Throat discomfort soak some fat sea? It's not as simple as you think!

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In daily life, once there is a hoarseness and pain in the throat, many people will think of the fat sea. Especially for those professionals who often use their voices, "fat sea soaking water" has almost become the standard. However, there are many causes of throat discomfort, and if you do not identify the cause and regardless of the physique, drinking fat sea for a long time will adversely affect your health.

Clinically, fat sea can be used for acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and can also be used for constipation caused by fire. However, fat sea has no effect on vocal cord nodules, vocal cord polyps, incomplete vocal cord closure, excessive tobacco and alcohol stimulation, etc.

Chinese medicine believes that the fat sea tastes sweet, cool, has the effect of clearing lung heat, throat, detoxification, intestinal laxative effect, used for lung heat hoarseness, sore throat, hot knot constipation and hoarseness caused by excessive throat, etc., for external sensation caused by sore throat, acute tonsillitis and other pharyngeal diseases have a certain auxiliary effect. Clinically, it is mostly used for lung gas closure, phlegm fever cough, hoarseness, sore throat and other symptoms, and is often used with platycodon, raw licorice, cicada clothes, peppermint, honeysuckle, wheat dong and other drugs.

In addition, fat sea can be used for acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, and can also be used for constipation caused by fire.

→ However, we should pay attention to the fact that "it is a three-point poison of medicine", and the following situations are not suitable for the use of fat sea:

1. Spleen and stomach deficiency and cold constitution, manifested by decreased appetite, cold pain in the abdomen, loose stools, easy diarrhea when taking fat sea;

2. Cough and sore throat caused by cold and cold, manifested as cold and fear of cold, weak physique, cough white sticky sputum;

3. Cough caused by lung yin deficiency, manifested as dry cough without sputum, hoarseness, mostly chronic respiratory diseases;

4. Fat sea has a hypotensive effect, normal blood pressure or low blood pressure people take it for a long time, may have low blood pressure;

5. Fat sea contains galacturonic acid, arabinose, galactose acetic acid, galactose, etc., diabetics are best to drink less.

→ For different symptoms, is the fat sea just soaking in water?

Doctors recommend that when taking Fat Sea, such as acute tonsillitis, use 3 to 5 capsules and take it with boiled water.

Sore throat caused by wind fever and cold, dry cough without phlegm, hoarse voice, with 5 fat sea pieces, 3 grams of licorice, soaked water to drink.

The epidermis is obviously shrunk and dried, the appearance is brown, and it is generally difficult to open with boiling water. Soaking water should choose the fat sea of the year that is full and shiny, and the fat sea of the next year needs to be decocted.

In addition, long-term drinking of fat sea will cause a burden on the liver and kidneys, and may also cause spleen and stomach weakness, resulting in diarrhea, diet reduction, chest tightness, body wasting and other side effects. People with a bad stomach will behave more obviously. Therefore, continuous drinking of fat seawater should not exceed 7 days.

Beijing News reporter Wang Lu Image source Visual China Editor Yue Qingxiu Proofreader Wu Xingfa