"The autumnal equinox" preserve one's health: the thing you have to know

07:44 September 23, 2015

Source: People's Daily online - health channel

On September 23, arrived at longitude 180 degrees, the sun into "the autumnal equinox" throttle. "The autumnal equinox" and "vernal equinox", is the earliest established the ancients throttle. Equinox solar term indicates the beginning of autumn, autumn is "Yang Yin long elimination" transition stage, fitness, diet, daily life has its rule.

Adoption of air Keep calm

Equinox is a special day. Specifically, in the northern hemisphere's autumn starts in the autumnal equinox. At this time, most of our country has entered the cool autumn and cold air southward and gradual attenuation of moist air meet, precipitation time and time again, the temperature also gradually decline. The so-called "a rain a cold", but after the autumnal equinox, rainfall will not be huge.

After a summer of growth, all bear fruit, and gradually into the autumn harvest season, all things present calmly stable state in the world. Autumnal equinox season, health care also has exquisite, the first principle is to throttle, consistent with the nature, should be convergence, keep calm state of mind. In the spirit of modern ways of convergence to the all kinds of hobby, desire, maintain ning and state of mind, "make peace" will, comply with the "vessel" of autumn.

Gentle qi movement cycle

If the autumn season, adhere to the appropriate physical exercise, not only can adjust the lung qi, also can improve the function of the lung organ, is conducive to enhance the immunity of the various tissues and organs and the body's ability to withstand the cold stimulation.

Autumn is given priority to with raising "closed". Sports should choose relaxed smooth, activity of project. Can learn the traditional taijiquan, wuqinxi, eight jin "and" fist striking the place where the cattle lies "kung fu, from inside the body to improve physical fitness. There is no time, concentration, take a deep breath for three minutes in the morning, also go a long way. In addition, can choose a few calming nerves nerves of the entertainment activities, such as calligraphy, painting, etc., can also been, with open mind, make the inner open-minded, to settle his mind.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man eating "bitter"

Autumn, in particular, to form the good habit of early to bed and early to rise, especially female friends, more attention should be paid to early to bed and early to rise. The more the more deep night, cold, cold is easy to invasion of the body, a dangerous precedent for waist pain after, can also lead to diseases such as cough.

Special attention should be paid to prevention of autumn dry on the diet. Eat more refrigerant, moist foods, such as sesame seed, walnut, glutinous rice, etc. Also can eat more appropriately symplectic flavour, acidity, pleasant embellish or have fall lung qi effect of fruits and vegetables, especially green radish, carrot. Equinox health although mainly eat "bitter" fruits and vegetables, but also do not eat too full support, lest cause gastrointestinal stagnant. Worth to remind is, after the autumnal equinox cold atmosphere is strong, if the spleen and stomach is bad, often diarrhea, fruit to eat many easy to induce or aggravate the disease.

For the movement, after each exercise should eat more Yin, runfei, rehydration fluid food, such as pear, sesame, honey, tremella, etc., can effectively prevent the autumn dryness. If sweat more, also can be added some salt water. Equinox medicinal food can use lily, such as: lily lotus nuts sweet soup, lily lotus seed lean meat soup, soup tremella lily, etc.

Cold water washs a face Appropriate autumn aspic cold prevention

Autumn morning and night temperature difference is big, should according to the weather changes and each person's physical condition, clothing, increase or decrease in time to prevent cold. But don't early to "dress", cold-resistant exercise should be paid attention to, is often said that "autumn frost".

Proper exercise in cold water to prevent a cold or the flu, a runny nose, bronchitis, also have certain effect. Therefore, usually can use cold water washs a face, wash feet, bath, the body strong man still can wash the cold bath, and so on.

Autumn morning and night temperature difference is big, especially in the early morning of the temperature is low, if you want to receive the good fitness results, don't wear light clothing to outdoor activities, should according to outdoor temperature changes, increase or decrease in clothes. Exercise, should not be too much, should wait until the body heat, to take off. After exercise, also don't stay in the cold wind in their wet clothes, in case the body catch cold.

Be sure to keep warm the cold dry

After the autumnal equinox air drying, easy to cause a dry cough, hoarseness, dry skin, defecate dry knot "autumn dryness syndrome". "Autumn dryness syndrome" warm dry and cold dry, before the autumnal equinox heat not scattered, see more warm dry; The downhill after the autumnal equinox temperature, cold, more cold dry now. And the change of the cool autumn dryness temperature, also related to each person's physical fitness and body reaction. To prevention and treatment of cold, dry, in addition to the diet drink water more, eat the food of your mind, warm, such as sesame seed, walnut, glutinous rice, honey and milk products, etc., to exercise the body at ordinary times, enhance disease-resistant ability. Autumn exercise, focusing on profit lung dryness, such as practicing breathing exercise, knock tooth pharynx dryness, tianjin work.

A rain a cold, the autumn climate is changeable, let a person is not easy to adapt, virus industries, especially in respiratory disease with a high incidence of gastrointestinal diseases. The gastrointestinal tract is sensitive to the cold stimulation, people suffering from chronic gastritis, should pay special attention to the stomach to keep warm, sooner or later go out to increase the clothes. (sheng integrated the Oriental morning post, the liberation daily and other media)