Chen Bin, Chief Physician, Department of Spleen and Stomach, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Are you overweight?
Is the meat loose and soft?
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine
This may be a manifestation of phlegm-dampness constitution.
Chen Bin, chief physician of the Department of Spleen and Stomach, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that phlegm-dampness constitution is very common among modern people, and most obese people have the characteristics of this constitution, such as excessive body fat and weak abdomen and legs.
Besides obesity, phlegm-dampness can also bring diseases, such as goiter, hypertension and diabetes. Only by finding out the causes of phlegm-dampness constitution can we better recuperate.
"Phlegm" in phlegm-dampness constitution refers not only to phlegm in general concept, but to abnormal accumulation of body fluid, which is a pathological product.
"Wet" is divided into internal wet and external wet. External humidity refers to the humid air and environment, such as rainy days and wet houses, which will invade the human body and cause diseases. Internal dampness refers to improper operation of the digestive system, loss of control of the flow of water in the body, stagnation of body fluid, or accumulation of body fluid due to excessive water in diet, excessive drinking and intake of cold drinks.
Chen Bin believes that people with phlegm-dampness constitution are often accompanied by spleen, lung and renal insufficiency. In treatment, people with such physique should pay attention to eating seven points full and try to be slow.
At the same time, people with phlegm-dampness constitution should not eat supper, and should eat breakfast on time; Eat more warm and dry foods, as well as foods that help strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, such as yam, dried tangerine peel, Euryale euryales, poria cocos and lotus leaves. Eat less acidic, cold and greasy products and foods with high sugar content.
Correspondent/Lock Zhuoqi
Editor/Huang