Even some seemingly professional Chinese medicine posts and some well-known Chinese medicine experts on the program have a well-organized theory of invigorating the spleen and eliminating dampness, but when it comes to eliminating dampness, it turns out to be a one-stop solution: glutinous rice and red bean soup.
Here, these experts ignore one of the most basic principles of Chinese medicine: "distinguish cold and heat first."
Under what circumstances can you use barley and red beans to get rid of dampness? ? It must be wet and hot. Cold and dampness are prohibited.
Regardless of cold and heat, whether it is true or false, Chinese herbal medicines or ingredients simply correspond to symptoms, which is the self-immorality of mainstream Chinese medicine after being westernized.
Steamed pear with Fritillaria cirrhosa for chronic cough, honeysuckle for sore throat, Ophiopogon japonicus for dry skin, mung bean and coptis root for oral ulcer, banana and honey for constipation, motherwort for dysmenorrhea, Platycladus orientalis leaves for dripping, donkey-hide gelatin for Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus for deficiency of qi and blood, Ziziphus jujuba seed for insomnia, Endothelium Corneum Gigeriae Galli for weakness of spleen and stomach, and Fructus Xanthii for headache.
What's the difference between this and infusion of cephalosporin when you have a fever? What are the core advantages of TCM's "syndrome differentiation and treatment"?
For cold and dampness, it is suggested to stew some yam porridge, soak feet, or moxibustion Zusanli, Zhongyu and Sanyinjiao.
Unnecessary fire
Too many people think that they get angry when they see acne. So: drink chrysanthemum tea or herbal tea, western medicine uses anti-inflammatory drugs or even water, and Chinese medicine opens fire-reducing tablets and Sanhuang decoction.
This is undoubtedly a disaster.
Fire should be distinguished from real fire and virtual fire. When the fire is real, you can drink chrysanthemum tea, herbal tea and cold medicine.
But virtual fire must not. In fact, from my clinical experience, probably because of lifestyle changes, the proportion of acne caused by virtual fire is much higher than that caused by real fire.
Too many women, who are moderately burned and cold, or who are hot and cold, will also develop acne. Because the stomach is too cold, the food can't be digested. If accumulated in the stomach for a long time, it will ferment. When the heat goes up after fermentation, it will become a hotbed for acne.
At this time, don't say that antipyretic drugs can't be used, and hot drugs will be used. People often see ginger in the medicine I prescribe, and they look stunned: doctor, I am getting angry. Can you prescribe ginger for me?
In this regard, not to mention ordinary people, not to mention western medicine, and even many Chinese medicine experts will say crazy.
The stomach, the "middle earth" of human beings, likes dryness and hates cold. It's a pity that people nowadays eat more ice and drink more cold, wantonly cool fruits and vegetables, abuse cold medicine, and turn Yangming's dry stomach into a mouthful of ice room.
Deficiency fire rises after stomach cold. Once you take anti-inflammatory drugs, a dozen infusion bottles and cold medicine, the bag on your face will flatten out, but once you stop taking the medicine, it will grow back after a while.
The reason is that this fire is often empty, it will be difficult to clear the fire and diminish inflammation, and it will make the stomach cooler. The stomach is cold, and the middle earth falls. If Middle-earth falls, all directions will be in a hurry.
The more "make up", the more sad it is.
Nowadays, many people will say that "Qi and blood are the best beauty products".
However, how to replenish qi and blood is often misleading.
In winter, in large and small pharmacies, Ejiao Guyuan ointment, Dendrobium, Cordyceps sinensis and other supplements are extremely popular. However, the price of Ejiao has skyrocketed, and so many women with good blood and good looks are still rare.
Not only are infertile people ugly, but other women suffering from pelvic inflammatory disease, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids and other diseases are also inevitably in a trough. In this case, how to strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits?
Spleen and stomach are the source of qi and blood biochemistry. The spleen and stomach are cold and wet, so there is no power of transport. If Chinese medicine abuses drugs such as Ejiao and Rehmannia glutinosa, it is as evil as western medicine abuses antibiotics.
If the spleen and stomach are not good, eating a bunch of tonics will not become nutrition, but will increase the burden on the body. Those indigestible tonics will accumulate in the body to do evil. On the contrary, because I ate more supplements, my face became worse.
Women are not made of water.
Many female friends report dry skin. Especially in winter, the calves are covered with white dander. The dark circles on the face are serious. Drink water and apply moisturizer. Your body and face are still dry.
Then the question is, why is the skin still very dry after adding so much water?
In fact, for many people, drinking too much water will make their skin dry and thirsty.
After reading this, it is estimated that many female friends will be confused. What logic is this? Drinking too much water will make the skin drier?
That's right.
Dry skin and thirst are due to lack of body fluids. However, body fluid and water are two concepts.
Simply put, the water that people drink needs to be digested and absorbed by the spleen and stomach before it can become body fluid. Digesting or evaporating water requires a lot of calories, which is much more difficult than digesting food and requires a strong spleen and stomach.
Otherwise, excessive phlegm, swollen face, bags under the eyes, eczema, poor sleep, fatigue, sallow complexion, sagging breasts, obesity, loose stool and menstrual bleeding may all occur, and even more serious diseases such as cysts and fibroids may be formed.
When drinking too much water is controlled, the problems of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness and dry skin can usually be solved.
Don't be poisoned by "detoxification"
Now people in the beauty industry like to say one word best: detoxification.
People who love beauty and health are also eager to "detoxify".
However, are these so-called "detoxification" really reliable?
There are two common ways to detoxify on the street.
One is steamed. It is said to be "dispelling cold and dampness, warming the body and promoting blood circulation, warming the skin and beautifying", which is in line with Chinese medicine and is suitable for everyone. Can the steaming hall not mislead people in the name of traditional Chinese medicine?
Sweating is just a channel for the human body to solve diseases, or "detoxification". Other methods include diarrhea and vomiting. Judging from the six meridians, the scope of application of simple sweating method is very narrow. Only suitable for sun disease, nothing else.
There is a clear text in Treatise on Febrile Diseases: "Don't sweat when you are young, but you will sweat." "You shouldn't sweat when you are young, and your pulse is weak, so you will die when you are young." ......
Zhang Zhongjing also listed many taboos about sweating, such as severe palpitation, slow feet, dry throat, sore throat, dysentery and bleeding.
Bad diseases caused by wrong sweating can be seen in many places. Friends, be careful.
Some people say they don't sweat, so it's time to sweat? Not necessarily. -"but syncope without sweat, and strong hair, will move its blood ... used for refractories. 」
The other is detoxification and beauty products.
Most of the products on the market are rhubarb, aloe and immature bitter orange. The essence is Chengqi decoction, that is, Xiafa.
Just like the sweating method in the steaming hall, the purgation method is only a way for the human body to detoxify, and it has a strict scope of application. Abuse must be harmful to health, and it must be heat poison.
But the advertisements for these products are so crazy that people can't eat.
Some people say that constipation can always eat detoxification products, right? Not necessarily.
Constipation can be divided into cold constipation and hot constipation. The former, you can't eat honey water, bananas or Chengqi decoction to relieve constipation.
This is also the reason why many people who have eaten detoxification and beauty products react. After eating for a few days, I felt that the detoxification was smooth, but it didn't take long for me to be constipated, and it was more serious than before.
Detoxification is necessary. However, we must clearly understand what poisons the human body has and what detoxification methods are available. Instead of taking one of them, it is regarded as a universal method.
If a woman wants to be beautiful and everyone wants to be healthy, we should correct the misunderstanding of beauty care. At the same time, we should change some bad habits in life.
Nowadays, many young people completely ignore the health care experience accumulated by their ancestors and blindly follow the example of westerners with hot constitution, such as eating ice and drinking cold, and even avoiding menstruation.
Usually, I often see young women showing their belly buttons in the street, thinking that they are very sexy, but the price of this sexy will be very heavy.
Shenque point and Mingmen point are exposed. Mingmen point is a big point where human yang gathers, and what is most needed is to keep warm.
Although skin and appearance are naturally different, good living habits can change appearance, and good temperament can cultivate health and beauty.
Pay attention to keep warm, exercise moderately, have a good mood, get enough sleep, don't stay up late, be less angry and think less. These are actually nourishing the liver, protecting the stomach and nourishing qi and blood. Probably because it is too simple, many female friends don't agree.
The simpler the truth, the more effective it is, but it is often easily overlooked.