Liu Fengbin, director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has a set of conditioning methods for the most common wet syndrome.
Dietary dampness can distinguish cold dampness from damp heat.
Professor Liu Fengbin believes that in order to get rid of dampness through diet, we must first make clear the types of dampness syndrome and carry out targeted conditioning.
There are two kinds of people with heavy humidity. One is cold and wet, both cold and wet. Second, damp heat, both damp heat.
Cold and wet, eat like this:
Such people usually like to eat cold food, such as drinking iced drinks and eating ice cream.
It is characterized by pale tongue and white tongue coating; Afraid of cold, eating cold food, easy to bloat and diarrhea after catching cold; Poor appetite, pale mouth, do not want to drink water; It is easy to get tired, and in severe cases, there will be edema, such as edema of hands and feet and edema of eyes.
When cooking soup and stir-frying, it is appropriate to add warm ginger slices, pepper, dried tangerine peel and Amomum villosum, which can play a bitter, warm and dry role. People with cold and damp constitution often have spleen and stomach deficiency, so some drugs for strengthening the spleen can be added appropriately, such as Poria cocos, Dioscorea opposita and Codonopsis pilosula.
Common cold-damp-dispelling soups include Radix Pseudostellariae, Poria, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, and pig bone soup.
20g of ginger, 0g of codonopsis pilosula10g, 6g of Amomum villosum and 5g of dried tangerine peel are decocted together.
It is not suitable for cold and humid people. Abrus cantoniensis, charcoal mother and Smilax glabra are cold, which will aggravate spleen and stomach deficiency. Spleen deficiency and poor transport of water and dampness aggravate endogenous dampness.
Hot and wet, eat like this:
This kind of people usually like to eat fried, barbecue and other foods.
It is characterized by bitter mouth, dry mouth, thick yellow tongue coating, drowsiness and fatigue, general feeling of drowsiness, excessive secretion of throat, unsmooth and sticky stool, and mental irritability.
Dampness and heat can also be subdivided into three categories: dampness is heavier than heat, dry mouth is a little bit, taste is slightly bitter, and tongue coating is greasy but not yellow; Pay equal attention to damp and heat, dry mouth and bitter taste are more serious, and the tongue coating is yellow and thick; Heat is heavier than dampness, especially dry mouth, red tongue and yellow fur, and dry stool.
Suitable ingredients, if wet is heavier than hot, and the internal heat is not serious, can be cooked with cool Smilax glabra and coix seed. If wet is heavier than hot, it can be cooked with cold wormwood, dandelion and abrus cantonensis.
Common hot soup for eliminating dampness includes Smilax glabra, Radix Puerariae, Fructus Benincasae, pig bone soup, Coicis Semen, white lentil chicken feet soup, Kapok Coicis Semen soup, Mianyinchen crucian carp soup, etc.
"Hot and humid herbs are mostly cold, and sometimes the human body may not accept it. You can add some dried tangerine peel appropriately. Chinese medicine calls it' the medicine for regulating menstruation'. " Professor Liu Fengbin said.
30g of dandelion, 30g of wormwood, 30g of charcoal mother and 30g of perilla leaf are decocted together.
If you can't tell cold from heat, eat like this:
It is advisable to make soup and porridge with mild dampness-removing drugs, such as Euryale ferox, Poria cocos, lentils and yam.
Prescription Shen Si Soup: Poria cocos, yam, lotus seeds and Euryale euryales, each 20g, are cooked together.
Professor Liu Fengbin reminded: "Generally speaking, any prescription for eliminating dampness can be supplemented with some fragrant medicinal materials, such as perilla leaf, Pogostemon cablin, Eupatorium odoratum and Amomum villosum."
"It seems that the clothes are soaked. Baking with fire and heating are always dry. When the wind blows, it dries up. Aromatherapy and dehumidification medicine is equivalent to wind blowing. "
Exercise to remove dampness
Slight sweating is appropriate.
Exercise helps to stimulate the yang of the human body. Yang is sufficient, the function of spleen and stomach transport and transformation is enhanced, and the stagnation of water and dampness in the body is reduced. At the same time, exercise and perspiration also help to eliminate moisture.
Professor Liu Fengbin suggested that moderate and low-intensity exercise such as jogging, walking, and practicing the golden eight-position should be chosen to turn exercise into dampness.
The time and intensity of exercise should be consciously sweating slightly. It is not advisable to exercise until sweating profusely, sweating too much, and not drying or changing clothes in time, which will also lead to the invasion of damp evil or the invasion of wind evil and catch a cold.
It is not recommended to exercise at night or in the early morning. The fog is heavy during these periods, so it is easy to get rid of dampness, but it will lead to external dampness.
Medicinal bath and moxibustion
Stimulate spleen yang and help dehumidify.
Besides diet and exercise, medicated bath and moxibustion also have the function of eliminating dampness.
Damp-removing medicated bath formula: decoct Eupatorium odoratum, Herba Agastaches and Folium Artemisiae Argyi, and add the decoction to bath water. Eupatorium odoratum and Pogostemon cablin have the effect of aromatic dampness, while Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the effect of dispelling cold and dampness.
Because the body's water and moisture metabolism mainly depends on the spleen and stomach, the moxibustion part should also follow the spleen and stomach. We can focus on several key points on the spleen meridian, such as Zusanli, Shenque (navel), Sanyinjiao, Yinlingquan and Shangqiu.
(Lingnan Chinese Medicine Culture)