Every spring and summer, advertisements for various moisture removal products are overwhelming, as if to tell everyone: humidity is coming, everyone is in place, and the wet war is about to begin! As the saying goes, nine out of ten are wet. In the face of moisture, many people hate not being able to get rid of it quickly. But the distress is that what is this moisture, how can it not be removed? Slimy wet, why not go away?
The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says: "Dry to dry, summer to steam, wind to move, wet to moist, cold to firm, fire to warm ... Cold and heat six in, so make the void and biochemical also. ”
As one of the six qi, "wet" has an important role in maintaining the normal physiology of the human body, which can nourish the human body, and once it is missing, the person will become dry.
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However, if the humidity is too heavy, it will become a pathogenic factor, manifested in the body, it will curb the gas engine, and the gas machine will not be smooth, making people feel wrong.
Where does the moisture come from? Why is it always lingering?
In fact, there are 2 types of moisture -
1. External wetness, that is, wetness in the environment. For example, the southern region is generally humid throughout the year, and when returning to the southern day and the rainy day, it is even more humid and humid, at this time, the wet evil is easy to invade the human body from the outside, which is called the external feeling of wet evil. The outside is difficult to stop, what we can do is to close the doors and windows on wet days to avoid moisture entering the room; the clothes are not dried, do not put on the body, so as not to wet evil invasion.
2. Internal wetness, that is, the wetness produced by the human body. When the water and fluid transport in the body are impaired, it will make the wet evil endogenous. This is mainly related to the function of the spleen and stomach. If the spleen is weak, the "power" of the water is not as good as before, and the water will stagnate and accumulate in the body, resulting in the water being stopped and the wet evil endogenous. Wet or not wet, look at the tongue
It is often said that there is moisture, so how do I know if there is moisture in my body?
Recommend a trick for everyone: look at the tongue. Chinese medicine believes that the tongue image of normal people is "light red tongue, thin white moss", that is, the tongue body is flexible and soft, the color is reddish, and the size is moderate; the tongue moss is white, thin and thin, and the wetness is moderate.
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But if there is moisture in the body, there are 2 characteristics: fat and greasy. Fat: The tongue is fat, and tooth marks can be seen on the edges of both sides. This is mainly due to spleen deficiency, water moisture can not be transported, resulting in a large tongue, the edges of the teeth compressed. The main spleen is weak and wet. Greasy: The tongue is delicate and dense, it is difficult to remove when scraping or rubbing, and there is a layer of greasy mucus on the surface of the tongue, or it feels that the tongue surface is wet and slippery, and there is a sweet feeling in the mouth. The main wet turbidity connotation. If you have the above characteristics, it is time to get rid of the wetness.
What is a good way to get rid of dampness?
Recommend "2 acupuncture points" and "1 flavor medicine".
The body has 2 "wet mouths",
One to wet, one to drain
Yin Ling Quan Acupoint: Healthy Spleen Wet Extraction Point: Under the knee, along the inner bone of the calf, up, the depression when turning inward.
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Yin, water also. Mausoleums, mounds also. Springs, water spring caves also. Yinling Spring is the spleen meridian of the combined acupuncture, and the spleen has the function of transporting water wetness, in the clinic, Yinling Spring has the name of "the first point of the spleen and dampness", which can be used for various edema, jaundice, heart and chest fullness, and unfavorable urination.
Daily operations such as kneading and gua sha can stimulate the Yinling Spring Cave, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening the spleen and removing dampness.
(1) Press and knead for about 10 minutes a day. At the same time, it can be matched with the three points of rubbing foot three miles, Chengshan and Fenglong. Tips: When rubbing the above acupuncture points, there will be a significant feeling of soreness, and the soreness will be reduced after insisting on rubbing for a period of time, which is a sign that the wet evil is gradually dissipating.
(2) Gua Sha take the gua sha board (or smooth, blunt objects such as soup spoons, horn combbing, etc.), and apply gua sha oil (thick and lubricating liquid such as glycerin and emollient oil) on the Yinling Spring Cave. Then, the gua sha plate is placed at a 45-degree angle to the skin and the gua sha is performed. Note that the strength from light to heavy, to tolerate is appropriate, scrape until the skin is hot, red, it is recommended to do it once every other day, scraping for 2 to 3 minutes is appropriate. It can be matched with 3 acupuncture points of Scraping Blood Sea, Fenglong and Chengshan.
Middle acupuncture: unimpeded waterway acupuncture: posterior knee area, midpoint of the popliteal striation.
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Commission, pile up also. In the middle, the qi and blood in the finger point are located in the middle of the three parts of heaven and earth. The name of the acupuncture point means that the hot and humid steam of the bladder is gathered here. The bladder meridian is taken by the bladder meridian, and the bladder meridian is the largest damp discharge channel of the human body, and the bladder meridian is the sewage outlet of this channel, if it is not smooth here, the moisture cannot be discharged, which will lead to arthritis, low back pain and other diseases.
Specific operation: 5 to 10 minutes of continuous patting at the popliteal socket every week or every other week, there will be blue, red, purple, black and other similar sha reactions when gua sha. At the same time, the pole spring point of the armpit and the curved pool point of the elbow socket can enhance the dampness effect. There are many "damp medicines", doctors prefer these 1 kinds of acupuncture points to remove dampness, dietary therapy to remove dampness for many people like. Talking about wet ingredients, there are a lot of them: barley, white lentils, red beans... It is true that they all have the effect of dispelling dampness, but there is one ingredient that is favored by many Chinese medicine practitioners, that is, "Poria". There is a saying that "ten medicines and nine poria", which means that in the prescription prescribed by Chinese medicine, there will be poria in ten.
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Poria is medicinal and peaceful, which can both drive away evil spirits and correct them. This means that it is beneficial to water without hurting the righteous qi, and it is actually an essential medicine for water and swelling. What is rare and valuable is that whether it is cold, hot, virtual or empirical evidence, Poria can exert its unique effects when taken in conjunction with other Chinese medicines. The classic recipe for medicinal and food uses, the four gods soup, among which there is poria. The four gods soup is composed of poria, lotus seeds, yam, and mustard fruit, which can strengthen the spleen and stomach. The spleen can transport water wet, the spleen is good, the ability to transport water wet is naturally strong. When boiling soup, about 10 grams of each can be boiled separately, or the "four gods" can be added to the bone and pork belly soup, and the operation can be performed according to the conventional soup. It should be noted that those who are cold and slippery are contraindicated.
(Health Daily Push)