Autumn is a season suitable for nourishing the lungs and keeping healthy. What should we eat for health? The TCM website editor will give you some suggestions!
What to Eat for Autumn Health
1. Chinese Cabbage
Chinese cabbage is a commonly seen vegetable on our dining table, and experts especially recommend eating more Chinese cabbage in autumn.
Chinese cabbage is not only delicious and nutritious but also known as the "king of vegetables" since ancient times, which is why it is so popular among the people.
2. Pumpkin
Pumpkin is rich in nutrients and has great nutritional value.
Research has found that young pumpkins have higher levels of vitamin C and glucose compared to mature pumpkins, and mature pumpkins contain a large amount of calcium, iron, and carotene, which cannot be compared with young pumpkins. Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that pumpkin has a warm and sweet nature, and regular consumption can help tonify the middle energizer, reduce inflammation and pain, and detoxify and kill parasites.
3. Lotus Root
Lotus root contains a large amount of starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C, and oxidase.
In addition, it is also rich in sugars, which are all important nutrients for our health.
Moreover, there are many ways to eat lotus root, whether raw or cooked, it can play a role in clearing heat, relieving annoyance, quenching thirst, and stopping vomiting.
4. Eggplant
Eggplant is not only an inexpensive and delicious vegetable but also a good food therapy.
In addition to being rich in vitamins and trace elements, it is also different from other vegetables in that it is rich in vitamin P.
Vitamin P is a flavonoid compound that helps maintain normal cardiovascular function.
Therefore, eggplant is very beneficial for patients with arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, and scurvy.
Precautions for Autumn Health in the Elderly
(1) Walking in the embrace of nature, strolling in the fields, mountains, and parks, can help nourish yin and adjust the balance of yin and yang in the body.
(2) In late autumn, the amount of allergens in food and air increases significantly, which is an important factor for the onset of asthma. Therefore, try to avoid contact with allergens.
(3) Due to the weakness of the five viscera in the elderly and the weakness of the gastrointestinal tract, irregular eating habits and excessive consumption of cold food can lead to stomach problems.
Therefore, the elderly should eat small meals and consume easily digestible and appetizing foods in autumn.
(4) Autumn has special climatic characteristics and is prone to "autumn dry cough", colds, exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, stomach problems, rheumatism, asthma, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Therefore, the elderly should focus on prevention based on their own physical conditions, actively control primary diseases, and be vigilant about the occurrence of diseases in autumn.
Autumn Health Recipes for the Elderly
[Wild Bean Green Bean Rice Soy Milk]
Ingredients: 75g rice, 10g peas, 15g green beans, 10g rock sugar.
Method:
1. Soak the green beans and peas in water for 10-12 hours and rinse them; wash the rice; 2. Pour the green beans, peas, and rice into an automatic soy milk maker and add water to the line between the upper and lower water levels;
Cook until the soy milk maker prompts that the soy milk is ready, filter it, and stir in the rock sugar until it dissolves.
Effect:
Prevent cardiovascular diseases common in the elderly
[Five Bean Soy Milk]
Ingredients: 30g soybeans, 10g black beans, 10g green beans, 10g dried peas, 10g peanuts, 10g rock sugar;
1. Soak the soybeans, black beans, green beans, and peas in water for 10-12 hours, and wash the peanuts; 2. Pour all the ingredients into an automatic soy milk maker, add water to the line between the upper and lower water levels, cook until the soy milk maker prompts that the soy milk is ready, filter it, and stir in the rock sugar until it dissolves.
Effect: Protect the cardiovascular system and delay aging
