Dampness heavy drinking hot water has a certain effect, but can not replace the medication, dampness heavy patients can take medication to regulate the evidence.
Dampness belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine dampness, mostly due to rain and water, cold and damp climate, living in a damp place, such as external cold and damp, or over-eating fat, sweet, cold and other internal cold and damp, resulting in cold and dampness within the spleen, spleen and yang out of action.
Patients with rheumatism on the surface show headache and heaviness, unfavorable limbs and joints, and paralytic pain in the waist and knees. Treatment: Qiang Wu Sheng Dampness Tang.
Patients with dampness obstruction and spleen-stomach disharmony show fullness in the epigastrium (abdomen), lack of appetite, tastelessness in the mouth, nausea and vomiting, belching (belching), acid swallowing (swallowing of acid in the stomach upward to the oropharynx), heaviness of the limbs, and idleness and sleepiness. Treatment is with Flat Stomach San.
Patients with internal dampness-heat manifesting as jaundice, cholera, feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain evident during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort from traction in the lower abdomen), dysentery, and diarrhea. Treatment is with Yin Chen Artemisia Tang, Bazheng San, Lian Park Drink.
Patients with Yang deficiency and cold dampness manifest phlegm (pathological products formed by impaired water-liquid metabolism), edema, paralysis, and beriberi. Treatment is with Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang, Zhen Wu Tang, Shi Spleen San.
If there is any related condition, it is recommended to treat it under the guidance of professional physicians to identify the symptoms, and not to blindly self-medicate.