Four tips for taking care of your body and mind in autumn

From the perspective of seasons, autumn is the harvest season and also a great time for people to recuperate their body and mind. From the perspective of TCM health preservation, autumn health preservation can not only prevent and treat common and frequently occurring diseases in autumn, but also enhance the body's ability to adapt to the cold climate after autumn and improve physical fitness.

1. It is better to go to bed early and get up early as the weather turns cooler in autumn

The air is refreshing, so people should go to bed early and get up early. This can make the mind comfortable and peaceful, the spirit restrained, avoid the lung qi being damaged by dry evil, and maintain the refreshing function of the lung.

2. Autumn is suitable for freezing. The temperature difference between day and night is large in autumn.

The temperature is lower in the morning and evening, so healthy people should not add thick clothes all of a sudden. It is better to wear thin clothes to keep warm. There is a folk saying "cover up in spring and keep cold in autumn", which means this. Appropriate "freezing" is beneficial to the body's ability to adapt to climate change.

3. The autumn scenery of Yiningzhi is withered and bleak, which can easily cause sadness and melancholy

Therefore, we should pay attention to keeping a calm mood. When the autumn weather is clear and refreshing, we may as well go out for a trip, climb high and see far, cultivate our sentiments and improve our health.

4. Adjust your diet

The diet in autumn should be light and moist, avoiding spicy and dry foods such as old ginger, raw onion, raw garlic, pepper, Sichuan pepper, mustard, as well as smoked, roasted, and greasy foods. Eat more foods that moisten the lungs and promote salivation, such as sesame, walnut, honey, pear, sugarcane, persimmon, banana, water chestnut, olive, lily, white fungus, radish, turtle meat, black-bone chicken, duck eggs, soy milk, dairy products, etc. Among them, although sugarcane and pears can clear the lungs and moisten dryness, due to their cold nature, people with weak spleen and stomach and stomach pain should not eat them.