In summer, many people like to drink iced water and eat iced watermelons, and they blow cold air conditioners every day, so the body's moisture is generally heavy. If the moisture is heavy, it will hurt our spleen and stomach digestive function, affect our appetite, and easily lead to loss of appetite, indigestion, or diarrhea and edema.
Now it's summer, and it's a good time to get rid of dampness. Now that it's clear that humidity has so much harm to our bodies, what should we do to help get rid of dampness in our bodies? Let's take a look at it next.
1. Soak feet
Soaking feet is a very good method to eliminate dampness, which can promote the blood circulation of the body and achieve the purpose of eliminating dampness. Usually, you can use ginger to soak your feet, because ginger is hot and has the effect of eliminating dampness and warming your body. It's best to wash your feet before soaking them, and sweat after soaking your feet. Just wipe them off with a towel instead of taking a shower.
Foot bath is a traditional Chinese method of keeping in good health, and a good foot bath bucket is the most important thing. This foot bath bucket of Centennial Ling is made of all solid wood by hand. The bucket is highly suitable for the health needs of human feet, which can better care for the acupoints of feet, reduce the pressure on ankles and relieve fatigue. It can be soaked all year round. Now it is used to soak feet in summer, and the effect of eliminating dampness is better ~
Step 2 eat wax gourd
Winter melon is a very common food in life. Cooking soup with winter melon in summer is not only delicious, but also healthy. Drinking winter melon soup in summer can not only dispel dampness, but also induce diuresis and eliminate edema. It's hot in summer, so it's good for your health to drink more soup, and the winter melon soup tastes light and refreshing. Start drinking winter melon soup today.
If you are too busy to make winter melon soup on weekdays, it is also a good choice to replace soup with tea. For wax gourd lotus leaf tea, most people are well aware of its weight loss effect. This tea contains wax gourd, lotus leaf, dried tangerine peel, cassia seed and other Chinese herbal medicines. Drinking it can not only get rid of dampness, but also relieve other problems of our bodies.
Step 3 eat red beans and barley
Red beans and barley are coarse grains and rich in dietary fiber. Everyone knows that red beans and barley can eliminate dampness. In fact, they can not only eliminate dampness, but also strengthen the spleen. It is also delicious to cook porridge with red beans and barley in summer. It is recommended not to add rice.
Boiled red bean glutinous rice porridge is delicious, but for the majority of office workers, this red bean glutinous rice poria tea is more suitable. In this tea, there are red beans and glutinous rice, as well as poria cocos. The effect of eliminating dampness is better, and this tea comes with a tea bag, which can be brewed directly with boiling water. It can be drunk in a few minutes, which is much more convenient than cooking at home. Well, today's small health class is over. Have you all learned about getting rid of dampness in summer?