Every autumn, there are always people looking forward to the arrival of cool weather, but autumn in Guangdong is always late. Guangdong is located in the subtropical zone, although the morning and evening cool breeze, but the overall weather is still sunny and hot, especially in the afternoon, the sun is in the sky, the temperature does not decrease, the real cool autumn has not yet arrived.
As a result, autumn in Guangdong is more like an “autumn tiger”-the heat is still dominant, but not as strong as in summer; the air humidity is reduced and it is getting drier and drier.
Heat and dryness occur in the same period and are most susceptible to dryness, which is called warm dryness in traditional Chinese medicine. It mainly damages yin and leads to the decrease of body fluid. The symptoms are dry skin, dry eyes, red tongue with little body fluid, dry hair, red and yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth, nose and throat, dry cough with little sputum, and blood in sputum.
Eat
more cool food
. Add
more water, eat more cool food, such as lotus seeds, lilies, pears, honey, grapes, almonds, sesame, kelp, etc. We can also make autumn pear cream to nourish Yin and moisten dryness, and prevent the evil of warm dryness.
▶ Raw materials:
3500g of
pear, 150g of rock sugar, 100g of jujube, 20g of old ginger and 80ml of honey.
▶ Practice:
Pear (peeled and pitted), jujube (pitted), and ginger (peeled) are pulped together in a wall breaker; then the pulp is poured out, pressed with multiple layers of gauze, and filtered to obtain juice without residue; the juice is poured into a pot and boiled, then added with crystal sugar, and boiled over medium-low heat until the juice is thick (about 30 minutes); and the mixture is cooled, added with honey, and mixed well.
▶ Usage:
Take 1 spoon
each time, drink with water, 1 to 2 times a day.
Autumn pear cream is a traditional medicinal diet for health preservation in autumn. Pear moistens the lung, jujube enriches the blood, ginger nourishes the stomach, honey nourishes the spirit, and it is used to moisten the lung and nourish yin, stomach and blood.
Clinically, it is often used to treat lung heat, polydipsia, constipation, dry mouth, dry cough with little phlegm, chronic cough and hemoptysis caused by heat and dryness.
Diet avoid cold and cold, avoid warm and tonic
As the weather gradually turns cool and dry, the diet should not be too cold. Many melons and fruits in summer are mostly cold, such as watermelon, cucumber, balsam pear, winter melon and so on, which should not be eaten more in autumn. Diet should not be warm and tonic, such as mutton, dog meat, onion, ginger, pepper and other spices should not be eaten more, because they are easy to help dry phlegm and heat. We can increase duck meat, loach, fish, lean meat and so on to make up for the loss caused by too light diet in summer.
Soothing sports
Autumn is the season of respiratory diseases, to maintain appropriate physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, some of the more relaxed fitness methods, such as mountain climbing, jogging, Tai Chi and fitness dance are suitable for the current season.
Autumn in
Guangdong is very short, so we should seize the opportunity to take good care of our body, full of vitality and energy, so that we don’t have to worry about getting sick in winter.
