Yin Pingyang's health motto of the autumn equinox has been kept secret for a long time.

The autumnal equinox is late summer and early autumn. Since the autumnal equinox, people in the northern hemisphere have entered the real autumn. Traditional health care experts believe that the autumnal equinox was originally a solar term of "half yin and half yang" and "equal day and night", so people's health care during this period should also follow the law of "balance of yin and yang", and there is a saying that "yin and yang are secret" and "duration is equal", so let Lao Huangli introduce the meaning of this autumnal equinox health care proverb.

Because the autumnal equinox solar term has really entered autumn, as a solar term with equal time between day and night, people should also keep their bodies according to the principle of "balance between yin and yang" in health care. According to the theory of Su Wen's On the Truth, "Observe the position of Yin and Yang carefully and regard it as a period of peace", and the position of Yin and Yang should not be deviated.

Mental rehabilitation

The most important thing for spiritual recuperation is to cultivate optimism, keep calm, avoid cold air, and converge and adapt to the calm air in autumn. Physical health care can choose the custom of climbing the mountain and viewing the scenery on the ancient Double Ninth Festival in China, which can make people relaxed and happy, and the negative emotions such as depression and melancholy will dissipate immediately. This is one of the methods of keeping Tibet in health care, and it is also a good medicine to regulate the spirit.

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In terms of diet recuperation, Chinese medicine also takes the balance of yin and yang as the starting point, and divides diet into appropriateness and taboo. Should be conducive to the secret of Yin Pingyang, and vice versa. Different people have different taboos. For example, for those elderly people with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, they should avoid eating hot supplementary products. For developing children, if there is no special reason, it is not appropriate to supplement too much; People with phlegm-dampness constitution should avoid greasy food; People with wood fires should avoid spicy food; People with skin diseases and asthma should avoid eating seafood such as shrimp and crab; People with a cold stomach should avoid eating cold food.

No matter what kind of person, its essence should prevent the real person from being more real and the virtual person from being more virtual, which will lead to the imbalance between yin and yang. In the aspect of diet recuperation, it should be embodied that "deficiency supplements it, but actually purges it"; The principle of "who is cold and who is hot, who is hot and who is cold". What to do "Su Wen, the ancient naive theory" said: "Who knows it, the law is in Yin and Yang, it is counting the tricks, and the diet is moderate."

In terms of food collocation and diet adjustment, Chinese medicine also pays attention to reconciling yin and yang. In the concept of integrated nutrition of food and medicine, it is emphasized that traditional Chinese medicine and food are both natural products, which have certain properties, especially the functions of nourishing yin, tonifying yang and tonifying qi and blood. They are interlinked and inseparable.

It is not difficult to find examples of dual use of medicine and food from herbal classics and prescriptions. Ancient doctors regarded black-bone chicken, mutton, donkey skin, onion, ginger, jujube, etc. as yin and yang, qi and blood, or regulating stomach qi; In a large number of recipes and dishes, it is not difficult to find many medicinal materials, such as medlar, yam, astragalus, poria cocos, clove, cardamom and cinnamon. When medicine and food are properly mixed, it can improve the efficacy of food health care and disease prevention.

The history of food culture for thousands of years shows that China people's eating habits are mainly vegetarian and strive for a comprehensive diet with vegetarian dishes. The so-called comprehensive diet requires long-term or frequent diversification of diet content, and pays attention to the reasonable collocation of meat and vegetables, main and non-staple food, dinner and snacks, drinking and eating.

Ancient doctors advocated that the diet should not be biased and the amount should not be excessive. Should not blindly pursue delicacies, chicken, duck, fish, wine and tea to eat and drink, too lonely and dull. Li Shizhen once said, "What people eat and drink is also the lifeblood of people", which tells us that if we want to prolong life, we must understand the performance of food and the function of diet.

In the long-term life practice, ancient doctors divided the attributes of food into three categories, namely, cold, flat and warm. Among them, according to the common statistics of more than 300 kinds of China foods, flat foods are the most, followed by warm foods and cold foods.

As far as its function is concerned, cold food has the functions of nourishing yin, clearing heat, purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. These foods include watermelon, melon, banana, sugarcane, mango, loquat, apple, pear, persimmon, water chestnut, water chestnut, mulberry, tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd and wax gourd.

Warm food has the functions of warming meridians, supporting yang, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals and dispelling cold. Among them, pepper, pepper, mustard seed and trout are hot foods, such as cherry, litchi, longan, apricot, pomegranate, chestnut, jujube, walnut, garlic, pumpkin, raw onion, ginger, leek, fennel, eel and silver carp.

Sexual foods include plums, figs, grapes, ginkgo, lilies, lotus seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, black sesame seeds, auricularia auricula, day lilies, onions, potatoes, black, red, soybeans, lentils, cowpeas, cabbage, taro, carrots, Chinese cabbage, Toona sinensis, Artemisia annua, kohlrabi, jellyfish and soybeans.

On weekdays, people should reasonably allocate food according to its nature and function, so that it varies with time, place, person and illness, which is also one of the important conditions to avoid premature aging and ensure healthy qi. The reason why doctors and health-preserving families in past dynasties paid attention to the maintenance of healthy qi was because it was regarded as the foundation of strong physique.