Summer health first wet

â—Ž Director of Internal Medicine, Second Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Mao Yilin

Wetness is a very common pathogenic factor, and its formation has external environment and internal reasons. There are also many internal factors that contribute to the formation of wetness in the human body, such as excessive drinking, lack of exercise, and eating thick and sweet flavours. This leads to abnormal transport and spleen and stomach in the body, which creates internal humidity. In summer, the temperature is high, rainfall is high, and summer and wet are heavy. It is easy to attack the human body with external wetness.

You may wish to use the following methods to remove heavy body moisture and restore refreshed air.

Diligent exercise, lack of dietary control, and stress cause the body to remain wet. Exercise can relieve stress, activate body organs, and accelerate the excretion of moisture. Try jogging, walking, swimming, yoga, tai chi and other fitness exercises to help activate the blood circulation and increase water metabolism.

The use of aromatic, sweating and bitter temperature herbs, but also the use of plant fragrances to combat infectious diseases, is the wisdom of ancestors, such as southerners carry wormwood sterilization, to prevent infection. Or during the Dragon Boat Festival, Peilan, Shichangpu and Artemisia leaves are hung at the door of every household and removed for bathing. It can also be sterilized and sterilized.

Avoiding a wet environment It is best to reduce the exposure to moisture in everyday life. Especially for people who are sensitive to moisture, pay attention to it, such as not sleeping directly on the floor, getting wet and rainy, reducing going out, not wearing wet clothes, and taking water. Right amount and so on.

Diet and dampness The gastrointestinal system is related to nutrition and water metabolism. The best way is to eat a balanced diet. Liquor, fat, sweet, and other greasy foods are not easy to digest and can easily cause bloating and inflammation. Sweets fried produce peroxides and increase inflammation. Cold food, ice products or cool fruits and vegetables will make the digestion and absorption of the stomach stagnant, and should not be over-eating, such as lettuce salad, watermelon, cabbage, bitter gourd, etc. It is best to add onions and ginger during cooking to reduce its cold and cool nature.

Apart from the body's moisture, glutinous rice and red bean porridge is a good product. It can serve both as tea and food. Glutinous rice can cure phlegm, benefit stomach, eliminate edema, spleen and stomach, long service light weight Qi. Chixiaodou has obvious benefits of water, swelling, spleen and stomach, red into the heart, it also has its own function. Do not increase the rice in the glutinous rice.

In addition, the hot ginger soup sweating, the most suitable to disperse the body moisture after the rain to prevent colds; Bitter warm Chinese medicine ginger, but also like a slow fire, slowly force the body water to force out.

Sorghum, corn, barley, lentils, cress, onions, wax gourd, purslane, squid, abalone, snail, etc. These dehumidified foods have spleen and invigoration, eliminate summer heat and dampness, diuresis, dampness, heat and dampness, and ventilation. Detoxification, nourishing Yin liver effect, may wish to eat.