There is generally no “the hotter the day, the heavier the dampness” this statement, dampness heavy or not usually and the living environment, eating habits and so on.
1. Living environment: According to Chinese medicine, dampness is divided into external dampness and internal dampness, external dampness is generally related to the living environment, such as living in cold and wet place, or long time wading in the water, or where the rainy season is too long, etc., are prone to make the dampness evil take advantage of the weakness of the invasion of the human body, the appearance of dampness heavy performance.
2. Dietary habits: internal dampness is mostly caused by poor dietary habits leading to the weakness of the spleen and stomach. The spleen is the master of transportation (the spleen has the function of digesting food, absorbing food essence and water and transferring it to the whole body), and it can transport water and grain essence into qi, blood and fluid. If the patient’s spleen and stomach are weak, and his yang qi is insufficient, which results in the dysfunction of transportation of water and fluid and causes stagnation of water and dampness in the body, the dampness will be exacerbated.
It is recommended that patients with heavy dampness improve their environment and develop good living habits.