People with deficiency and cold "drink more hot water"
Chinese medicine believes that warm drinking into the stomach can warm the earth's yang and promote digestion and absorption, blood circulation and metabolism. Therefore, it is beneficial for people with deficiency-cold constitution or peace to drink more hot water.
Jin Yan, an attending physician in the Department of Preventive Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that not only hot water, hot soup and most warm foods can dispel cold, especially those with deficiency-cold constitution. The elderly, children, pregnant women and other people with weak gastrointestinal function can drink some hot water in the treatment of some cold diseases, which can play an auxiliary role in treatment. For example, drinking hot water or hot ginger soup can accelerate blood circulation, fight viruses, replenish water, and help reduce fever and dispel cold. For example, Guizhi decoction is a classic prescription for treating exogenous wind-cold and emphasizes drinking hot porridge to help sweating and relieve exterior syndrome. However, women will have abdominal chills during menstruation. Drinking hot water can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. You can also drink hot soup and hot brown sugar ginger tea to relieve menstrual discomfort.
However, Jin Yan reminded that people with heat constitution who usually have symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, dry eyes, hot urine, yellow urine and dry stool are suitable for drinking water at room temperature.
The optimum temperature is 35℃ ~ 40℃
Even if it is a physique suitable for drinking more hot water, or a disease of drinking more hot water, how hot is the so-called "hot water" to be effective?
For the average person, drinking water at 35℃ ~ 40℃ is the most suitable. The temperature of human gastrointestinal tract is about 37.5℃ ~ 38℃, which is close to the temperature of human internal environment and will make the gastrointestinal tract more comfortable. People who are afraid of cold can choose to drink water with a slightly higher temperature, but it is best not to be higher than 50℃. Chinese medicine pays attention to the word "degree", which is too late. Drinking hot water has a certain health care function, but it can't cure all diseases. It depends on physical fitness. Drinking hot water is not equal to drinking hot water. Not that the hotter the water, the better. We must pay attention to the water temperature, Jin Yan said. (Cai Weiyang, Zhang, Suo Zhuoqi)