On September 8th（Wednesday） 2010， the 3rd small Autumn season "White Dews" arrives.
"White Dews" signifies the "official start" of the fall season, or say, cool season. migratory birds are heading south, other birds that stay here are getting started for their winter storage. As it being the season with the biggest temperature difference between day and night (10-15 Celsius), more people will start to have the change-of-season symptoms, such as cough, sinuses, cold, tearing, dry throat, and phlegm.
Make sure to add more clothes on you when it's cooler, BUT, not too sudden (e.g from shorts and tees to triple-layer sweater). Your body need to feel and adjust to the coolness gradually to be ready for the colder coming season.
After the "Final Heat" (the season before), summer has officially ended, the harmful "Heat" and "Wet" factors have lost their power and will not bother us too much anymore. What's coming next is the "Dry", AKA "Autumn Dryness". "Dry" attacks our healthy and necessary body fluid, therefore many of us may feel dry on skin, mouth, nose, lips, throat and have constipation. Make sure consume enough water and avoid Lungs related problems such as bronchopathy (bronchi disease), asthma and nasal disease by lowering your salt (sodium) usage.
Food is always better than medications. In this season, Lungs, Large Stomach and Spleen are the organs that need special care. Food that nourish these organs are recommended. Such as, lotus seed, sesame, large cranberry, yam, and corn. Recommended fruits are pears, apple, grape, citrus and any food in yellow (or like) color.
And of course, it's always important to practice our seasonal Chi Kung exercise. I will be working on make video of Chi Kung exercises from our Tuesday night class and put them online so you can watch them on your own.
Have a healthy "White Dews"!
No comments:
Post a Comment