Autumn lung care general knowledge

Now that autumn has passed, the heat is gradually fading away and the cooler autumn climate is coming. Autumn health care is important for lungs, so let's take a look at what is common sense in autumn lung care.

Why "lung" in autumn

Chinese medicine believes that the lung is the main autumn, autumn is the most suitable for lung. Because the autumn morning and evening cool, temperature difference, and the lungs for the "delicate organs", do not tolerate heat and cold, through the nose and the outside world, dry and cold air is easy to attack and damage the mucous membrane leading to respiratory diseases, resulting in dry mouth and throat, dry cough and less phlegm, dry skin, constipation and other symptoms, heavy cough with blood, so the autumn emphasis on lung care, so as to avoid colds and other respiratory diseases. Therefore, it is important to nourish the lungs in autumn to avoid the frequent occurrence of respiratory diseases such as cold.

Early to bed and early to rise

Autumn lung care should be early to bed and early to rise. The autumn season is high and cool. By going to bed early at night, we can gather Yang Qi, which is the root of our existence, and by waking up early, we can stretch our lung Qi and prevent too much convergence. The temperature changes a lot in autumn, so you should add and remove clothes according to the climate change to avoid the body from getting cold.

Exercise appropriately

Autumn lung care should be based on their own physical condition, choose the appropriate exercise program, such as taijiquan, jogging, breathing exercises, brisk walking, yoga and other appropriate exercise. Among them, taijiquan and other exercises need to practice deep and slow breathing, for increasing lung capacity, improve the lung function of patients with chronic respiratory disease has a significant role. Need to pay attention to the exercise, to dry sweat in time to prevent cold.

Diet regimen

Autumn lung diet should be "less pungent more acid", that is, eat more lung food. Such as lily, carrots, citrus, sugar cane, radish, silver fungus, etc., autumn pears in large quantities, eat pears also have lung effect. Autumn to eat less too dry food. Such as fried food, but also appropriate to eat less ginger, onions, chili and other pungent food. And autumn people have not been adjusted from the summer diet, should avoid eating a lot of cold melons and fruits, the spleen and stomach cold people especially can not eat more.

Autumn recipes for lungs

Wolfberry Snow Pear Soup

Materials: wolfberry 20 grams, snow pear 1, ice sugar appropriate amount. Practice: wash and peel the snow pear, cut into small pieces. Add water to the pot and boil, pour in the snow pear block and wolfberry. Simmer for 3-5 minutes on low heat and then add the rock sugar, after the rock sugar is completely melted, you can eat. Efficacy: wolfberry liver, moisten the lungs, nourish the kidneys, and ice sugar Sydney with a very good lung health effects.

Angelica dahurica stewed bird's nest

Ingredients: 9 grams of Angelica dahurica, 9 grams of bird's nest, and the right amount of rock sugar. Method: Stew dahurica and bird's nest in water until very rotten, strain and remove the residue. Add rock sugar to taste and then stew for a few moments. Take 1-2 times daily. Efficacy: Angelica dahurica belongs to the lung meridian and has the function of relieving pain and eliminating swelling and pus, while bird's nest nourishes the lung, replenishes the spleen and benefits the qi, both of them together can nourish the lung and nourish the yin, stop cough and stop bleeding.