Experts share notes on eating and drinking during the Autumn Equinox 2025 to help nourish the lungs and increase luck.

GĐXH - The Autumn Equinox marks the transition from hot to cold, the dry weather can easily affect health. In eating and drinking, everyone should also pay attention to the following to both prevent disease and increase luck.

Eating and health care during the Autumn Equinox

Expert Nguyen Song Ha said that during the Autumn Equinox, dry air begins to rise, causing a feeling of heat, cracked limbs, and damaged lung air. Therefore, the principle of health preservation is to balance yin and yang, prevent cold, and prevent dryness. People should supplement foods with cool and neutral properties combined with warm and hot foods to keep the body in harmony, not invaded by dry air or cold air.

In the book "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" it is written that "Autumn and Winter nourish Yin", so Autumn Equinox is the time to nourish Yin. Medicinal herbs such as Chinese yam, Ophiopogon japonicus, and lily can be boiled to drink to nourish Yin, nourish the lungs, and at the same time help reduce dry skin.

During the Autumn Equinox, you should eat light foods. Photo TL

People should focus on lightness, such as green and red radish bone soup (you can add monk fruit and almonds) to help clear heat and detoxify, preventing the invasion of evil spirits. However, you should not rush to nourish with ginseng soup, astragalus soup... because it can be harmful to the lungs, especially when infected with wind-cold or flu.

The autumn climate gradually turns dry, the sunlight is less, the temperature slowly drops, making people's emotions somewhat melancholy, like the saying "Autumn wind and autumn rain are sad to kill people". Therefore, at this time, everyone should maintain a peaceful spirit. In this season, try to get up early, it is best to go to bed before 10 o'clock at night, and get out of bed when the sun rises in the morning.

3 principles to maintain the body's yin and yang balance

Feng Shui expert Nguyen Song Ha said that to keep the balance of Yin and Yang in the body, first, we must pay attention to the balance of cold and heat. Cold will damage Yang, heat will damage Yin, so if we cannot maintain the balance of cold and heat, it will affect the balance of Yin and Yang in the body.

The second is to maintain a balance of Qi and blood. Because Qi belongs to Yang and blood belongs to Yin, so we must maintain a balance of Qi and blood.

Third, we must pay attention to the balance of the body fluids, that is, the balance of the body fluids. Fluids are liquids, blood. Because 70% of the human body is water, maintaining the balance of the body fluids is also maintaining the balance of yin and yang.

When Yin and Yang are in harmony, the body is naturally healthy and the mind is clear. On the contrary, imbalance can easily lead to illness, especially chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and coronary artery disease.

Notes on eating and drinking

Eat less sour and spicy food to increase bowel movements:

The book "Essentials of Cuisine" states that in autumn, the Qi of the liver is hot, so it is best to eat at dusk to moisten the liver. People should eat less sour and less spicy dishes, and eat more foods that moisten the liver, such as sesame seeds. On the other hand, a moderate amount of sour foods can also be consumed to aid digestion.

Vitamin and mineral supplements

The Autumn Equinox is very suitable for eating vegetables containing many vitamins and minerals that are beneficial for health such as cauliflower, carrots, lettuce, pumpkin, radish, wood ear, yam, sweet potato... You should eat duck and goat meat - meats with high protein content but low fat, warm in nature, helping the body fight against the increasingly strong negative energy in the environment.

Eat crab

During this season, crabs are often fatty, so everyone should add these seafood dishes to nourish the body and cool down.

Increase fruits and nuts

During the Autumn Equinox, fruits and nuts such as olives, pears, papayas, chestnuts, beans and most plants enter their most nutritious storage phase. This is the time to harvest and enjoy these fruits and nuts.

Some suggested health-preserving dishes include stewed chicken with chestnuts, wood ear porridge, lotus root and sticky rice, crab balls, etc. These dishes not only help nourish yin, moisten the lungs, but also help the body adapt better to the cold, dry weather.

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