1. Food for removing dampness in summer
Onions: Onions are very common in our daily life, and the advantage of eating more onions in summer is to remove dampness. Onion has the effects of regulating stomach qi, eliminating dampness and eliminating phlegm, detoxifying and killing insects, and is suitable for chest distress, excessive cough and phlegm, and dysuria.
Oenanthe javanica: Everyone knows the effect of eating celery on health, so it is a good choice to eat more Oenanthe javanica in summer. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for diseases such as stranguria, bleeding and leukorrhagia.
Corn: The fragrant corn is believed to be the favorite of most friends. When you smell the corn, you must suddenly have an appetite. It has the effects of regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for urinary calculi or edema of chronic nephritis, hypertension, anorexia, etc.
wax gourd: If you want to get rid of moisture in summer, you can eat more wax gourd, which is good for your health. Wax gourd has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and relieving annoyance, and is suitable for diseases such as summer heat, polydipsia, edema, dysuria, thirst-quenching and drinking, and water vapor edema and dyspnea.
lentils: It is also a good choice to eat lentils in summer. There are many ways to eat lentils, so try it. It has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating middle warmer, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for vomiting due to summer heat dampness, vomiting due to spleen deficiency, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc.
crucian carp: In summer, besides eating fresh vegetables, you can also eat fish, and eating crucian carp has many benefits. Carassius auratus has the effect of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, weakness, thirst, edema, and dysuria.
Portulaca oleracea: There are many natural wild vegetables in our life that play a great role in helping us get rid of dampness, and Portulaca oleracea is one of them. Portulaca oleracea has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, dispersing blood and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice, gingivitis and other diseases.
2. Methods of eliminating dampness at acupoints
Weizhong point of the knee fossa: located at the center of the leg fossa, there is an acupoint called Weizhong point, which takes the bladder meridian. Bladder meridian is the largest channel for detoxification and dehumidification in human body, and Weizhong point is the sewage outlet on this channel. If it is not unobstructed, moisture can not be discharged, which may lead to arthritis, low back pain and other diseases. Therefore, at ordinary times, you can press and rub this acupoint, and each time you dial or knock it, it will be no less than 36 times.
Quchi point of cubital fossa: located at the lateral end of cubital transverse stripes, bends the elbow. When the midpoint of the connecting line between Chize point and the lateral epicondyle of humerus, the moist and turbid qi of the large intestine meridian gathers here. Modern medicine is often used to treat shoulder and elbow pain (or scapulohumeral periarthritis), upper limb paralysis, hypertension, urticaria, epidemic cutis, tonsillitis, goiter, acute gastroenteritis, cold and fever, pharyngolaryngitis, etc. You can pat the elbow socket continuously for about 5 minutes to feel the soreness.
the extreme spring point in the armpit: located at the apex of the armpit and at the beating place of the axillary artery, it is an important point of the heart meridian, which can remove the fire poison of the heart, and should be massaged or poked frequently, generally at least 36 times, at least twice a day, so as to dredge the meridians, regulate sleep and solve the problems of uncomfortable heart, including palpitation and chest tightness that often occur in white-collar workers for unknown reasons.
In summer, our bodies are prone to moisture, which can be aggravated by many reasons. Therefore, if we want to be healthy, we should pay attention to eliminating dampness in summer, and it is very helpful to eat some foods with good dehumidification effect. In addition, our human body also has three big wet vents, so pressing one button at ordinary times is not small for health care.
3. Harm of heavy moisture
1. Injury to joints
When moisture enters joints and meets with "cold", it will form cold and dampness, which is an important cause of inflammation and joint pain.
2, leukorrhagia
Excessive moisture in the body is easy to lead to spleen deficiency, which makes the moisture bet, making women have more leucorrhea, leucorrhea has an odor, and even lead to inflammation in severe cases.
3. Irregular menstruation
Women who often live in a humid environment, or who often make their bodies wet and damp, will have poor physical fitness, and will have symptoms such as limb fatigue, low fever, less menstrual flow and dysmenorrhea before and after menstruation.
4. Feminine privates inflammation
Feminine privates inflammation is not only related to the source of infection, but also related to moisture in the body. For people who belong to damp heat constitution or like to eat spicy and greasy food, it is easy to cause internal fire and heavy humidity, thus inducing female genital inflammation or causing female genital inflammation repeatedly. This kind of person's conditioning, we must first start from the body to get rid of dampness.
5. Obesity+edema
When moisture enters the skin, it will affect the metabolism of skin cells and reduce the efficiency of fat burning, which will lead to obesity. Too much moisture stays in the body, which aggravates the burden of spleen transporting and transforming water and dampness, just like the overload of a carriage, and sometimes even affects the diuretic function of the kidney, which can lead to systemic edema in severe cases.
6, affecting excretion
Excessive moisture will cause "moisture sticking to the intestine", increase the number of stools, and have the feeling that it is not clean. Chinese medicine says that "moisture is wrapped", and heavy moisture will affect the permeability between cells, just like a wet quilt covering a person's body, which will often make you feel heavy and listless.