This year is the year of wet soil, so there is significantly more rain and more humidity in nature than in previous years. Therefore, it is very important to remove dampness.
Now at the beginning of September, the white dew solar term has arrived, if you don't hurry up to get rid of the dampness and phlegm in the body, then when the real autumn and winter come, these "evil spirits" are likely to burst out in one go, causing various health problems.
Today I recommend a fruit to you, which is often soaked in water and drunk every day, which has a good phlegm and turbidity effect.
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How can you tell if you have phlegm dampness in your body?
The most difficult thing to remove in the human body is "phlegm dampness", especially those stubborn phlegm dampness that has been lurking deep in the body for a long time.
The "phlegm" here mainly refers to the invisible phlegm, although it cannot be seen, but it can exist in any tissue, organ and vasculature in the body, and flow throughout the body with the operation of qi and blood, and the location is uncertain, causing many sub-health problems and even diseases.
The following manifestations, if you hit 2 points or more, then be vigilant, it is likely to be phlegm-damp constitution:
✔ The body is on the fat side, and the abdomen is fat and floppy;
✔ Oily face, hair, skin, love acne;
✔ There is always a sticky feeling in the mouth or throat;
✔ chest tightness, phlegm;
✔ Easily drowsy and unpleasant;
✔ Likes to eat fatty and mellow wine;
✔ There is a lot of leucorrhoea and a strong odor;
✔ Urine is not much or slightly cloudy;
✔ The stool is not formed or the three are not clean (not clean, not clean, not clean, not clean);
✔ The tongue is fat and large, with tooth marks, and the tongue coating is white and greasy.
The formation of phlegm and dampness constitution is very closely related to poor eating habits and lifestyles, and it mostly occurs in people who are addicted to fat and sweet taste and lack of exercise, which is exactly the common disease of many people in modern society.
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Drinking lemon water often helps to dissolve phlegm
Lemonade is now a daily drink for many people. Whether it is a bubble tea shop or a restaurant, lemonade will basically come as standard.
In addition to quenching thirst, lemon water also has a very good effect - it helps to dissolve phlegm in the body.
Lemon, flat in nature, sour and sweet, phlegm and cough, shengjin and stomach. It is used for bronchitis, whooping cough, loss of appetite, vitamin C deficiency, heat stroke and polydipsia.
(1) "Food Test": "Pulp drinking thirst can ward off the heat." Pregnant women should eat and have a safe baby. "
(2) "Cantonese": "Salted, black for a long time, can cure typhoid fever and phlegm."
(3) "Lingnan Essays": "Governance."
(4) "Compendium Collection": "Pickled, breathed and stomached."
To sum up in the vernacular, lemons have the following three prominent functions:
■ Thirst quenching and shengjin liquid:
When you feel polydipsia, dry mouth, and dry skin, you can drink lemon water to relieve it;
■ Qi, stomach and nausea:
When the spleen and stomach qi are stagnant, there is abdominal distension or pain, loss of appetite, or nausea and vomiting, etc., you can use lemon to soak in water to drink;
■ Dissolve phlegm turbidity and relieve cough:
If you always feel that there is phlegm in your throat, you can't cough up and swallow, or you have phlegm and dampness in your body, you can drink lemonade often.
In addition, we all know that lemons are very sour, and one of the big principles of the autumn diet is to "reduce the bitterness and increase the acidity". Eating more sour foods such as lemons can restrain liver fire, protect liver qi, and avoid lung fire in autumn that damages liver function.
Therefore, in the early autumn season at the beginning of summer and autumn, lemon is a very good health fruit, which is in line with the health wisdom of homeopathy.
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Lemonade is added to the same substance, and the phlegm and dampness effect is better
If the phlegm and dampness in the body are relatively heavy, then only soaking water in lemon may not be enough. At this time, you can add one of the three treasures of Guangdong - tangerine peel.
Tangerine peel enjoys the reputation of "thousand-year-old ginseng, century-old tangerine peel". Its effect on phlegm and dampness can be said to be well-known and well-known.
Tangerine peel, pungent and bitter in taste, warm in nature, returns to the lungs and spleen meridians, regulates qi and strengthens the spleen, dries and dissolves phlegm. It is used for abdominal distention, less eating, vomiting and diarrhea, and coughing and phlegm.
The value of tangerine peel is that it can not only dry and damp phlegm, but also regulate qi and strengthen the spleen. The spleen is the source of phlegm, and the spleen mainly transports water and dampness, and the discharge of phlegm and dampness ultimately depends on the spleen. Tangerine peel strengthens the spleen and regulates qi, which can help the spleen quickly restore its function and fundamentally solve the problems of phlegm and dampness.
In addition, lemon and tangerine peel both have a calming effect.
In many cases, the formation of phlegm turbidity is also related to qi stagnation. If the qi does not run smoothly because of various emotions, stress problems, or sedentary people, the ability of the qi to push the fluid is reduced, the qi is blocked there, and the body's fluid is not able to run, and after a long time, it is easy to produce phlegm and turbidity.
Through the combination of lemon and tangerine peel, the body's blocked qi is dredged, so that the qi is smooth, and the phlegm and turbidity will naturally become less.
‖ Dietary prescription is recommended
Tangerine peel lemon tea
Ingredients: 3-5 grams of tangerine peel, 2 slices of fresh lemon, 10ml of honey. (1 serving)
Method: 1. Wash the lemon, slice it and remove the seeds; 2. Tangerine peel can be brewed with boiling water or boiled with water for 10 minutes; 3. After the water is warmed, add lemon and honey and stir well. Can be brewed repeatedly.
Notes:
(1) Do not use too hot water to make lemonade, it will decompose the effective substance.
(2) For people with poor stomach and intestines such as excessive gastric acid secretion, it is not advisable to drink a lot of lemon water, and it must be in moderation.
(3) Lemon is a good hand for phlegm, but use lemon to dissolve phlegm turbidity, never peel it. The oil contained in the oil capsule on the lemon peel has the effect of dissolving phlegm and turbidity. ■