According to traditional Chinese medicine, dampness is one of the six evils, and after invading the human body, dampness can obstruct the body’s qi, damage the spleen and stomach, and even combine with other evils to cause disease, so it is necessary to get rid of the evils in a timely manner.
1. Obstructing qi: dampness obstructing qi can be manifested as head and body sleepiness, body fatigue, drowsiness. Dampness also has the characteristics of being sticky and lingering, heavy and turbid, and tends to go downward (dampness tends to attack the lower part of the body, such as the pubic area and both lower limbs), which can cause diseases such as heavy diarrhea and cloudy urine, which need to be treated in a timely manner.
2. Damage to the spleen: Chinese medicine believes that the spleen, good dryness and evil dampness. Dampness invades the body and damages the spleen and stomach, causing dysfunction of transportation and digestion, leading to symptoms such as dullness (lack of appetite and reduced food intake), nausea, and loose stools.
3. Combination of other evils and concurrent diseases: Dampness can also be combined with wind, cold, heat, phlegm, poison and other evils. The formation of different symptoms, such as wind-dampness, cold-dampness, water-dampness, phlegm-dampness, etc., each with a different symptomatic manifestations, will cause discomfort in the body, and therefore the need to dispel dampness in a timely manner.
Dampness can cause disease, so we need to dispel dampness treatment in time, how to dispel dampness correctly needs the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners, to avoid the risk of causing damage to the organism.