There are already signs of dryness in autumn. At this time, many dry people will drink a lot of water, but they will still feel dry after drinking it. Experts remind that the focus of autumn diet lies in nourishing yin and moistening dryness. The following seven healthy foods can prevent autumn dryness.
Pear: Pear has the functions of moistening dryness, expelling wind, relieving cough and asthma, clearing away heart fire, relieving "autumn dryness", sobering up and detoxifying. Raw pears are cool, and the elderly should not eat too much at a time.
Jujube: Jujube has the functions of calming the heart and calming the nerves, improving intelligence and strengthening the brain, stimulating appetite, removing fishy smell, resisting allergy and improving immunity. It can also prevent and treat hypertension, osteoporosis and anemia, and is a good tonic for the elderly in autumn.
Chrysanthemum: Chrysanthemum can dispel wind, calm the liver, clear the heart, relieve annoyance, remove dryness, moisten the throat, promote salivation, improve eyesight, and relieve hangover, which has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on colds and headaches.
Lily: Lily is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, and has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening lung, clearing heart fire, calming nerves, moistening lung to quench thirst, relieving cough and stopping bleeding, stimulating appetite and calming nerves.
Sweet potato: Sweet potato is rated as the best food on the table, which has the effects of preventing cancer, preventing constipation and losing weight.
Walnut: Walnut is a good product for nourishing the brain, and it is also a good food therapy for tonifying kidney, solidifying essence, warming lung and relieving asthma. It has a good effect on frequent cough due to kidney deficiency.
Chestnut: Chestnut has the reputation of the king of all kinds of fruits, which can not only tonify the spleen and stomach, tonify the kidney and strengthen the tendons, but also promote blood circulation and stop bleeding.
Avoid spicy frying in autumn and dry season.
Among the four seasons, the biggest feature of autumn is the word "dryness". Although this year's "hot summer" is still in the early autumn, the afterglow of summer still exists, but the human body will still have the problem of autumn dryness. In diet, eat less fried, roasted and spicy meat, such as mutton kebabs and spicy hot pot, which are very popular in summer. Because in the autumn when dryness is the first word, it will cause fever in the lungs and stomach, dry lips and tongue, dry mouth and thirst, which will cause autumn dryness diseases such as oral ulcer, dry nose, dry cough and less phlegm, constipation and even itchy skin.
Experts pointed out that the best way to prevent "autumn dryness" is diet conditioning. Eat more fruits and vegetables that can nourish yin and moisten dryness, such as radish, tremella, lotus root, lily, pear, apple, persimmon and banana. And don't eat or eat less spicy, fried, barbecue food, such as ginger, pepper, pepper, cinnamon, onion, wine, etc. Going to bed early and getting up early can restrain the air and protect the lungs from autumn dryness. Patients with "autumn dryness" should actively participate in physical exercise to improve cardiopulmonary function and cold tolerance.
Here are some recipes suitable for autumn:
lotus root and rip soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of lotus root, 500 grams of ribs, a little yellow wine, ginger, onion and salt.
Production method: cut pork chops into inches, soak them in boiling water for about 2 minutes, and discard the water; Wash and slice the lotus root, put it into 1500 ml warm water together with the ribs, add a little yellow wine, ginger and onion, simmer for about 90 minutes after the water boils, and add a little salt to serve.
Function: spleen and lung. Suitable for any physique.
Sydney tremella soup
Ingredients: 2 Sydney, 50g tremella, rock sugar100g.
Production: Slice the Sydney, and remove the hard roots when the tremella becomes soft. Add water to the pot, add pears, tremella and rock sugar, and cook for half an hour, then serve.
Function: benefiting qi and nourishing yin, relieving cough and preventing dry cough in autumn. Yin deficiency constitution is more suitable.
Steamed lily with honey
Ingredients: lily120g, honey 30g.
Production: mix the top grade evenly and steam until it is cooked and soft. When containing several tablets, swallow saliva and chew.
Function: tonify lung, moisten dryness and clear heat, suitable for lung heat and boredom, or dry cough and dry throat.
Sugarcane yam porridge
Raw materials: fresh sugarcane juice is about 100 ~ 150 ml, 50g of yam and 50g of japonica rice.
Function: This porridge has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, and is suitable for vexation, thirst, lung dryness, cough and dry stool caused by insufficient body fluid during fever recovery period.
Raw porridge
Slice 30 grams of fresh Rehmannia glutinosa, add appropriate amount of water to boil for about half an hour, filter the juice and cook again; Concentrate the combined liquid medicine to about 100 ml for later use; After washing 75g of japonica rice, cook it into rice porridge, mix it with Radix Rehmanniae juice, and add a little sugar when eating.
The medicated diet has the effects of nourishing yin, invigorating stomach, cooling blood and promoting fluid production, and can be used for treating yin deficiency, hot flashes, night sweats, chronic cough, hemoptysis, anorexia, emaciation, fever, anxiety, thirst, red eyes during sleep, and chronic sleepiness. ("Eat and Drink")
Yam and barley porridge
60 grams of raw coix seed, 60 grams of raw yam and 30 grams of persimmon cream are chopped into small pieces and boiled into paste porridge.
It has the functions of tonifying lung, strengthening spleen and nourishing stomach, and is suitable for all diseases with deficiency of both spleen and lung, such as internal heat due to yin deficiency, cough due to fatigue, diarrhea and anorexia.