Internal and external factors are intertwined, and dampness is very easy to cause disease.
"The normal balance of payments of the human body is destroyed, and the factors that cause diseases are nothing more than external or internal." She Shifeng explained that external evils include wind, humidity, cold and heat in nature. Dragon boat saves water and gets wet. Rainy and hot, high humidity, easy to become wet evil. Internal dampness, born from the inside, has an important connection with lifestyle, especially on the spleen and stomach.
"Lifestyle mainly refers to diet and living habits." She Shifeng analyzed that the fast pace of modern life often leads people to eat improperly, or overeat, or overeat fatty sweets, or overeat fast food, or be hungry and full. Fortunately, they stay up late, drink and smoke, which will damage the spleen and stomach for a long time, make the spleen and stomach dysfunction, reduce the function of transporting water and dampness, and the water stays in the body, thus producing dampness evil. In addition, Chinese medicine believes that fatty, sweet and greasy foods are not easy to digest and are easy to get wet and produce phlegm. Wine belongs to damp heat, which is extremely yin-heat product. Drinking too much is also easy to get wet; Cigarettes, on the other hand, are relatively dry and easy to hurt lung yin. Long-term smoking will cause lung dysfunction, water and liquid metabolism disorder, and it is also easy to cause phlegm and dampness.
Diet regulates dryness and dampness to prevent diseases.
"The rainy and humid season is very suitable for the growth of intestinal bacteria and molds, and it is easy to induce acute intestinal infectious diseases and food poisoning in summer, such as dysentery and diarrhea." In order to prevent the disease from entering the mouth, She Shifeng reminded that fruits and vegetables must be washed before eating; It is best not to eat overnight meals; The food taken out of the refrigerator is best eaten after the temperature rises or is heated.
At this time, the diet should be light and diverse, eat more nutritious fruits and vegetables and protein, and eat some ginger, onion, garlic and vinegar properly, which can not only sterilize and prevent diseases, but also strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite. At the same time, you can choose some foods that are helpful for dehumidification, such as coix seed, which is helpful for strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, tonifying the lungs and clearing heat; Loofah and papaya dredge collaterals and eliminate dampness; Portulaca oleracea helps to expel gastrointestinal moisture; Bamboo leaves, lotus leaves, and watermelon clothes are helpful for removing summer heat and dampness. In addition, eating bitter foods such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetables, lettuce, celery, lotus seeds and lilies is also a good choice. Or a small amount of pepper can also help to remove water from the body.
If you want to make soup, you must first look at the tongue "distinguishing dampness"
"Moisture" can be divided into cold dampness, damp depression and damp heat. She Shifeng reminded that it is necessary to carefully distinguish the types of "dampness" in order to eliminate dampness in a targeted manner. He suggested that the simple method of "distinguishing dampness" is to look at the tongue, and those with dull tongue quality and white greasy tongue coating are mostly cold and damp; The tongue coating with wet stagnation is thick, white and greasy, in which the red tongue is wet and trapped in the spleen, and the light tongue with teeth marks is spleen deficiency and wet stagnation; The tongue of damp-heat patients is bright red or crimson, and the tongue coating is yellow and greasy.
In view of the above different situations, he recommended the following wet recipes. Neighbors who want to boil away the moisture may wish to look at their tongues first and choose a suitable soup to try-
1. Ginger or pepper can be used to make soup for people who are cold and wet. For example, 30g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 30g of lentils, tip of pork belly, and appropriate amount of ginger or pepper can be decocted into thick soup with slow fire.
2. For people with spleen deficiency and dampness, 30g of adzuki bean, 30g of coix seed, 0g of apricot 10g, and 250g of lean pork can be used for seasoning and drinking after being decocted in water.
3. For those with spleen deficiency and dampness resistance, 30g Atractylodes macrocephala, 30g Poria cocos, 30g Lentils, and pork spleen 1 tablet can be decocted for seasoning and often drunk.
4. Patients with damp-heat can be decocted with Abrus cantoniensis 30g, Poria 30g, Radix Rehmanniae (or dried bitter gourd) 30g, lean pork 250g and oyster drum 10.