When the temperature rises and the rainy season comes, people often feel that the air is extremely humid, and the body may experience discomfort such as limb pain, fatigue, weakness and irritability, which are considered to be symptoms caused by "dampness" in Chinese medicine.
According to the view of traditional Chinese medicine, dampness is the same as wind, cold, heat, dryness, and fire, which is a normal climate change, but the body's defense ability is weakened, and dampness may invade the body to cause dampness, thereby triggering various diseases.
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What is moisture
Generally speaking, there are two main causes of dampness, which can be divided into external dampness and internal dampness.
1. External humidity
It is usually caused by a humid climate, rain or staying in a humid place for a long time. Living in a humid environment for a long time, lack of sunlight, etc.
2. Internal moisture
Moisture in the body is usually triggered by a lack of spleen, causing water to stagnate and collect. Excessive alcohol consumption or eating cold food may cause cold and dampness to invade the spleen and yang, resulting in internal dampness.
Although external dampness and internal dampness are different, they have common characteristics in the manifestations of the disease syndrome, and often affect each other in the course of the pathogenesis. External dampness causes disease, which is easy to injure the spleen, making dampness endogenous, and the spleen is not healthy, and the dampness stops accumulating, which is easy to incur the invasion of external dampness.
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5 details that indicate excessive moisture
1. Heavy head
Chest tightness from time to time. You have to take a deep breath to soothe it, your mind is dizzy, you can't concentrate, you feel tired easily, your memory is also impaired, your whole body is lazy, you don't want to move, and you even feel soreness when you move.
2. Abnormal stool
Under normal conditions, the stool is usually banana-shaped and golden in color, and the bowel movement process is fairly smooth, using only one or two pieces of toilet paper to clean the area around the anus. However, if the stool is diluted, sticky, or incomplete, and it is difficult to wipe it off thoroughly even after using several sheets of toilet paper, most of these conditions indicate that the body may have a problem with excessive moisture.
3. The tongue coating is white and thick
In general, people with severe dampness in the body show that the tongue coating is white and thick, the tongue edge has tooth marks, the taste is often sticky, and the complexion is also poor, and it is easy to appear yellow or dull, all of which indicate that the body dampness is quite heavy.
4. Body type obesity
According to TCM, the vast majority of people who are overweight exhibit phlegm-damp plastids, so those with a plumper body and slower movement have more dampness.
5. Nausea when brushing your teeth
Some people experience nausea, nausea, and a sticky and unclean throat when brushing their teeth, accompanied by sputum spitting, which is also a sign of excessive moisture in the body.
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How to get rid of moisture
So how to get rid of excess dampness in the body? Experts say that it can be dehumidified through some diet and lifestyle methods
1. Dietary therapy
When the spleen is weak, choose high-quality mutton, lean pork and pork bones, and boil them with traditional herbs such as astragalus, codonopsis, and poria cocos to make a nourishing soup to eat, which helps to strengthen the spleen and stomach and transform the dampness in the body.
To remove moisture from the body, you can choose to eat herb leaves and perilla leaves, which can be used as both vegetables and seasonings. In addition, ingredients such as corn, winter melon, ginger, and chrysanthemum have a diuretic effect. Common Chinese herbs such as kapok, frangipani, plantain and corn silk also help to increase urine output and help the body expel excess moisture, while porridge or soup made with coix seeds, seeds, lentils, red adzuki beans and other ingredients are also very effective in dispelling dampness.
2. Massage acupuncture points
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, excessive dampness in the body can lead to poor meridians. In order to eliminate dampness from the body, the first task is to open up the meridians. Massage at multiple acupressure points can help unblock the meridians and promote blood flow, which in turn will dissipate moisture from the body. When performing massage, it is necessary to massage not only the acupuncture points of Sanyinjiao and Yinlingquan, but also the Quchi acupoint and the Weizhong acupoint.
3. Insist on soaking your feet
Soaking your feet in 40-degree water at night before going to bed can add some traditional Chinese medicine that is good for eliminating dampness. Keep your feet soaked within the range of 15 to 20 minutes, which helps to promote the expulsion of moisture from the body through sweat. However, patients with diabetic foot disease, athlete's foot, or foot ulcers need to be extra careful when soaking their feet.
4. Exercise, steaming
Sweating can also effectively remove moisture from the body, and friends with conditions can use exercise or steaming to sweat a lot, in addition to soaking their feet with mugwort leaves, once a week.
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These 4 habits are actually the body's "humidifier"
1. Sedentary lifestyle
In daily life, due to the demands of work, the body's metabolism slows down and the circulatory function of the body decreases accordingly, which can easily cause the aggravation of moisture in the body.
2. Stay up late
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that if a person lies down, the blood returns to the liver, and if he does not sleep when it is time to rest, the liver will not be able to rest. The body is prone to symptoms such as dizziness, dry and swollen eyes, and dampness and heat in the liver and gallbladder.
3. Gluttony, raw and cold
From the perspective of endogenous dampness, people who consume excessive cold drinks, fatty foods, alcohol, and do not eat on time are more likely to develop dampness. These behaviors may cause the spleen and stomach to deteriorate, which in turn reduces its ability to metabolize water and moisture, resulting in the accumulation of moisture in the body.
4. Prefer fatty, sweet and thick flavor
Spicy, greasy and sweet foods, as well as those with a very strong taste, are collectively referred to as fatty and sweet flavors. According to TCM, excessive intake of greasy food can damage the spleen and stomach, weaken its digestive and transformation functions, and then promote the accumulation of moisture in the body, leading to stagnation.
If you want to be healthy, you should protect your body in your daily life, eat less high-calorie food, maintain physical exercise, and enjoy the sun in your free time, which will help your body function gradually return to a normal state, improve qi and blood circulation, and restore normal metabolic levels. In this way, the problem of dampness will be gradually alleviated! Only when you are healthy can you have enough energy to complete your work and study.
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