Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen can transport water and dampness. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness. If the spleen yang goes up, the spleen is healthy, the function of transporting water and dampness is normal, and dampness is not easy to cause disease. On the other hand, patients often suffer from dizziness, heavy head, sore limbs, heavy body pain, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thin stool, thick and greasy tongue coating and other symptoms. In order to prevent and reduce wet injury, we must pay attention to protecting the spleen. Only when the yang in the spleen and stomach rises can we effectively resist the invasion of dampness.
Therefore, at the turn of summer and autumn, we should pay special attention to the ventilation of rooms and workplaces; Dry your body and change clothes in time after wading in the rain; Don't soak in river water and swimming pool for a long time when the water is cold on cloudy days, so as to avoid external moisture invading the muscle surface and hurting people. In order to prevent internal dampness, don't eat too many cold fruits and vegetables, the diet should be light and easy to digest, and avoid being fat, sweet and greasy and overeating. In addition, using lotus seeds, barley, red beans, white lentils and other products to strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis to cook porridge in moderation can protect the spleen and stomach and get rid of moisture.
Thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine mentioned the influence of climate and environmental changes on the body, in which "dampness" was regarded as the key to trigger and aggravate diseases. Under normal circumstances, the human body has the ability to naturally adjust the changes of external temperature and humidity, but some people's health is affected by their constitution, diseases or bad living habits, which leads to the imbalance of water control system in the body and the inability to discharge water.
In addition, modern people exercise less, eat more, stay up late, and have great pressure, which will also cause gastrointestinal digestive function to be blocked and water metabolism to be unbalanced.
Too much water in the body can make people feel sleepy, heavy limbs, loss of appetite, cold hands and feet, rash, sticky face and even gastroenteritis.
Lack of exercise, uncontrolled diet and stress lead to moisture retention in the body.
As far as Chinese medicine is concerned, incense, sweat and bitter medicine are the magic weapons to eliminate dampness. It is the wisdom of our ancestors to use plant aroma to fight infectious diseases. For example, southerners wear wormwood to sterilize and prevent diseases. Or in the Dragon Boat Festival in May when the climate is warming and bacteria and viruses are emitted, cymbidium, Acorus gramineus and Artemisia argyi are hung at the door of every household and taken down for bathing, that is, to disinfect the air and drink water.
Modern pharmacy has also found that these aromatic plants do have antiviral effects, such as star anise, which is made into flu vaccine.
In addition, spicy ginger juice perspires sweat, which is most suitable for dispelling body moisture after being caught in the rain and preventing colds; Sweet ginger, a bitter and warm Chinese medicine, is like a slow fire, slowly forcing water and qi out of the body.
Chinese medicine teaches you to get rid of dampness.
But to really get rid of the moisture in the body, we should start from improving our living habits. Chinese medicine provides the following methods, so that you can easily get rid of the turbid and heavy moisture in your body and regain freshness.
No. 1 Qin Zhao movement
Exercise can relieve stress, activate the operation of body organs and accelerate the excretion of water.
Modern people use more brains, consume less physical strength, wait for a long time in a closed air conditioner and rarely sweat, so the body's ability to adjust humidity becomes worse. Try running, walking, swimming, yoga, Tai Chi and other "breathe a little, sweat a little" exercises, which will help activate blood circulation and increase water metabolism.
The second measure is a light and moderate diet.
Gastrointestinal system is closely related to nutrition and water metabolism, and the best way is a reasonable and balanced diet.
Oily foods such as wine, milk, fat meat and thick taste are not easy to digest, which is easy to cause bloating and inflammation. Sweets and fried products will make the body produce peroxide, which will aggravate the inflammatory reaction.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold food, ice products or cool fruits and vegetables will make the digestion and absorption function of the stomach stagnate, and it is not easy to eat indefinitely. Like lettuce
Salad, watermelon, Chinese cabbage, bitter gourd, etc. It is best to add onions and ginger when cooking to reduce the coldness of vegetables.
The third measure is to avoid humid environment.
In addition, it is best to reduce exposure to humid environment in daily life. Especially for people who are sensitive to moisture, they should pay more attention to the following matters:
1. Don't sleep directly on the floor. The moisture in the air will drop, the floor will be wet, and it will easily invade the body, causing pain in the limbs. It is best to sleep in a bed at a certain distance from the floor.
2. Reduce going out in rainy days.
Don't wear wet clothes
4. Water intake should be moderate.
It is estimated that the dampness-removing tea in the pharmacy is useless.