Is it that the lips are dry and even peel often all year round, especially in autumn and winter. You may think it's too dry, or you think you're drinking too little water.
As a result, you put on lipstick and drank a lot of water, but it didn't improve the symptoms.
Why is this so? We're going to talk about it today.
1. Dry and peely lips, the cause is not dehydration
It seems that in our impression, there are always people who think that our dry face or lips are due to the lack of water in our body, indicating that we usually drink less water.
However, you will find that when our lips are very dry or even peeling, we drink a lot of water and it does not improve. It shows that the cause of peeling lips is not because we are dehydrated. So what is the reason? Chinese medicine will tell you that it may be a distress signal from an organ.
The overall concept of Chinese medicine says that our spleen is in the face and the mouth, and its splendor is in the lips. The condition of the lips can reflect the condition of our spleen, and we often say that the spleen and stomach are one, so the lips are always dry and peeling, the reason is not the lack of water, it may be that there is something wrong with our spleen and stomach. In Chinese medicine, this disease is known as "lip wind".
In addition to the symptoms of dry and flaky lips that we mentioned above, some people even have symptoms such as chapped lips and bleeding, and some people also have symptoms of eating and drinking.
Second, something is wrong with the spleen and stomach that causes our lips to be dry and flaky
(1) Wind, fire, dampness and heat, the lips and mouth of the foreign offender are in the meridians of traditional Chinese medicine, and the stomach meridian of the foot yang and the stomach go down to the feet around the lips and mouth of the face, which connects the lips and mouth with the stomach, and the spleen and stomach are one. If our stomach meridian is violated by fiery evil qi and is disturbed by wind evil, then this fiery evil qi can easily go up to the head and face with the stomach meridian and reach around the lips.
And the fiery evil qi will damage our fluid, without the moisturizing effect of the fluid, then our lips will not be dry and peeling, and even red and bleeding. In addition, people nowadays prefer to eat spicy and stimulating food, which can easily cause our stomach meridians to be invaded by fiery evil qi
(2) Yin deficiency and blood dryness, lip and mouth loss of nourishment, we talked about the fiery evil qi invading our stomach meridian and easily leading to lip wind, which is the real heat caused by yang sheng. But our Chinese medicine says that if Yang is prosperous, Yin will be sick. The fiery evil qi invades the spleen and stomach, and the fiery evil qi consumes the fluid, resulting in our spleen and stomach not being nourished by the fluid, so that the stomach yin is insufficient, and the lips and mouth lose the nourishment of the fluid, which leads to the occurrence of lip wind.
(3) Lack of biochemistry and loss of nourishment of the lips and mouthWe know that the food and drink we eat will eventually be transformed into the subtlety of the water valley through our spleen and stomach, and the subtle of the water valley will go through a series of transformations to become qi, blood and fluid, so as to nourish and nourish the whole body.
In our traditional Chinese medicine, we pay attention to the spleen and stomach is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, when the function of our spleen and stomach is abnormal, our human body will not be nourished by qi, blood and fluid, then our lips and mouth will not be nourished, which will lead to the occurrence of diseases.
Then why do we have abnormal spleen and stomach function, which has a lot to do with our current people's dietary habits Xi We now like to eat spicy and thick flavors, and we also prefer to eat cold food, which is an important reason for our spleen and stomach deficiency.
Third, how to solve this problem from the root
(1) Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment
As we mentioned above, when our stomach meridians are violated by fiery evil qi, it is easy to cause lip wind. In terms of treatment, we can use acupuncture to evacuate the heat in our Zuyang Ming stomach meridians.
For example, if we take acupoints, we can take our inner courtyard acupoints, or Dadu acupoints, these acupuncture points are all acupuncture points on our stomach meridian, which have a great effect on evacuating our spleen and stomach.
In addition, like the lip wind caused by the dysfunction of our spleen and stomach and water valley, we can acupuncture Shenque, Guan Yuan acupoints, etc., acupuncture and moxibustion of these acupuncture points have a good effect on the treatment of spleen and yang deficiency. Of course, in addition to acupuncture, moxibustion is also possible.
(2) Warm the spleen and stomach
Some people in Chinese medicine believe that "all diseases are caused by the failure of the spleen and stomach", which shows that the spleen and stomach are very important in our physical health.
We say that the spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry, and the normal operation of all the organs and organs of our body requires the nourishment of our qi, blood and fluid. Therefore, we must pay attention to warming our spleen and stomach in our daily life.
Among them, special attention is paid to our diet. We must eat three meals regularly, with meat and vegetarian combinations, try to consume more types of food every day, and at the same time we must eat less spicy and stimulating food, and eat less cold food, because these foods will increase the burden of our spleen and stomach metabolism.
In addition, the spleen and stomach are limbs in the body, so we usually need to strengthen exercise, which can also strengthen the function of our spleen and stomach. When our spleen and stomach function is strengthened, our food and drink can be well transformed into water valley subtleties to fill our qi, blood and fluids, so as to nourish the whole body, including our lips and mouth.
(3) Drink plenty of water
Our lips appear dry and peeling, or even dry and cracked bleeding, in fact, our lips lack the moisturizing effect of the body's fluid, drink more water, so that the fluid has a source, and at the same time, drinking water can also speed up our basal metabolism. In this way, our human body has the nourishment of fluid, then our lips and mouth will be nourished, and the symptoms of dry and peeling lips will naturally be alleviated.
(4) Medication
Our lips are dry and peeling, and the first thing that naturally comes to mind is that we want to wear lipstick. We can alleviate our peeling by applying lip balm, but to fundamentally improve such symptoms, I recommend a prescription for you - lip wind drink.
The medicinal composition of this recipe is mainly parsnip, mustard, peppermint, forsythia, coke gardenia, skullcap, raw gypsum, atractylodes, white peony, angelica, talc, coria seed, licorice and so on.
This recipe is mainly used to treat dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach, accompanied by the invasion of wind evil, wind and heat fighting, and knotting on the lips, resulting in dryness, peeling and rupture of the lips. The medicine in this recipe can be decocted and taken once a day to effectively treat lip wind.
summary
When our lips and mouth are dry and flaky for a long time, or even cracks and bleeding, we drink a lot of water, and we also apply lipstick, and there is still no good improvement in such symptoms, it may not be caused by lack of water, it may be an alarm signal from our spleen, so we go to the hospital to prescribe the right medicine, and at the same time, we should pay attention to warming our spleen and stomach in daily life.