Among the “six evil spirits” that cause disease: wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire, Chinese medicine is most afraid of dampness. Dampness is the most easily penetrated. Dampness is never alone, but always with other evil Qi wicked. Dampness becomes cold dampness when it meets cold, which is like winter time, if the climate is dry, no matter how cold, people can still accept, but if the dampness is heavy, people will be very difficult to suffer. The southern winter is more unbearable than the northern winter, because the southern dampness is heavier, cold and damp attack. Dampness meets heat becomes damp heat, which is similar to the summer sauna days, there are hot and wet, so that people can not breathe, obviously not as hot as the sun, the climate is dry when it comes to pain. Dampness in the wind becomes rheumatism, it is easy to drive the wind, but once the rheumatism, it is often a chronic disease, can not be cured for a while. Dampness in the subcutaneous, the formation of obesity, is also a bad health problem Why is the disease of modern people so complex, so difficult to treat? Because they have dampness in their bodies, and the evil qi outside the body is always entangled with the dampness inside and outside the body! Szechuan cuisine, which used to be prevalent only in the southwest of China, is now popular throughout the country? It is because Sichuan taste is spicy, before only living in the southwest of the heavy dampness of the people need to use it to dissolve the dampness in the body, now, the country has dampness in the body, all need spicy to dissolve, so we instinctively fell in love with Sichuan cuisine. There are sick people inside the body, is stubborn dampness; seemingly healthy people inside the body, there are also dampness ambush there waiting for an opportunity to act. So, how can you tell if you have dampness in your body? There is a very intuitive and convenient way, that is to look at the stool: 1, if the stool is not formed, long-term loose stool, there must be moisture in the body. 2, if the stool is formed, but after the stool always have some sticky on the toilet, it is difficult to flush down, this is also a manifestation of the body has moisture, because moisture has a sticky characteristics. 3, if it is not easy to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. If the stool is normal, a hand towel will be wiped clean. But people with dampness in the body, a hand towel is not enough, it takes three to five to wipe clean. 4, if there is constipation, and solve out of the stool is not shaped, that means that the body’s dampness has been very heavy and heavy, dampness sticky let the stool stick to the intestines, absorbed by the intestines, and do not let it out of the body. In this way, fecal poison into the blood, a hundred diseases, and general doctors often on the disease, and do not understand the root of the disease lies in the body’s dampness, haphazard treatment, which is a more terrible thing. 5, some people, every morning at seven o’clock when it is time to get up still feel very sleepy, think there is something wrapped around the head, so that people can not fight, or feel that there is something wrapped around the body, so that people are too lazy to move, then, without looking at the tongue, and do not need to see the stool, you can also determine his body dampness is very heavy. Chinese medicine says “wet heavy as wrapped”, this feeling of being wrapped is the body’s feeling of dampness, as if wearing a washed and undried shirt like so awkward. Dampness is the nemesis of modern health, is the source of most difficult and chronic diseases or accomplices. As long as the dampness is less, all the so-called modern diseases will be away from us, all the nasty, chronic diseases will also lose the existence of reliance. How to deal with dampness and get rid of it is one of the core contents of my future articles. Expel the dampness from your body and everything will be less disgusting. The actual fact is that it is a good way to get rid of dampness and paralysis, to benefit the intestines and stomach, to reduce edema, to strengthen the spleen and stomach, and to lighten the body and benefit the energy. The red bean is red, red into the heart, so it can also nourish the heart to nourish the blood, ancient texts record that it “long take people thin”, that is to say, often eat red bean and weight loss effect. It also has obvious effects of water, swelling, spleen and stomach. Modern people are mentally stressed, the heart is deficient; diet is not controlled, less exercise, spleen deficiency dampness. To remove dampness, but also to nourish the heart, but also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, it is barley and adzuki beans. The purpose of boiling them into porridge is to make its active ingredients fully absorbed by the body, while not causing much burden to the spleen and stomach. The summer is just the time of summer heat, internal and external dampness, using these two herbs can play a role in nourishing the blood and dispelling dampness. To get rid of dampness in the body, the method is very simple, only two “medicine”. These two medicines can be drunk as tea, can be eaten as a meal, and can solve the big problem. One is barley, one is adzuki beans. These two things, not according to what proportion, each time the same grab a handful, washed and put inside the pot with water boiling. After boiling is to go to the dampness and spleen of the good product – barley adzuki bean porridge. There are a lot of skills and instructions to boil barley and red bean porridge. Barley is very hard, adzuki beans are also very hard, if put in the pot has been simmering, probably simmering for more than an hour is not rotten, it is a waste of fire or electricity, and may also boil the water dry, resulting in paste bottom. So cooking method by the delicate: first soak barley and adzuki beans for a few hours, then put in a pot with enough water, boil and turn off the fire, let the barley and adzuki beans in the pot smothered for half an hour, then add fire, boil and then smothered for half an hour, adzuki beans porridge is cooked. If you have a pressure cooker, just soak it and cook and press it for a while. The barley adzuki bean porridge has the advantage that how to boil will not be sticky and thick, always the bottom is boiled down adzuki bean and barley, the top is light red soup, barley and adzuki bean active ingredients most in the soup. It is this not sticky and light phase that can achieve the effect of clearing heat and dispelling dampness. Since a lot of water is put in the porridge when boiling, these soups may be enough for us to drink for half a day, just in time to drink as tea. If it is summer, you have to fight to finish it in the morning, the heat is easy to rancid in the afternoon. The sunken bottom of those barley and adzuki beans can still eat, if you think the taste is not so good, you can mix some sugar. This is not both a tea and a meal, right? About the “swelling” effect of barley and adzuki beans, also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Around ten inside at least five or six body fat, which is also swollen, called bloated body. In Chinese medicine, whether obese or edema, it means that the body has wet, water can not flow with the qi and blood, stagnant in the body between the cells, so that the body swells up quickly. Edema is so, obesity is also so, only the degree of depth. The medicine or food with strong dampness can get rid of the water fluid that stays in the body, so it can also reduce swelling. Therefore, the treatment of edema must be used adzuki beans, and practice has proved that barley adzuki bean porridge has good weight loss effect, both to lose weight, and not hurt the body. Especially for middle and old age obesity, the effect is especially good. Often people are smart and say to me, “I added a small amount of rice when boiling barley adzuki bean porridge, the result is that the porridge is thickened, the taste is called a beautiful ah!” I said, “Never add rice to it!” Why? Because rice grows in water, contains moisture, wet sticky, so, rice a boil on the thick. The red beans and barley are damp, itself does not contain wet, so they how to boil not thick, the soup is very clear. Chinese medicine is precisely the use of its clear nature, to get rid of the body’s wet. Once you add in the rice, you add in the dampness, so the whole porridge is thickened. Although the taste is better, but for health is not good, because of the handful of rice, all the adzuki beans, barley are wasted, the efficacy of all. There are also friends ask me if everyone can drink barley adzuki bean soup, is there a contraindication? In fact, this soup is a good health product, there are no side effects, but for different people, it is appropriate to do some additions and subtractions. Some people are cold, you can add a little warm food, like cinnamon, dates can be; some people insomnia, the body also has a clear feeling of dampness, then add some lotus seeds, lily; if women have menstrual pain, you can remove the barley, boil some adzuki bean soup, plus some ginger, dates, brown sugar, drink to warm the abdomen, but also to relieve pain. If you have joint pain, add some raw white peony, raw licorice, sour and sweet yin to nourish the blood and remove paralysis. People who think and hurt their minds, overwork their hearts and exercise less often have no blood on their faces and are not energetic enough, even palpitations, sleepiness, feeling heavy in the head like a wrap, and emptiness in the heart. This is the manifestation of dampness in the body plus the lack of heart energy, you can add some cinnamon to barley and red bean soup and cook it together. The sweet and warm cinnamon can open the stomach and strengthen the spleen, calm the mind and replenish the blood, invigorate the heart yang and warm the heart qi, making people full of energy and vitality. Moreover, the taste of simple barley and chiaotou soup is very general, after adding cinnamon, it becomes sweet, lightly sweet, and it not only dispels the dampness in our body, but also brings vitality and warmth to our heart. Let’s call it barley and red bean and cinnamon porridge, it is especially suitable for strong laborers, but also very suitable for middle-aged and elderly people. Young people are prone to irritability and insomnia, or red rash and pimples on the face, which are caused by the upper jiao heart and lung fire and internal disturbance of damp heat. Washing the face with barley and red bean soup has a miraculous effect, or adding lily and lotus seeds in barley and red bean soup to drink together. The lily can moisten the lungs, nourish the face, and can clear the heart fire and calm the mind. The lotus seeds can best nourish the heart and clear the heart fire, and at the same time strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidneys. Of course, if you feel that the soup does not have much flavor, you can also add some rock sugar. If you have a cold and flu, or if you have cold in your body, cold pain in your stomach and poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to barley and red bean soup. Ginger is warm in nature and can warm the middle and dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and stomach. Note that the ginger should not be put more, more will make the porridge become spicy. If you want to add some seasoning to the soup, it is best to put brown sugar, which is warm in nature. It is important to note that when women take care of themselves after childbirth, they should drink chicory barley soup without barley, and can add some dates to it, which are very suitable for warming the middle, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the blood. People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans to barley chicory bean soup. Because black into the kidney, the shape of the bean is also very similar to the kidney, the shape to complement the shape, is a good product for the kidney. Nowadays, people often say that the foot disease is typical of damp heat injection. You can add some crushed soybeans to the barley and red bean soup and soak your feet in the boiled soup, which is a small recipe for foot fungus. If coughing, you can also peel and core the raw pear cut into small pieces of 1 to 2 cm square, add barley and red bean soup with cooking, can moisten the lungs, phlegm, cough. Learn to add and subtract variations of barley and red bean soup, the proper use of most common diseases in life can play a very good treatment effect.