How to effectively remove dampness? Traditional Chinese medicine teaches you how to remove dampness. Let’s take a look!

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "dampness evil" is one of the "six evils". When the human body's righteousness is insufficient and its resistance decreases, moisture can easily invade and cause disease. Therefore, in early spring, it is necessary to keep warm to prevent the stimulation of cold outside and the invasion of cold air. We should also pay attention to removing dampness and strengthening the spleen, driving away the dampness evil in the body, and allowing the spleen and stomach to function smoothly. Experts suggest that poria, yam, barley and other ingredients can be added to the spring diet, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach. You can also soak the sliced ??Codonopsis pilosula in boiling water instead of tea, which is beneficial to qi and blood, promotes body fluids and quenches thirst, harmonizes the stomach and strengthens the spleen.

For mild and severe cases of dampness, the emphasis is on removing dampness

In the rainy and humid season of spring, people with weak and damp constitutions are more susceptible to the invasion of dampness. The work of removing dampness should be strengthened. In addition, traditional Chinese medicine believes that "fat people are more likely to be damp", and obese people are often at high risk of dampness. However, Yu Meixiang emphasized that removing dampness must also be symptomatic, and not everyone needs to remove dampness. Generally speaking, "dampness" in the body will cause digestive symptoms such as loss of appetite, fullness and bloating; at the same time, mental states such as listlessness, lethargy, irritability, and irritability may occur; and the body and limbs will feel heavier, etc. The manifestation of "dampness and turbidity inside". If there is no improvement for a long time, it is recommended to go to a regular hospital to see a doctor for diagnosis and treatment.

If people only experience mild discomfort, they have mild dampness syndrome, and drug treatment is not recommended. It can be adjusted through diet and exercise in daily life. In terms of diet, you need to eat more light foods, try to avoid greasy, fried, spicy, raw and cold foods, and do not overeat to damage the spleen and stomach. On sunny days, you can go outdoors for more walks, which will help dispel moisture in the body, improve the body's resistance, and maintain your own righteousness. Experts remind that the weather in spring is changeable, so it is best to bring enough clothes when going out, and pay attention to keeping warm and cold first.

Ways to self-diagnose whether there is dampness in the body

1. When getting up - see how you feel

If you feel particularly tired and dizzy when you get up every morning, If you can't cheer up, or you feel like you are wearing wet clothes, you are not refreshed and you are too lazy to move... then you must be wet inside.

2. When going to the toilet - look at the stool

After going to the toilet in the morning, you can observe the stool. Is it stuck to the toilet bowl, and a box of water still won't flush it out? If it is inconvenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. Normally, one or two pieces of paper are enough. If three or five pieces of paper are wiped repeatedly and it cannot be wiped clean (this is why the consultation sheet asks about stool), it also means that the body is Got wet. The color and shape of stool can also help determine whether there is moisture in the body. Normal stool is golden yellow and banana-shaped, but now few people have this healthy stool. When there is moisture in the body, the stool will be blue in color, soft and shapeless (this is an important sign of spleen deficiency, and many people have it) and there will always be a feeling of incomplete excretion. Over time, if the toxins produced by feces accumulate in the body, all kinds of diseases will arise.

3. When washing - look at the tongue coating

We usually start washing after going to the toilet. Before brushing our teeth, we might as well take a few seconds to look at our tongue in the mirror. . "The tongue is the seedling of the heart and the external condition of the spleen." The tongue can sensitively reflect our physical condition.

A healthy tongue is light red and moist, with a layer of tongue coating on the surface, which is thin, white and quiet, with moderate dryness and moisture, not slippery and not dry. If the tongue fails to meet these indicators, it means that there is already a problem with the body's function. If the tongue coating is white and thick and looks slippery and moist, it means that there is cold in the body; if the tongue coating is rough or very thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is dampness and heat in the body; if the tongue is red and has no coating, it means that the body has reached a certain level of heat. It's so hurtful.

4. Check whether you feel nauseous when you brush your teeth in the morning.

Many people say that they feel vomiting and nausea as soon as they brush their teeth, and there is always stringiness and dryness in their throats. The feeling of impurity, even if there is spitting, is only a little.

5. When you wake up in the morning, do you feel that your calves are sore and heavy?

These are also typical characteristics of dampness. By the way, a wonderful way to remove dampness is to rub the Chengshan point.

Now let me teach you four spring heat-clearing and damp-removing soups

①Bawanghua Pork Soup

Ingredients: 2 taels of Bawang flowers, 12 taels of pork meat 2, 4 candied dates, a little salt, 10 bowls of water.

Method: 1. Wash the whole piece of pork belly, soak and wash the Bawang flowers, and remove the core of candied dates.

2. Put the candied dates and Bawang flowers together in a clay pot, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, add the pork belly and let it boil for about 20 minutes, then switch to medium heat and simmer for about half an hour, then simmer over low heat. When about 4 to 5 bowls of soup are left, season with salt.

Efficacy: Clear away heat, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

②Watercress, monk fruit and pig's trotter soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of pig's trotters, half of monk fruit, 700 grams of watercress, and 60 grams of southern almonds.

Method: 1. Wash the pig trotters, dry them with water, wash the monk fruit, wash the watercress, cut into short lengths, boil the almonds in boiling water and remove the clothes.

2. Put the mangosteen and southern almonds into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, add the pork trotters and watercress, boil again, simmer for 2 to 3 hours, and season.

Efficacy: Clear away heat and moisturize the lungs, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Dry cough caused by lung heat, dry throat and mouth, or dry and painful throat, hoarseness, or constipation due to dry heat. It can also be used for those with bronchitis due to dryness of the lungs and heat.

③ Radish, lotus seeds and pig tongue soup

Ingredients: 750 grams of radish, 50 grams of lotus seeds, 25 grams of gorgon seeds, 3 candied dates, 500 grams of pig tongue, 750 grams of pork bones.

Method: 1. Wash the radish with its skin and cut it diagonally into medium pieces; remove the pits and wash the lotus seeds, gorgon seeds and candied dates, and soak them briefly in water;

2. Pork tongue Scrape and clean repeatedly, cut into large pieces, and boil the pork bones together with boiling water for a while to remove the blood. After the pork bones are boiled, crack them with the back of a knife;

3. Put all the ingredients into the pot together Simmer for 2 and a half hours, then season with appropriate amount of salt and a little oil. This amount can be used by 3~4 people.

Efficacy: Radish is cool in nature and pungent and sweet, which can eliminate stagnation, resolve phlegm and heat, lower Qi and relax the middle. Lotus seeds are flat in nature and astringent in taste, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach, and nourish the mind. Gorgon is flat in nature and sweet in taste. , can nourish the spleen and stop diarrhea; candied dates are mild in nature and sweet in taste, and have the effect of replenishing qi, promoting body fluids, and nourishing the lungs and stomach; pig tongue can replenish qi and blood, nourishing and strengthening; pig bones can nourish blood and produce marrow, strengthening muscles and bones. When combined into a soup, it can be moisturizing and nourishing, widening the middle and lowering Qi, and can relieve spring cold and relieve dampness.

④Peanut Chicken Feet Soup

Ingredients: 10 chicken feet (about 200 grams), 50 grams of peanuts, 5 grams of rice wine, 3 grams each of ginger slices and refined salt, 1 gram of MSG , 10 grams of chicken fat.

Method: 1. Cut off the tips of the chicken feet and wash them; soak the peanuts in warm water for half an hour, then change to clean water and wash them.

2. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and bring to a boil. Add chicken feet, peanuts, rice wine, and ginger slices. Cover the pot and cook for 2 hours. Add refined salt and MSG to adjust the taste, then simmer over low heat. After a while, drizzle with chicken oil.

Efficacy: This soup contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, vitamin C, etc.