Many friends, go to see a Chinese medicine doctor, stick out your tongue to take a look, always be said: “There is dampness.”
The high frequency of the border, straight after the Qi Tian Da Sheng mantra: “There is demonic energy!”
Today we will talk about dampness.
1, what is dampness
About water metabolites, Chinese medicine has four kinds of statements. They are water, damp, drink, phlegm. We do not do too much academic discussion. Only this will be collectively referred to as dampness.
The characteristics of dampness: its nature is yin-cold, easy to hurt Yang Qi, its nature is sticky, blocking the qi, tangled and difficult to go.
In simple terms, there are two sources of dampness. External dampness and internal dampness.
External dampness comes from the external climate, so people in coastal cities, more dampness in the body.
As for internal dampness, mainly from the spleen deficiency, after the spleen and stomach weakness, not able to transport the food eaten, these are not transported food, piled up in the body, generating dampness. Spleen deficiency produces dampness, and dampness will aggravate spleen deficiency. A vicious circle.
2, how to get rid of dampness
So, how to do to get rid of dampness?
In physics, the three determinants of the rate of evaporation of water vapor: temperature, airflow, area.
The reason for dispelling dampness is the same. Temperature, airflow, and area correspond to the three methods of treatment in Chinese medicine: warming method, qi method, and sweating method.
Warm method: dampness is Yin cold. The Nei Jing says: the cold is warm; the Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases says: phlegm drinks should be harmonized with warm medicine. Description, warm method is the fundamental method of treatment of dampness.
Qi method: the human body does not go smoothly, easy to produce dampness. Dampness and obstruct the flow of Qi, forming a vicious circle. Sedentary people are prone to dampness. So get rid of dampness, to manage Qi, to make the whole body Qi and blood flow smoothly.
Sweating method: The skin is the largest organ of the human body area. Let the dampness, through sweating, from the body surface of each pore to disperse, expanding the pathway and area of dampness removal.
3, red beans and barley porridge can not get rid of dampness
So let’s look at red beans and barley porridge belongs to which of the above three?
Neither!
Dispel dampness to warm. Red beans and barley are slightly cold.
Dispel dampness to regulate qi. The cold medicine itself will affect the operation of qi.
Dispel dampness can sweat. Red beans and barley can not sweat.
Of course, to get rid of dampness, but also to strengthen the spleen. The spleen is very important. The fried barley can strengthen the spleen, because the fried can reduce its coldness. The red beans are actually weaker in strengthening the spleen.
The normal functioning of the spleen and stomach, transporting food, is needed Yang Qi. Take an example of cooking. The food you eat is like rice that has just been put into a pot. If there is no fire, the rice will not be cooked.
Cold food and medicine will damage Yang energy. How can you cook rice if the fire is not flourishing?
So here is even more caution, the spleen and stomach deficiency, must eat less fruit, cold drinks and so on.
4, red bean and barley porridge how to eat
Red beans and barley, itself does have the efficacy of dispelling dampness, but really want to dispel dampness, must be with the spleen and benefit the temperature and qi medicine, with the only way.
There are several combinations to consider.
The first one: add pepper (powder) or ginger.
Pepper has a strong role in warming the middle, not only to neutralize the cold, but also to add a fire to the spleen and stomach.
Ginger summer use, especially suitable. Summer air humidity is high, through the ginger, can disperse water dampness.
The second: add sand kernel. This guy I think is not good, depending on personal taste.
The third: add white lentils. Lentils are warm. But people with high uric acid should be careful.
The fourth: add papaya. Note that it is Xuan papaya, not the fruit stall papaya.
The fifth: some people are heavy dampness, drowsy head; can add asparagus. Tianma warm.
5, the difference between red beans and red beans
Red beans more edible, taste flat and poor power to dispel dampness; adzuki beans more medicinal, taste cool and power to dispel dampness.
On the market, red beans are much cheaper than red beans, so many businesses are taking red beans as red beans for sale. But in fact, the ability of red beans to dispel dampness is far less than that of red beans. See the picture.
But adzuki beans can not be used as a food therapy for a long time. You should be careful not to buy the wrong one.
The “Materia Medica Compendium” records: “red beans (i.e. red beans), its nature downward, long serving is too much descending order, fluid seepage diarrhea, so that the muscle thin body also heavy.”
Meaning that long-term eating will damage the fluid, so that people muscle thin body heavy. Muscle is gone, fat is still there.
6, how to sweat to get rid of dampness
Some people say, Dr. Qiu, you said sweating can dispel dampness, I walk 10,000 steps every day, run for an hour, run all over sweat, really cool! But when I stick out my tongue, it’s still very thick, what’s wrong?
From the perspective of Chinese medicine, the method of sweating to dispel dampness is called “sweating a fine layer of mantle.” Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, was very good at sweating, but he always took great pains to advise us: “Do not make it flow like water.”
If you are sweating a lot, you are sweating like a stream of water; if you are sweating a little, a thin layer of sweat is enough. Soaking feet is a good way.
Sweat more, the pores are wide open, the external moisture, more easily into the body.
And “Nei Jing” says that sweat is the liquid of the heart. Sweat more, sad Yin, heart fire.
7, cold bottom of the people do not drink herbal tea
Some people ask: that I am damp heat also can not be used?
Sometimes the heat of damp heat, the root in the wet, and wet is cold. Cold bottom of the physique accompanied by damp heat or deficiency heat, can not simply use herbal medicine to solve.
Southern coastal areas, such a physique, a catch. The reasons for this are: climatic factors, the heat greedy cold drinking cold. Another big reason is: drinking herbal tea.
Cold bottom of the people, even if there is a false fire or damp heat, you can not drink herbal tea. Short-term fire, but the more you drink the more cold the bottom, the easier it is to get on fire later.
Therefore, the fear of fire, drink XXX. these seven words, is the beauty of the business community, but may collapse a large number of Chinese people’s physique.