Dampness is the nemesis of modern health, and is the source or accomplice of the vast majority of difficult and chronic diseases. As long as there is less dampness, all the so-called modern diseases will be far away from us, and all the nasty and chronic diseases will lose their reliance on existence. How to deal with dampness and get rid of it?
1, drink Job's tears and red bean porridge (made with soy milk machine):
Barley, in traditional Chinese medicine, called "Job's tears", "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" classified as a top quality, which can cure dampness and paralysis, benefit the intestines and stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, long service light body and benefit the qi.
The red bean is red, red into the heart, so it can also tonic heart blood, ancient records it "long service people thin", that is to say, often eat red bean and weight loss effect. There are also obvious effects of water, swelling, spleen and stomach. Modern people mental stress, heart qi deficiency; dietary disorders, less exercise, spleen deficiency dampness. Both to go wet, but also to complement the heart, but also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, non-barley and red beans. Will be boiled into a porridge, intended to make its active ingredients fully absorbed by the body, while not to the spleen and stomach to cause much burden. The summer is just the time of the summer, internal and external wet, with these two medicines can play a role in nourishing blood, dispel dampness.
The role of Job's tears and red beans in reducing swelling is also interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Around ten inside at least five or six body fat, which is also swelling, called the body bloated. In the view of Chinese medicine, obesity or, edema or, means that the body has wet, water can not flow with the blood, stagnation in the body between cells, so that the body quickly expand. Edema is so, obesity is so, only the degree of depth is only. Dampness is very strong medicine or food can get rid of these stagnant in the body of water, can also reduce swelling. Therefore, the treatment of edema must be used azuki beans, and practice has proved that Job's tears azuki bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, can lose weight, but does not hurt the body. Especially for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is especially good.
Often people are smart: "I boiled barley and red bean porridge, added a small handful of rice, the results of the porridge on the thickening, the taste that is called a beautiful ah!"
I said, "Never add rice to it!" Why? Because rice grows in the water, contains moisture, wetness sticky, so, the rice will thicken once boiled. Adzuki beans and Job's tears both remove dampness and do not contain dampness themselves, so how they simmer is not thick, the soup is very clear. Chinese medicine is precisely the use of this clear nature, to get rid of the body's moisture. Once you add in rice, you are adding in moisture, so the whole porridge is thickened. Although the flavor is better, but for health is not good, just because of that a handful of rice, all the red beans, barley is wasted, the effect of all.
Is not everyone can drink barley and red bean soup, there are contraindications? In fact, this soup is a good health, there are no side effects, but for different people, it can be appropriate to do some additions and subtractions.
Some people have a cold constitution, which can add a little warm food, like cinnamon, jujube can be; some people have insomnia, the body also has a feeling of obvious dampness, then add some lotus seeds, lily; if female friends menstrual cramps, you can remove the barley, simmering a little red bean soup, plus some ginger, jujubes, brown sugar, drink to warm the abdomen, but also to ease the pain. Joint pain, add some raw white peony, raw licorice, acid and sweet Yin nourishing blood to remove paralysis.
Weekday thoughts hurt, overworked and less exercise people, often the face is not blood, the spirit is not enough, and even palpitations, sleepy, feel the head heavy as a package, the heart of the emptiness. This is the body has wet plus heart qi insufficient performance, you can barley red bean soup with some cinnamon with cooking. Cinnamon sweet and warm, can open the stomach and spleen, tranquilize the blood, can invigorate the heart yang, warm heart gas, make people full of energy, full of gas. Moreover, the taste of simple Job's Tears and Red Soy Bean Soup is very general, after adding cinnamon, it becomes sweet, lightly sweet, it not only dispels the dampness in our body, but also brings vitality and warmth to our heart. Let's call it Job's Tears, Red Beans and Cinnamon Porridge, it's especially suitable for strong laborers, and it's also very suitable for middle-aged and old people.
Young people are prone to irritability and insomnia, or face rashes, pimples, this is the upper heart and lungs of the heart and lungs of fire, dampness and heat caused by the internal disturbance, with barley and red bean soup to wash the face has a miraculous effect, or in the barley and red bean soup with the addition of lily and lotus seeds with cooking and drinking. Lily can moisturize the lungs, nourish the face, and can clear the heart fire, peace of mind. Lotus seed is best for nourishing the heart and clearing heart fire, while strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidneys. Of course, if you feel that the soup does not have much flavor, you can also add some rock sugar.
If you have a cold and flu, or if you have cold in your body, cold pain in the stomach and poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to Job's Tears and Red Soybean Soup. Ginger is warm, can warm the cold, spleen and stomach. Note that ginger should not be put more than one, more than one will make the porridge become spicy. If you want to add some flavor in the soup, it is best to put brown sugar, brown sugar is warm. It should be noted that women postpartum maintenance, drink red bean barley soup to remove barley, you can add some jujube, jujube is very suitable for warming the middle, strengthening the spleen, nourishing blood.
People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans in barley and red bean soup. Because black into the kidney, the shape of the bean is also very similar to the kidney, the shape of the shape to complement the shape, is a good product to tonify the kidney.
Nowadays, people often talk about foot odor, is a typical damp heat injection. You can add some crushed soybeans to the barley and red bean soup, and soak your feet in the simmering soup, which is a small secret recipe for foot odor.
If the cough, you can also remove the skin and core of the raw pear cut into 1 to 2 cm square small pieces, add barley and red bean soup with cooking, you can moisturize the lungs, phlegm, cough.
Learn how to add and subtract changes in barley and red bean soup, and when used properly, it can play a very good therapeutic effect on most of the common diseases in life.
2, exercise sweating balance hormone dampness:
Exercise sweating is very good to go dampness; especially in the summer do not open the air conditioning, fans, the body inside the sweat must come out, otherwise your dampness is too heavy, to the winter will certainly get sick.
Adhering to a moderate amount of exercise every day is very beneficial to the body. Exercise can relieve stress, revitalize body organ functioning, and accelerate the discharge of moisture from the body.
Modern people have more brain power and less physical exertion, plus they stay in the air-conditioning for a long time and rarely sweat, so their body's ability to regulate humidity deteriorates. Try running, walking, swimming, yoga, tai chi, or any other exercise that is "a little sweaty" to help revitalize blood circulation and increase water metabolism.
3, with wormwood: drugstores sell it, light it and roast it at the Guanyuan point.
4, less salt, to help kidney drainage
5, proper nap
6, quit smoking and alcohol
7, eat three slices of ginger in the morning
8, diet light and moderate
Gastrointestinal system is a stakeholder in the metabolism of nutrients and water, the best way is to eat a moderate and balanced diet.
Wine, milk, fat, sweet, thick and greasy food is not easy to digest, easy to cause gastrointestinal congestion, inflammation. Sweets and fried products will cause the body to produce peroxides, aggravating the inflammatory response.
Chinese medicine believes that cold food, ice or cold fruits and vegetables, will make the stomach and intestines digestion and absorption function stagnation, not easy to eat unlimited. Such as lettuce salad, watermelon, cabbage, bitter melon, etc., it is best to add green onions and ginger when cooking, to reduce the cold nature of vegetables.
9, avoid the environment of the wet
Daily life is best to reduce exposure to the humid environment. Especially sensitive to moisture, people should pay attention to the following matters:
Don't sleep directly on the floor. The moisture in the air will drop and the floor will be heavy, making it easy to invade the body and cause aches and pains in the limbs. It's best to sleep on a bed that's a certain distance from the floor. It's a good idea to go out when it's humid and rainy.
Don't wear wet clothes, and take in the right amount of water
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