As the old saying goes, "a thousand colds are easy to remove, and a wet is difficult to go", and moisture is the source or accomplice of most difficult and chronic diseases. Chinese medicine physician Yang Li teaches 3 simple exercises to help the spleen dehumidify, reduce swelling and detoxification.
What is wet evil? Where does body wetness come from?
In Chinese medicine, wet evil is one of the six evils in nature (wind, cold, summer, wet, dry, and fire).
The human body mainly has two kinds of external dampness (moisture enters through the mouth and nose through breathing, or penetrates through the skin) and internal humidity (spleen and stomach function dereliction of duty), and wet evil also has the characteristics of stickiness, heavy turbidity, and downward (going to the lower part of the human body).
External humidity invades the human body→ often commits spleen and stomach → spleen and spleen failure→ wetness from endogenous → water to stop gathering→ more likely to cause external wetness
Once there is a wet evil in the body, it must be discharged in time to avoid a vicious circle and aggravate the harm to the human body.
There are 9 symptoms of moisture in the body
1. Obese body shape, puffy body, eye bags: those who have moisture in the body, most of them are plump or obese. People who usually do not eat much, but have a large belly and a full and soft abdomen, may be fat caused by abnormal metabolism of water in the body. If the eyelids are puffy or the eye bags are obvious when you get up in the morning, it means that the moisture in the body is heavier, as long as the moisture is removed, people will naturally lose weight.
2. Fatigue and lack of energy, poor mental health: inactivity often feel tired, tired, do not even want to say, especially after meals are more obvious, nestled on the sofa lazy to get up. But after proper exercise, fatigue lessens or disappears. After waking up, such people will still feel very tired, mentally poor, very depressed, and depressed, but as long as they are active, the fatigue will disappear, and people will become more energetic. (Recommended reading: summer moisture can not be discharged, sleep for a long time can not sleep enough )
3. The head is as heavy as a wrap, the limbs are heavy: the mind is like wrapped in a heavy cloth, the body and limbs are unusually lazy or unhappy, the calves are heavy and the feet are heavy; if the meridians are wet, and then flow through the joints, the joints are heavy and the flexion and extension are unfavorable. These symptoms are manifestations of "wet cloudiness".
4. Hair is easy to produce oil, facial oil is bright: hair or face (especially forehead) are particularly prone to oil, and pores are also larger. If it is also easy to have acne and boils, you can smell the odor as soon as you open your mouth, it means that there is not only moisture in its body, but also heat, and it needs to be clear and moist.
5. The tongue is fat and large, the tongue is white and greasy with tooth marks: the normal human tongue is red and moist, there is a thin layer of white tongue, dry and wet moderate, not slippery and not dry. People with wet tongues in the body will be very white and thick, and the tongue body is fat and large, and there will be obvious ruffle-like tooth marks on the edges. If the tongue becomes yellow, it means that it is wet for a long time.
6. The stool is not formed, it is not dry: it is not formed, it is very sticky, there is always a feeling of endless discharge, and it is not easy to wipe it dry with toilet paper, and it is difficult to wash away when it is stuck on the toilet, which means that there is moisture in the body.
7. Chest tightness, bloating, bad appetite: feel chest tightness, want to take a long breath to be comfortable; no desire, eat a little food to feel bloated, and have a vague sense of nausea; often thirsty, but do not want to drink water, etc. These symptoms are more likely to appear in the summer, and are caused by the influence of wet evil on the function of the spleen and stomach. (Recommended reading: chest tightness, chest pain and other symptoms do not take lightly!) So as not to find a sudden death)
8. Phlegm, drooling in sleep: Some elderly people, long-term cough and phlegm, are diagnosed by Western medicine as chronic bronchitis, in fact, such patients are sometimes not caused by inflammation, but spleen deficiency, phlegm wetness caused. Some people sleep with drooling and bad breath, which is also a spleen and stomach disorder, water does not melt, and the upper reverse reaches the mouth. These problems must be solved by good temper and removing phlegm and dampness.
9. Wet or eczema in the genitals: Wet evil is a heavy turbid evil, the same as water, so it belongs to the yin and goes down, running to the entire reproductive system, how easy to hurt the lower part of the human body. There are edema, eczema and other symptoms in the lower limbs of the body; the female genitalia will be damp, itchy, and odorous; the male vagina will be damp and itchy.
3 exercises help the body drain moisture and reduce swelling
Most people with heavy humidity in the body lack exercise, and the less exercise there is, the more moisture accumulates. In addition to daily attention to a light diet, less cold and cold melons and fruits, proper exercise can play a healthy spleen role, help promote qi and blood circulation, and accelerate dampness.
1. Photograph the moisture in your body
Clap your hands at the big fishing place: The hands are slapped together like claps, focusing on the big fishing places where the hands are clapped. People with heavy moisture in their bodies will appear cyan or purple after shooting here. Clap your hands for 15 to 20 minutes a day to help shoot out the moisture that is trapped in the body.
Scratch the armpits 1 to 2 times a day: the armpits are the most densely populated places of the underarm lymph, and it is also the place where wet evil in the body is easy to accumulate, and regular massage and rubbing can promote the discharge of wet evil. In addition, the apex of the armpit is the Jiquan acupoint (the pulsating place of the axillary artery), which is an important acupuncture point of the heart meridian, and the armpit is rubbed or dialed 1 to 2 times a day, 36 times each time, which can play the role of wide chest qi and meridian activation.
Quchi acupoint of the elbow socket: The elbow fossa is most prone to qi and blood stasis, especially the quchi acupoint at the lateral end of the elbow rhabdomy (flexion elbow, ruler ze acupuncture and the midpoint of the external upper condyle connection of the humerus) is a place where wet evil is easy to gather, and it can often pat the elbow fossa, 5 to 10 minutes each time, to feel the swelling is appropriate, can smooth the qi and blood, promote the discharge of wet evil.
2. Practice yoga – triangular dampness removal
Yoga is a dynamic practice, kinetic energy to raise the sun, yang energy to dissolve wet. Practicing more than 3 times a week can help us remove moisture from our body. Here's a brief introduction to the trigonometric:
Triangle: Upright, legs horizontally apart about 3 shoulder widths (2 can be used at first). Straighten your arms horizontally, exhale, slowly tilt your upper body to the left, extend your left hand down to grab your left ankle, and extend your right arm upwards, keep your eyes on the tip of your right finger, hold on for a few seconds, and repeat the above movements in the opposite direction after restoration, repeating the above movements 20 times.
The yoga triangle stretches the muscles on both sides of the legs, waist and abdomen, just to exercise the spleen meridians to achieve dampness. (Recommended reading: Moisture Removal Solution" 3 kinds of tea drink to drink away from moisture )
3. Strengthen the waist, stimulate the kidney yang to remove moisture from the body
The waist is the house of the kidneys, the two kidneys are within the waist, and regular rubbing of the waist can promote the operation of waist qi and blood, enhance kidney function, stimulate kidney yang, and help drive away the evil of cold and dampness in the body. 3 easy to do waist exercises:
Waist tapping: Holding empty fists with both hands, using fists to force, rhythmically alternating pats the waist and sacrum (behind the waist) to the degree of painlessness. When tapping, pay attention to the force from the wrist, repeatedly tapping 36 times from top to bottom.
Grasp the waist: the hands are crossed against the waist, the thumb is in front, the remaining 4 fingers are placed on both sides of the lumbar spine, and the skin is scratched outward with the abdomen of the 4 fingers, and the skin is scratched repeatedly with a little force, taking care not to let the nail scratch the skin.
Rotating waist: the body is upright, the feet are separated, the shoulders are the same width, the hands are crossed at the waist, 4 fingers are in the front, the thumb is in the back; with the lumbar spine as the axis, according to the forward → the left → the back extension → the order of right rotation to do rotational movements, 9 times each of the waist, clockwise and counterclockwise. Pay attention to the slow movement when rotating the waist, and do not use too much force or speed to avoid spraining the waist.