Autumn is here and the temperature is starting to cool down, so I will talk about how to maintain health in autumn.
Summer belongs to fire and is susceptible to fire evil. In addition, there is external heat and internal cold. We should also pay attention to the internal invasion of cold and damp evil. Generally speaking, the focus is on nourishing the heart - "A calm heart will naturally cool down".
Autumn belongs to gold. Autumn is dry and cool, and the "gold" organ is most easily violated. The lungs belong to metal. If they are cold and dry at first, the cold and dryness will harm the lungs, and the dryness will harm the body fluids, and the function of the lungs will be easily lost. The diet should nourish yin and moisturize the lungs. You can eat sesame seeds, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey, almonds, pumpkin, loquat, dairy products and other soft foods to benefit the stomach and promote body fluids. You can also increase the amount of soy products. In addition, avoid overeating fatty, sweet, thick and tasty foods.
People with weak and cold constitutions should pay more attention to eating less raw and cold fruits to protect their spleen and stomach. People's bodies are different. Don't be fooled by the so-called "vitamins". You have to learn to let your body and stomach directly sense whether it is suitable for you and whether you feel uncomfortable after taking it. If you feel nauseated before eating, or if you feel uncomfortable after eating, it will do more harm than good to your body. In fact, most people's constitution is cold or has a cold side, especially after the age of thirty.
I have also been exposed to such a case. A young man in his twenties, whose family is in good condition, and whose mother is a university teacher, thinks of "fruit vitamins" and provides a large plate of fruit (five kinds a day) every morning and evening. I ate it every day. After three years of eating this way, my stomach was damaged, I suffered from indigestion, and later I developed severe systemic symptoms.
Vitamins are not bad, the big problem is whether they can be truly absorbed. If you don’t respect your own body and the laws of nature, you will lose more than you gain.
Humans and nature are interconnected and integrated. Seasonal changes, internal and external coordination, and delicate physical and mental stress reactions must be perceived with a sensitive heart. The most important thing about health care, traditional Chinese medicine, etc. is to use such a sensitive heart to touch, understand, and integrate into a unique Chinese thinking mode of "harmony between man and nature" and to put aside the mind and directly perceive life with the body and intuition. state.
My grandma is illiterate, but she lives a natural life. She often uses alkali for burns, rubs salt for mouth sores, slaps Hu Lu and screams Hun'er when the children are frightened, etc., and she often comes up with simple tricks to treat headaches and brain fever. Those with minor illnesses often recover easily. I believe that many old people have experienced this. This is a state that can only be achieved when you are a little older, have let go of a lot of hardships, and live comfortably and transparently. It’s not just a bit of medical knowledge or life experience, but a down-to-earth “great ease”, invisible solidity and optimism, and an easy-to-hand ease and ease. The taste has to be savored slowly and deeply...
Speaking of being down-to-earth and optimistic, this kind of mentality is most needed in autumn. "Huangdi Neijing's Four Qi Regulating the Spirit": "Autumn March, this is called flatness, the weather is urgent, the earth's Qi is bright, lie down early and get up early, and the chickens are all excited, so that the mind is peaceful, to slow down the autumn punishment, and to converge Shen Qi makes the autumn Qi calm, and its purpose is to clear the lung Qi. This is the response to the autumn Qi and the way to nourish it; if it is reversed, it will damage the lungs, and it will cause diarrhea in winter, so there are few people who can store it."
What is Rongping? A calm, peaceful and peaceful state of mind. Take your time, just no pressure. It’s not that you don’t work seriously, but that you “take things easy when they come, and let things pass as they pass”, and try to be detached and unconcerned about things. Standing higher on things changes your perspective, and looking farther away breaks the horizon. Sometimes it's just a world view - the angle of looking at the world is raised a little higher, and the dimensions and directions are completely different. You will find that some of the entanglements and entanglements that you used to care about or worry about are completely different. Not a problem. For a moment, it suddenly fell off, everything disappeared, the worries were suddenly stopped, and the whole body was relaxed - really like the poem of Sajia - "My heart is empty without mustard seeds, and I enjoy the coolness of autumn wherever I go." After experiencing it once, you will know that the world is peaceful and peaceful. And "If you are well, it will be sunny"!
Perhaps everyone is waiting for such a moment in their life, waiting for such a transformed "baby rebirth" - innocence, simplicity, magnanimity, tolerance and every life after all kinds of hardships. Freshness every moment - youthfulness of soul.
Foresight, strategizing, adapting to circumstances, deciding which step to take, it will happen naturally - although this realm is lofty, it is not easy for us to achieve, but we have to know the direction. If this is the case, it will become more peaceful. No big deal, always positive energy and positive attitude. When your mentality is good, your heart will bloom and the breeze will come naturally.
Why should we pay special attention to and practice this kind of mentality in autumn? Because of the sadness of autumn, the actual signs of "the unity of nature and man" - autumn is a chilling atmosphere, all things are desolate, and people's yang energy is also transpiring from the outside in summer, gradually converging inward, like trees putting aside unnecessary burdens , reduce the burden to meet the increasingly cold and harsh external environment and maintain the most important inner vitality. In this process, there are internal and external attacks and Yang Qi shrinks, which makes it easy for people to become restricted and unsmooth, and people's mood is also prone to pessimism, depression, and depression... thinking negatively about everything.
That day, another patient asked why nothing special had happened recently. He was always feeling depressed, his heart was tight, and he felt sad. I said don't worry. Autumn is here, the weather is cooler, people's Qi pulses are tightening, and the sudden drop in temperature consumes Yang Qi. The weaker people will be affected physically and mentally to some extent, and there must be a process of adaptation. Aren’t the trees going to lose some leaves? Autumn is sad, autumn is sad, that's how it is, some small physical and mental adjustments, once you get used to it, it doesn't matter.
The way to adapt is not only to know these laws of autumn, but also to open up your heart, and also do some moderate physical exercise, be cheerful physically and mentally, and have bright sunshine, so as to maintain the comfort of yang energy without overdoing it. Loss, slight sweating, it is better not to sweat profusely.
Recently, colds, fevers, coughs, sore throats, etc. caused by autumn coolness and autumn dryness are common. As the weather changes, keep warm and add or remove clothes. If you have a dry mouth and throat, you can soak some Ophiopogon japonicus, usually Qiuli paste, or boil some pears to eat. Specific symptomatic household medicines and medicated diets will be introduced in the next issue. Psychological factors are often ignored by people but are actually the most critical point. "Zen Medical Hall" attaches great importance to spiritual enlightenment. This is its characteristic, so every time it will be analyzed from this perspective first.
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Beautiful, just because it opens the channel between hearts.