Health preservation in autumn focuses on nourishing the lungs

The knowledge of health preservation is very rich. There are many aspects of health preservation. If we do not pay attention to them, the effect of health preservation will not be obvious or even easily counterproductive. For example, the impact of seasons on health preservation. When we are preserving our health, we easily ignore the factor of seasons. In fact, the impact of seasons on health preservation is very large. We should pay attention to liver care in spring, and lung care in autumn.

So how do we nourish our lungs in autumn? It is actually very simple. We only need to do the following points to achieve a good lung-nourishing effect. In autumn, we can drink more water and use diet therapy and Chinese medicine to nourish our lungs.

According to the Five Elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, autumn and the lungs both belong to the element of metal, and the autumn climate is dry, which can easily damage the lungs. Therefore, the basis of autumn health preservation is to nourish the lungs.

1. Drinking water is good for the lungs

Drinking water is the easiest and most effective way to nourish the lungs in autumn. The climate is dry in autumn and the human body easily loses water. It is necessary to replenish the body's water in time. In autumn, you should drink more than 500 ml of water every day than in other seasons to maintain normal moisture in the lungs and respiratory tract. Since "the lungs open up to the nose", you can also take in water directly through the respiratory tract, such as inhaling water vapor to moisturize and satisfy your internal organs. Each time you can do this for about 10 minutes, once in the morning and once in the evening.

Bathing measures should also be strengthened in autumn, because the lungs control the skin and fur, and autumn dryness can easily damage the skin and then the lungs. Taking baths frequently and lovingly is beneficial to blood circulation, allowing qi and blood to flow smoothly between the lungs and skin, and playing the role of moisturizing the skin and nourishing the lungs.

2. Eat porridge to nourish the lungs

1. Tremella and glutinous rice porridge: soak 50 grams of Tremella in water until it swells, then add 50-100 grams of glutinous rice, wash and cook together. Then add appropriate amount of honey and stir well.

2. Lotus root and glutinous rice porridge: 100 grams of lotus root, wash and chop, and cook with about 50 grams of glutinous rice. Honey can be added after cooking.

3. Yam and rice porridge: 100 grams of yam and 50 grams of rice. Wash the yam and cut it into pieces, wash the rice and cook it into porridge, and eat it twice a day.

4. Jujube and Tremella Soup: Soak 50 grams of Tremella, then add 10 jujubes, add appropriate amount of water and cook for 1 to 1 hour, then add some white sugar or rock sugar before serving.

3. Chinese medicine nourishes the lungs

In autumn, dryness is more prevalent and old ailments are prone to relapse. Many people are prone to cough, wheezing and diarrhea at this time. Therefore, taking some Chinese medicine in a targeted manner can play a certain preventive role, such as using ointment to moisten the lungs; taking pills made of ground Clematis chinensis and mint and diluted with water; Astragalus paste, etc. These Chinese medicines have good therapeutic effects on symptoms such as recurrence of cough and asthma, spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency, and fatigue in the limbs.

4. Laugh often to nourish the lungs

Laughter can promote the health of the body's organs, especially the lungs. When you laugh, your chest expands and your lung capacity increases, which can relieve chest tightness and alleviate depression. The downward distribution of lung qi can also calm the liver qi, thereby maintaining emotional stability. Therefore, a smile from the heart can harmonize the qi and blood of the heart and lungs.

5. Exercise to strengthen and nourish the lungs

Strengthening physical exercise is the best way to strengthen the lungs. You can choose low-intensity exercises such as walking, gymnastics, and Tai Chi.

6. Absorption to nourish the lungs

Two hours after dinner, go for a slow walk outside for 10 minutes, breathe the fresh air, then straighten your body, spread your feet at shoulder level, put your palms together, palms up, 3 cm below your navel, look straight ahead, relax your whole body, inhale between your chest, then tighten your abdomen, and slowly exhale to relax. Continue for half an hour.

7. Patting the lungs to nourish the lungs

Every day before going to bed, sit on a chair, body upright, knees naturally apart, hands on thighs, head upright, eyes closed, whole body relaxed, mind focused on Dantian, inhale into the chest, at the same time raise your hands and use your palms to pat both sides of the chest from top to bottom; while exhaling, pat from bottom to top, continue this for about ten minutes, finally use the back of your hand to tap the lung point on the back dozens of times in the rhythm of your breathing.

Above, we introduced the impact of seasons on health preservation. We should choose different health preservation methods in different seasons. The main purpose of our health preservation in autumn is to nourish the lungs, so the above article introduces in detail what we should do to nourish the lungs in autumn. I hope that the methods introduced above will be helpful to everyone.