Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen can transport water and dampness. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness. If the spleen yang goes up, the spleen is healthy, the function of transporting water and dampness is normal, and dampness is not easy to cause disease. On the other hand, patients often suffer from dizziness, heavy head, sore limbs, heavy body pain, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thin stool, thick and greasy tongue coating and other symptoms. In order to prevent and reduce wet injury, we must pay attention to protecting the spleen. Only when the yang in the spleen and stomach rises can we effectively resist the invasion of dampness.
Therefore, at the turn of summer and autumn, we should pay special attention to the ventilation of rooms and workplaces; Dry your body and change clothes in time after wading in the rain; Don't soak in river water and swimming pool for a long time when the water is cold on cloudy days, so as to avoid external moisture invading the muscle surface and hurting people. In order to prevent internal dampness, don't eat too many cold fruits and vegetables, the diet should be light and easy to digest, and avoid being fat, sweet and greasy and overeating. In addition, using lotus seeds, barley, red beans, white lentils and other products to strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis to cook porridge in moderation can protect the spleen and stomach and get rid of moisture.
Thousands of years ago, Chinese medicine mentioned the influence of climate and environmental changes on the body, in which "dampness" was regarded as the key to trigger and aggravate diseases. Under normal circumstances, the human body has the ability to naturally adjust the changes of external temperature and humidity, but some people's health is affected by their constitution, diseases or bad living habits, which leads to the imbalance of water control system in the body and the inability to discharge water.
In addition, modern people exercise less, eat more, stay up late, and have great pressure, which will also cause gastrointestinal digestive function to be blocked and water metabolism to be unbalanced.
Too much water in the body can make people feel sleepy, heavy limbs, loss of appetite, cold hands and feet, rash, sticky face and even gastroenteritis.
Lack of exercise, uncontrolled diet and stress lead to moisture retention in the body.
As far as Chinese medicine is concerned, incense, sweat and bitter medicine are the magic weapons to eliminate dampness. It is the wisdom of our ancestors to use plant aroma to fight infectious diseases. For example, southerners wear wormwood to sterilize and prevent diseases. Or in the Dragon Boat Festival in May when the climate is warming and bacteria and viruses are emitted, cymbidium, Acorus gramineus and Artemisia argyi are hung at the door of every household and taken down for bathing, that is, to disinfect the air and drink water.
Modern pharmacy has also found that these aromatic plants do have antiviral effects, such as star anise, which is made into flu vaccine.
In addition, spicy ginger juice perspires sweat, which is most suitable for dispelling body moisture after being caught in the rain and preventing colds; Sweet ginger, a bitter and warm Chinese medicine, is like a slow fire, slowly forcing water and qi out of the body.
Chinese medicine teaches you to get rid of dampness.
But to really get rid of the moisture in the body, we should start from improving our living habits. Chinese medicine provides the following methods, so that you can easily get rid of the turbid and heavy moisture in your body and regain freshness.
No. 1 Qin Zhao movement
Exercise can relieve stress, activate the operation of body organs and accelerate the excretion of water.
Modern people use more brains, consume less physical strength, wait for a long time in a closed air conditioner, and rarely sweat, so the body's ability to adjust humidity becomes worse. Try running, walking, swimming, yoga, Tai Chi and other "breathe a little, sweat a little" exercises, which will help activate blood circulation and increase water metabolism.
The second measure is a light and moderate diet.
Gastrointestinal system is closely related to nutrition and water metabolism, and the best way is a reasonable and balanced diet.
Oily foods such as wine, milk, fat meat and thick taste are not easy to digest, which is easy to cause bloating and inflammation. Sweets and fried products will make the body produce peroxide, which will aggravate the inflammatory reaction.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold food, ice products or cool fruits and vegetables will make the digestion and absorption function of the stomach stagnate, and it is not easy to eat indefinitely. Like lettuce
Salad, watermelon, Chinese cabbage, bitter gourd, etc. It is best to add onions and ginger when cooking to reduce the coldness of vegetables.
The third measure is to avoid humid environment.
In addition, it is best to reduce exposure to humid environment in daily life. Especially for people who are sensitive to moisture, they should pay more attention to the following matters:
1. Don't sleep directly on the floor. The moisture in the air will drop, the floor will be wet, and it will easily invade the body, causing pain in the limbs. It is best to sleep in a bed at a certain distance from the floor.
2. Reduce going out in rainy days.
Don't wear wet clothes
4. Drink a proper amount of water
Heat-clearing and dampness-removing porridge
The raw materials are 30g of adzuki bean, 20g of white lentil, 20g of coix seed, 20g of Gordon Euryale seed, 0/0g of corduroy flower/kloc-,0/0g of rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae/kloc-and 0/5g of poria cocos/kloc-.
Preparation: Wash Rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae, Poria, Kapok, and Juncus Junci, fry in water to 2 bowls, remove residues to obtain juice, add Semen Phaseoli, Semen Lablab Album, Coicis Semen, and Semen Euryales, and cook into porridge.
Usage takes its temperature.
The curative effect is to clear away heat and promote diuresis. It is suitable for the symptoms such as dysuria, abdominal distension and nausea caused by summer heat.
Note: it is not suitable for people with dry stools.
Eating some hot noodle soup can make your body sweat moderately, which can take away the evil of summer heat and dampness in your body.
Xiaoshu Jianpi Qushi Decoction
composition
Candied dates, adzuki beans, ginger coix seed, lentils, kudzuvine root, Polygonatum odoratum and dried tangerine peel.
function
Clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, and consolidating the functions of excretion and digestive system.
Taking method
(2-4 portions) Put 6 pieces of lean meat, all soup and 6 bowls of clear water into the pot. Cook for about two hours and season with salt.
Mung bean and lily rice porridge
Raw materials: 30g of mung bean, 30g of fresh lily, 50g of rice kernel, 0g of japonica rice100g, and 80g of rock sugar.
Method:
(1) Wash nuts, mung beans and japonica rice and soak them for 20 minutes; Wash lily and cut into small pieces;
(2) Put mung beans and rice kernels into a boiling water pot, cook for a few minutes, and then cook with low fire until they bloom; Add japonica rice and lily, cook porridge and put rock sugar.
A typical diet porridge prescription for invigorating spleen, relaxing bowels and eliminating dampness in summer.
Salted egg and watermelon porridge.
Ingredients: loofah 100g, salted egg 1, cereal 50g, japonica rice 100g, sesame oil, chopped green onion, wine, salt and monosodium glutamate.
Method:
(1) Wash towel gourd, peel and dice: salted egg 1 cook, peel and dice; Wash and soak japonica rice for use.
(2) Put the japonica rice into a boiling water pot, boil it with low fire until the rice blooms, put oatmeal, diced loofah and salted eggs into porridge, add salt, wine and monosodium glutamate, sprinkle chopped green onion and drop sesame oil.
Has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing away lung heat, invigorating liver and spleen, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
Lotus root and lily soup
Ingredients: 100g, 50g lily, 80g rock sugar.
Method:
(1) Wash lotus root, peel and cut into filaments; Peel and shred the lily for later use.
(2) Put the shredded lotus root and shredded lily into a boiling pot, bring to a boil, and cook with low fire until juice, then cook the shredded lotus root and shredded lily until crisp and rotten, and add crystal sugar.
Summer nutrition soup for invigorating spleen and appetizing, clearing heat and preventing heatstroke.
The weather is hot, and the diet will change with climate change. To enjoy the benefits of dietotherapy in summer, you can choose some foods that remove dampness and clear heat to enhance your body's resistance.
At this time, the diet should gradually turn to light, and eat more fish, lean meat, bean products and dairy products with high protein content; Vegetables that are light and nutritious and can relieve summer heat and benefit qi should be selected, such as bean sprouts, tofu, mushrooms, fungus, kelp, eggplant, tomatoes and various green leafy vegetables. Ginger, pepper and other pungent and bitter vegetables should be eaten less or not.
When it is steaming, the pores of the human body are open and sweat a lot. Pay attention to hydration, and it is best to drink more cold water. Orange essence, pineapple essence, hawthorn essence, etc. You can drink it with cold boiled water, and eat less cold drinks such as popsicles and soda water. These cold foods are not only low in nutrition and high in calories, but also harmful to the spleen and stomach. People who are weak or prone to diarrhea should eat less.
Specifically, eating more adzuki beans has diuretic effect, wax gourd and lotus leaf can relieve summer heat and damp, and lentils can strengthen the spleen and damp. Bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, Malantou and other bitter vegetables can not only clear away heat, but also have nutrition.
In addition, we must "eat for the people." Some people are weak and afraid of cold, and cold foods such as mustard and watermelon should not be eaten more.
1 Jianpi Qushi Decoction
(2~3 people)
Materials: Rhizoma Dioscoreae (dry)10g, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae10g, Rabdosia rubescens10g, pig pancreas (pork belly) 300g, and appropriate amount of clean water.
Practice: Wash yam, Smilax glabra and rabdosia japonica, put them together in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water to boil, and then turn to low heat 1 hour to drink.
● Suitable for people with poor spleen and stomach.
2 He Zhonghua Wet Decoction
(3~4 people)
Ingredients: 30g kapok, 30g frangipani, 30g Sophora japonica, 30g Coicis Semen, 30g lean meat 100g, 30g fried lentils, and 30g dried tangerine peel or Amomum villosum 12g.
Practice: Wash kapok, frangipani, Flos Sophorae Immaturus, Coicis Semen, lean meat, fried lentils, dried tangerine peel or Amomum villosum, put them together in a casserole, add a proper amount of water, bring them to a boil with high fire, and then turn to low heat 1 hour.
● Suitable for people with damp-heat and spleen deficiency.
3 Qingre Qushi Decoction
(2~3 people)
Ingredients: Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae 250g, Radix Puerariae 250g, Semen Phaseoli 50g, Lentils 50g, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae half, and 8 bowls of water.
Practice: Smilax glabra is peeled and cut into sections, Radix Puerariae is peeled and cut into pieces, the materials are put into a pot and boiled for 3 hours.
● Suitable for removing bone fire, eliminating dampness, and clearing away heat and toxic materials.
4 Quail Qushi Decoction
(2~3 people)
Ingredients: 4 quails, 50g of coix seed and 50g of lily, and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Put quail, coix seed, lily and ginger together in a casserole, and add appropriate amount of water 1.5 hours.
● Suitable for clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, moistening lung and resolving phlegm.
5 Hengwei Qushi Decoction
(2~3 people)
Ingredients: 250g of pork, 0/0g of Spica Prunellae/KLOC-,0/0g of Herba Artemisiae Scopariae/KLOC-,and 2 slices of ginger.
Practice: fly the pigs around for standby; Put Spica Prunellae, Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens and Pork into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire first, and then turn to low heat 1.5 hours to serve.
● The soup not only clears away heat and promotes diuresis, but also clears liver heat, and has dietotherapy effect on diabetics.
6 Cao Gui Qushi Decoction
(3~5 people)
Ingredients: 500g tortoise, 200g pork, 250g fresh Smilax glabra and 6 red dates.
Practice: Put the tortoise, pork, Smilax glabra and red dates together in a casserole for 3 to 4 hours.
● It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying.