The ancients say “a deficiency of spleen, the lungs first”, too much dampness in the body, will make people feel sleepy body limbs heavy, no appetite, cold hands and feet, skin rashes, face sticky uncomfortable or even gastroenteritis, so how to determine their own body dampness heavy? Chinese medicine teaches you a few self-test way to see if your body is heavy in dampness? 1, when eating, gastrointestinal poor to the time to eat, there is no hunger, and do not want to eat anything? Eat a little something to feel bloated in the stomach? There is a vague feeling of nausea in the process of eating, as if the things you eat upwards? Guidance: According to the five elements of Chinese medicine, the spleen has the characteristic of “earth”, which can easily absorb water, so moisture entering the body is most likely to hurt the spleen. Self-checking the function of the spleen and stomach can reveal whether you have spleen dampness. The main function of the spleen is to digest and absorb the various foods and fluids we eat into our bodies, transforming them into nutrients that can be used by the body and providing energy for cellular metabolism. Most people experience a decrease in appetite and digestive function during the hot and humid summer months. However, there are some people whose appetite is not affected and who have a strong sense of hunger, yet they feel full immediately after eating, which is a sign of a strong stomach and a weak spleen, as well as a sign of spleen dampness. 2, early in the morning when washing, look at the face color and tongue swollen eyelids in the morning, or have lower eye bags? When looking in the mirror, you find yourself with a thick and greasy tongue? A fat tongue, or a tongue with obvious teeth marks at the edge? Guidance: The most accurate way to confirm if you have spleen dampness is to look at the shape of the tongue. Healthy people can usually develop the habit of regularly observing their tongue shape and compare it with some pictures of Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis to find out the clues of their health problems. In summer, people with spleen dampness often feel sticky inside their mouths and have a dull, yellowish complexion. 3. When going to the toilet, look at the shape of the stool Stool is thin and unformed? Do you have soft stools that are basically formed, and there is always something stuck to the toilet after the stool is finished that is hard to flush down? Do you always have the feeling that you can’t finish your stool? Guidance: One of the most convenient ways to confirm whether spleen dampness is present is to look at the stool. Normal stools are banana-like, soft and hard strips. If the stool is soft and sticky like an over-ripe banana, it is a sign of Spleen Dampness, which indicates abnormal digestive function of the body. When there is too much dampness in the body, urine is often manifested as not much urine, or even very little urine or painless urination. Some women have a high amount of leucorrhea, is also a manifestation of dampness. 4, feel, your body Diet and rest is the same as before, but the weight has increased significantly? Stiff joints, aches and pains when you wake up? Lower limbs edema? Guidance: people with heavy dampness may also gain weight significantly in a short period of time, and manifest signs of fat, more serious people will have problems such as edema of the lower limbs. 5, when working, look at the mental state Is there a feeling of chest tightness, want to take a long breath to be comfortable? Feeling heavy limbs or body or even have the feeling of body aches and pains? The body is particularly tired, lazy activities? Do your joints feel tight and inflexible when you move? Do you feel dizzy and unrefreshing in your head? Easily sleepy, sometimes with memory loss? Guidance: Ancient people say “when the spleen is deficient, the lungs will be exhausted first”, indicating that the functions of the spleen and lungs are interrelated and affect each other. When the spleen is deficient to a certain extent, the lung loses its nourishment, and the lung is prone to shortage of breath, lazy speech, shortness of breath and other manifestations of lung qi deficiency. Self-check tips: If you experience the following changes during cloudy and humid weather, it means that the dampness in your body is too heavy: poor intestines and stomach, mental discomfort, heavy limbs, skin rashes, and increased freckles. 6 ways to teach you to remove dampness in the body The 1st move: the lazier the more exercise The majority of people with heavy dampness in the body are people who eat a greasy diet and lack exercise. These people often feel heavy, limb weakness and reluctance to move, but the more you do not love exercise, the more dampness accumulated in the body, over time, it will inevitably lead to dampness into the spleen, triggering a series of illnesses. Exercise can relieve stress, promote the functioning of the body’s organs and accelerate the discharge of dampness out of the body. The second trick: a light diet in moderation The gastrointestinal system is related to nutrition and water metabolism, the best way is to moderate and balanced diet. Wine, milk, fatty and fatty food is not easy to digest, and it is easy to cause stuffiness and inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Sweet and fried food will make the body produce peroxide and aggravate the inflammatory reaction. Cold food, ice or cool fruits and vegetables, will make the digestive and absorption function of the gastrointestinal stagnation, should not often eat, such as lettuce, salad, watermelon, cabbage, bitter gourd, etc., it is best to add onion, ginger when cooking, to reduce the cold nature of vegetables. The 3rd trick: avoid environmental dampness Our body produces dampness, in addition to its own metabolic problems, a large part and the environment. Often in a humid, cold environment, it is easy to cause dampness invasion of the body. Daily life should pay attention to the following matters: 1, do not sleep directly on the floor. Heavy floor dampness, easy to invade the body, resulting in sore limbs. 2, wet and rainy days to reduce going out. 3, do not wear damp undried clothes, do not cover the damp quilt, after the shower to fully dry the body, blow-dry hair. 4, the room if the moisture is very heavy, it is recommended to open more windows for ventilation. If the outside moisture is also very heavy, you can also open the fan, air conditioning, with the help of these appliances to maintain the convection of air. The 4th trick: barley porridge, Huai Shan soup to get rid of dampness in the body, in fact, there are many foods we often eat can play a role. For example, barley, sweet and light cold, beneficial water and swelling, spleen and dampness, soothe the tendons and remove paralysis, clear heat and drain pus, etc.; red beans are flat, sweet and sour, have a spleen, diarrhea, water and swelling, barley and red beans cooked with water, can diuretic, dehumidification, and can even play a beauty effect. In addition, you can also choose red beans, Poria, Huai Shan, Radix Codonopsis, etc., into the soup material, or boiled into porridge, boiled water to drink, can be diuretic, dehumidification, especially effective for people with edema. It is worth noting that both methods have a diuretic effect and are not suitable for people who urinate a lot. The 5th trick: the wonderful use of onion, ginger, garlic forced out of the body dampness onion, ginger, garlic is not only a common seasoning at home, but also has irreplaceable medicinal value. For example, we can try to cook a bowl of hot and spicy ginger soup at home, with the wonderful effect of ginger soup to force out the dampness in the body, after the whole body sweating, the disease will be alleviated, this approach is also applicable to the prevention of colds after the rain.