. After the beginning of autumn, the summer heat gradually subsides, which is a transitional period from heat to cold. Early autumn health care should pay attention to setting up “Three Prevention” — prevention of heatstroke, diarrhea and premature tonic. The principle of light diet in early autumn is to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, chicken, goose and other high-quality proteins to improve the body’s immunity. Eat less fried and fried foods, especially mutton, dog and other tonic foods; For those with deficiency of spleen and stomach, black chicken, pigeon and other flat tonic ingredients, together with Poria cocos, longan, yam, Euryale ferox and other medicinal materials, are ideal tonic medicinal meals.
1. Heatstroke prevention.
the beginning of autumn has passed, but the high temperature and heat brought by the “autumn tiger” will continue for more than a month. In addition, the sky is high and the clouds are light in autumn, and the intensity of ultraviolet radiation is high. The residual power of “heatstroke” is still threatening people’s health. Sunscreen measures shall be taken during outdoor activities; Replenish water in time. Don’t drink water when your mouth is dry. Drink some light salt water after exercise to replenish the salt lost during exercise; Not fasting exercise, because fasting is easy to heatstroke; If you feel uncomfortable during outdoor activities, stop immediately and rest in a cool place.
2. Prevent diarrhea.
in midsummer, people have poor appetite and weakened spleen and stomach function. In early autumn, if you don’t pay attention to your diet, it is easy to cause diarrhea, especially for the elderly and children. Attention should be paid to hygiene in daily diet. It is not suitable to eat a large number of tonic or indigestible foods, which will increase the burden on the intestines and stomach. Eat less cold, spicy, greasy and other stimulating food; Raw freshwater fish and sashimi contain more parasites. It is not recommended to eat them. You can eat some raw deep-sea fish appropriately. Children with weak physique are easy to be infected with rotavirus. Once they have symptoms such as high fever, diarrhea and dehydration, they should be sent to hospital in time.
3. Prevent premature replenishment.
folk customs have the practice of toning and sticking fat in autumn, but it is too early in early autumn. Because early autumn is still in dog days, taking tonic too early is easy to cause diseases such as fire and diarrhea. It is better to take tonic after the Mid Autumn Festival.
Zhu Chengquan suggested that the diet in early autumn should be light, less spicy and sour: eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and high-quality proteins such as fish, chicken and goose to improve the body’s immunity. You can eat more meals that are good for your stomach and spleen, such as lotus seeds, job’s tears, white gourd, lotus root, etc; Autumn dryness hurts the lung. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that “acid enters the liver and nourishes the liver”. Therefore, it is appropriate to eat more acidic foods such as sour plum, Mandarin plum, hawthorn, orange and orange, but “spicy hurts the lung yin”. Therefore, it is necessary to eat less spicy foods such as onion, ginger, garlic and pepper; In addition, you can eat lily, sea cucumber, Dendrobium, tremella, Sydney, kelp ribs soup, mung bean and white gourd soup.