1, sports
In summer, people get tired easily. The less physical exercise, the more moisture in the body, which leads to dampness and cold entering the spleen for a long time and causing physical diseases. Proper exercise every day can relieve stress, enhance organ function and accelerate the excretion of damp and cold. Running, walking, yoga and swimming are all suitable for summer.
Step 2 adjust your diet
The spleen and stomach environment is wet and cold, so you can't eat food that hurts the spleen and stomach in your diet. Such as cold drinks and cold dishes. Cold fruits and vegetables, such as watermelon and bitter gourd, should not be eaten more. Some seasonings such as onion, ginger and garlic can be added to the daily diet, which has the effect of eliminating dampness and dispelling cold.
Step 3 avoid humidity
Wet and cold accumulate in the body, and the body should avoid long-term contact with wet environment. It's hot in summer, so don't sleep on the floor directly. The invasion of floor moisture will cause pain in limbs and aggravate dampness and coldness. Don't put on wet clothes directly, change sweaty clothes in time.
4. Cupping
Cupping therapy is a common method of treating diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. Cupping can effectively dispel dampness, dispel cold, dredge meridians, promote qi and blood circulation, relieve swelling and pain, remove toxin and heat, and has the functions of regulating yin and yang, eliminating fatigue and strengthening body. Cupping therapy is relatively simple to operate and suitable for family health and dampness.
5, dampness and cold therapy
Barley and red bean porridge
Ingredients: 50 grams of coix seed, red beans 100 grams.
Practice: Wash barley and red beans and soak them in advance. Put Coicis Semen and red beans into a pot and bring to a boil. When the soup is boiled, add red dates. Turn to low heat and simmer until the red beans are cooked and soft.
6, jujube yam soup
Ingredients: red dates 10, about 300 grams of yam, some longan meat, and appropriate amount of sugar.
Practice: Wash red dates and soak them in advance. Peel the yam and cut it into small pieces. Put red dates and yam in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and cook until the ingredients are soft and rotten. Then add longan pulp and proper amount of sugar to the pot, and turn off the heat after the longan pulp is soft and rotten.
7. Symptoms of excessive water
1, header: When the cycle is eroded first, the header is the first part to be reflected. When dampness invades the body at first, it may appear dizzy and heavy, like being wrapped in a piece of cloth; Heavy body, heavy limbs, and general discomfort. There seems to be something attached to the body. In addition, there will be symptoms of exterior dampness, such as fever, slight fear of cold and runny nose, which are the hottest topics for women and middle-aged and elderly people in winter.
2, joints: if the body has eroded the joints, the joints will also have certain diseases, some qi and blood will not run smoothly, and the joints of the limbs will have severe pain and the joints will be unfavorable.
3. Digestion: Damp pathogen invades the spleen, endangering its normal transport and transformation, manifested as chest tightness, abdominal distension, anorexia, loss of appetite and deformities. However, when "internal dampness" is caused by spleen deficiency, symptoms of qi deficiency and dampness often appear, such as pale mouth, sticky mouth, thirst but no desire to drink water, fatigue and weakness.
4, urine and women bring it down, the stool will be thin: another feature of dampness is "down", which is easy to hurt people below the waist, TCM health, and the spleen is "wet". The characteristics of turbid urine, loose stool, excessive leucorrhea and pruritus in female private parts are classic.
5, tongue coating: thick and greasy tongue coating is a classic manifestation of wet disease, which is often manifested when the body has not shown outstanding pathological conditions. The tongue coating is the most accurate when you get up in the morning.
6, stool is not formed: loose stool for a long time, there must be moisture erosion in the body. There is always something sticking to the toilet after defecation, and it is difficult to flush it down. This is also a manifestation of moisture, because moisture has viscous properties. For people who are wet inside, a piece of paper is not enough after defecation. You have to use more pieces.