However, after drinking iced afternoon tea for several days, I was sleepy for several days, with backache and no spirit in doing anything. My tongue coating was so thick that it scraped off and stuck to the wall, and my favorite snacks lost my appetite.

As long as you say it, people around you specify that this situation is that there is too much moisture in your body! Heavy! Yes!

But "moisture" is just a concept that was born and raised in China. In modern medicine, there is no concept of "moisture".

This paper will also explain "moisture" from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, hoping to help everyone understand "moisture" correctly.

What is moisture?

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, dampness is yin evil, which is heavy, turbid and sticky, and it is easy to block qi movement and damage Yang Qi.

Can this be a little more subtle? Translated, it is a series of human dysfunction (dysuria, diarrhea and edema, etc.) caused by abnormal metabolism of water and liquid. ) or the invasion of external moisture (rain, moisture, etc.). ).

A wise man can see that moisture is water, but it is redundant water. Excess water stays in the body for a long time, and slowly becomes garbage and accumulates in the body.

The ancients believed that wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire constituted the natural climate, and the six qi did not cause diseases under normal circumstances. When abnormal deviation occurs, they become pathogenic pathogens, which is called "six evils" in Chinese medicine.

Among them, moisture is the most naughty, and it can be entangled with several other evils, making you miserable and struggling in moisture all year round!

Traditional Chinese medicine divides moisture into internal body and external body:

External humidity: mainly external factors such as humid climate, getting wet in the rain and working in water for a long time.

Symptoms such as head swelling, chest tightness, heavy body and pain, fever and fatigue, and heavy joints may occur.

Moisture in the body: mainly caused by improper diet, overeating, irregular work and rest, lack of exercise, etc. Due to the weakening of spleen transport function.

There may be abdominal distension and abdominal pain, chest tightness and fullness, loss of appetite, irregular stool, nausea and vomiting, edema, oliguria and so on.

There is no such thing as "moisture" in western medicine.

How do you know if there is moisture in your body?

Cantonese people often say that "ten people are nine wet". How to judge whether you are "wet"? Chinese medicine believes that there are three main points:

Look at shit

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the sticky stool is a manifestation of heavy moisture.

The stool is blue, shapeless, and some always stick to the toilet, which is difficult to flush down; At the same time, it is accompanied by constipation, indicating that the moisture in the body is already very serious.

In addition, the yellowing of female leucorrhea is also a manifestation of heavy moisture.

Depends on physical condition

If you often feel heavy, weak and top-heavy;

I don't feel hungry when I get to dinner. If you eat something, your stomach will swell up and even have a faint feeling of nausea, indicating that the moisture in your body is very heavy.

There are also sudden obesity, cold hands and feet, rhinitis, elevated blood pressure and blood sugar, abnormal blood lipids and so on. It may also be caused by heavy moisture.

Look at tongue coating

A healthy tongue is reddish and moist, with a layer of tongue coating on the surface, which is thin and white, clean, moderately dry and wet, and not slippery or dry.

If there is something similar to a white film on the tongue coating, it means that the tongue is fat, and even there are teeth marks on both sides, which is also a sign of moisture in the body. Moreover, the thicker the white fur, the more serious the wet weight.

Therefore, there are three typical symptoms of moisture visible to the naked eye: the tongue coating has teeth, the tongue coating is thick and greasy, and the stool is sparse.

Dehumidify? Let's see how wet you are first

Moisture is very good at cooperating with other foreign evils. Therefore, the humidity is also heavy, but everyone's symptoms are not exactly the same.

To eradicate moisture, we must prescribe the right medicine.

1, eczema, urticaria

It is sultry and rainy in summer in the south, and the humid environment and air conditioning wind will make moisture and colds invade the human body.

The first thing to break through is our skin system. Once the immunity is low, it is easy to cause skin diseases such as eczema and urticaria. At this time, it is necessary to "dispel wind and overcome dampness" and drive away wind and dampness.

The specific method is to accelerate qi and blood circulation in the body through Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Saposhnikoviae, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Cimicifuga Rhizoma. , so that the body sweats, thus eliminating moisture.

2, no appetite, easy to get tired

If the first level has not passed, when the damp pathogen passes through the skin barrier (through breathing, diet, etc. ), it came into our bodies and began to attack our respiratory system and digestive system.

There is moisture in these parts, and generally there will be symptoms such as poor appetite, easy drowsiness, fatigue after running for two steps, and no interest in doing anything.

(When you look at your tongue at this time, it usually turns white. )

For this damp evil, Chinese medicine generally adopts aromatization to eliminate dampness. It is to use some herbs with special fragrance to remove moisture.

For example, the aromatic medicinal materials (spices) in our kitchen, such as Amomum villosum, Amomum cardamom, Amomum tsaoko, Pogostemon, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Zanthoxylum bungeanum and so on.

If you have the above symptoms, you can drink a piece of old skin water every day and brew it repeatedly until it is tasteless; When cooking and stewing soup, you can put some spices to taste; You can make a sachet with fragrant medicine and put it on the bed to remove moisture.

Share a formula of dampness-eliminating sachet: 5 grams of Pogostemon Fragrans, 5 grams of Eupatorium odoratum, 5 grams of Acorus calamus, 5 grams of mint, 5 grams of Atractylodes lancea, 5 grams of Folium Artemisiae Argyi and 5 grams of Radix Angelicae Dahuricae.

3, yellow urine, difficult to flush stool

When moisture passes through the middle jiao (spleen and stomach) and is not removed, it will begin to attack our lower jiao: kidney, bladder, large intestine and so on.

The main symptoms are "fever", such as yellow urine, sticky stool, pungent taste and wet scrotum. And the tongue coating will be yellow and the tip of the tongue will be red.

At this time, Chinese medicine generally adopts the method of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, which is popularly called diuresis. You can eat more bitter gourd, wax gourd, coix seed, red beans and other foods to promote diuresis and eliminate dampness.

Regarding the dampness-removing tea drinks on the market, everyone should choose carefully, but don't drink them indiscriminately without clear symptoms!

Sweat a lot, and the moisture will come out.

No matter which method is used to eliminate dampness, reasonable exercise and balanced nutrition are needed.

More importantly, moisture does have a wide impact on the human body, but it is not a malignant disease and can be properly nursed back to health.

Finally, the purpose of this paper is not to provoke any controversy, but to let people better understand the so-called "moisture" from different angles through objective narration.

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Some contents are quoted from 39 Health Network, Health 160, Xiao Wei Health, etc. Thank you!