What to do with heavy humidity? Environment is important!

As the ancients say, “a thousand cold is easy to remove, a damp is difficult to go”, “dampness is sticky and turbid, such as oil into the surface”, indicating that the removal of dampness is a chronic process, and the diseases caused by dampness are generally chronic, stubborn diseases, and even malignant diseases. Dermatology many diseases are related to dampness, such as chronic eczema, urticaria, aspergillosis, ringworm, psoriasis, solar dermatitis, acne, etc.. At the same time, the dampness does not go, eat more tonic are like scratching the itch, the other side of the mountain to beat the bull. The traditional medicine of the motherland “the unity of heaven and man” concept, especially focus on environmental factors. Every day, people and the environment is in close contact 24 hours a day, all the time breathing air, so the environment and the human body is the closest relationship, sometimes the impact on the human body is not obvious for the time being, but the subtle influence is the largest, so pick a suitable for their environment, improve the local environment is very important. And water dampness for the yin evil, meet the cold is gathered, get warm began to move, get wind is dispersed. Therefore, the main points to note in daily life are: 1, living and working environment to keep clean and warm, ventilated and dry, at least half a day of daylight; 2, do not blow cold air conditioning immediately after sweating; do not wear damp undried clothes to avoid the invasion of cold and wet evil; 3, wet and rainy days to reduce going out. Humid season stay indoors for a long time can properly open the air conditioning dehumidification function to keep the air dry; 4, menstruation, postpartum to avoid wading in the rain and swimming, etc. Sleep dehumidification method 24 hours a day, one third to half of the time is spent in sleep, and the body needs to consume energy during the day, the night is to repair. If the sleep environment is wet, on the one hand, will affect the body’s self-repair, on the one hand, wet heavy people are less likely to drain wet, and more likely to feel wet evil. Water moisture tends to be under, so the bed should be separated from the ground, do not seal around the bed, to ensure that there is air circulation space. Do not sleep directly on the floor, because the moisture in the air will fall to the floor and wet heavy, easy to invade the body to cause limb pain and other diseases. Special small environmental therapy – aromatic wet method China has long known how to burn mugwort, calamus, etc. to drive away the epidemic and avoid obscenity, every year the Dragon Boat Festival in the south to wear incense bags, or hanging or smoked a variety of aromatic plants to refresh the air, disinfect the environment. Also put aromatic dampness class Chinese medicine such as patchouli, pelargonium, calamus, mugwort, etc. decoction after bathing, suitable for dispersing dampness in the body, modern pharmacology also found that these aromatic plants do have anti-virus, anti-bacterial, anti-ringworm efficacy. The ancients, especially the royal family, religious people and other commonly used to improve the indoor environment, often lit frankincense, incense, sandalwood, essential oils and other aromatic substances, to expel obscene gas, useful for meditation and tranquility, as the “Huangdi Nei Jing – the ancient heavenly truth” said “the spirit of internal security, the disease is safe from”.