Editor’s note:We often hear the concept of "heavy moisture", but many people don’t know how the moisture comes from and how to get rid of it. In Xia Hou, high temperature weather has also ushered in all parts of the country, and many people have begun to have unpleasant meals and indigestion. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that heavy humidity in summer is easy to make people sleepy in the spleen and stomach and lose appetite. How to get rid of dampness? Today, People’s Health Network will talk to you.
Pay attention to the six "moisture" signals in the body
Liu Yang, Ph.D., associate professor and master tutor of internal medicine of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that when there is moisture in the body, it usually has the following performance:
1. I can’t wake up, sleep more every day, still feel sleepy and drool when I sleep; Dizziness, lethargy, physical fatigue, too lazy to move; The calf is sore and heavy.
2, go to the toilet after getting up, the stool is thin and not shaped, or constipation every three to five; The stool is sticky, and there is always a feeling of uncleanness. Every time I go to the toilet, the stool sticks to the toilet and can’t be washed clean.
3. After getting up, my mouth smells heavy and sticky.
4, the tongue can sensitively reflect the physical condition, if the tongue is fat, the edge of the tongue is serrated, and the symptoms are serious, it is called "skirt tongue". If the tongue coating is white and thick, it looks smooth and moist, which means that there is cold and dampness in the body. If the tongue coating is rough or thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp and heat in the body.
5. There is a lot of oil on the face in the morning, especially on the forehead and around the nose and mouth. The face is shiny, the hair also loves oil, the bags under the eyes are drooping, and the dark circles are serious.
6, the body is puffy, the diet and work and rest are the same as the original, but the weight has increased significantly.
If one or two of the above signals or symptoms appear, attention should be paid to them, which indicates that there is moisture in the body. If you go to the hospital for examination, you won’t find any major diseases, but you will suffer from these minor diseases every day, which just corresponds to another feature of dampness — — "Wet and sticky", with lingering course, long course and repeated attacks. In life, we use "ten people and nine dampness" to describe the universality of moisture invading the human body. Mainly related to physical factors, diet, living environment, living habits, life pressure and other factors.
Chinese medicine believes that if moisture is not removed, there will be endless troubles. Moisture is the source of various diseases. Hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver, cancer, stroke and gout are all related to moisture.
There are many ways to eliminate dampness, such as physical exercise, moxibustion, cupping and scraping, dietotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine, which are all external therapies. After treatment, dampness cannot be eliminated from the roots. "Wet weight" is the standard, and "spleen deficiency" is the foundation.
Wang Qi, a master of traditional Chinese medicine, proposed that the human body can be divided into nine kinds of constitutions, namely, peaceful constitution, qi deficiency constitution, yang deficiency constitution, yin deficiency constitution, phlegm-dampness constitution, damp-heat constitution, blood stasis constitution, qi stagnation constitution and idiosyncratic constitution. Among them, the relatively healthy and peaceful constitution only accounts for 32.75% of the population, while the constitution related to "dampness" includes phlegm-dampness and damp-heat quality. Therefore, people with different physiques have different pathogenic dampness, which requires different treatment and treatment.
It should be noted that food therapy is simple in taste, weak in strength and slow in effect. If people with phlegm-dampness constitution are accompanied by cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, metabolic diseases or other serious diseases, they need to receive standardized treatment under the guidance of doctors.
Bad habits leave moisture behind.
1. Cover your hair with a towel after washing it. Chinese medicine believes that "the head is the meeting of all yang", and in the the twelve meridians of human body, the three yang meridians of hand, foot and mouth all converge at the head. If you cover your hair with a towel after washing, it is easy to feel damp evil. Wet evil sticky, easy to hurt the yang, there will be "because of wet, first wrapped" situation, therefore, after washing your hair, try to dry it or blow dry it with a hair dryer.
2. Take a bath after 9 pm. Bathing itself does not cause body wet, but always taking a bath after 9: 00 pm makes it easy for dampness to invade. Health care should follow the natural laws of spring, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage. There are also spring, summer, autumn and winter in one day, and winter is from 9 pm to 3 am the next day. At this time, you should "hide" yourself. At 9 o’clock in the evening, it is also the time of the lunar month. At this time, the yang is lying in the body, and the body surface lacks protection. It is the time when the human body’s defense ability is the weakest. At this time, taking a bath, moisture is easy to enter the body, resulting in cold and dampness.
3. Eating too much makes you cold. In summer, many people will eat raw and cold food to relieve summer heat, but this method is very undesirable, because raw and cold products will affect the transport and transformation of spleen and stomach and the function of qi movement, so that water and dampness will stagnate the gastrointestinal tract, causing anorexia, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
4. Blow the air conditioner. The use of air-conditioning in summer is very harmful to the body. Sweating in summer is an important way to dissipate moisture, and the cool environment created by air-conditioning will automatically close the pores of the body, so sweat can’t be discharged, and moisture can’t be dispersed, so it can only accumulate in the body. Of course, it is not absolutely impossible to turn on the air conditioner, but it should be used properly. The temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large. When the humidity is heavy, it is best to turn on the dehumidification function.
5. Drinking without restraint. Eating barbecue and drinking beer in summer night is considered by many people as a comfortable thing, but wine helps damp evil, which easily leads to moisture accumulation in the body and spleen and stomach dysfunction.
6. sedentary. In Huangdi Neijing, it is said that "sitting for a long time hurts the meat", but in fact it hurts the spleen. Spleen governs muscles and transports water and dampness. Lack of exercise can cause spleen-qi deficiency, water and dampness will not turn into phlegm. Therefore, if you want to get rid of the dampness, you need to move. You can choose brisk walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and Baduanjin according to your own situation.
Three porridge recipes help remove moisture.
Red bean, hawthorn and barley porridge
50 grams of adzuki bean, 50 grams of Coix seed, 20 grams of white lentils, 15 grams of Poria, 20 grams of raw hawthorn and 100 grams of japonica rice are taken; Soak other materials except japonica rice in a pot for 30 minutes; Wash the japonica rice, pour it into the pot where the ingredients are soaked, add appropriate amount of water, boil it on high fire for 10 minutes, then cook it on low fire for 20 minutes, and eat it while it is hot.
Among the prescriptions, Poria cocos is an important drug for inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and can also be used for spleen deficiency. It is beneficial to water infiltration, spleen strengthening and calming the nerves when combined with Coix seed. Adzuki bean can promote diuresis, reduce swelling, clear away heat and jaundice, detoxify and expel pus. White lentils are slightly warm and sweet, and belong to spleen and stomach meridian, which has the effect of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness. Hawthorn has the effect of resolving food stagnation. This medicated diet has a good effect on phlegm-dampness constitution with symptoms such as anxiety and poor appetite. It should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach and hyperacidity should abstain from this prescription.
It should be noted that adzuki beans are different from the red beans we usually eat. The shape of red beans is closer to ellipse, while red beans are cylindrical and look very slender; Red beans look bright, while red beans are reddish brown, but some are dark; In taste, red beans are very soft and glutinous, while red beans are a little hard, which is more suitable for porridge. In terms of curative effect, the effect of adzuki bean is stronger than that of red bean, so adzuki bean is used as medicine in traditional Chinese medicine.
Yam, winter melon and japonica rice porridge
Take 100g of yam, 150g of wax gourd and 200g of japonica rice; Peel wax gourd and yam, wash, cut into thick slices, wash onion and ginger and cut into powder; Heat the oil in the pot, add shredded onion and Jiang Mo, slightly fry, and add water to boil; Add yam and wax gourd, and cook over medium heat until cooked; Wash the japonica rice, pour it into the pot, and simmer for 30 minutes; Add salt and chopped green onion to taste.
Among the prescriptions, yam is sweet and flat, and it belongs to the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. It is nourishing, invigorating qi and yin, and it is a good product for nourishing lung, spleen and kidney. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, yam has the functions of "tonifying deficiency, eliminating cold and heat, evil spirits, tonifying middle energizer, invigorating qi, building muscles, strengthening yang, benefiting kidney qi, strengthening spleen and stomach, and stopping diarrhea". Wax gourd is sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, and belongs to the lung, large intestine and bladder meridian. It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica that wax gourd "purges heat due to cold, benefits the spleen, facilitates defecation and edema, quenches thirst, dissipates heat, and causes carbuncle swelling". The two complement each other, playing the role of strengthening the spleen, benefiting qi and promoting diuresis.
Poria cocos and Ophiopogon japonicus millet porridge
Prepare 15g of Poria cocos, 15g of Ophiopogon japonicus and 100g of millet; Poria cocos and Ophiopogon japonicus are put into a pot, and appropriate amount of water is added to decoct into thick juice, and the residue is removed and the juice is reserved for later use; Wash the millet, pour it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil it with high fire, then pour the medicine juice, and continue to cook for 30 minutes with low heat. Can be used as a staple food and taken twice a day.
Among the prescriptions, Ophiopogon japonicus is sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold, which has the functions of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and clearing heart. It is recorded in the new edition of Materia Medica: "Radix Ophiopogonis purges the latent fire in the lungs, clears the heat and evil in the stomach, tonifies the fatigue of the heart, stops the vomiting of the hemostatic family, benefits the essence and strengthens the yin, relieves annoyance and quenches thirst, makes the skin beautiful, relieves deficiency heat and relieves lung dryness". Poria cocos is flat in nature, sweet and light in taste, and has the effects of promoting diuresis, invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach, calming the heart and calming the nerves. It is recorded in the "Medication Heart Method": "Poria cocos is a holy medicine that can help the orifices, help the yang and remove dampness. It is sweet and flat to replenish yang, benefit the spleen and expel water, and promote fluid production and qi. " This medicated diet has a good improvement effect on spleen deficiency and dampness-heat combined with deficiency of heart yin, heart and chest irritation, palpitation, insomnia, dry mouth and other symptoms.
Precautions for dehumidification in summer
Diet Summer diet should avoid the stimulation of cold food and greasy food.
The living environment is humid in summer. If the living environment is humid, dark and stuffy, plus the use of air conditioning, it will only aggravate the humidity. Therefore, although it is hot in summer, the living environment should be kept dry and ventilated.
On the one hand, moderate exercise is that modern people sweat less in summer and need to sweat through exercise. On the other hand, the so-called kinetic energy produces yang, and the appearance of wet and cold constitution is related to the lack of yang. Therefore, in summer, you may wish to take the initiative to exercise and sweat, and change the problems of body dampness and body cold.
How to recuperate the damp evil in summer?
First of all, summer humidity is a natural phenomenon and a normal bias of the transformation of yin and yang in nature. "It’s warm in spring, hot in summer and cool in autumn, and cold in winter makes fingers long". In the long process of evolution, human beings have adapted to the climate change in nature. Therefore, in the summer and wet season, as long as most people live regularly, dampness will not cause much problem to people. With the change of seasons, dampness will naturally fade away.
Secondly, some people need to get rid of dampness in the body through diet therapy. For damp-heat pathogens such as red tongue and yellow greasy fur, unconsciousness, sticky mouth, bitter taste, thirst and uncomfortable stool, you can drink raw coix seed and mung bean porridge, or eat watermelon, or even take fragrant tablets; For symptoms of damp pathogen, such as pale tongue and greasy fur, covered head, thirsty mouth, fullness, abdominal distension, drowsiness of limbs, and loose stool, you can drink fried Coicis Semen and fried yam porridge, or even take Xiangsha Liujun Pill. You can also drink Huoxiang Zhengqi soft capsule or Huoxiang Zhengqi oral liquid, which is effective in removing damp-heat and dampness.
Of course, there are still some people who need to go to the hospital if they can’t be relieved by diet therapy. Especially, people with chronic digestive tract diseases should go to the hospital as soon as possible if the original disease is aggravated after the damp evil in summer hinders the transport and transformation function of the spleen and stomach. (People’s Health Network is integrated from Life Times, Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuanet, Shaanxi Daily)