Lu (* * * chief Chinese medicine practitioner) always gains weight when drinking water. Many obese people often complain that I actually eat very little, have been losing weight, and haven't eaten much staple food, but I still gain weight all the time, and even joked that "drinking water makes me gain weight." In fact, obesity is related to drinking water. Many people's obesity comes from drinking water. Of course, a person's height and thinness are genetic factors, and some people's obesity is genetic. It is also partly because of eating meat and cold drinks. Nowadays, many people say that they are obese because of less exercise. In fact, it is not only the reason for the low amount of exercise, but also the method of drinking water and whether the metabolism of water and liquid in the human body is normal. Modern people are nervous at work. When drinking water, they often drink cold water and drink a large glass in one breath. Or simply drink cold drinks, such as cold beer, iced coke, and eat desserts like ice cream. After drinking cold food, the gastric mucosa and blood vessels contract immediately, and the transport function of your whole spleen and stomach decreases. Spleen is the hub of water-liquid metabolism. How is the spleen transported? It depends on the power of spleen and yang to vaporize water. This is what Chinese medicine says: "the spleen is yin soil, and the yang begins to move;" The stomach is yang soil, and the yin is self-satisfied. Yin and Yang are the root of each other and complement each other. Cold things are poured into a hot stomach at once, which is the practice of suddenly hurting spleen yang, just like pouring an internal combustion engine directly with a bucket of ice water. Once the spleen yang is insufficient and qi deficiency cannot transport water, phlegm will be produced, and the metabolic rate of water and fluid in the whole body will slow down. If you drink too much water, you will excrete less, and if you stay in the body, you will become obese, but in fact, the water in intercellular fluid has increased. People with spleen deficiency and dampness are obese, not because they eat staple food, but because they drink water in the wrong way. Therefore, fat people should eat less cold food, turn on the air conditioner less and drink water slowly, just like it rains in Mao Mao. It will rain later, which is best. If excessive drinking exceeds the transport and metabolism capacity of the spleen, it will cause water retention in the body. As long as your water metabolism is normal and the water you drink and the water you discharge every day can be balanced, you won't suddenly gain weight. Dampness is the imbalance of water and liquid metabolism in the whole body, just like heavy rain in some places, too much moisture in the human body will hinder the operation of qi and blood. If the skin is wet, stagnant and not nourished, the elbow skin will be dry, thick and itchy. This is because water can't reach the right place. By taking drugs that dispel wind and remove dampness, dredge channels and activate collaterals, the skin of elbows will become moist. People with spleen deficiency and dampness have sticky tongue, dry mouth and reluctance to drink, less urine, fat tongue, light tongue and greasy fur. Women may also be accompanied by symptoms of increased leucorrhea, think they have inflammation, and go to the hospital for examination. After taking anti-inflammatory drugs, the condition is still repeated. Like obesity caused by spleen deficiency and dampness, the most important thing is to pay attention to diet. People often stay up late studying or working overtime. What if they are hungry at night? Eat a packet of instant noodles? Needless to say, in this way, he will gain weight in a month. Lu (* * * chief Chinese medicine practitioner) always gains weight when drinking water, and many obese people often complain that I actually eat very little, have been losing weight, and haven't eaten much staple food, but I still gain weight all the time, and even joked that "I even gain weight when drinking water." "In fact, obesity has something to do with drinking water. Many people's obesity comes from drinking water. Of course, a person's height and thinness are genetic factors, and some people's obesity is genetic. It is also partly because of eating meat and cold drinks. Nowadays, many people say that they are obese because of less exercise. In fact, it is not only the reason for the low amount of exercise, but also the method of drinking water and whether the metabolism of water and liquid in the human body is normal. Modern people are nervous at work. When drinking water, they often drink cold water and drink a large glass in one breath. Or simply drink cold drinks, such as cold beer, iced coke, and eat desserts like ice cream. After drinking cold food, the gastric mucosa and blood vessels contract immediately, and the transport function of your whole spleen and stomach decreases. Spleen is the hub of water-liquid metabolism. How is the spleen transported? It depends on the power of spleen and yang to vaporize water. This is what Chinese medicine says: "the spleen is yin soil, and the yang begins to move;" The stomach is yang soil, and the yin is self-satisfied. Yin and Yang are the root of each other and complement each other. Cold things are poured into a hot stomach at once, which is the practice of suddenly hurting spleen yang, just like pouring an internal combustion engine directly with a bucket of ice water. Once the spleen yang is insufficient and qi deficiency cannot transport water, phlegm will be produced, and the metabolic rate of water and fluid in the whole body will slow down. If you drink too much water, you will excrete less, and if you stay in the body, you will become obese, but in fact, the water in intercellular fluid has increased. People with spleen deficiency and dampness are obese, not because they eat staple food, but because they drink water in the wrong way. Therefore, fat people should eat less cold food, turn on the air conditioner less and drink water slowly, just like it rains in Mao Mao. It will rain later, which is best. If excessive drinking exceeds the transport and metabolism capacity of the spleen, it will cause water retention in the body. As long as your water metabolism is normal and the water you drink and the water you discharge every day can be balanced, you won't suddenly gain weight. Dampness is the imbalance of water and liquid metabolism in the whole body, just like heavy rain in some places, too much moisture in the human body will hinder the operation of qi and blood. If the skin is wet, stagnant and not nourished, the elbow skin will be dry, thick and itchy. This is because water can't reach the right place. By taking drugs that dispel wind and remove dampness, dredge channels and activate collaterals, the skin of elbows will become moist. People with spleen deficiency and dampness have sticky tongue, dry mouth and reluctance to drink, less urine, fat tongue, light tongue and greasy fur. Women may also be accompanied by symptoms of increased leucorrhea, think they have inflammation, and go to the hospital for examination. After taking anti-inflammatory drugs, the condition is still repeated. Like obesity caused by spleen deficiency and dampness, the most important thing is to pay attention to diet. People often stay up late studying or working overtime. What if they are hungry at night? Eat a packet of instant noodles? Needless to say, in this way, he will gain weight in a month. Therefore, it is not recommended to eat this kind of food with high starch and sugar before going to bed. If you are really hungry, what can you eat? Plant proteins, such as peanuts, can be eaten, and eating less will not be a problem. We suggest eating corn flour, millet and adzuki beans as other foods, which can be eaten in porridge, all of which have the function of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness. Second, use less air conditioning, or turn up the temperature a little. In summer, our sweat pores should be opened and closed to breathe, so that heat can be emitted with sweat to achieve the purpose of cooling down. If you don't let sweat, it is not conducive to the excretion of water and metabolites. Then wet water will be trapped inside, and hot air will be trapped inside. Therefore, it is best to adapt to the high temperature in Leng Xia in winter and use less air conditioning. Even if you want to use it, keep it at a temperature that makes you sweat during exercise, that is, you don't feel hot when you are inactive, and you can sweat slightly when you are active. At least this temperature is needed to keep your pores open and closed. Moreover, many fat people, the fatter they are, the more afraid of heat. They often turn on the air conditioner at a very low temperature, which is more likely to lead to getting angry. We once met a person who had to turn on the air conditioner to 19 degrees in summer to feel comfortable. If he doesn't turn on the air conditioner, he will be out of breath at once. The third is proper exercise. Some people always say that they are too busy. What do we do? In fact, we can exercise at any time, such as climbing stairs when we go home or go to work. It's good exercise. A small amount of exercise is especially needed thirty minutes after a meal. People with gastroptosis should rest for 20 ~ 30 minutes after meals before exercising properly. In addition, obese people should pay special attention to finding the reasons for their obesity before losing weight, and must not lose weight indiscriminately. The spleen-yang deficiency and spleen-qi deficiency lead to weak spleen-stomach transport and transformation function, which leads to obesity and is difficult to lose weight. As long as you go on a diet, the symptoms of spleen deficiency will get worse immediately, and other problems will appear in your body. We have met some girls who are only in their twenties. When they lose weight, they lose weight and have premature beats. Isn't this equal to reducing diseases? People with spleen deficiency and dampness can also eat winter melon seed porridge, coix seed10g, winter melon seed15g and japonica rice 50g for breakfast or dinner. Coix seed and wax gourd have the effects of invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, and have a good effect on puffiness caused by spleen deficiency and dampness resistance. There are also medicinal diets to choose from. Cooking porridge with yam15g, lotus seed meat 5g, coix seed10g and japonica rice 50g. Poria powder10g can also be added for those with symptoms of dysuria and diarrhea, so as to enhance the efficacy of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis. After cooking, you can add a proper amount of salt, monosodium glutamate and pepper. This medicated diet is more suitable for middle-aged and elderly people with spleen deficiency. This article is excerpted from "Secrets of 99-year-old Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Disease-free to Life-saving"/Lu (* * * Chief Chinese Medicine Doctor)/Ping 'an Culture.