Autumn Regimen

Autumn Regimen

In Chinese Lunar Calendar, autumn includes the 7th month, the 8th month and the 9th month.

In 2007, autumn is from August 8th to November 8th.

Spirit: Keep heart quiet,keep mind tranquil,and keep mood and feelings comfortable and pleasant. Abandon sad feelings and avoid the cold air. Converge expression and manner. All these are adapted to the containing and calm atmosphere of autumn.

Living: Go to sleep earlier to adapt convergence of Yang. Get up earlier to stretch Chi in lung, preventing too much convergence.

Exercise:Acording your own body condition, take part in all kinds of sport activities to prevent cold.

Diet:In autumn,it's dry and our lung is easy to be hurt. So we should eat foods that help to protect and moisten lung, produce saliva, nourish Yin. We should drink plain water, light tea, soymilk,porridge, fresh fruit and vegetables.

Don't eat or don't eat much pungent,very sweet, oily or deep-fried foods.

The following foods are suitable for eat in autumn.

Lily: Moisture lung, clear heart fire(that cause diseases), smoothe the nerve, eliminate fatigue and relieve a cough.

Yam: Tonic,Its characteristics are completed without delay, not the dry heat, whether men, women and children, the sick without disease, in frail health, are suitable for human consumption.

White haricot: White haricot porridge or soup helps to eliminate summer-left heat, remove summer dampness,invigorate spleen and stomach,and increase appetite.

Lotus root: Clear heat,produce saliva,quench thirst,invigorate spleen, stimulate appetite and benefit blood.

Chestnut: Invigorate spleen, norish stomach, tonify kidney, and strengthen bone.

Walnuts: tonifying kidney,control nocturnal emission, warm lung,smooth breath, benefit Chi,nourish blood, moisture dryness,smooth intestines.

Peanuts: Peanut in late autumn is mature. Dont fry in oil. Poach, or make soup after mashed into powder.

Chinese date: Fresh Chinese date in Autumn is light tonic for nourishing yin, moistening dryness, benefit lung and reinforce Chi(vital energy).

In addition, pear, chufa, Jellyfish, carrot,radish, shepherdspurse, mushroom, kelp, tomatoes,tofu, white fungus, rabbit meat,chicken meat and duck meat are suitable to eat in autumn.

In deep autumn, you can eat some light tonic foods and herbs shuch as Chinese date, Lotus, yam, lily, medlar, tuber fleeceflower.

Deep Breathing Fitness Method in Autumn

First step-Create saliva

• Every morning, after washing, hunker quiet in the room, close eyes.
• The above teeth percuss the below teeth 36 times.
• The tongue stirs in the mouth until the mouth is full of saliva.
• Gargle several times with the saliva, swallow in 3 times, image the saliva is sent to the pubic region(around area centered navel).

Second step- Deep breath

• Rest a while, deep breath 30times.
• When breath in, the tongue licks the palate,breathe in with the nose,image send to the pubic region.
• When breath out, breathe out slowly from the mouth,speak silently "Sai" but don't speak out.

Insisting on this fitness method in autumn will protect your lung and be good to your health.

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