In summer, many people like to drink ice water, eat iced watermelons, and blow cold air conditioners every day, so the body moisture is generally heavy. If the humidity is heavy, it will harm the digestive function of our spleen and stomach, affect our appetite, and easily lead to loss of appetite, indigestion, or diarrhea and edema.
It's summer, and it's a good time to get rid of dampness. Now that it is clear that moisture is so harmful to our health, what should we do to help eliminate moisture from our bodies? Let's take a look at it next.
1. Foot bath
Soaking feet is a very good method to eliminate dampness, which can promote the blood circulation of the body and achieve the purpose of eliminating dampness. You can usually soak your feet with ginger, because ginger is hot and has the effect of eliminating dampness and warming your body. It is best to wash your feet before soaking your feet, and sweat after soaking your feet. Just wipe it off with a towel and don't take a shower.
Foot bath is a traditional health preserving method in China, and a good foot bath bucket is the most important. This century-old Ling foot bath bucket is made of all solid wood by hand. The height of the bucket fits the health needs of human feet, which can better care for the acupoints of the feet, reduce ankle pressure and relieve fatigue. You can soak it all year round. Now it is used to soak feet in summer, and the effect of eliminating dampness is better ~
Edible wax gourd
Wax gourd is a very common food in life. Cooking soup with wax gourd in summer is not only delicious, but also healthy. Drinking winter melon soup in summer can not only dispel dampness, but also induce diuresis and eliminate edema. It's hot every day in summer. Drinking more soup is good for your health. Winter melon soup tastes light and refreshing. I started to drink winter melon soup today.
If you are busy making winter melon soup on weekdays, it is also a good choice to replace soup with tea. For wax gourd lotus leaf tea, most people are well aware of its weight-loss effect. This kind of tea contains Chinese herbal medicines such as white gourd, lotus leaf, dried tangerine peel and cassia seed. Drinking it can not only get rid of dampness, but also relieve other problems in our body.
Edible red beans and barley
Red beans and barley are coarse grains and rich in dietary fiber. Everyone knows that red beans and barley can get rid of dampness. In fact, they can not only eliminate dampness, but also strengthen the spleen. It is also delicious to cook porridge with red beans and barley in summer. It is recommended not to add rice.
Boiled red beans in glutinous rice porridge are delicious, but for office workers, this red bean glutinous rice and poria cocos tea is more suitable. In this tea, there are red beans and glutinous rice, as well as poria cocos. The effect of eliminating dampness is better, and this tea comes with a tea bag, which can be brewed directly with boiling water. It can be finished in a few minutes, which is much more convenient than cooking at home. Ok, today's little health class is over. Have you all learned to get rid of dampness in summer?