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Autumn health, can you do this?

Autumn health, can you do these things?

How to maintain health in autumn? Do these things well.

Avoid adding clothes too early.

The common sense of autumn health care suggests that "cold in spring and freezing in autumn" means keeping the body temperature low in autumn, which is conducive to the convergence of yang.

Pay attention to keep your stomach warm.

In autumn, yin increases and yang decreases. Close the doors and windows at night, cover the abdomen with a thin quilt, and keep the stomach warm in autumn to prevent the spleen and stomach from catching cold due to the autumn wind cycle.

Can adhere to the habit of cold water bath.

The advantage of exercise after autumn is that after a certain period of exercise in an environment with gradually decreasing temperature, it can promote the body's material metabolism, increase heat production and improve its adaptability to low temperature. The cold water bath should be gradual, including the bathing parts from local to whole body, with the water temperature from high to low and the bathing time from short to long.

Open more windows and turn on less air conditioning.

Open as many windows as possible in autumn to let the air circulate, so that autumn can kill the humid and turbid air left indoors during the summer vacation.

Take good care of your navel.

Cold comes from the feet, and health care first raises the feet. The epidermis at the navel is the thinnest, and there is no adipose tissue under the skin. If the protection is improper, such as sleeping at night to expose the abdomen, or young ladies who love beauty wear navel dresses, the cold can easily invade the human body through the navel.

Sleep an extra hour on World Sleep Day.

In the alternate period from hot to cold, the yang in nature tends to converge from catharsis, and the ups and downs of yin and yang in human body also change accordingly. Therefore, from the perspective of health, the daily routine should be adjusted accordingly.

Eat more foods that clear away heat and soothe the nerves.

After summer, the temperature difference between morning and evening began to change obviously, the gastrointestinal tract could not accept cold and hot stimulation, gastric acid secretion increased, gastrointestinal spasmodic contraction, resistance and adaptability decreased. Summer is suitable for eating foods that clear away heat and soothe the nerves, such as tremella, lily, lotus seeds, honey, yellow croaker, scallop, kelp, jellyfish, celery, spinach, glutinous rice, sesame seeds, beans, milk, etc., but these foods