As the old saying goes: "A thousand colds are easy to get rid of, but a dampness is difficult to get rid of." Moisture seriously harms human health. And don’t underestimate the humidity and cold in winter! Since autumn and winter, the weather has turned cooler, which will cause dampness to stagnate in the body and easily accumulate moisture. Once winter begins, the moisture in the body is not discharged, and the moisture and cold air come together, causing various discomforts in the body! Moreover, heavy moisture in the body will also affect the effect of supplementation, and supplementation in winter is particularly important, as it will lay a good foundation for health in the next year. Therefore, it is particularly important for people with heavy moisture to remove moisture in winter!
Visually check how serious your moisture is? The more matches, the more severe the moisture in the body is!
Moisture is known as the root of all diseases. Among the "six evils" of wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire, Chinese medicine is most afraid of dampness. Wet is the easiest to penetrate. Shit evil never fights alone, but always colludes with other evil spirits. When dampness is together with cold, it is called damp-cold; when it is together with heat, it is called damp-heat; when it is together with wind, it is called rheumatism; when it is together with summer heat, it is called summer-dampness. If the dampness evil is not removed, the disease will be delayed and difficult to cure. When there is too much moisture in the human body, it will have a serious impact on people's health. If the dampness evil is not eliminated, no matter how many supplements and medicines you take, it will be like scratching the itch from a distant place. In life, many people suffer from fatty liver, asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even malignant tumors. In fact, these diseases are related to dampness and phlegm.
Three manifestations of moisture
Modern people live in an environment with heating in winter and air conditioning in summer, and their perception of the four seasons is becoming increasingly unclear. When you should sweat in the summer, the sweat cannot evaporate and accumulates in the body due to the use of air conditioners; in the winter, you burn the heater and still sweat while wearing single clothes. The yang energy is expelled and the essence cannot be hidden. (If the essence is not stored in winter, the disease will be warm in spring.) The human body is most likely to get sick in this environment. The function of opening and closing the skin is reduced, and the ability to resist disease is getting worse and worse. It is very easy to cause the accumulation of dampness in the body, causing Yang Qi is weak and weak. Damp evil is more harmful to the human body than cold evil.
In the hot summer season, people covet air conditioning, drink cold drinks, and eat cold dishes. A glass of cold beer will make you feel cool from the inside out, from head to toe. As everyone knows, in order to covet this momentary pleasure, the dampness evil has been buried deeply in the body, which has become a huge hidden danger to our health.
July and August are called Changxia every year. At this time, moisture is in season, and the spleen in the human body corresponds to it. Dampness is also called "yin evil" in Chinese medicine, and the spleen is the most yin organ. It likes dryness and hates dampness, so the spleen is at its strongest in July and August. If there is too much moisture in the long summer, it is easy to damage the spleen. At the same time, the spleen is responsible for transporting and transforming water. Its characteristic is that yang energy is easy to decline and yin energy is easy to increase. When dampness evil invades the human body, it is most likely to damage spleen yang, and the weakness of spleen yang further encourages the invasion of dampness evil.
Some people like to eat pork. The salty and cold taste of pork helps phlegm. Eating too much meat can also cause phlegm and dampness. If you feel that your body is damp and heavy, it is best to stick to a vegetarian diet for a period of time; long-term eating Rice cooked in a rice cooker can also easily cause body dampness.
How to self-diagnose whether there is dampness in the body
When you get up - look at your feelings when you get up every morning. If you feel particularly tired, dizzy, unable to cheer up, or like It feels like you are wearing wet clothes, your whole body is not fresh, and you are too lazy to move... then you must be wet inside.
When going to the toilet - observe 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 there is a question about stool on the consultation sheet), it also means that there is a problem in the body. 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 impurity. Over time, if the toxins produced by feces accumulate in the body, all kinds of diseases will arise.
When washing - looking at 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 there is cold in the body; if the tongue coating is rough or very thick, yellow and greasy, it means there is dampness and heat in the body; if the tongue is red and has no coating, it means the body has reached a certain level of heat. It's so hurtful.
In addition to the above three main points, there are two ways to judge:
First, look at whether it feels disgusting when you brush your teeth in the morning. Many people say that they vomit and feel nauseous as soon as they brush their teeth, and there is always a scratchy and unclean feeling in their throats. Even if they spit up, it is only a little.
Second, when you wake up in the morning, you feel that your calves are sore and heavy. These are also typical characteristics of dampness
Under normal circumstances, when there is excessive moisture in the body, it is necessary to remove the moisture in the body in a timely and reasonable manner. Many people choose the Qushi Granules of Yunnan Botanical Medicine Co., Ltd., which has a good effect in removing dampness. It is currently the only dehumidification product approved by the state as a national medicine. It is composed of five ingredients: Poria cocos, coix seed, rush, burnt hawthorn, and adzuki bean. The four ingredients in the formula are food. "Medicine and food come from the same source, and medicine and food have the same function." They can be taken for a long time to strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite. The combined use of various medicines can remove dampness and heat, strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite, and is used to treat symptoms such as weight loss, indigestion, loose stools, and yellowish and greasy tongue coating caused by dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when Yang moves, the Yang will rise, and when Yang moves, Qi and blood will move along with it, which is conducive to the transportation and transformation of water and dampness. Moreover, proper sweating during exercise can discharge a certain amount of moisture, reduce the water-dampness blockage in the body, thereby alleviating the symptoms of sore limbs and body weight. Therefore, people with dampness-induced sweating feel more relaxed after exercising.
Aerobic exercise is preferred for exercise, such as jogging, brisk walking, dancing, doing exercises, boxing or ball games. However, it is not recommended to perform more intensive equipment strength exercises to avoid consuming a large amount of blood oxygen in the human body and causing The accumulation of lactic acid in the body aggravates the symptoms of soreness in limbs and joints.