Zhang Zhongjing is the author of Treatise on Febrile Diseases. In his time, people were hungry and cold, and diseases were mainly cold pathogens, which could be directly treated with hot drugs. Nowadays, with the change of living environment, simple typhoid fever is rare. On the contrary, external cold and internal heat are intertwined, forming damp evil. The real cold syndrome is rare, mainly damp evil. Dampness is yin evil, which inhibits Yang Qi and hinders qi movement. In other words, in the era of yang deficiency, dampness is at work. There is a strange phenomenon, that is, patients with real colds are rarely seen in winter, but they are everywhere in summer. Modern people live in an environment with heating in winter and air conditioning in summer, and their feelings about the four seasons are becoming more and more unclear. When sweating in summer, because of air conditioning, sweat can't volatilize and accumulate in the body; Heating in winter, sweating in light clothes, full of yang, can not hide essence. If you don't hide essence in winter, you will get sick in spring. In this environment, the human body is most prone to get sick, the skin opening and closing function declines, and the ability to resist evil spirits is getting worse and worse, which easily leads to the accumulation of dampness and evil spirits in the body, resulting in yang deficiency. Damp pathogen is more harmful to human body than cold pathogen. In hot summer, people covet air conditioning, like to drink cold drinks and eat cold dishes. A glass of cold beer is cold from head to toe from the inside out. As everyone knows, in order to covet the swiftness of this moment, at the same time, dampness is deeply buried in the body, which has become a hidden danger that puzzles our health. July and August every year is called long summer, when moisture is in season, the spleen in the human body corresponds to it. Dampness is also called "yin evil" in Chinese medicine, and the spleen is the most yin and dirty, and it likes dryness and hates dampness, so the temper is the strongest in July and August. If the humidity is too high in the long summer, it is easy to damage the spleen. At the same time, the spleen governs the transport of body fluids, showing that the yang is weak and the yin is abundant, and the spleen yang is most vulnerable to the invasion of dampness, which further encourages the invasion of dampness. Others like to eat pork, and salty cold helps phlegm. Eating too much meat can also lead to phlegm dampness. If you feel wet, you'd better stick to a vegetarian diet for a while. Eating rice cooked by a rice cooker for a long time is also easy to get wet. Wet people can be solved with barley and red bean soup or crispy rice. Drink glutinous rice and red bean soup for a while, and then drink millet porridge to tonify the spleen and stomach, and the spleen will be healthy and wet for a long time. Self-diagnosis of whether there is dampness in the body
When you get up-look at that feeling. If you feel particularly tired, dizzy, or tired every morning, or like to wear wet clothes, you will be listless and people will be too lazy to move ... then you can be sure that you are wet. When you go to the toilet-watch the stool in the morning, and you can observe the stool. Is it stuck to the toilet? A box of water can't be washed clean. If it is not convenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. If it is normal, one or two pieces of paper will be enough. Three or five pieces of paper can't be wiped clean after repeated wiping. (This is also the reason why the stool should be asked on the consultation list. ) It also means that the body is wet. The color and shape of stool can also help to judge whether there is dampness in the body. Normal stool is golden banana-shaped, and few people have this kind of healthy stool now. When the body is wet, the stool is blue, soft and shapeless. (This is an important sign of spleen deficiency, which many people have) There is always a feeling of uncleanness. After a long time, the toxins produced by defecation remain in the body, and all diseases are numerous. When washing-looking at the tongue coating, we usually start washing after going to the toilet. Before brushing our teeth, we might as well spend a few seconds looking at our tongue in the mirror. "Tongue is the seedling of the heart, and it is also a disease outside the spleen". Tongue can sensitively reflect our physical condition. A healthy tongue is reddish and moist, with a layer of tongue coating, which is thin, white and quiet, moderately dry and wet, not slippery or dry. If the tongue can't reach these indicators, it means that there is something wrong with the body function. If the tongue coating is white and thick, it looks smooth, indicating that there is cold in the body; If the tongue coating is rough or thick and yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body; If the tongue is red without coating, it means that the body is too hot to hurt the yin. In addition to the above three points, there are two ways to judge: first, see if you feel sick when brushing your teeth in the morning. Many people say that when they brush their teeth, they vomit, which makes them sick. There is always a feeling of untidiness and uncleanness in their throats, even if they vomit only a little. Second, get up in the morning and feel whether the calf is sour. These are also typical characteristics of damp evil. By the way, a wonderful way to get rid of dampness is to massage Chengshan point. Yinlingquan is very useful, and moxibustion is best. ) I just looked for it.
The author of this article is Wu Guozhong. I saw it on TV. You can search his blog if you are interested. If there is a medicine in the world that can be eaten as a meal and drunk as tea, it can not only nourish people, but also make the whole family sick. Would you like to have a try? They are barley and red beans. These two things don't need to be caught in any proportion at once. After washing, put it in a pot and boil it in water. After cooking, it is a good product for eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen-glutinous rice and red bean porridge. There are many skills and exquisite skills in the cooking of glutinous rice and red bean porridge. Coix seed is hard, and so are red beans. If you keep cooking in the pot, it won't rot for more than an hour, wasting fire or electricity, and may even dry the water, causing the bottom to paste. There are two ways I suggest: the first way is to add enough water to the pot, turn off the fire after boiling, let the barley and red beans stay in the pot for half an hour, then simmer and stay in the pot for half an hour after boiling, and the red bean porridge will be cooked. The second method is simpler, that is, clean the thermos that is not commonly used at home now, put the coix seed and red beans in it, then pour in boiling water and plug the bottle cap to make it stuffy. Every night, there will be porridge in the morning, just for breakfast. It's easy and energy-saving, so you don't have to cook any more. One advantage of glutinous rice red bean porridge is that it won't be sticky. Red beans and glutinous rice will always rot at the bottom, and the red soup will be on it. Most of the effective ingredients of glutinous rice and red beans are in the soup. Put more water when cooking porridge, and these soups will be enough for us to drink for half a day, just as tea. If it is summer, try to finish it in the morning, because it will be stale in the afternoon. As for the efficacy, it is really serious. Coix lachryma-jobi seed, called "Coix lachryma-jobi seed" in Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. It can eliminate dampness and benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and can strengthen the body and replenish qi if taken for a long time. Red beans, known as "adzuki beans" in Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic and detumescence effects and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because they are red, they can nourish the heart. Modern people have great mental stress, lack of heart-qi, improper diet, little exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the only ones. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, while not causing any burden to the spleen and stomach. The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at people nowadays. At least 5-6 people in 10 are fat and swollen, which is called bloated. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet. Water can't flow with qi and blood and stay between human cells, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, so is obesity, but the degree is deep and shallow. Drugs or foods with strong dampness-removing properties can discharge these residual water in the human body, and can also reduce swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and obese people. People often ask: "Why can't glutinous rice and red bean porridge be cooked into a sticky shape?" Someone also said to me, "I added a handful of rice when I cooked glutinous rice and red bean porridge, and the porridge became thicker." It tastes so beautiful! " I said, "Never add more rice!" Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it thickens as soon as it is cooked. Both red beans and coix seed are dampness-removing, so they are not strong and the soup is very clear. Traditional Chinese medicine just uses its clarity to get rid of the dryness and dampness of the human body. Once rice is added, it is equivalent to adding water, so the whole porridge is thick. Although the taste may be better, it is not a good thing for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and barley were wasted, and the effect was useless. People who are worried, overworked and do little exercise on weekdays often have a dull face, lack of energy, and even palpitations and drowsiness, feeling heavy as a bundle and empty inside. This is a sign of wet body and weak heart. You can add some longan to the barley and red bean porridge and cook it together. Longan is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, soothe the nerves, replenish blood, nourish the heart and yang, warm the heart and make people full of essence. Especially suitable for mental workers and middle-aged and elderly people. Young people are prone to irritability, insomnia, or rashes and acne on their faces, all of which are caused by excessive heart fire and damp heat. You can add lily or lotus seeds to glutinous rice and red bean porridge and cook them together, or both. Lily can moisten the lungs, nourish the skin, clear the heart and soothe the nerves. Lotus seeds can nourish the heart, clear the heart, strengthen the spleen and tonify the kidney at the same time, but lotus seeds have a slightly astringent effect, which can be used by people with weak constitution, but I am afraid it is not suitable for fat people with more stasis in the body. When using lotus seeds, you should remove the heart inside. Of course, if this porridge has no taste, you can add some rock sugar. Among all kinds of sugar, only rock sugar is cold and can clear the heart. If you have a cold, chills, stomachache and poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to the barley and red bean porridge. Ginger is warm, which can warm the middle warmer, dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and regulate the stomach. Be careful, don't put too much ginger, it will make porridge spicy. If you want to add some seasoning to this porridge, you can only put brown sugar, which is also warm. It is worth mentioning that when women maintain postpartum, they should remove coix seed and add jujube when drinking this porridge. Jujube can warm the middle warmer, strengthen the spleen and nourish blood, which is very suitable. People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans to barley and red bean porridge. Because black enters the kidney, and the shape of beans is very similar to that of the kidney, it is a good product for tonifying the kidney. Now people often say beriberi, which is a typical hot and humid bet. You can add soybeans to the highland barley and red bean porridge, eat the porridge and wash your feet with soup. Treating both inside and outside has a good effect. If you cough, you can also peel and core the raw pear and cut it into small pieces 1 ~ 2 cm square. Add it to glutinous rice and red bean porridge and cook it together, which can moisten the lungs, resolve phlegm and quench thirst. Yam and pumpkin can also be cooked together in barley and red bean porridge. Yam is known as "Little Ginseng". Sometimes, it is more beneficial than ginseng. It is a sacred product for nourishing the spleen and stomach, which can tonify the kidney and replenish essence, moisten the lungs and replenish qi. Pumpkin can tonify the middle energizer, relieve inflammation and pain, kill insects and detoxify, which is a very good thing for protecting pancreas and preventing diabetes. Besides red bean glutinous rice porridge, you can learn more about the nature and taste of various foods, add and subtract by yourself, and form more dietary prescriptions suitable for your physique. Only in this way can food really become a good health care product. Look dull, listless, even palpitation, drowsiness, emptiness in the heart: glutinous rice and red beans with longan, irritability and insomnia, or rash on the face, acne: glutinous rice and red beans with lily and lotus seeds.
Cold stomach pain, poor appetite, fear of cold: barley and red beans with ginger.
Kidney deficiency: barley, red beans and black beans
Beriberi: barley, red beans and soybeans.
Cough: one meter of red bean pear has poor appetite and is thin: barley red bean yam, diarrhea and abdominal pain diabetes: barley red bean pumpkin.
Physical weakness, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission and polyuria: add Coicis Semen and Euryale Semen.
Pregnant women: reduce coix seed and add a small amount of astragalus and codonopsis pilosula.
Maternity: Reduce coix seed and increase jujube, millet, brown sugar, coix seed and red bean porridge.
The main symptoms are wet body, greasy tongue, deformed stool, or weak body weight, or unfavorable joints, or stuffy and greasy mouth, or abdominal distension and headache, or body fat and phlegm, or tinea and acne are easy to occur on hands, feet and face ... Coix seed and red beans are divided equally, and porridge is cooked with water, and the soup is served as tea, and the rest is porridge. Look dull, listless, even flustered, sleepy, guilty conscience plus longan irritability and insomnia, or facial rash, acne plus lily and lotus seeds with stomach cold pain, loss of appetite, fear of cold plus ginger, kidney deficiency plus black beans, beriberi.
Add soybeans, cough, pears, anorexia, diarrhea, yam, abdominal pain, diabetes and pumpkin.
Physical weakness, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, enuresis, gorgon euryales, pregnant women, other women, jujube and brown sugar.