Therefore, drinking water has become the most popular health preservation ceremony at this time. People give drinking water different meanings, and various slogans emerge one after another:
But the question is, can this variety of drinking water schemes stand scrutiny?
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8 glasses of water a day, is it a myth or a joke?
We can often see that many people around us abide by the rule of "eight glasses of water a day" and feel uneasy if they drink less. Even if nothing happens, I will pick up my glass and drink it fiercely, fearing the "unfavorable" signal of thirst; There are also health experts and health care experts urging everyone to drink more water when something happens. ...
To tell the truth, I drink too much water. The so-called "eight glasses of water to detoxify" is actually no different from poisoning yourself. Western medicine has long refuted this view.
In 2007, the British Medical Journal, one of the four top medical journals, published an article about the "medical myth" in people's minds, one of which was about "drinking 8 glasses of water every day".
According to the article, the statement of 8 glasses of water a day may only come from a suggestion made by the American Food and Nutrition Association in 1945 that "an adult needs 2.5 liters of water a day".
However, this suggestion is followed by a sentence, "Most of the water is already contained in the food you usually eat." . In other words, 2.5 liters is not only the water you drink, but also the water in the food you eat.
If you really like to punch in to complete the task, fill your stomach with 2.5 liters of water every day, not to mention detoxification, even your bladder will suffer, making a joke.
Then, according to the advice of contemporary medical nutrition, how much water should we drink every day?
The Dietary Guidelines for China Residents (20 16) issued by the Nutrition Society of China suggests that each person should consume 1500~ 1700 ml of water every day, which is much more reasonable under the condition of 6000 steps of exercise every day.
So, if you still believe that eight glasses of water a day will strengthen China people, you'd better change a smaller cup, a 200 ml one. The amount of 7-8 glasses of water is just in line with the dietary guidelines.
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It's nothing. Drink more water? Don't regret if you have problems drinking!
"Water is the source of life" is true, but it is not the source of life. If you drink too much, you will get sick and stay healthy.
You know, water also needs digestion and metabolism. Since digestion and metabolism are needed, viscera transport is needed. This is the same as eating. No matter how nutritious and expensive food is, it should be suitable for you and can be transported, so as to really nourish your body and mind.
If you drink more water regardless, what will happen?
One situation is that the body's transport function is normal and the yang is sufficient. The water you drink is metabolized into urine and sweat, and then excreted by increasing urination and perspiration. The more you drink, the more you excrete.
This not only increases the burden of gastrointestinal, bladder and kidney metabolism, but also leads to a large loss of body fluids, which may lead to more serious dryness and heat, which is really not worth the candle.
On the other hand, the body's transport function is abnormal and the yang is insufficient. The water you drink can neither be effectively metabolized nor discharged in time, leading to water stagnation and wet accumulation, which makes you "covered in bad water".
Over time, it will also cause people to have swollen and black face, dizziness, cough with excessive phlegm, listlessness, fullness under the heart, indigestion, abdominal cold diarrhea, bowel sounds and other manifestations, and even palpitations, depression, edema, tumors, joint swelling and pain, prostate hyperplasia and other problems.
What about "Drink more water when you are sick"? This wonderful view was criticized by Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage, in Treatise on Febrile Diseases more than 800 years ago.
It doesn't know it's sick, but when it smells sick, it drinks water to heal itself, and when it's thirsty, it drinks hard. Because it is a disaster, it cannot be plural.
Those who don't know about diseases just hear that drinking water can cure diseases, and when they are a little thirsty, they force themselves to drink more water, which leads to disaster.
A few days ago, a girl asked for help in the group. She has edema, poor appetite, irregular stool all the year round, less menstrual flow and dysmenorrhea. After careful inquiry, she realized that she was a loyal supporter of eight glasses of water a day.
The tongue looks like this:
The fat tongue is thin and white, the tongue surface is wet, and it is still a lace tongue. What's wrong with this empty and wet spleen and stomach ... those who expect to strengthen their body and prevent diseases and enhance their resistance by drinking water every day, take courage!
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Cold and dampness of spleen and stomach? I suggest you have some soup!
Just like the tongue picture of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold above, not only people who drink too much water, but also people who eat raw fruits and vegetables to lose weight. People who don't pay attention to keep warm and love to blow air conditioners are also common.
Deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach are not only manifested in the tongue picture, but also often have these symptoms:
Then the problem is coming. Spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are like this. How can we make the spleen and stomach warm and strong?
While reminding us that drinking water blindly is harmful, Master Zhong Jing also gave the answer in Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Lizhong Decoction. The compatibility is also simple and clear: only ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, dried ginger and fried licorice are used.
Among them, ginseng, dried ginger and moxibustion licorice are all medicinal materials with the same origin of medicine and food, but Atractylodes macrocephala has strong dampness-drying ability and certain bias. It is used as soup to treat diseases, but it is not suitable as a small medicinal tea for daily drinking.
Therefore, on the basis of the original prescription of Lizhong decoction, the Chinese medicine teacher replaced Atractylodes macrocephala with poria cocos, which not only warmed the spleen and stomach, but also was not too dry, and made a small tea bag.
Friends who are convenient for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold can also brew and drink daily to recuperate the body.
Poria cocos is mainly used for eliminating dampness. Poria cocos is different from dried Atractylodes macrocephala. Its temper is very peaceful, and it works with dried ginger to warm the cold, just like the sun above is warm, and the moisture below is cleaned to relieve the burden on the spleen and stomach.
Ginseng and Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch are the body fluid and temper for invigorating spleen and stomach. After the cold and dampness of the spleen and stomach are cleared, it is necessary to replenish energy to restore the spleen and stomach.
Lizhong decoction enters the spleen and stomach of deficiency and cold, just like ice and snow meet hot water and disappear. After drinking 1~2 weeks, you can feel a small stove rising slowly in your stomach, your stomach is warm and your body is warm. Some people have a good appetite, and some people fart more, which are all manifestations of better spleen and stomach function.
There is also an external treatment method, which is also specially used to deal with the problem of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Navel moxibustion prescription in the book I Speak Qi written by Nan Laoren.
Mash one longan pulp, six or seven peppers and moxa sticks together. Pick a little when you sleep at night, the size of a small fingernail, and put it in your navel.
Don't underestimate the navel, it will be absorbed. There is a hole in the navel, through which our diet and breathing in the womb are connected with our mother. Therefore, it is better to put this medicine in the navel and seal it with a rubber patch to sleep than a warm moxibustion device. Stomach disease is good, and all kinds of diseases are good. The old man is absolutely healthy. When the body needs it, it will absorb it. If not, it's not bad. In this way, fire and water will pity each other. After two or three days, I won't feel bitter when I get up in the morning, my mouth is dry, and my gastrointestinal problems will be fine.
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Drinking principles in Huangdi Neijing
Since drinking more water is afraid of injury and drinking less water is afraid of dryness, how can we drink water? In fact, Huangdi Neijing has already told us the answer.
Su Wen's "On Ancient Innocence" is the first article in Neijing that talks about the purpose of health preservation and reminds us that "diet should be moderate". Obviously, we should not only eat moderately, but also drink moderately.
How can drinking water be "frugal"? Just do the following five things:
Not thirsty or drinking.
Drinking must be warm.
Slow pharynx with small mouth
A few times
allay/relieve/quench/slake/assuage one's thirst
The word "not thirsty, not drinking" will definitely confuse many people. Doesn't it mean that drinking water after thirst is a signal that the body is extremely short of water, which is very bad for the body?
In fact, supplementing water when people feel thirsty just meets the needs of the body. At this time, the viscera are ready to transport and absorb water, so that the water they drink can be fully utilized and transformed into a part of the body to the greatest extent.
The whole Neijing tells us that we should adjust our body and mind according to the situation, instead of everyone living according to fixed indicators. After all, many times, the instinct of the body is more acute and straightforward than the acquired consciousness formed by the brain.
If you are too busy to remember to drink water all day, or you don't feel thirsty at all, you can set yourself several alarm clocks according to the above principles to remind yourself to drink warm water every 3~5 hours.
If you have to choose the best time to drink water in a day, it is suggested that it should be between 9 am and 7 pm, when people are in the sun, which is more convenient for water and liquid transportation.
Especially from 15 to 17 in the afternoon, the bladder meridian is full of qi and blood. If you drink water to replenish water, this time is the best, so you can drink more appropriately.
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If you are thirsty, drink it and you will be thirsty. How can you break it?
No matter how much water you drink, you always feel thirsty. What should I do?
In one case, people are thirsty and simply feel dry mouth and dry skin, but drinking too much water makes the spleen and stomach uncomfortable, and often the stool is shapeless, the mouth is sticky and there are many phlegm. This is because people's yang drops, and the water they drink can't be turned into body fluid to moisten the body, but it will become the reason why water drinks phlegm and stays in the body.
In this way, the constitution of yang deficiency and dampness can be well treated by the above-mentioned Lizhong decoction and moxibustion of navel.
On the other hand, the whole body and mind are anxious, which is not only thirsty, but also easy to get angry, constipation, fever in hands and feet and irritability. This is due to excessive internal fire or insufficient yin and body fluid, which may be caused by staying up late, eating spicy fried food, excessive exercise and sweating.
At this time, drinking water alone cannot make up for it. There is empty fire to clear, hot and dry fire to moisten and replenish qi, and body fluid has the energy to transport cloth. Finally, the liver and kidneys must be nourished to keep the water flowing.
A kind of "Ganrun Tea" is prepared from mulberry, yam, raspberry, longan, cassia seed, Polygonatum sibiricum and Lycium barbarum. You can make your own prescription, and there are ready-made teabags in the mall.
If you often stay up late, you are not spicy and unhappy, or your constitution is yin deficiency, qi and blood deficiency, liver and kidney weakness and weak fire, then drinking water is really not as good as "drinking tea" to help you clear the fire and produce fluid.
Let drinking water return to drinking water itself! After all, even drinking water will make you drink something wrong. Throughout nature, only human beings.
Putting down the standard of 8 glasses of water does not give the meaning of detoxification and moisturizing. If you are not thirsty, you must drink it warmly, swallow it slowly with a small mouth, and stop when you quench your thirst. It is far wiser to regulate the lungs, spleen and kidney, not to add extra burden to the viscera, and to improve the body's ability to transport and absorb water than to advocate drinking more water.