Health Science: Health Preservation During the Solar Terms - White Dew

Health Science: Health Preservation During the Solar Terms - White Dew

"Bailu" is the 15th solar term in the "Twenty-Four Solar Terms" and the third solar term in autumn. "Bailu" is an important solar term that reflects the increase of cold air in nature. As the cold air turns from defense to offense, it is still hot in the daytime with sunshine, but the temperature drops quickly after dusk, and the temperature difference between day and night gradually widens.

When White Dew arrives, the first thing to do is to nourish your lungs!

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "spring nourishes the liver, summer nourishes the heart, autumn nourishes the lungs, and winter nourishes the kidneys". The lungs are the most "delicate" organ in the human body, and the weather gradually becomes dry after the beginning of autumn, which can easily damage the lungs, especially for the elderly. If the lungs are damaged by autumn dryness, they are prone to many lung diseases in winter. Autumn is the best time to nourish and moisturize the lungs. Only by nourishing the lungs can you have sufficient kidney qi and be less sick in winter.

What to eat after Bailu?

my country has always had the custom of "taking tonic food in autumn", but it is best to regulate the spleen and stomach before taking tonic food. Eating more warm and nourishing porridge in this season can not only cure autumn chill, but also prevent autumn dryness, which is beneficial to health. During the White Dew season, autumn dryness hurts people and easily consumes body fluids. People often have dry and bitter mouth and throat, dry stools, and cracked skin. You can eat more fruits and vegetables containing vitamins. At this time, the diet should reduce bitterness and increase spiciness to nourish the heart, liver, spleen and stomach, and it is not advisable to eat too much.

Don't expose your body during the White Dew Festival, or you'll get a cold and diarrhea.

After the White Dew solar term, the temperature difference between day and night increases. Chinese medicine advocates "staying out of the sun during the White Dew" and adding or removing clothes as the temperature changes. Don't sleep too cold, otherwise you will easily catch a cold. Eating too much cold food can easily damage the yang energy of the spleen and stomach, especially for those with spleen and stomach deficiency.