How to judge whether there is moisture 1, depending on the body shape.
Chinese medicine has said that "thin people are full of fire, fat people are full of phlegm." People with puffiness are often wet by water, and in severe cases, there will be problems such as edema of lower limbs.
Step 2 look at the state
People with obvious moisture often feel particularly sleepy, too lazy to move, top-heavy, dull-headed, with heavy joints and aching all over, which is the manifestation of sticky moisture and impassable meridians. In addition, these people often feel chest tightness and need long-term breathing to be comfortable.
3. Look at appetite and appetite
When it's time to eat, people with heavy humidity don't feel hungry and don't want to eat. I feel bloated after eating something, and I feel faint fullness in my chest every day. This feeling is like eating by yourself. This is a typical manifestation of spleen deficiency and dampness.
Step 4 look at the stool
When the moisture in the body is heavy, the stool is often thin and shapeless. Even if the stool is basically shaped, the stool is soft, easy to stick to the toilet and difficult to wash off. People always have the feeling of endless defecation.
Step 5 be careful with urine
Urination is often manifested as scanty urine, but frequent or unpleasant urination, burning pain or astringent pain. Some female friends also have a lot of leucorrhea, which is a sign of heavy moisture.
6. Look at your tongue
The most accurate way to judge whether there is moisture is to look at the tongue. People with cold-dampness syndrome often have light and fat tongue, teeth marks on the edge of the tongue, and white and greasy fur. People with damp-heat syndrome often have red tongue and yellow greasy fur.
What are the foods for eliminating dampness? 1, coix seed.
It is a mild product for clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Traditional Chinese medicine is often used to treat diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, muscle soreness, joint pain, edema and beriberi.
2, bitter gourd
Has the effects of quenching thirst, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away heart fire, improving eyesight, invigorating qi, resisting fatigue, tonifying kidney and promoting diuresis. Bitter gourd contains a variety of vitamins and minerals, and contains special ingredients to clear fat and lose weight, which can accelerate detoxification. According to research, it also has good hypoglycemic, antiviral and anticancer effects.
Step 3: wax gourd
Conducive to the effects of resolving phlegm, clearing away heat and detoxifying. People in damp heat constitution can eat if they have edema, fullness, excessive phlegm, heat annoyance, thirst, eczema and boils. , and can hangover.
4, crucian carp
It has the effects of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, weakness, thirst, edema and dysuria.
5.purslane
It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice and gingivitis.
6.cress
It has expectorant, detoxicating, expelling pathogenic wind, relieving summer-heat, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire, improving eyesight, moistening intestine and clearing heat, relieving asthenic fire, stopping bleeding, and has adjuvant therapeutic effects on gastrointestinal fever, insomnia due to staying up late, rising asthenic fire, gingival swelling and bleeding, etc.
7. Maogen
Sweet and cold, entering lung, stomach and bladder meridian. It has the effects of cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and diuresis, and clearing away lung and stomach heat. Can be used for treating stomach upset due to heat, nausea, cough and asthma due to lung heat, palpitation, bitter taste, thirst, gingival bleeding, etc. Its effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxicating are mild, and it is suitable for ordinary people to eat in summer sauna days except damp heat constitution.
8. Lotus leaf
Has the effects of clearing away summer heat, promoting diuresis, promoting hair growth, clearing yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Modern research shows that lotus leaf also has the function of reducing blood fat, so many products that reduce weight, reduce blood fat and remove acne contain lotus leaf.
What fruits and vegetables do you eat to get rid of dampness? There are many dampness-removing fruits and vegetables in life, such as yam, mung bean, wax gourd, watermelon, loquat and orange. These have a good effect of eliminating dampness. You can eat more of these foods properly.
The diet recipe for eliminating dampness recommends kelp ribs soup.
Ingredients: ribs, kelp
Practice: soak kelp, steam for half an hour, take it out and soak it in water for 4 hours. After soaking thoroughly, cut into cubes. Wash the ribs, blanch them in a boiling water pot, take them out and soak them in warm water. Put the sparerib, onion, ginger and yellow wine into a pot, first boil it with high fire, then boil it with medium fire, and then pour in kelp pieces to cook together.
Stewed shad with red beans and pueraria lobata
Ingredients: adzuki bean100g, kudzuvine root 750g, dried tangerine peel a little, shad 500g, ginger 3 slices.
Practice: Wash adzuki beans and dried tangerine peel; Peeling Radix Puerariae, cleaning, and cutting into pieces; Remove scales and internal organs from shad, wash them, and fry them with slow fire until they are slightly yellow. Put all the ingredients together in a clay pot, add 2500ml of clear water, bring the pot to a boil with strong fire, then simmer for 2 hours, and add appropriate amount of salt to taste.
Corn, ginkgo and pork tripe soup
Ingredients: 3 pieces of millet, 50g of ginkgo, pork tripe 1 piece, 3 pieces of ginger.
Practice: Wash the millet and cut the clothes into sections; Hulling, undressing and cleaning Ginkgo biloba; Wash the pork belly, turn it over, scrape off the dirt with a knife, wash it repeatedly with raw powder and rinse it with clear water. Put it in an earthenware pot filled with ginger, add 3000ml of water (about 12 bowl), simmer for 2 and a half hours after the fire is boiled, and add appropriate amount of salt and oil.
What are the acupoints for eliminating dampness?
Proper stimulation of Yinlingquan point can clear away damp-heat, strengthen the spleen and regulate qi, dredge channels and activate collaterals, and can also help relieve abdominal distension, diarrhea, edema, knee pain and other symptoms.
Acupoint selection method: sitting or supine position. Yinlingquan point is located on the inner side of the calf, at the depression below the posterior condyle of the medial tibia, between the posterior margin of tibia and gastrocnemius, and at the starting point of soleus muscle.
Diji point
Diji point has a strong spasmolytic and analgesic effect, and can be used to help relieve abdominal pain, diarrhea, edema and menstrual disorders.
Acupoint selection method: it is located on the inner side of human calf, 3 inches below Yinlingquan point, that is, on the connecting line between the tip of medial malleolus and Yinlingquan point, at the posterior edge of medial tibia.
Eliminating dampness has become a commonplace topic. Almost everyone has some moisture in his body more or less, so everyone can consciously eat more food with dampness-removing effect in his diet. In addition, you can massage Yinlingquan point and Diji point more, which can play a good role in eliminating dampness.