How to get rid of moisture and cold in dog days?
1, eat more food that can make you sweat and benefit water.
In dog days, eat more sweaty and diuretic foods, such as red beans, mung beans, wax gourd, watermelon and mung bean tea. Food allows us to excrete water from our skin and urine and promote our metabolism. In addition, we can drink ginger brown sugar water or coriander loofah soup to achieve the purpose of removing moisture through diet.
2. Eat foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness.
It is also helpful to eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Boiling porridge with adzuki bean, mung bean and lotus leaf, making tea with Herba Agastaches, Eupatorium odoratum and Rhizoma Atractylodis, and boiling water with ginger slices all have the effect of eliminating dampness. Although pepper can stimulate appetite and help digestion, it has a general effect of eliminating dampness.
Step 3 exercise more
In fact, the best way to get rid of moisture is to exercise more. Slight activity, our limbs slowly restore the yang of our body, then the moisture on our body will gradually dissipate. However, excessive exercise should be avoided, because in this way, moisture will be excreted with sweat, the metabolism of body moisture will be affected, and finally moisture can not be removed.
4. Insist on soaking feet with warm water
In dog days, because the weather is very hot, we usually take a bath every day, but few people soak their feet. Some people may suddenly get excited and want to soak their feet, but they can't stick to it. In fact, the hotter the weather, the heavier the moisture in the body, so it is very important to soak your feet. Soaking feet with warm water can stimulate many meridians in our gradual progress, thus playing the role of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, dredging meridians and activating collaterals. It is suggested that you soak your feet with 40 degrees warm water before going to bed, which can not only remove moisture, but also improve our sleep quality.
Misunderstanding of diet in dog days
1, drink more mung bean soup to relieve summer heat
For heatstroke prevention and cooling, many people like to drink mung bean soup. Although mung bean soup is good, don't drink too much, let alone drink it as water. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with cold constitution such as cold limbs, abdominal distension, diarrhea and loose stool should not drink more mung bean soup, otherwise it will aggravate symptoms and even cause other diseases. Especially for girls in menstrual period, it is not advisable to drink mung bean soup, so as not to harm the body and cause dysmenorrhea.
2, drink mutton soup tonic in dog days.
In dog days, many men like to go to the mutton soup shop to drink a bowl of mutton soup for tonic, but this method is not desirable. Mutton soup is not a tonic for most people. Drinking mutton soup in summer is only suitable for people with yang deficiency. Most people are in a sunny state in summer. Drinking too much mutton soup or eating too much mutton and venison can lead to dry stool and getting angry.
3. Drink beer as water
Summer is very hot, and many people like to drink beer as water. Studies have found that people who drink beer regularly tend to get fat, because the refreshing bitterness can stimulate the secretion of digestive juice, help digestion, increase appetite, make appetite wide open, eat more and increase calories.