1, pay attention to your diet

People in damp heat constitution should pay attention to their diet. It's best to stick to a light and heat-clearing diet and eat more dampness-promoting foods, such as lotus root, cucumber, Chinese cabbage, bitter gourd, wax gourd, mung bean, adzuki bean, lotus seed and coix seed. These foods can help us get rid of damp heat and keep defecation smooth. Eat less fried spicy food, such as mutton, beef, dog meat, onion and garlic, ginger and other foods, quit smoking and drinking, and eat less sweets.

Recommended recipe: barley and red bean porridge

Ingredients: Coix seed, red beans, brown sugar or rock sugar.

Practice: Coix seed and red beans are mixed according to the ratio of 2: 1. After washing, soak for one night. When you get up early the next day, put them in a pot, boil them on high fire, and stew them on low fire until the barley is cooked. Add rock sugar or brown sugar.

Efficacy: Job's tears and red beans are both foods for eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen, and they can also lose weight. Cooking porridge with them has a good effect on eliminating damp heat, which can be said to be the best diet prescription to eliminate damp heat.

Tip: Don't add more rice when cooking highland barley and red bean porridge, which will increase the taste, but will greatly reduce its dampness-removing effect.

2, keep the stool unobstructed

Patients with damp heat in the body are also prone to constipation, and they will feel unclean when defecating. If they want to get rid of damp heat, they should go to the bathroom regularly every day, whether they have stool or not, preferably after breakfast. After a long time, they can form the good habit of defecating on time.

3. Avoid living in damp places.

If you live in a low-lying and humid place, it is hot and humid in summer and it is not ventilated. It is strange that your body is not hot and humid for a long time. If you want to prevent damp heat constitution from living in a ventilated and dry environment, don't close the doors and windows in winter, but open the windows for ventilation every day.

4, Chinese medicine scraping and cupping

Patients with damp heat in the body go to the hospital, and many doctors will advise patients to scrape and cupping. Scraping and cupping have the function of eliminating dampness. If it is the first time to scrape and cupping, let the doctor operate it to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Step 5 exercise

Life lies in exercise, which is the most common way to help people prevent and treat diseases. People with damp heat can choose jogging, mountain climbing and other sports. These exercises can make you sweat without being too intense. Sweating is good for eliminating dampness. Go out to exercise in summer, and choose a cool place.