Start of Autumn indicates the beginning of autumn! While people are enjoying the clear weather, the minor disorder brought by the dry weather should not be overlooked, namely the epidemic fever due to autumn-dryness! Then what exact effect will the autumn dryness fever have on our body and how to deal with it properly?

Traditional Chinese medicine holds that dryness does harm to the lungs! Autumn-dryness fever probably is the term most frequently heard from the doctor during autumn! In such a terrible, desolate climate, people are susceptible to dry syndromes, and coughing is one of them, caused by lung injuries! Cough happens in autumn is often dry and rough, producing no phlegm, which is called “dry cough”! As for the famous aperture of the lung, in autumn, nose problems such as dry nose and nosebleed are so common that almost no one is able to escape from the former! Functioning as the gate and passage of the lungs, dryness in the throat and pharynx can result in dry throat or loss of voice! Lungs also have something to do with the skin and the xerosis cutis, chapped skin and even sparse hair are all attributable to the autumn dryness! Moreover, when dryness moves down to the large intestine, it causes constipation!

Given the clinical characteristics of the autumn dryness fever, people have to raise their awareness of disease prevention during this period, to adapt to the climate change and keep healthy against the autumn dryness! Temperatures in autumn vary greatly between the day and night, and thus people need to pay attention to the amount of clothes they wear, avoid using air-conditioning or fans all the time, keep warm as the weather is gradually becoming cold, adjust diet and maintain emotional equilibrium! Easily digested and light diet with plenty of nutrition such as tremella, fruit and ginseng is advisable in early autumn! The elder and people with hypertension need to be cautious of the stroke triggered by the agitated emotion! Moderate physical activities, for instance morning exercises, taijiquan and therapeutic massage can help strengthen resistance!

Having a bowl of porridge in the morning after the Start of Autumn can prevent the autumn-dryness fever! Recommended porridges: corn flour and potato porridge, sweet potato porridge, sesame porridge, Chinese date and glutinous rice porridge!

Source: Weather China

Translated by Qu Ran

Editor: Wen Yi