1. Eat more foods that induce sweating and promote diuresis

Eat more foods that induce sweating and promote diuresis, such as red beans, mung beans, barley, winter melon, watermelon, ginger, green tea, etc. Remove moisture and promote metabolism in the body. You can also drink ginger and brown sugar water, red bean and mung bean barley soup, coriander and loofah soup, green corn silk soup, green tea scented tea, etc. to achieve the purpose of diet therapy and removing dampness.

2. Exercise more

The best way to prevent and remove dampness is "micro-movement", which means to move the limbs slightly to slowly release the Yang Qi in the body. Recovery, the moisture gradually dissipates. Do not sweat profusely during strenuous exercise. In this way, the qi will be released with sweat, and the qi will be injured, and the metabolism of water and moisture will be affected. Although part of the water and moisture will dissipate with sweat, the internal dampness will come out again, and the moisture will not be removed in the end.

3. Press the Chengshan Point

When you get up every morning, stretch your legs out of the bed and let the Chengshan Point (slightly apply force to lift your toes and the muscles on the back of the calf) The floating tail end is the Chengshan point. Place it on the edge of the bed and swing your legs left and right to massage the Chengshan point. There will be obvious soreness and pain when pressing the Chengshan point. This is because there is moisture in the body. After pressing and rubbing the Chengshan point for a period of time, you will feel a slight fever on the body. This is the Yang Qi on the bladder meridian at work. The dampness evil is escaping outwards with the slightly rising body temperature.

4. Soak your feet in warm water

In the dog days of summer, people usually take baths every day, but few people take foot baths. In fact, the hotter the weather and the heavier the dampness, the more necessary it is to soak your feet. Soaking your feet in warm water can stimulate the many meridians of the feet, thereby strengthening the spleen, dehumidifying, stimulating menstruation, and diluting water. Soaking your feet in 40℃ warm water before going to bed can also improve sleep quality.

5. Drink more ginger tea

As the saying goes: "Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer." Ginger has the effect of warming and removing dampness. In summer, you can eat more ginger to replenish your body. Yang Qi. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has various effects such as dispersing cold and sweating, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, soothing the stomach, and relieving vomiting. Drinking ginger tea is a simple and easy method of removing dampness and health care, and the dog days of summer are the most suitable time to drink ginger tea.

6. Gua Sha to prevent heatstroke

During the dog days of summer, the humidity is heavy, and it is easy to suffer from nausea, dizziness and other symptoms. Gua Sha can be used as a method. Specifically, use a scraper or alcohol-sterilized gauze to scrape up and down both sides of the back, ribs, or forehead. If a purple-dark color appears, you can also apply cooling oil. Or take Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills (water), drink more mung bean soup, lotus leaves, and Huoxiang instead of tea. If you sweat a lot, add light salt water in time.