Among the evils of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire, TCM is most afraid of dampness.
Wet is the easiest to penetrate. Damp evil never fights alone, but always colludes with other evil spirits. Moisture becomes cold and wet when it meets cold, just like winter. If the climate is dry, no matter how cold it is, people can still accept it, but if the humidity is high, people will feel very uncomfortable. Winter in the south is more uncomfortable than winter in the north, because the humidity in the south is heavier and the cold and dampness attack people. When moisture is hot, it becomes wet, just like a sauna day in summer. It's hot and humid, which makes people breathless. It's obviously not as good as when the sun is shining and the climate is dry. When moisture meets the wind, it becomes rheumatism, which is easy to drive away the wind, but once it becomes rheumatism, it is often a chronic disease that cannot be cured for a while. When moisture is under the skin, it will form obesity, which is also a difficult health problem to deal with. ...
Why are the diseases of modern people so complicated and difficult to treat? Because the body is wet, the pathogens outside the body are always intertwined with the moisture inside the body! Sichuan cuisine, which used to be popular only in southwest China, has now become popular all over the country? It's because Sichuan flavor is spicy. In the past, only people living in the southwest with heavy dampness and evil need to use it to dissolve the moisture in their bodies. Now there is moisture all over the country, and everyone needs spicy food to solve it, so everyone instinctively falls in love with Sichuan food.
(1) If the stool is not formed, the loose stool will be wet in the body for a long time.
(2) If the stool is formed, but after the stool is finished, there will always be some sticking to the toilet, and it is difficult to flush it down. This is also a manifestation of moisture in the body, because moisture is sticky.
(3) If it is inconvenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. If the stool is normal, a piece of toilet paper will be wiped clean. But for people who are wet inside, one piece of toilet paper is not enough. It takes three to five pieces to clean it.
(4) If there is constipation and the stool is not formed, it means that the moisture in the body is already very heavy. The viscosity of moisture makes the stool stick to the intestine and be absorbed by the intestine, but it is not allowed to be excreted. In this way, dung poison into the blood, all diseases arise, and ordinary doctors often talk about illness, but do not understand that the root cause lies in the moisture in the body, which is even more terrible.
Methods of eliminating moisture in the body
Dampness is the bane of modern people's health and the source or accomplice of most intractable diseases and chronic diseases. As long as there is no moisture, all so-called modern diseases will be far away from us, and all disgusting chronic diseases will lose their dependence on existence. How to deal with dampness and eliminate dampness?
1, drink glutinous rice and red bean porridge (made with soymilk machine):
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 adzuki bean is red, and red enters the heart, so it can also nourish the heart and blood. It is recorded in ancient books that "slimming after long service" means that eating adzuki beans often has the effect of losing weight. It also has obvious effects of diuresis, detumescence and spleen and stomach strengthening. Modern people are under great mental pressure and lack of spirit; Poor diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, it is none other than coix seed and red bean. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, and at the same time it will not cause too much burden on the spleen and stomach. Summer is just a hot summer, wet inside and wet outside. Using these two drugs can just nourish blood and eliminate dampness.
The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and adzuki bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. At least five or six people around are fat and swollen, which is called edema. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet, and water can't stay between somatic cells with the flow of qi and blood, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, and so is obesity, but to different degrees. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidification function can discharge these watery liquids remaining in the human body and also reduce swelling. Therefore, adzuki bean must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that the glutinous rice adzuki bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body. Especially for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is particularly good.
People often think they are smart: "I added a handful of rice when I cooked glutinous rice and red bean porridge, and the porridge became thicker. It was a wonderful taste!" " "
I said, "Never add more rice!" Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it will thicken when cooked. Both adzuki bean and coix seed are dehumidified and contain no water, so the soup is not strong and clear. Traditional Chinese medicine just uses its clarity to get rid of the dryness and dampness of the human body. Once rice is added, it is equivalent to adding water, so the whole porridge is thick. Although the taste is better, it is not a good thing for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and barley were wasted, and the effect was useless.
Is it possible for everyone to drink barley and red bean soup? Are there any taboos? In fact, this soup is a good health care product without any side effects, but it can be appropriately added and subtracted for different people.
Some people are cold, so you can add a little warm food, such as longan and jujube. Some people suffer from insomnia and their bodies are obviously wet and greasy, so add some lotus seeds and lilies; If a female friend has dysmenorrhea, you can remove the coix seed, cook some red bean soup, add some ginger slices, jujube and brown sugar, and drink it to warm the lower abdomen, which can also relieve the pain. For patients with joint pain, add some raw Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Glycyrrhizae to make them sweet and sour, nourish yin and remove arthralgia.
People who are worried, overworked and do little exercise on weekdays often have a dull face, lack of energy, and even palpitations and drowsiness, feeling heavy as a bundle and empty inside. This is a sign of wet body and weak heart. You can add some longan to the highland barley and red bean soup and cook it together. Longan is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, soothe the nerves, replenish blood, nourish the heart and yang, warm the heart and make people full of essence. Moreover, the simple glutinous rice and red bean soup tastes very ordinary, and it becomes sweet and slightly sweet after adding longan. It not only dispels the moisture in our bodies, but also brings vitality and warmth to our hearts. Let's call it glutinous rice red bean longan porridge, which is especially suitable for manual workers and middle-aged and elderly people.