🌿 Folk Prescriptions

At the turn of summer and autumn, the sun blazes overhead, combining lingering summer heat with autumn dryness. After excessive release during summer, people lack body fluids, showing varying degrees of dry throat, bitter taste, nasal dryness, and obstruction. A minor oversight can easily trigger colds, coughs, bronchitis, and similar ailments. Thus, the key to health preservation during this transitional period is preventing dryness. Eat more fruits and vegetables, reduce spicy foods to moisten and clear dryness; drink plenty of water, plain tea, and soups to quench thirst; stay calm and relaxed, get adequate sleep to soothe dryness; increase physical exercise to combat dryness.
"From White Dew to Autumn Equinox, each night grows colder," during White Dew, summer heat has dissipated. Though days may still be warm, nights often bring chilly breezes. A folk saying warns: "Do not expose your body at White Dew, or you’ll catch cold and diarrhea"—a reminder to take self-care seriously.
Autumn is a transitional season from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. After entering autumn, temperatures gradually drop, day-night temperature differences widen, humidity decreases, and weather changes rapidly—dry and variable conditions cause discomfort. Especially at the end of summer and beginning of autumn, residual summer fire remains, causing dry mouth and tongue, cracked skin. Moreover, cooling weather easily triggers gastrointestinal issues. Thus, autumn health preservation is essential. People should adjust clothing promptly with weather changes, prevent external wind-cold invasion, regularly mist indoor spaces to maintain humidity, pay attention to dietary adjustment, and enhance physical exercise. (September)
Now is the transitional period from summer to autumn-winter. The climate turns cooler, yang energy gradually withdraws, yin energy increases, scenery becomes desolate, air is dry, and people are prone to catching colds, leading to headaches, dry throat, coughs, and similar ailments. For autumn health preservation, diet should be moistening and avoid depleting foods to prevent damage to lung qi from autumn dryness. Clothing should be light and simple, allowing moderate exposure to cold to enhance cold resistance. Sleep schedules should be early to bed and early to rise, moderating the impact of climate changes. Most importantly, increase exercise to strengthen the body and adapt to ever-changing climate conditions. (October)
Autumn is a transitional phase from summer to winter, with unpredictable weather changes. Modern medical meteorologists believe people should scientifically arrange clothing, diet, housing, and travel after autumn begins to avoid adverse effects on health and safely navigate the "troublesome autumn." Due to large temperature differences—hot days, cold nights—dress appropriately to stay warm. Diet should be clear and moist, drink plenty of water and tea, eat more fruits to relieve autumn dryness. Autumn skies are high and windy, yang energy gradually contracts; sleep should be sufficient, early to bed and early to rise, aligning with yang energy’s expansion, allowing lung qi to spread. Keep indoor air circulating, develop habits of opening windows and sleeping with head uncovered. (October)
In deep autumn, day-night temperature differences are large, and cold air masses frequently move in. Weather alternates between cold and warm. Irregular changes often trigger various diseases, most commonly stroke, bronchitis, asthma, gastric issues, and colds. Prevention hinges on staying warm during each cold front invasion. (October)
Deep autumn sees frequent cold air activity in northern regions, with huge day-night temperature differences. Weather alternates between cold and warm unpredictably—making it a peak season for various diseases. Common issues include stroke, bronchitis, asthma, and gastric flare-ups. The main reason is that cold air stimulation excites the sympathetic nervous system, raises blood pressure, promotes thrombosis formation, increases histamine in blood, boosts gastric acid secretion, and causes intestinal spasm—thus, autumn health preservation is crucial.
As the saying goes: "Cold resistance training begins in autumn." In autumn, to prepare for harsher winters and adapt to cold climates, one should continuously improve cold resistance—don’t wear too many clothes too early, and pay attention to cold resistance training.