Autumn is the best season for nourishing and moistening the lung. The climate in autumn is dry and cold. In traditional Chinese medicine, autumn Qi is connected with the lung, and it is easy to have dry mouth, dry tongue and itchy cough. So how to nourish the lung in autumn? What kind of food should you eat to nourish the lung in autumn?
Methods of nourishing lung in autumn
1. Drink more water to ensure sufficient body fluid and keep the lungs moist.
2. Eat more white food, white into the lung, good for nourishing the lung.
3. Don't be sad. It's better to watch more comedies to make people laugh. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can also exercise people's vital capacity.
2. Lung food in autumn
1. Tremella fuciformis
It is also known as Auricularia auricula, which tastes sweet and light, has a flat nature, and is non-toxic. It enters the three meridians of lung, stomach and kidney. It has the functions of promoting body fluid and moistening the lung, benefiting qi and promoting blood circulation, nourishing yin and stomach, tonifying brain and strengthening heart. It is suitable for lung heat cough, lung dryness and dry cough, gastrointestinal dryness and heat, constipation and other diseases. Tremella fuciformis is known as the "elixir of life", "longevity product" and "the king of bacteria". It has the characteristics of moistening but not greasy and sluggish. It is more suitable for the patients with deficiency of body and early recovery of long illness, those who are not suitable to use other tonics, and those with deficiency of yin and internal heat and bleeding tendency due to internal heat. It should be noted that people who have a dry mouth at the beginning of a cold should not use it, or those who have a cold, such as a cold, a cold, a cough, and a clear and thin sputum, such as water, should not take it.
2, milk
The famous calcium rich food, which contains calcium easily absorbed by human body, is the best choice for human body to obtain calcium nutrition in daily life.
The pulp of onion, grain and many plants contains quercetin, which is the most widely distributed flavonoid in the plant kingdom. It has been proved that quercetin has many pharmacological effects, such as anti-virus, anti-tumor and cardiovascular protection.
3, pear
Pear has been regarded as the "king of all fruits" since ancient times, with functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, reducing fire, etc. In autumn, if the climate is excessively dry, then thirst, constipation, dry cough, etc. will occur; or if the internal heat causes symptoms such as thirsty, cough and asthma, and phlegm yellow, you can eat more pears.
If you want to use pears for health preservation, you should consider whether they are suitable for your health. People with deficiency cold and cold cough are not suitable to eat pears raw. They must be steamed or boiled with water or stewed with herbs. If you have long-term diarrhea, you should not eat more pears. Because of the cold nature of pears, you should eat more pears.