With regard to dampness, Chinese medicine has a saying that "a thousand cold is easy to go, and a dampness is difficult to get rid of".
There is also a saying in Chinese medicine called eliminating dampness ~ "Dampness is like oil on the surface". Family members can imagine how difficult it is to get the oil out when it is mixed with flour.
The concept of eliminating dampness really caught fire four or five years ago. We didn't know how to get rid of dampness earlier. China people talk about losing weight.
Not everyone will be obese, but everyone has moisture, so merchants and health experts jointly created the concept of eliminating moisture, and at the same time created the fairy water that everyone chased-red bean glutinous rice soup.
The combination of red beans and barley became popular overnight.
The circle of friends made a small survey and grabbed a random person to ask, do you know the concept of wet? Answer: Yes. Ask again: Do you know how to get rid of dampness? Answer: red beans and barley.
Another man came out and asked, do you know red beans and barley? Answer: yes, it is dampness.
Yes, eliminating dampness has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Eliminating dampness equals eliminating dampness, and eliminating dampness equals eliminating dampness.
Sadly, however, the red bean coix seed did not remove the moisture of China people, but made the moisture of China people heavier and heavier, and their health became worse and worse. Red beans and barley enrich the pockets of merchants and harm you, but you don't know it.
A friend, at first, used red beans and barley to get rid of dampness, which was really effective. After a few days, her stool became refreshing, and she couldn't help secretly enjoying herself. Finally, she found the dampness-removing artifact. However, to her dismay, ten days later, her stool returned to yesterday's appearance.
But she insisted that her choice was correct, but she didn't have enough time and strength, so she increased the amount of red beans and barley and drank tea every day. Ten days later, she went to the toilet more often and began to poop. I used to have sticky stools and used to go to the toilet once a day. Now I have loose stools and need to go to the toilet two or three times a day.
She didn't think so. She thought it was the result of her wet body. After using it for more than 20 days, my appetite suddenly began to drop and my stomach began to feel uncomfortable. I can't eat cold food. When I eat raw and cold food, it is easy to block up, and it is easy to have abdominal distension or even stomach pain. I used to eat two bananas, but now I can't stand eating one.
She continued to use red beans and barley to get rid of dampness, and worse things happened. She drank a bowl of red bean and barley soup before menstruation, and even had dysmenorrhea.
Finally, she couldn't figure it out. Why didn't she get rid of the moisture after drinking the red bean and barley soup for two months? Instead, I feel weaker and weaker? It turns out that her body is not suitable for red beans and barley at all.
Why is this happening?
To solve the mystery for you, red bean coix seed is not suitable for everyone. Red bean coix seed is mainly used in damp heat constitution. Even if you are damp heat constitution, you can only take it for a short time.
Red beans are good, flat and flat, and there will be no problem. The problem is barley! Coix seed is a cold thing, which has been used by doctors in past dynasties to treat diseases. Coix seed has a very strong tonic effect, but also has a strong role in breaking blood and qi. Pregnant women and women should never use it when they come to the next month! Although red beans are flat, they are also beneficial. Red beans and barley are both beneficial things. People who are cold and wet will aggravate their colds and make their illness worse. People with qi deficiency will be more qi-deficient, and in severe cases there will be a feeling of collapse. Eating red beans and barley for a long time will first hurt your yang, and finally excessive use of water will hurt your yin.
But merchants will never tell you that red bean barley soup can only be drunk by people who are hot and humid, and they will never tell you that drinking red bean barley soup for a long time will greatly hurt your yang and spleen and stomach, because it will lose two-thirds of the market.
Therefore, before eliminating dampness, we must first understand one thing, that is, to judge whether we are wet or cold.
The most intuitive and reliable distinction is to learn to read the tongue.
Be careful not to read your tongue after meals, after drinking wine or drinks, or at night under fluorescent lights.
What is a hot and humid tongue like? Hot and humid tongue is red in color and yellow and thick in coating.
What is a cold wet tongue like? The tongue is fat and has teeth marks, like the edge of a skirt. The tongue is white, the tongue coating is white and thick, and there is a layer of water vapor on some tongue coatings.
Secondly, it can be distinguished from defecation.
People in damp heat constitution will turn yellow when urinating, and the smell is very heavy; People with cold and wet constitution have no taste when urinating.
It can also be distinguished from stool.
Both cold dampness and damp heat can lead to diarrhea. Diarrhea caused by damp heat is acute and fierce. The so-called gambling is urgent before heavy. There is a burning sensation in the anus after going to the toilet, and the stool is very hot. Diarrhea caused by cold and dampness is slow and the anus is not hot. Eating cold and greasy food is not good for your stomach, and you have to go to the toilet several times a day. Every time is a little bit, shapeless, very thin, Chinese medicine is called loose stool.
If the gas is smelly and hot when exhausting, it means damp and hot.
It can also be distinguished from body odor.
Damp heat constitution has a heavy body odor, such as body odor, underarm odor and foot odor. Even taking a bath several times a day can't stop his heavy taste. Westerners are typical of damp heat constitution, and their body smells really pleasing. People with cold and wet constitution don't sweat very much and basically have no smell.
If you are a girl, you can also observe your leucorrhea carefully. Multicolor yellow leucorrhea is a hot and humid bet, while leucorrhea with less clear water is a cold and wet bet.
Finally, it can be distinguished from the feeling of self.
The difference between cold dampness and damp heat lies in one word, cold heat. Cold-dampness, cold-dampness, focuses on cold, dampness is yin evil, cold is also yin evil, and cold-dampness adds yin to yin. Therefore, people who are cold and wet must have yang deficiency, yin flourishes and yang declines, are afraid of cold, blow their hair and eat cold things. The internal resistance of cold and dampness will hinder the circulation of qi and blood, lead to blood stasis in meridians, and will hurt, so people with cold and dampness constitution will feel pain all over.
Hot and humid, the focus is on heat, because it is wet, so it can't be transported. Because of the heat, eating nourishing and greasy things will cause excessive internal heat, bad breath, aphtha, acne and so on.
It can also be distinguished from gender and personality.
Generally speaking, men who like to drink and eat meat belong to damp heat constitution, while women who like to drink milk and eat fruit belong to cold and wet constitution, with generally hot and humid personality and quiet and gentle personality.
Of course, many people still can't tell whether it is cold or wet, and whether it is cold or wet. They are basically cold and humid. Generally speaking, nine times out of ten women are cold and wet, and some areas are hot and humid, but they are still cold and wet at all, so we must adjust from cold and wet. There are still many women who are hot and cold, which is essentially cold and wet. Remember that as long as the lower body is cold, it must be conditioned according to cold and dampness.
Therefore, most people, especially women, are not suitable for drinking red beans and barley water.
No matter whether it is cold or wet, we should remember a secret of conditioning, that is, get rid of dampness first, and don't care about cold or heat first. Without dampness, cold and heat have nothing to depend on.
So, what's with the humidity? How to get rid of dampness?
To understand this truth, we must first know how the water in nature is formed. There is a saying in Circular Motion Ancient Chinese Medicine: Fire is angry under water, but it is wet on water.
How to understand this sentence?
Let's observe the problem of boiling water. When the fire burns below, the water will gradually heat up. At this time, you will see some small bubbles surface, which is the "Qi" at work. The direction of qi is from places with high energy to places with low energy. This is the characteristic of "Qi".
Let's look at the second sentence: fire is wet than water. In fact, everyone understands this truth. For example, in the long summer, the sun in the sky is full of heat energy and there is a lot of water on the ground. Heat evaporates water into steam, and steam becomes water in the air.
Therefore, after understanding this truth, let's look at the problem of "how wet the south is and how wet it is in the long summer".
Because the south is near the equator, it receives more heat from the sun than the north, that is, this "fire" is more. In addition, there is much water in the south. In this way, in the south where there is much fire and water, there is naturally more water than in the north.
Why is it so humid in long summer? The same is true, because the fire is very strong in the long summer and the water comes out of the ground. When fire is added to water, it will produce moisture.
So what are the zang-fu organs related to heavy moisture?
First, it is related to the spleen. Many friends know that people with spleen deficiency are prone to heavy moisture. Then let's think about it again. Why do people with spleen deficiency have heavy moisture? In fact, the lack of spleen soil can be understood as our poor soil bearing capacity. As you can imagine, if the soil is not enough to keep water, just like a flood, we can't use soil to defend it, and this water will flood. Therefore, people with spleen deficiency will have a lot of water in their bodies.
Second, it has something to do with the lungs. The lung governs the fur, and the moisture in our body can be dissipated by sweating through the pores of the skin. However, many of us in modern times don't sweat all the year round. If you don't sweat all the year round, you can consider it. Where should you get rid of this wet skin? Then think again, why not sweat? Because we modern people are in air-conditioned rooms all the year round, the skin surface is cold all the year round, so we close our pores to keep out the cold.
Third, it is related to the kidneys. The kidney has the function of discharging waste water. If the kidney's ability to discharge waste water is weakened, the water cannot be discharged from the lower orifice. In addition, if the kidney is hidden, and the kidney loses its sealing ability, it is equivalent to the seepage of groundwater, which will also lead to an increase in water wetness in the body.
Fourth, it is also related to the liver. The liver is responsible for discharging blood. If the ability of the liver to expel blood is weakened, then the running state of the ventilator in the body is abnormal, and it is easy to store moisture. Just like smog weather, it is easy to hide moisture and not easy to disperse.
In addition to these viscera, it is also closely related to the triple energizer. Sanjiao is the oil net in our body, which is the channel of water-liquid metabolism. If this oil net is blocked, there will be obstacles to water-liquid metabolism.
According to Chinese medicine, it is wet and sticky, sticking to the body like gummy candy, which is difficult to handle and takes a long time to dissolve. Therefore, eliminating dampness can not be solved by drinking one or two cups of dampness-eliminating soup and doing exercise occasionally. It takes time and time.
Here I summed up five points to eliminate dampness: less intake, publicity, unobstructed, infiltration and gasification. Let's explain:
1. Eat less ~ eat moderately.
Spleen and stomach are the places where we are most likely to "commit crimes", so to get rid of dampness, we must raise the spleen and stomach.
The spleen and stomach are like a cooking machine. Adding too many dishes at once is easy to move. Especially in summer, the yang is walking on the body surface, the spleen and stomach are deficient in cold, and their own motivation is insufficient. If you are greasy or eat too much, it will hinder the transportation of the spleen and stomach. This is the most common cause of humidity.
Li Yu said in "Send with Feeling": "Hunger and drinking should not exceed seven points", and it is best to eat seven points. To prevent dampness in summer, you must not be too greedy, too cold or too heavy.
1 Summer diet, mainly porridge, the most spleen and stomach.
Li Shizhen once said, "If you eat a big bowl of porridge every day, your empty stomach will be weak and your stomach will be full of energy. The tonic is not detailed, but also very soft and greasy, which fits your stomach. This is the most wonderful diet. "
Hot summer is not suitable for nourishing, and it is most suitable for nourishing when it is clear and porridge is light. Porridge can also nourish yin fluid, promote the growth of gastric juice, strengthen spleen and stomach. In hot summer, sweating consumes a lot, and a bowl of porridge can replenish blood and refresh.
Rice porridge is easy to digest and suitable for most people. Millet porridge supplements some, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are more comfortable to drink millet porridge. You can also spend some time in porridge, adding some peaceful ingredients such as yam, oats, peanuts, corn and pumpkin.
2 drink water and follow the principle of not being thirsty or drinking.
Drinking water does not mean that experts say that drinking 8 glasses of water a day will pour it into your stomach. If there is too much water, the spleen and stomach will not be transported, and it will become moisture. It is better to listen to the voice of your body, feel thirsty, and slowly take a few sips to moisten it.
2. Xuan Shang ~ Kai Xuan lung qi, so that moisture is discharged from the body surface.
Heart fire can block lung gold, and heart fire is strong in summer, which is easy to suppress the declaration of lung. The lung plays an important role in transporting body fluids. If the lung is inhibited, the water may stagnate halfway, thus accumulating and forming moisture. It is easy to get hair oil, face oil, acne, cough and phlegm.
In summer, you can add some spicy ingredients to three meals to spread lung qi, which has the effect of sweating. It can not only take away moisture from muscle and skin through sweating, but also help the human body to dissipate heat.
Temperance: such as onion, ginger, garlic, perilla, pepper, pepper, pepper, aniseed, etc.
Spicy and cool: such as mulberry leaves, mint, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, lotus leaves, etc.
According to your own physique or current needs, you can add a little to your daily porridge. For example, if you eat too many cool fruits today, you can have a bowl of ginger porridge; Today, when I go out in summer, I want a bowl of mint porridge.
3. Clean up the spleen and stomach food in time, and turn dampness into turbidity.
Spleen and stomach are like vans. Hot and humid phlegm accumulated all the year round or brought by food, like overloaded goods, increases the resistance to progress.
If you accidentally eat too much and get tired of eating, you can use some mild and digestible ingredients, such as raw malt and chicken's gizzard-membrane, to clean up the food accumulated in the spleen and stomach, so as to make the spleen and stomach transport more smoothly.
You can fry them brown and use them to cook porridge, or just soak them in water.
You can also cook porridge with dried tangerine peel. Dried tangerine peel can dredge middle energizer, on the one hand, it can help digestion, on the other hand, it can help eliminate phlegm and dampness, and it can also regulate the internal qi movement caused by eating disorders.
4. Infiltration ~ mild infiltration diuresis, there is also an important discharge path for moisture, that is, urination.
Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that lightness can promote diuresis. In daily life, we can use some sweet and light ingredients, such as wax gourd, poria cocos, loofah, corn stigma, etc., to help dry the lower coke and expel moisture through urine. Especially people who often feel edema of lower limbs, less urine and turbid urine.
There are many diuretic ingredients, especially in summer, many fresh watery wild vegetables can diuretic and eliminate dampness, such as plantain, purslane and houttuynia cordata. Usually it can be used to cook porridge and soup.
If you feel damp and hot in your body, you can choose Plantago asiatica, Portulaca oleracea and Houttuynia cordata, all of which can clear away heat and promote diuresis, clear away damp and heat in your bladder, and also eliminate moisture accumulation in your spleen and stomach.
If you feel cold, you can choose chrysanthemum or fennel. Chrysanthemum morifolium can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, resolve phlegm and promote diuresis. It can help fire, warm coke and evaporate moisture. Fennel, pepper and other warm, but also drive the lower coke cold and wet.
People who can't tell damp heat from cold and dampness can drink it with corn beard boiled water, which can help reduce swelling, clear dampness and turbidity, and is suitable for the whole family to drink.
Adjusting gasification
Small kidney yang, increase heat energy to the body.
The process of transporting food by the spleen can be regarded as the process of "one pot cooking", and the spleen is the pot. Cooking requires not only a pot, but also a fire. This fire is kidney yang.
But in summer, many people cannot do without air conditioning and cold drinks. Cold evil hurts the kidney, and staying up late is a thing. Kidney yang is mostly deficiency, and the water in the body does not have enough kidney yang gasification, so it becomes wet.
So stay in the air-conditioned room and drink cold drinks in summer, and also add some calories to your body.
Pepper, pepper and ginger in the kitchen can be humidified, especially when cooking some cold dishes, you can do more collocation to neutralize the properties of food. If you want to stew meat, you can put cinnamon and star anise. The principle is the same.
In addition, raw ginger jujube tea is the best tea to increase heat energy in summer. Drinking a bowl in the morning can promote yang and help our body circulation, and those so-called wet and garbage can be easily metabolized.
The method is also simple: 6 pieces of jujube and 6 pieces of ginger are put into a pot with cold water and boiled for 20 minutes. The dates here are cooked for a long time and taste sweet. You can add some according to your own taste without brown sugar.
The ingredients mentioned here are all from kitchens and vegetable markets. They may be extraordinary, but they care about us silently in every meal.
If we can integrate these five points into our three meals and make good use of these ingredients, water has absolutely no place.
The moisture in our living environment cannot be ignored. Especially in summer, the air is hot and humid, the skin is open, and moisture easily enters the body.
The ancients often burned moxa or put it at home to ward off evil spirits. This evil includes some snakes, insects, rats and ants, some diseases, and some dampness and miasma.
The air conditioning temperature should be controlled above 26 degrees.
Summer is a season of sweating, and the water in the body can also be excreted through sweating. If the air conditioner is turned on too low, the skin will be closed, and the sweat discharged from the body will not be discharged. If it is closed in the body, it will become wet.
Therefore, even if the air conditioner is turned on, it should be controlled above 26 degrees, so that you can sweat a little and it will not be too hot.
Neijing said that there must be a reason for "insatiable greed for the sun" and "if the things you love are outside", and summer gave the scorching sun.
We should not be afraid of the sun. Going outdoors, discovering the beautiful things in nature, absorbing the yang of nature and making yourself move is also a process of stimulating the yang of the body. Getting more sunshine and sweating freely is definitely a good way to get rid of dampness ~
If you don't have time to go to work during the day, get up early in the morning and take a walk in the nearby tree-lined flowers, or walk a short distance and then go to work by car.
Compared with the humidity of the big environment, the harm of the humidity of the small environment to people is more hidden. For example, wet clothes after exercise, wet clothes and shoes after rain were not changed in time. At this time, dampness can easily invade the body unconsciously.
Therefore, after summer exercise, or accidentally caught in the rain, you should put on dry clothes and shoes in time, don't wait for it to dry naturally, and don't put it under air conditioning to dry.
In addition, in the air-conditioned room in summer, prepare some shawls and blankets to cover the neck, navel and ankles where evil spirits are most likely to invade. Girls had better not wear navel-revealing clothes and shorts.
Finally, we do moxibustion, and moxibustion can definitely not get rid of dampness [chuckle]
Dazhui, Zhiyang, Shenque, Zusanli, Yinlingquan and Fenglong are all dampness-removing points, which can be paired with moxibustion at ordinary times!
Eliminating dampness is not a simple thing, but also a simple thing. If we can grasp these ideas of eliminating dampness and preventing dampness, and penetrate into every bit of life, summer will definitely become fresh and pleasant in one meal. [love]