Lao Pang believes that there are six main factors that cause moisture: moisture from eating, moisture from drinking, moisture from sitting, moisture from being busy, and moisture from treating diseases.

1. Moisture caused by eating. Eating a variety of high-protein, high-calorie, and high-fat foods can lead to serious nutritional imbalance.

Most of these foods have high-heat or high-humidity properties. After ingestion, the internal environment will be high-temperature and high-humidity, such as in summer, and moisture will creep in.

Food has five flavors: pungent, sweet, sour, bitter and salty, but overeating can cause moisture.

For example, pungent foods such as scallions, ginger, peppers, and fennel can add fire or moisture; sweet foods can increase the heat energy in the body; acidic foods can cause digestive disorders and dysfunction of the spleen and stomach.

Moisture forms.

2. Moisture from drinking. Excessive drinking: Moderate drinking is beneficial to the body, but modern people drink excessively.

No matter what kind of wine, it contains moisture and heat.

Liquor has little difference in humidity, while beer, red wine, and rice wine are more humid than hot.

Long-term drinking can cause moisture. Excessive drinking of water: The method of drinking boiled water for health is gradually becoming more and more widely known, but not everyone is adaptable. Forcibly drinking a certain amount of boiled water every day without being thirsty can also cause spleen and stomach problems.

Injury, some people will develop moisture.

3. Moisture caused by sitting. Modern people lack exercise and commute by car. Their body functions are severely degraded. Qi and blood are weak all over the body. The function of the internal organs is reduced, which causes the spleen and stomach to function abnormally. The water and dampness in the body cannot be metabolized normally, causing dampness in the intestines and stomach.

, gradually forming moisture.

4. Moisture caused by tiredness: Life is fast and fast, competition is fierce, survival pressure is high, work is stressful, day and night are often confused, morning and dusk are reversed.

No matter what profession, there are few people who are not tired.

Exhaustion of physical strength and failure to repair in time will result in a weak spleen and a weak stomach. In addition, if you eat and drink incorrectly, moisture will form.

5. Blindly supplementing the dampness that has been treated. Most nourishing foods and medicines have heat and moisture properties. Blindly supplementing will lead to the balance of yin and yang in the body being broken, and moisture will take advantage of the deficiency.

Blindly clearing away heat: Most people take it for granted that internal heat needs to be cleared away, so they take a large number of heat-clearing drugs, including going to the hospital for intravenous drips, etc.

But they don’t know that all heat-clearing drugs and antibiotics are cold and cool. Long-term use will destroy the balance of yin and yang in the body, cause the loss of yang energy, and form moisture.

Below, Lao Pang will teach you a few simple and effective ways to remove moisture. 1. Exercise to perspire and remove moisture. Sweating during exercise is a good way to remove moisture.

Through exercise, the dampness and toxins in the body are directly released in the form of sweat, which is the most natural and effective way.

The more immobile you are, the more moisture accumulates in your body.

2. Food therapy: In fact, there are many foods we often eat that can help remove moisture from the body.

For example, purslane, shiitake mushrooms, bitter gourd, yam, white lentils, coix, red beans, etc. 3. Foot bathing Foot bathing is good for health regardless of the season. The feet are the origin of many important meridians in the human body. By promoting the self-regulation of the meridians, foot soaking can

Maintains the balance of the human body and has a certain effect on removing moisture.

4. Cupping therapy Cupping therapy is a commonly used method in traditional Chinese medicine to treat diseases. This therapy can expel cold and dampness, dredge meridians, promote qi and blood circulation, reduce swelling and relieve pain, etc.

5. Avoid humid environments. Being in a humid and cold environment can easily cause moisture to invade the body.

People with heavy moisture should pay attention to their living habits: do not sleep directly on the floor, which is very humid; do not wear wet and wet clothes; and blow-dry your hair after washing.

"Nine out of ten people are damp." Heavy dampness troubles many people. People with severe dampness often have loss of appetite, plump body, greasy head and face, prone to spots and acne, heavy head and body, sleepiness and weakness, which seriously affects normal work and life.

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Where does the moisture come from, and how can it be discharged?

Let’s first look at where the moisture comes from.

Dampness is heavy and turbid, greasy and stagnant, and the disease is prone to lingering and recurring attacks.

Dampness is the main qi of the long summer (from Great Heat to Autumn Equinox). At this time, the weather is hot and water vapor is transpiration. It is the season of the year with the highest humidity. At this time, the most people experience the onset of dampness, but it can also occur in other seasons.

Dampness is divided into exogenous dampness and endogenous dampness. Generally, exogenous dampness is caused by external exposure to fog and dew, living in a humid place for a long time, being exposed to rain, wading or working in water for a long time, coupled with inadequate protection and lack of exercise.

Generally, due to overeating raw or cold food or excessive drinking, the spleen loses its health and fluids cannot be distributed normally, resulting in internal stasis of dampness and turbidity, which is called endogenous dampness.

Exogenous dampness is closely related to the season and living environment. It often manifests as heavy pain in the head and body, pain that often stays in one place, sleepiness and weakness in the limbs, and unfavorable pain in joint flexion and extension.

To prevent external dampness, pay attention to keeping the living environment dry, clean and ventilated, avoid wading in water, and participate in regular physical exercises to increase the dispersion of sweat.

Those with superficial rheumatism, heavy headaches, and general pain can be treated with medications. Commonly used prescriptions include Qianghuoshengshi Decoction, Maxing Yigan Decoction, etc.

“All dampness, swelling and fullness belong to the spleen.