Sweating is another method to treat winter diseases in summer besides acupuncture and cupping. It can diminish inflammation, kill virus, activate cells, adjust the acid-base balance of human body, promote the opening of sweat glands, expel a lot of sweat, eliminate toxic blood stasis in the body and strengthen metabolism.
Chinese medicine believes that summer is hot and rainy with heavy humidity. Excessive humidity can lead to disease. After the disease is caused by excessive dampness, patients often have dizziness, heavy head, lazy limbs, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, loss of appetite, thick and greasy tongue coating and other symptoms. Besides, many people like to eat cold drinks in summer. If they eat too much, it may damage the yang of the human body and lead to excessive water in the body. By steaming, you can get rid of moisture in your body and keep healthy in hot summer.
Regulatory effect:
1, improve the body's microcirculation system.
2. Reduce fat and lose weight.
3. Regulate neurohumors.
4, anti-inflammatory, analgesic.
5, detoxification.
6. Beauty.
7. Enhance immunity.
8. Relieve fatigue and improve sleep.
Benefits of steaming in dog days
1, deep sweat. The temperature is high in summer, and the human body mainly perspires through eccrine glands. Sweating mainly plays a role in regulating body temperature. Traditional Chinese medicine fumigation can make the medicine reach the affected area quickly and achieve the effect of deep perspiration.
2. Adjust yin and yang. There is a saying in Chinese medicine: "Nourish yang in spring and summer, nourish yin in autumn and winter, balance yin and yang, and live a healthy life." In summer, people live in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, such as bedrooms, cars, shopping malls, banks, offices and so on. Over time, it will inevitably destroy the balance of yin and yang in the human body. Sweating can effectively balance the yin and yang of the human body.
3, detoxification and beauty. Summer is hot, rainy and humid. Excessive humidity can lead to disease. Too much humidity is prone to dizziness, heavy head, sore limbs, heavy body pain, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and other symptoms. Sub-healthy people have poor natural adjustment ability and are prone to get sick. Keeping healthy by steaming can also effectively eliminate moisture in the body.
4. Remove heat with heat. Summer is hot, and the temperature is close to the human body temperature. Sweating is the main way for human body to dissipate heat. If you use heat to remove heat, it is also a better way to keep in good health. In the steaming room, the human body will take away excess heat in the process of sweating a lot, and it will feel cooler after walking out of the steaming room.
5, beauty freckle, detoxification and beauty. In summer, the skin is prone to oxidative aging under the long-term influence of ultraviolet rays, resulting in freckles and black spots, and the skin is dull. Health preservation through steaming can improve the antioxidant capacity of the skin and effectively excrete the stains deposited on the bottom of the skin.
6. It is advisable to steam for 30_45 minutes each time. The time for the elderly and children should be shortened by themselves, and the time for the first steaming should also be shortened. It can be used for "common cold diseases" such as rheumatism, lumbago and leg pain, tracheitis and chronic bronchitis, as well as beauty and skin care, slimming, irregular menstruation of women, climacteric syndrome, etc.
Matters needing attention in summer sweat steam
Precautions:
1, shower and remove makeup before use.
2, should not be used for supersaturated fasting.
3. Drink proper amount of warm water before use, and replenish it as needed during use.
4. Do not wipe or rub your body during use. Sweat can be wiped with a towel.
Don't catch a cold within 6 hours after use, and don't eat cold drinks within 2 hours.
Not suitable for people:
1, hyperthyroidism.
2. Pregnant women, infants and healthy children.
3. Cancer population.
4. There are foreign bodies such as steel plates or steel nails in the body.
5. People with skin diseases.
6. Patients with heart bypass, stent or severe heart failure.
7. Infectious diseases.
8. Excessive drinking and bioelectricity.
Note: for the elderly and infirm, it is recommended to use it with family members.
There is moisture everywhere.
1. Head: If your body is wet, you will feel dizzy, just like feeling heavy and uncomfortable.
2, tongue coating: thick and greasy tongue coating is a classic manifestation of wet disease, often when the body has not shown outstanding pathological conditions. After brushing your teeth in the morning, observe whether the tongue coating is thick and greasy. If it is, it is wet. The normal niche is thin and white moss.
3, skin: people with heavy moisture, the skin will feel itchy, like fleas crawling in the body, generally uncomfortable, with hands, red pimples, like being bitten by mosquitoes. However, it will disappear after a long time.
4. Joints: When wet pathogen hurts joints, some qi and blood will not run smoothly, and the joints of limbs will be severely sore, which is unfavorable for joint flexion and extension.
5, defecation: people with heavy moisture will have symptoms such as turbid urine, thin stool, excessive female leucorrhea, genital itching and so on. If the stool is formed, the heavy moisture will make the stool sticky, it is difficult to flush the toilet, and more toilet paper is needed to clean it.
6, mental state: people with heavy moisture often have a feeling of chest tightness, want to take a long breath to be comfortable, the body is particularly tired, too lazy to move, have a feeling of dizziness, easy to get sleepy, memory decline.
7. Appetite: People with heavy moisture will have an affected appetite, do not want to eat, have a bad appetite, have chest tightness and abdominal distension, eat less, and have symptoms of qi deficiency and dampness such as light mouth, sticky mouth, thirst but no desire to drink water, fatigue and weakness.
Sweat glands have not been opened yet.
The first time I go to steam, I may have pimples on my face, and my pores are blocked badly. My sweat glands have not been opened yet, and I will sweat a little when I steam, or I will blush and not sweat.
Countermeasures:
(1) Clean pores before steaming; (2) Sweating for many times makes sweat glands open;
Steam a few times more, and the sweating rate will increase. Moreover, with the increase of the number of times of steaming, the sweat does not smell after sweating, because it has reached the fat layer, and the whole body will feel relaxed and the skin will be smooth after steaming.
Deficiency and cold of constitution
Frequent sweating but little or no sweating may be caused by deficiency of qi and blood, cold constitution and kidney yang. Due to deficiency-cold constitution, there are often cases of poor blood circulation, cold limbs and fear of cold.
Countermeasures:
Pay more attention to diet and eat warm mutton for conditioning.
Attention! People with kidney deficiency should not sweat for too long, and don't shout on an empty stomach, otherwise they will get dizzy easily.
Underdeveloped sweat glands
The sweat glands are underdeveloped, or the sweat glands are congenital dysplasia. The metabolism of Xincheng is slow, heat-resistant, and it is not easy to sweat when steaming.
Countermeasures:
(1) Hyperhidrosis sweat steam regulates metabolism; (2) Drink more hot water when steaming, which helps to raise body temperature and promote perspiration;
Heavy moisture in the body
The moisture in the body is too cold, the distribution and volatilization of water and liquid are blocked, and steaming is not easy to sweat. In this case, insisting on steaming can force out the moisture and cold at the joints of the body, let the body absorb the hot air, and achieve the effect of conditioning the circulation.
Countermeasures:
(1) Exercise more when the humidity is high; (2) Eat dampness-removing foods, such as Coix seed and Euryale ferox seed.
Why do you always sweat?
This shows that there is moisture in your body, which is more serious and you sweat more than others. If there is moisture in the body, you may wish to sweat more to help eliminate moisture in the body. Heavy moisture in the body will cause certain harm to the body and have an impact on the body. You can exercise more at ordinary times.