Moisture Self-Assessment Form and Explanation

1. Nausea and retching when you wake up early, and a bad throat condition

Explanation: Typical symptoms of chronic pharyngitis, including inflammation and pain. Dampness

2. Loss of appetite, stomach bloating after eating a little

Explanation: Weak spleen and stomach, poor digestive function, the spleen and stomach should be regulated

3. Weak intestines and stomach, Poor digestion

Explanation: Moisture hinders the transportation and transformation functions of the spleen and stomach

4. Dull complexion, yellowish color, frequent acne (stomach fire)

Explanation : Dark yellow skin may be due to poor liver detoxification or poor nutrient absorption.

5. Cold hands and feet

Explanation: Cold hands and feet, afraid of cold and heat. It feels uncomfortable when the air conditioner is turned on, and feels hot when the air conditioner is not turned on. This is a deficiency of the spleen and stomach.

6. The stool is unformed, sticky to the toilet, and difficult to flush down

Explanation: Intestinal dampness and heat

7. Long-term constipation and turbid urine

Explanation: It means that the gastrointestinal function is weak and peristalsis is slow, and the spleen and stomach need to be regulated

8. When I wake up in the morning, I feel dizzy, lack of energy, and my calves are sore

Explanation: Dampness is trapped in the body

9. The tongue coating is white, thick and greasy

Explanation: Thick tongue coating is a sign of malfunction of the spleen and stomach and internal water-dampness. Thick and yellow tongue coating is a sign of dampness and heat. Thick and white tongue coating is a sign of cold. Dampness

10. The body is fat and bloated

Explanation: Some people are "fat and weak", but they actually have some edema, which means there is dampness in the body and the water cannot flow with the blood. , stays between body cells, causing the body to expand rapidly. The same person is fat, but some people are "really fat" if they have enough energy and strength.

11. Love sweating

Explanation: Sweating due to deficiency is spleen deficiency. Be careful to eat less raw and cold food. We eat It's cold when it goes in and hot when it comes out. It's all the result of the spleen. If you eat cold food for a long time, the spleen will easily become weak

12. Feeling tight in the chest in the afternoon

Answer: ① Chest tightness Feeling stuffy and uncomfortable is actually a symptom of dampness blocking Qi movement. The spleen, stomach, and heart and lung functions are relatively poor.

② Feeling stuffy in the heart is what Chinese medicine calls liver stagnation and qi stagnation, which requires nourishing and protecting the liver.

③ That is a symptom of lung qi deficiency. As soon as the spleen is deficient, the lung qi will be extinguished first (when the spleen is deficient to a certain extent and the lung metal is not nourished, shortness of breath and chest tightness will easily occur, and you will feel comfortable if you want to take a long breath) feeling)

13. Frequent bloating

Explanation: The spleen and stomach are not good, and the digestive function is poor, so bloating is easy.

14. Afraid of cold and heat

Explanation: Deficiency of spleen and stomach

15. Women have excessive leucorrhea, vaginal dampness and itching

Answer: Bet on dampness. When gynecological inflammation occurs in the body, it means that it has reached level four cold-dampness.

16. Heavy eyelids and bags under the eyes

Explanation: Dampness traps the body. Undereye bags are swelling of the lower eyelids.

17. Facial spots

Answer: Staying up late damages the liver, leads to endocrine imbalance, and affects a series of skin problems such as facial acne and spots. We must pay attention to nourishing and protecting the liver.

18. Hair loss

Explanation: Insufficient kidney qi

19. Feeling that the body is restrained and too lazy to move

Explanation: According to traditional Chinese medicine "Wet is as heavy as a wrap". This feeling of being wrapped is how the body feels about moisture. Some people are obviously strong and strong, but they feel like they can't exert themselves, are easily sleepy, have difficulty concentrating, and feel like they are being restrained by something. These are probably caused by severe moisture.

20. Love eating raw and cold food

Answer: Pay attention to eating less raw and cold food. When we eat it, it is cold and when we come out, it is hot. This is all due to the spleen. If you eat cold food for a long time, The spleen is prone to deficiency

21. Drooling while sleeping

Explanation: Drooling during sleep is related to spleen deficiency. After spleen deficiency, water cannot be transported and transformed, causing body fluid to leak and drooling. .

22. Often bitter taste in the mouth

Explanation: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is mainly caused by damp-heat, which includes liver and gallbladder damp-heat and stomach heat. Dampness in the liver and gallbladder and bitter taste in the mouth may be caused by inflammation in the liver and gallbladder.

Bitter mouth caused by stomach heat, some people do not have inflammation of the liver and gallbladder, but due to unreasonable diet and eating too much spicy food, it can also cause bitter mouth.

23. Love spicy food

Excessive preference for spicy food can easily lead to imbalance of yin and yang in the internal organs and lead to diseases. Excessive lung qi, spicy food has the functions of dispersing, promoting qi, and activating blood circulation. Eating too much can easily lead to excessive lung qi, depleting qi and yin, leading to reduced immunity and colds, such as dry and sore throat, red eyes, and dry nose. Heat, dry mouth and tongue pain, as well as "heat" symptoms such as rotten corners of the mouth, nosebleeds, and toothaches. Damp-heat aggravates eating spicy food can easily aggravate damp-heat in the body, which manifests as skin acne, increased blood pressure, aggravation of hemorrhoids, and nosebleeds.

Food with strong flavors is difficult to digest and can easily cause gastrointestinal bloating and inflammation.

24. Acne and oil on the face

Moisture is heavy, the gastrointestinal condition is not good, and the intestinal waste toxins cannot be transported out, which is reflected in the appearance of acne on the face.

25. Eczema

With spleen deficiency, moisture cannot be transported out and stays in the body, invading the internal organs and meridians, and penetrating into the epidermis, easily causing eczema.