung is heavily loaded, and the respiratory tract is particularly prone to problems, causing diseases such as colds, allergies, bronchitis and pneumonia. Therefore, it is particularly important to strengthen the protection of the lungs.

Chinese and western speaking, the lungs are moist and dry. Nourishing the lung can not only make the lung full of qi, but also alleviate various diseases caused by lung deficiency. In the classification of foods, moist foods have the most obvious benefits to the lungs, such as pears, horseshoes, sugar cane and grapefruit. There are many kinds of porridge and soups, such as tremella porridge and lily lotus seed soup.

2, moistening dryness and promoting fluid production, injuring body fluid and lung. Dryness can be divided into internal dryness and external dryness. Internal dryness is caused by the loss of body fluid, so it should be moistened. External dryness is a disease caused by infection and dryness, so we should pay little attention to publicity. In autumn, we often feel thirsty, chapped face, nosebleed, constipation and so on. It is caused by dryness.

"Eating Rice" records: "In the autumn climate, it is appropriate to eat hemp to moisten dryness." Therefore, we should eat more moist food in autumn, such as honey, glutinous rice, dairy products, sesame seeds, sugar cane and so on. And eat less spicy food to avoid excessive loss of body fluid.

3. It is the season of "Yang disappears while Yin grows" to protect the body. The yang in the human body begins to gather gradually, and Yin Qi grows slowly. Chinese medicine pays attention to nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, because the kidney yin in the body decays with age, it is more prone to kidney yin deficiency, so eat more nourishing food in autumn, such as tremella, fungus, lily, beans, lotus root and so on.

4. Strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach Autumn is the high season of spleen and stomach diseases. Spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and spleen deficiency will lead to a series of problems of qi and blood deficiency. Therefore, the autumn diet should focus on benefiting the spleen and stomach, specifically, eating more warm foods and eating a lot of cold things, such as watermelon, cantaloupe, iced drinks, frozen products, etc., is no longer recommended. People with weak spleen and stomach can eat more dates, horseshoes and bananas.