Drinking cold water hurts the yang.
Drinking hot water is really good for your health. The nature of water is cloudy and cold, and properly raising the temperature of water can balance the cold and cool nature of water. Drinking cold water or frozen drinks often can easily damage the yang of the spleen and stomach and cause gastrointestinal discomfort. Many people are used to drinking cold drinks to quench their thirst. If you do this for a long time, it is easy to cause weakness of the spleen and stomach, form a constitution of deficiency and cold, and have symptoms of fear of cold, tepid hands and feet, and stomach cold.
Modern medical research shows that drinking cold water is related to the occurrence of irritable bowel syndrome and gastroenteritis, especially when a large number of frozen drinks are ingested at one time, the gastrointestinal tract is suddenly subjected to intense cold stimulation, capillary contraction, smooth muscle spasm, and it is easy to cause stomach pain, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other discomfort. The water and food people eat need to be processed to the right temperature before they can be used by the body. Drinking hot water with suitable temperature can provide heat for human body on the one hand, and improve the activity of digestive enzymes and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis on the other hand, which is more conducive to the digestion and absorption function of gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, for ordinary people or people with weak constitution, drinking warm water at ordinary times is more in line with the concept of health preservation.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that warm drinking into the stomach has the function of warming the soil and yang, which is beneficial to the decomposition of Shui Gu in the stomach, the transport of Shui Gu in the spleen, the production of subtle nutrients, and the promotion of digestion and absorption, blood circulation and metabolism of the human body.
In addition, not only hot water, but also most warm foods can dispel cold, which is especially suitable for people with deficiency-cold constitution and plays an auxiliary role in the treatment of some cold diseases. For example, if you have a cold, you can drink hot ginger soup to drive away the cold. Ordinary hot water ≠ boiled water
"Drinking hot water" does not mean that the hotter the water, the better. Many friends like to drink hot water or freshly cooked porridge and soup, which are all bad eating habits.
When drinking water, water needs to pass through our mouth, esophagus and then reach our stomach. The oral cavity and esophageal mucosa are very delicate, and the tolerance temperature is generally 50 ~ 60℃. Because the esophagus is not as sensitive to temperature as the oral cavity, when people drink hot water and eat hot food, they often swallow it quickly for fear of scalding their mouths. At this time, the esophageal mucosa is easily burned. When esophageal mucosa is repeatedly stimulated by high temperature, it is easy to cause chronic injury and inflammation.