"Strange diseases due to excessive phlegm" is a word that every researcher of traditional Chinese medicine has heard. What exactly is phlegm? In fact, phlegm can be analyzed from two angles, one is broad, the other is narrow, and the narrow sense is the sputum spit out from our mouths, the real thing. Broadly speaking, it is a concept. Body fluids accumulate and stay. This abnormal operating state is phlegm in a broad sense. Let's take a look at the reasons for the formation of "phlegm":

From these three points of view, "phlegm" is most closely related to spleen and lung. Lung governs breathing and health. If the function of the lung is abnormal, the body fluid in the lung will accumulate into phlegm. Spleen governs transport, that is, digestion and transport of nutrients to other organs of the body. If moisture invades the human body, or fatigue, improper diet, etc. , can damage the spleen, leading to abnormal transport. After abnormality, the dampness will stop and condense into phlegm.

The formation process of phlegm can be simply summarized as: water-body fluid-dampness-phlegm, such a process. Water enters the stomach and becomes a nutritious body fluid. Body fluid is wet when it does not move, and phlegm when it does not move. The treatment of phlegm is the most difficult. The book describes "phlegm as paint", which is difficult to get rid of. It is necessary to remove this sputum bit by bit, so it is called "resolving phlegm", "eliminating phlegm" and "clearing phlegm". It takes repeated grinding to reduce this sputum bit by bit.

For example, I have a pimple. Western medicine says this is lipoma, but Chinese medicine calls this pimple phlegm nucleus, so phlegm can be tangible or intangible.

Phlegm dampness is difficult to remove, but it is simple to form. With the development of science and technology, people seem to be more and more lazy. They have takeout, a car when they go out, air conditioning when they are hot, and heating when they are cold. . . . . . . This makes people forget the laws of nature, and people lack exercise, which makes people unconsciously become phlegm!

"seeing the disease of the liver, knowing that the liver spreads the spleen." Hepatobiliary diseases often damage the spleen and stomach. Many modern living habits do great harm to the liver, such as skipping breakfast, staying up late, getting angry and eating supper. However, the spleen and stomach spread by hepatobiliary diseases are damaged, and the transport and transformation are out of balance, leading to dampness and phlegm.

Especially now, many women are obese, which is actually caused by phlegm and dampness. The fatter you are, the less you want to move, the fatter you want to sleep, a vicious circle.

The best way to deal with phlegm-dampness is to exercise more, pay attention to diet and adjust living habits.

If you have phlegm-dampness constitution, don't eat too cold food. You can eat some warm and dry foods, such as water chestnut, loquat, jujube and lentils. Don't eat too much, and don't eat too much fruit. Try to pay attention to a light diet.

People with phlegm-dampness constitution can bask in the sun, dispel the cold and cheer up the yang.

Usually some herbs can be used for conditioning, such as white mustard seed, dried tangerine peel, codonopsis pilosula, white lentils and so on.

Usually, you can press points such as Zhongwan, Guanyuan and Shuiwu, and you can also use moxibustion to moxibustion these points.

Thank you for watching. I am Gao Gao, spreading Chinese medicine for health preservation. The following is my column "Learning Spleen and Stomach Class for 28 Days: Wisdom of Spleen and Stomach Not Being Sick". You can click on what you like.