It's so hot ~ damp heat constitution is funny!
Lu, from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Renai Hospital, Taipei United Hospital, said that "dampness evil" refers to the abnormal distribution of water and fluid in the body, and "heat evil" often refers to the body producing too much unnecessary metabolic waste and heat energy. Dampness and heat are often in a state of * * *. If the water in the body cannot be transported normally, it will produce dampness, and the body's heat energy, metabolic waste and body temperature will not be adjusted, resulting in heat syndrome.
Damp-heat syndrome can occur all year round, but it is especially common when the climate is humid and hot. The pathological center of damp-heat syndrome is mainly in the spleen and stomach, so people with damp-heat syndrome often have gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal distension, nausea, constipation or diarrhea. In addition, damp heat constitution can see his mouth is dry, but he feels sick when he drinks water. His head, face and limbs are often covered with a layer of cloth, or he feels heavy and weak, and his limbs often feel heavy and weak.
Improving damp-heat discomfort in the body starts with lung, spleen and kidney
How to get rid of damp heat constitution and restore your body to a comfortable state? Chen An, a TCM doctor, said that in TCM theory, the normal metabolism of water, fluid and heat depends on the mutual division of labor among the three organs: lung, spleen and kidney. Simply put, from the perspective of the lungs, pores should be able to sweat normally, while modern people sit in cold rooms for a long time, lack exercise, and the sweating function of pores deteriorates, so moisture and heat cannot be excreted through sweat, and naturally stagnate in the body. From the point of view of spleen and kidney, the elimination of damp-heat metabolism, in addition to sweating mentioned above, can also be discharged through defecation.
In this regard, people in damp heat constitution can observe their living habits and daily symptoms respectively from the perspective of improving perspiration and defecation, and adjust and improve with easily available ingredients.
Diet to improve perspiration: suitable for people who are sedentary, lack of exercise, often stay in air-conditioned rooms and sweat less. The recommended ingredients and diet are as follows:
1. Sour plum: Sour plum food can activate sweat glands and help restore perspiration function, while sour plum is rich in minerals, which can prevent the body from sweating and losing too much salt. A simpler diet is "plum tea". It is recommended to bake sour plums in the oven for about 3 to 5 minutes. Roasted sour plums have a strong fragrance. Soak one at a time in hot water, then let it warm before drinking.
2. Ginger: Ginger is warm and pungent, which has the function of sweating and cooling down, helping the stomach to metabolize water and dampness. It is recommended to eat at noon (when the digestive function is the most vigorous and the food intake is the most abundant) to avoid excessive intestinal tract.
Ingredients for improving defecation, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis: If you find yourself with damp-heat symptoms, it is mostly manifested as poor urination, yellow urine, frequent defecation every day, but not every time, or constipation. You can eat some ingredients that help improve defecation, clear away heat and promote diuresis. The recommended ingredients and diet are as follows:
1. coix seed: coix seed is sweet in taste and cold in nature, but it can promote diuresis and dispel cold, clear heat, and act on spleen, stomach and lung, so it is the most suitable candidate to help water transport and normal metabolism and eliminate heat evil. It is mentioned in Chinese medicine that coix seed can be eaten as porridge, and it takes 20 to 30 grams a day. It is worth noting that coix seed is not easy to cook thoroughly. It is recommended to soak it in clear water for 3 hours before stewing, and do not season it when stewing, so as to avoid that water cannot enter the interior of coix seed and cannot be cooked. In addition, the stew of coix seed should not be too bad.
2. Mung beans: Mung beans are sweet and cold, and have the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. As early as ancient times, Ye, a famous febrile disease scientist, often used mung bean coat to treat patients with damp-heat syndrome. Mung bean skin is the seed coat of mung bean, and mung bean itself has a similar effect. If you want to improve damp heat constitution, it is more appropriate to cook mung bean soup directly. It should be noted that damp heat constitution should be avoided if he has symptoms of yin deficiency or yang deficiency.
The combination of damp-heat and yin deficiency is more serious. In addition to the general symptoms of damp heat constitution, water shortage will be highlighted, especially dry mouth, constipation, dry stool and dry skin. Yang deficiency constitution has symptoms such as chills, lethargy, fatigue, cold hands and feet, pale face, excessive urination and diarrhea. Both of them should not eat excessive mung beans and coix seed, so as not to aggravate yin deficiency, spleen deficiency and kidney deficiency, resulting in abnormal water-moisture metabolism.
3. Winter melon seeds: sweet and slightly cold. Return to lung and large intestine meridian. Cui Yuxi, a doctor in Sui Dynasty, mentioned in The Classic of Food that winter melon seeds can "benefit waterways and remove fresh water", while Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty suggested "grinding and frying clothes". Therefore, it is suggested that people should not throw wax gourd seeds away as garbage when cooking, pick them up and put them in the pot, fry them with low fire until the surface is yellow and slightly burnt, take them out to cool, and then take a proper amount of them and mash them each time.
In addition, it is also a good dietotherapy method to put winter melon seeds and some winter melon meat into a blender and break them, then pour in a proper amount of water, and let them cool after boiling with a small fire.
4. Pear: Because of its high water content, pear has diuretic effect and is rich in fiber, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and is a good helper for defecation to eliminate damp heat. This is also one of the common ingredients (pear juice, pineapple juice, lotus root juice) for treating fever. It should be noted that the pears here must be eaten raw and cannot be heated.
The key to conditioning damp-heat combined with yin deficiency is to "store water", not to eliminate dampness.
Generally, damp heat constitution can improve discomfort by improving perspiration and defecation. However, in real life, there are also many people with damp-heat mixed with yin deficiency, especially the lack of water. Therefore, the focus of conditioning should be changed to increase colloid to effectively and normally store water, thus helping to metabolize excess heat energy.
1. Auricularia auricula: Black-and-white Auricularia auricula is rich in gum, which can make the human body's water return to normal regardless of storage or transportation, and the cholesterol is zero, so it will not get angry after eating. However, auricularia auricula is not easy to digest and cold, so it can be foamed with water, mashed with a blender, and then added with a small amount of red dates to cook with ginger.
2. Lotus root: cold, raw food has the effects of clearing heat, cooling blood and promoting diuresis; Cooked food supplements the spleen and stomach, which can strengthen the effect of strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis.
Sour plum food can activate sweat glands and help restore perspiration function. Coix seed is sweet and cold, but it can promote diuresis and dispel cold, and clear away heat and relieve exterior syndrome. You should eat 20 to 30 grams a day. If you want to improve damp heat constitution, you can cook mung bean soup directly. Lotus root is cold, raw food has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood and promoting diuresis, and cooked food can strengthen the effect of strengthening spleen and promoting diuresis.