1, eliminate the source of phlegm.
Human beings are closely related to nature. External climate changes, such as wind, rain, cold and humidity, also have an impact on the formation of phlegm. The elderly have lung deficiency, weak defense ability and weak disease resistance. If they encounter cold, they will lose their lungs and their lung fluid will condense into phlegm. If you feel hot and humid in summer in wet season, or the living environment is humid, it can cause the invasion of damp evil, block spleen yang, and make the water unable to turn into phlegm.
People who are good at keeping in good health should adapt to the changes of natural climate, morning and evening, geographical environment and so on. And take corresponding health care measures to prevent spleen and lung from being damaged by cold and dampness, and eliminate the source of phlegm, so as to maintain normal physiological functions.
2, in order to avoid damp heat and phlegm.
When the elderly are full of heat, phlegm and turbid lesions often appear due to boiling body fluid. Poor diet, often eating wine, meat, greasy, fried, spicy products, can help dampness and phlegm. Therefore, choosing the corresponding diet has a positive effect on preventing the production of hot phlegm and wet phlegm.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, selective cold and bitter foods, such as pears, loofah, bamboo shoots, kumquat, almonds and bitter gourd, have the functions of clearing heat, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. Eat less hot and humid products such as beef and mutton, crucian carp, longan meat, walnut meat and maltose. So as not to help damp-heat evil boil body fluid and turn it into phlegm.
Chinese medicine believes that obesity is related to qi deficiency, dampness and phlegm, and is prone to coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia and other diseases. In order to avoid phlegm disease, it is necessary to lose weight properly, control diet, eat less foods containing sugar and fat, and reduce calorie intake, which is the key to lose weight and reduce phlegm.
3. Seek Chinese medicine to eliminate phlegm and prevent diseases.
There is a saying in Chinese medicine that spleen is the source of phlegm. Phlegm turbidity is related to damp-heat and phlegm turbidity caused by spleen deficiency. Loss of spleen health is the main cause of phlegm retention. Because the spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, people with spleen deficiency can take Xiangsha Yangwei Pill or Xiangsha Liujunzi Pill to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach. The evil of phlegm-dampness has no place to transform qi.
The ancients said: "When people are old, they are easy to produce phlegm and drink alcohol, because healthy qi is insufficient. The root cause is spleen and kidney yang deficiency. " The application of Bawei Shenqi Pill can replenish the fire, stimulate the appetite of family members, guide the spring water to flow downwards and resolve phlegm by itself. Its effect of tonifying kidney and resolving phlegm is remarkable.
4. Tips for Eliminating Phlegm and Dampness
As a pathogenic factor, phlegm can cause many diseases. Therefore, ancient health care experts pointed out that the elderly should take some expectorants according to the changes of yin, yang, qi and blood of the body to remove the "time bomb" in the body and achieve the purpose of nip in the bud. Chinese patent medicines for preventing phlegm retention, such as Chen Er Pill, Xiaoshi Huatan Pill, Shunqi Huatan Pill, Jieshi Guntan Pill and Hong Ju Pill. , can be selected according to personal physical conditions. Only in this way can the body be strengthened, phlegm can not be produced, and evil can be avoided.
5. The main methods of resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness
1. Exercise sweating
Exercise sweating is a good way to get rid of moisture; Especially in summer, don't turn on the air conditioner and fan. Sweat in your body must come out, otherwise the humidity is too heavy and you will definitely get sick in winter.
Sticking to proper exercise every day is very beneficial to your health. Exercise can relieve stress, activate the operation of body organs and accelerate the excretion of water.
2. Diet therapy
Chinese medicine will use fragrant, sweaty and bitter herbs as a magic weapon to eliminate dampness. It is the wisdom of our ancestors to use plant aroma to fight infectious diseases. For example, southerners wear wormwood to sterilize and prevent diseases. Or in the Dragon Boat Festival in May when the climate is warming and bacteria and viruses are emitted, cymbidium, Acorus gramineus and Artemisia argyi are hung at the door of every household and taken down for bathing, that is, to disinfect the air and drink water.
Modern pharmacy has also found that these aromatic plants do have antiviral effects, such as star anise, which is made into flu vaccine.
In addition, spicy ginger juice perspires sweat, which is most suitable for dispelling body moisture after being caught in the rain and preventing colds; Sweet ginger, a bitter and warm Chinese medicine, is like a slow fire, slowly forcing water and qi out of the body.
Heat-clearing and dampness-removing porridge
Ingredients: 30g adzuki bean, 20g white lentil, 20g coix seed, 20g kapok, 20g Euryale seed, corduroy 10g, and Poria cocos 15g.
Production: Wash Radix Astragali, Poria, Kapok and Juncus Juncus, add water and fry to 2 bowls, remove residues to get juice, and add Semen Phaseoli, Semen Lablab Album, Coicis Semen and Euryales to cook porridge.
Usage: Warm clothing.
Efficacy: clearing heat and eliminating dampness. It is suitable for the symptoms such as dysuria, abdominal distension and nausea caused by summer heat.
Note: Not suitable for people with dry stools.