Exercise can relieve stress, activate the operation of body organs and accelerate the excretion of water.
Modern people use more brains, consume less physical strength, wait for a long time in a closed air-conditioned room, and seldom sweat, so the body's ability to adjust humidity becomes worse. Try running, walking, swimming, yoga, Tai Chi and other "breathe a little, sweat a little" exercises, which will help activate blood circulation and enhance water metabolism.
Diet is light and moderate
Gastrointestinal system is closely related to nutrition and water metabolism, and the best way is a reasonable and balanced diet.
Oily foods such as wine, milk, fat meat and thick taste are not easy to digest, which is easy to cause bloating and inflammation. Sweets and fried products will make the body produce peroxide, which will aggravate the inflammatory reaction. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold food, ice products or cool fruits and vegetables will stagnate the digestion and absorption function of the stomach and should not be eaten in unlimited quantities. Such as lettuce salad, watermelon, Chinese cabbage, bitter gourd and so on. It is best to add onions and ginger in cooking to reduce the coldness of vegetables.
Add a dish for removing dampness: red beans and barley with pumpkin and yam.
Coix lachryma-jobi seed, called "Coix lachryma-jobi seed" in Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. It can eliminate dampness and benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and can strengthen the body and replenish qi if taken for a long time. Red beans, known as "adzuki beans" in Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic and detumescence effects and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because they are red, they can nourish the heart. Modern people have great mental stress, lack of heart-qi, improper diet, little exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the only ones. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, while not causing any burden to the spleen and stomach.
The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean refers not only to edema, but also to obesity. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet. Water can't flow with qi and blood and stay between human cells, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, so is obesity, but the degree is deep and shallow. Drugs or foods with strong dampness-removing properties can discharge these residual water in the human body, and can also reduce swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and obese people.
Barley and red bean porridge can be added with yam or pumpkin.
Yam is sweet and flat, benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen. Its amylase, polyphenol oxidase and other substances are beneficial to the digestion and absorption function of the spleen and stomach, and can be used as medicine. In addition, yam itself contains almost no fat; It contains a lot of mucin, which can prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular system, prevent arteriosclerosis, enhance human immune function, delay cell aging and strengthen kidney.
Pumpkin is rich in carotene, B vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and other ingredients, and it is a master of invigorating the stomach and promoting digestion. Pectin contained in pumpkin can protect gastrointestinal mucosa from the stimulation of coarse grains and is suitable for people with stomach diseases. Moreover, the ingredients contained in pumpkin can also promote bile secretion, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and help food digestion.