Heavy moisture in the body is generally related to weakness of the spleen and stomach. Among Chinese herbal medicines, there are many herbs that have the functions of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach and eliminating damp heat, such as ginger, lotus leaf, dried tangerine peel and poria cocos. Rational use of these drugs will make it easier and faster to eliminate damp heat.
2 Ginger is warm and dry. Chinese medicine believes that ginger is a fragrant and spicy stomach tonic, which can warm and dry. Eating some ginger properly can promote human perspiration and play a cool and refreshing role. For people with dizziness, malignant tumor, chest tightness, palpitation and other summer heat symptoms, drinking ginger soup is of great benefit.
Usage of eliminating dampness:
Take ginger 10g, wash it, pat it away, put it in a pot, add about 800 ml of water, boil it on low heat, and turn off the heat after 5-6 minutes; Green tea is put in a big teacup or teapot; Pour the cooked Jiang Shui into a teacup or teapot, cover it and let it stand for 3-5 minutes, then pour it out to replace tea and drink it often, and finish it in 1 day.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, stimulating appetite and refreshing, benefiting qi and stopping vomiting, detoxifying and sterilizing, expelling wind and relieving exterior syndrome. It is also suitable for patients with fatigue, anorexia, dry mouth and thirst, abdominal distension and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, insomnia, etc.
Note: it is best not to peel ginger, because it can make ginger play a better role in my pain; People with yin deficiency and internal heat and blood heat should abstain from ginger, especially dried ginger, whose heat can moisten the five internal organs and must not be used more.
3. "Materia Medica Zheng Zheng" records: "Poria helps to remove dampness, which will make you happy and intelligent, and guide turbidity to produce fluid; Eliminating dampness means benefiting water and drying the spleen, tonifying the middle and strengthening the stomach. " Poria cocos is flat in nature, sweet and light in taste, and has the functions of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves, invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness. Clinically, it is often used to treat anorexia, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia, dreaminess, edema, short and red urine, loose stool and other symptoms caused by water-dampness stagnation.
Usage of eliminating dampness:
Poria cocos, Lilium brownii 65438 00g, rice 65438 00g.
Wash lily and poria cocos, wash rice and grind poria cocos into powder. Put all the ingredients together in a porridge pot, add about 800 ml of water, boil with strong fire first, and then turn to low heat to cook porridge.
Efficacy: invigorating the spleen and promoting diuresis, nourishing yin and clearing heat, calming the nerves and calming the heart. Besides daily health care, it is also suitable for patients with anorexia, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia and dreaminess caused by water-dampness stagnation.
Note: dampness can be divided into cold dampness and damp heat, and different constitutions of Poria cocos have different compatibility. If you want to clear damp-heat, you can choose Polyporus, Alisma orientalis, Lily, mung bean and other compatibility with heat-clearing function; In addition, although poria cocos has a good health care effect, it is not suitable for everyone, especially when it is used as health care, we must pay attention to: qi deficiency sinks, body fluid hurts people, deficiency cold and polyuria, and nocturnal emission is not suitable for eating.
Chinese medicine believes that lotus leaf is cold, sweet and fragrant, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian. Has the effects of invigorating qi and spleen, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and activating and supporting yang. It can prevent heat rash and eczema caused by heatstroke and damp heat, stimulate appetite, and treat dizziness, chest distress, polydipsia, blushing and short urine caused by heatstroke.
Usage of eliminating dampness:
Fresh lotus leaf 1, rice 100g, 3-5 lotus petals, and proper amount of salt (or sugar and honey).
Wash and chop lotus leaves, and wash petals for later use; Wash the rice, put it in the pot, add about 800 ml of water, and then turn to low heat to cook. When the porridge is almost ready, add crushed lotus leaves and cook for about five minutes, add petals and salt (or sugar and honey), 1 time a day.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, promoting diuresis and removing dampness, relieving vexation and swelling, reducing fat and losing weight. This product is suitable for cooling and preserving health in summer. It can be used in any season for people who have accumulated damp heat or are vulnerable to damp heat, and porridge or tea can be cooked with dried lotus leaves in other seasons.
Note: Although lotus leaf is fragrant and delicious, it can clear away heat, but it is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold and pregnant women. Because lotus leaf is cold, it can promote blood circulation, not only aggravate cold syndrome, but also cause harm to fetus.