Physical symptoms: obesity, easy to sweat, and frequent oily face.
Personality: Generally speaking, I am gentle and don't like conflicts with others.
Susceptible diseases: Susceptible diseases include diabetes, coronary heart disease and metabolic syndrome.
Perhaps, in the eyes of many people, broad-minded people are fatter and cuter. As everyone knows, such people are likely to have phlegm-dampness constitution. Most people with phlegm-dampness constitution are obese. They all have a fat and soft belly, gentle and humble, and are typical good people. In addition to the above characteristics, people with phlegm-dampness constitution often have oil on their faces, and blisters are always edema; They sweat easily, and the sweat they shed is often sticky; They also suffer from drowsiness, and often feel sleepy, chest tightness and excessive phlegm.
In fact, compared with other partial constitutions, people with phlegm-dampness constitution are very easy to identify. In real life, people with this constitution are also more common. Generally speaking, they all have the following three remarkable characteristics.
Obesity Perhaps, many people envy those rich people, and there is always endless food. Although the potbellied figure is not very beautiful, it is worthwhile to enjoy such a superior life. Here, people who have this idea should be advised not to envy others blindly, because this symbol of wealth is unhealthy, even unhealthy. Chinese medicine believes that most fat people are phlegm-damp, because the extra meat they have than others is the accumulated body fluid, which is called "phlegm".
Rich people tend to get fat because of unbalanced diet and insufficient nutrition.
In real life, we ordinary people usually only eat whole grains, which can promote the normal operation of the viscera function of the body, so our bodies are relatively healthy. Rich people, on the other hand, often socialize and eat greasy food such as delicacies. Most of these foods are difficult to digest, and it is easy to make the body in a state of overnutrition. Over time, it will cause malnutrition, indigestion and other symptoms, so that the body's digestion and absorption capacity and water transport capacity decreased.
Sleepiness In real life, it is not difficult to find someone who can "sit without standing, lie without sitting". Not only that, they are sleepy. They sleep at home as long as they have a rest, even if it is not a rest day, they have to sleep a few hours more than others. Many people think they are too lazy, but they don't want to be. It's just that there is something wrong with their bodies and they can't wake up like normal people. This kind of lethargy is also a significant symptom of people with phlegm-dampness constitution.
Why does this symptom appear? Most of them are caused by improper diet, such as eating too much greasy and indigestible food, or eating spicy and stimulating food and sweets. Over time, it will cause indigestion, lead to spleen deficiency, make water lose transport, produce wet phlegm, and form phlegm-dampness constitution. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen governs thinking, and our mental and thinking activities must be completed by the healthy operation of temper. If our temper doesn't run smoothly, we will be sleepy because of listlessness.
People often say "eat well and work hard", which is actually the truth. Spleen is a multifunctional organ in human body, which has the responsibility of transporting nutrition. In other words, the spleen's bad temper will inevitably weaken its transport function. Therefore, the human body can not fully absorb the essence of food, that is, our body will be weak, sleepy, distracted, and always want to sleep.
Thus, sleepiness is also one of the characteristics of phlegm-dampness constitution.
Greasy here means greasy, not only because we think that the face is easy to get oily, but also because many parts of the body give people this feeling, including greasy face. For people with phlegm-dampness constitution, the main problem is low digestive ability. Those foods that can't be digested either cause frequent defecation through the body, or form edema or puffiness, or excrete through the skin, resulting in greasy face and giving people a feeling.
When indigestion is severe, this greasy feeling will not only affect the facial skin, but also make people with phlegm-dampness constitution greasy, such as oily hair. If you don't wash your hair in time, put it on your forehead one by one. Except for just washing your hair and drying it with a hair dryer, the rest of the time is generally not clean and refreshing. Sometimes, they also feel that their mouths are often "greasy", they seldom feel thirsty and don't drink much water.
If you suffer from the above three diseases and can't be cured for a long time, you might as well start with phlegm-dampness constitution and improve your constitution from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, and there may be unexpected gains.
Tips for people with phlegm-dampness constitution, they are very good-natured, not only mild-tempered, but also open-minded and very patient, which is very different from other people with partial constitution. Because of this, people with phlegm-dampness constitution do not need to adjust their constitution through psychological aspects, but should pay attention to the aftercare of diet to improve their constitution.