Autumn is coming, why do you want to "eat honey instead of ginger, eat fruit instead of melon"

After beginning of autumn, we obviously felt that the weather was getting colder every day. On cool days, our mood was beautiful. However, on a crisp autumn day, don't forget to keep fit. Some folk health statements just come in handy. For example, people often say, "Eat honey without ginger, eat fruit without melon!" Do you know what this means?

It is standard to eat honey instead of ginger according to the solar terms. Because in traditional Chinese medicine, the weather is dry in autumn, people are prone to get angry, and ginger is a hot food, so eating ginger will aggravate getting angry. Of course, if you are cold, you can still eat some properly, which can promote the circulation of qi and blood.

Eating honey should be a knowledge point that we can often come into contact with, such as honey stewed Sydney and autumn pear honey cream, which are very popular autumn drinks. Compendium of Materia Medica records that honey contains five pillars of Islam: clearing heat, tonifying middle warmer, detoxifying, moistening dryness and relieving pain. Therefore, drinking honey water properly in autumn can improve the body's dryness and heat, and also moisten the throat and protect the lungs.

Although the summer heat subsides in autumn, people's appetite will not be fully improved as in summer because of the dry weather. In addition, people often eat cold food in hot summer, and their spleen and stomach are "damaged" and will not fully recover for a while. If you continue to eat cold fruits and vegetables, it will inevitably aggravate dampness and damage spleen yang. If the melons and fruits are not thoroughly cleaned, bacteria will enter the body, which is more likely to lead to various acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases.

Although it is said that folk proverbs have been circulated for thousands of years and are the crystallization of wisdom, we should not be too superstitious. Today, with the development of planting technology and cold chain transportation, we are no longer the era when we can only eat seasonal fruits. In autumn, fruits and vegetables can be eaten, but please pay attention to cleanliness and proper amount.