There is an old Chinese saying: “Feel sleepy in spring and feel tired in autumn.” Different seasons have different effects on the human body. When autumn arrives, people feel tired and are less active. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners say that nourishing the lungs is the focus at this time. Throughout the changes of the four seasons, by maintaining energy and changing diet and habits healthy longevity can be achieved.
Ritsugaku Ken, TCM practitioner of the Japan Society for Oriental Medicine (JSOM) and director of the acupuncture department of Kurashiki Heisei Hospital in Japan, said in an interview with the Epoch Times on Nov. 24 that the weather in summer is relatively hot and people sweat a lot. When entering autumn, body fluids lost in summer have not yet recovered; therefore, people feel tired, such as, fatigue in the limbs, and so on. This is the TCM concept of “tiredness in autumn.”…