When it comes to heavy dampness, we all think of barley, red beans, what boiled porridge, soup and other dietary therapy, however, the effect is always less satisfactory, in the end, what is the reason? To answer this question, we have to reacquaint ourselves with what Chinese medicine calls the “wet”. In fact, “wet” is not easy to detect, as if we say today is cloudy or rainy, the weather humidity, people feel very stuffy, but you can not directly see the existence of wet, Chinese medicine, “wet” is a state of diffuse water. Speaking of “wet”, we must also mention his brothers, one is “water”, one is “drink”, and another is “phlegm “, they are often called “water wet phlegm and drink”, what is the relationship between them, generally recognized wet gathered as water, water into drink, drink condensed into phlegm, so they only show the form of different quality, is essentially a thing, sometimes they are inseparable, it is difficult to separate, often collectively referred to as “water damp”, “phlegm damp”, “phlegm drink” and so on. We know that people are inseparable from water, healthy people water fluids in the body normal metabolism, and does not produce excess water dampness. Which organs of the body are involved in the normal metabolism of water? In fact, almost all the internal organs are related to the metabolism of water, but the closer relationship is the lungs, spleen, kidneys, the three organs and the spleen is the most important. Chinese medicine says that the spleen belongs to the earth, and in terms of the five elements, the earth can restrain the water, as the saying goes: “The soldiers come to block, the water comes to cover.” If the spleen is dysfunctional, problems will arise in the metabolism of water and fluids, which is called earth not restraining water, and water-dampness may accumulate in the body, thus affecting the normal physiological functions of the body. Spleen deficiency is often considered to be the root cause of water-dampness production, the source. What effects can water-dampness have on the body? The effects of water dampness are quite extensive. Let’s talk about common symptoms, such as dizziness like wrapping, this dizziness is like something wrapping the head around. Symptoms of the digestive system is also very obvious, such as light and tasteless mouth, no appetite, there are people who eat after the stomach bloating, feeling indigestion, and then the symptoms of bowel movements, manifested as unshaped stools (loose stools) or sticky and unpleasant, most people urinate is also not very smooth. In addition, there is a special manifestation of dampness, that is, thick and greasy tongue moss, stick out your tongue and take a look at the white layer on the tongue. Since the damp is so clearly understood, then why is it not easy to get rid of damp? It turns out that this wet he generally does not fight alone, often a gang, with which bad guys a gang? There is cold, there is also heat. We call it cold damp or damp heat. To treat cold dampness, we have to disperse cold dampness; to treat damp heat, we have to clear heat and dampness. At the same time, we have to see if there is spleen deficiency, there is spleen deficiency but also to strengthen the spleen, from the root to stop the production of wet. Of course, if there are other internal organs dysfunction, but also with the appropriate drugs to adjust. In general, there are three major methods to dry dampness, dampness, dampness, dry dampness commonly used bitter medicine, dampness commonly used aromatic medicine, and dampness commonly used light medicine. Therefore, both are damp, the treatment can be very different. Although the barley and red beans mentioned at the beginning of the article can dispel dampness, but they are only dampness drugs, and from the medicinal properties, they are on the cool side of the drug, if it is cold dampness, they can not cure, because “cold is hot”, cold diseases should be treated with hot drugs, cold dampness with cool drugs that is equal to adding insult to injury. If the spleen deficiency dampness, but also to strengthen the spleen, from the source of the problem to work, light dampness is not useful. Therefore, barley and red beans can not treat all the damp. The treatment of damp may seem simple, but it is not, it is a very professional issue, there are instructions to cure damp.