/kloc-more than 0/800 years ago, Zhang Zhongjing, a great doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty, said in his book Treatise on Febrile Diseases: "People who are hot want clothes, but they are colder than bone marrow." In other words, a person with a fever, although his body temperature is very high, feels cold and wants to put on more clothes, which shows that the cold in his body is very heavy and the cold evil has penetrated into the bone marrow. At this time, using antibiotics and other cold medicines to diminish inflammation and reduce fever will directly bring some external cold and dampness into the body. Aren't we all like this? )-
Zhang Zhongjing is the author of Treatise on Febrile Diseases. In his time, people were hungry and cold, and diseases were mainly cold pathogens, which could be directly treated with hot drugs. Nowadays, with the change of living environment, simple typhoid fever is rare. On the contrary, external cold and internal heat are intertwined, forming damp evil. The real cold syndrome is rare, mainly damp evil. Dampness is yin evil, which inhibits Yang Qi and hinders qi movement. In other words, in the era of yang deficiency, dampness is at work. -
There is a strange phenomenon, that is, patients with real colds are rarely seen in winter, but they are everywhere in summer. -
Modern people live in an environment with heating in winter and air conditioning in summer, and their feelings about the four seasons are becoming more and more unclear. When sweating in summer, because of air conditioning, sweat can't volatilize and accumulate in the body; Heating in winter, sweating in light clothes, full of yang, can not hide essence. If you don't hide essence in winter, you will get sick in spring. In this environment, the human body is most prone to get sick, the skin opening and closing function declines, and the ability to resist evil spirits is getting worse and worse, which easily leads to the accumulation of dampness and evil spirits in the body, resulting in yang deficiency. Damp pathogen is more harmful to human body than cold pathogen. -
In hot summer, people covet air conditioning, like to drink cold drinks and eat cold dishes. A glass of cold beer is cold from head to toe from the inside out. As everyone knows, in order to covet the swiftness of this moment, at the same time, dampness is deeply buried in the body, which has become a hidden danger that puzzles our health. -
July and August every year is called long summer, when moisture is in season, the spleen in the human body corresponds to it. Dampness is also called "yin evil" in Chinese medicine, and the spleen is the most yin and dirty, and it likes dryness and hates dampness, so the temper is the strongest in July and August. If the humidity is too high in the long summer, it is easy to damage the spleen. At the same time, the spleen governs the transport of body fluids, showing that the yang is weak and the yin is abundant, and the spleen yang is most vulnerable to the invasion of dampness, which further encourages the invasion of dampness. -
Others like to eat pork, and salty cold helps phlegm. Eating too much meat can also lead to phlegm dampness. If you feel wet, you'd better stick to a vegetarian diet for a while. Eating rice cooked by a rice cooker for a long time is also easy to get wet. Wet people can be solved with barley and red bean soup or crispy rice. Drink glutinous rice and red bean soup for a while, and then drink millet porridge to tonify the spleen and stomach, and the spleen will be healthy and wet for a long time. -
The way to self-diagnose whether there is dampness in the body—
When you get up-look at this feeling-
If you wake up every morning feeling particularly tired, dizzy, unable to get up, or as lethargic as wearing wet clothes, and people are too lazy to move … then you can be sure that you are wet inside.
When you go to the toilet-look at the shit-
After the morning is convenient, you can observe the stool. Is it stuck to the toilet? A box of water can't be washed clean. If it is not convenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. If it is normal, one or two pieces of paper will be enough. Three or five pieces of paper can't be wiped clean after repeated wiping. (This is also the reason why the stool should be asked on the consultation list. ) It also means that the body is wet. The color and shape of stool can also help to judge whether there is dampness in the body. Normal stool is golden banana-shaped, and few people have this kind of healthy stool now. When the body is wet, the stool is blue, soft and shapeless. (This is an important sign of spleen deficiency, which many people have) There is always a feeling of uncleanness. After a long time, the toxins produced by defecation remain in the body, and all diseases are numerous. -
When washing-look at the tongue coating-
We usually start washing after going to the toilet. Before brushing our teeth, we might as well spend a few seconds looking at our tongue in the mirror. "Tongue is the seedling of the heart, and it is also a disease outside the spleen". Tongue can sensitively reflect our physical condition. -
A healthy tongue is reddish and moist, with a layer of tongue coating, which is thin, white and quiet, moderately dry and wet, not slippery or dry. If the tongue can't reach these indicators, it means that there is something wrong with the body function. If the tongue coating is white and thick, it looks smooth, indicating that there is cold in the body; If the tongue coating is rough or thick and yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body; If the tongue is red without coating, it means that the body is too hot to hurt the yin. -
In addition to the above three points, there are two ways to distinguish:-
Let's see if it's disgusting when we get up and brush our teeth in the morning. Many people say that when they brush their teeth, they vomit, which makes them sick. There is always a feeling of untidiness and uncleanness in their throats, even if they vomit only a little.
Second, get up in the morning and feel whether the calf is sour. These are also typical characteristics of damp evil. By the way, a wonderful way to get rid of dampness is to massage Chengshan point. There are also Sanyinjiao and Yinlingquan, all of which are very useful. It is best to use moxibustion)—
To remove the moisture in the body, the method is very simple, and only two "drugs" are needed. These two medicines can be eaten as tea and can solve big problems. They are barley and red beans. These two things, without any proportion, are caught one at a time, washed and boiled in a pot with water. After boiling, it is a good product for eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen-glutinous rice and red bean porridge. ……
One advantage of glutinous rice red bean porridge is that it won't be sticky. Red beans and glutinous rice will always rot at the bottom, and the red soup will be on it. Most of the effective ingredients of glutinous rice and red beans are in the soup. Put more water when cooking porridge, and these soups will be enough for us to drink for half a day, just as tea …
As for the efficacy, it is really serious. Coix lachryma-jobi seed, called "Coix lachryma-jobi seed" in Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. It can eliminate dampness and benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and can strengthen the body and replenish qi if taken for a long time. Red beans, known as "adzuki beans" in Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic and detumescence effects and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because they are red, they can nourish the heart. Modern people have great mental stress, lack of heart-qi, improper diet, little exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, barley and red beans are the only ones. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, while not causing any burden to the spleen and stomach.
The "detumescence" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at people now, at least five or six out of ten people are fat and swollen, which is called bloated. In Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that the body is wet. Water can't flow with qi and blood and stay between human cells, which makes the human body expand rapidly. So is edema, so is obesity, but the degree is deep and shallow. Drugs or foods with strong dampness-removing properties can discharge these residual water in the human body, and can also reduce swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema, and practice has proved that barley red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body, especially suitable for middle-aged and elderly people and obese people.
Dampness is the root of all kinds of chronic incurable diseases in modern times, and Coix seed and red bean soup is a good medicine for treating dampness. I usually give patients a prescription and always tell them some precautions in their diet and daily life, among which the most common thing is to go back and drink the barley and red bean soup as tea. For patients who don't have this condition, I will let him cook porridge with barley and red beans as the staple food for dinner.
Someone said to me, "I added a handful of rice when I cooked glutinous rice and red bean porridge, and the porridge became thicker." It tastes so beautiful! " I said, "Never add more rice!" Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, it is wet and sticky, so it thickens as soon as it is cooked. Both red beans and coix seed are dampness-removing, so they are not strong and the soup is very clear. Traditional Chinese medicine just uses its clarity to get rid of the dryness and dampness of the human body. Once rice is added, it is equivalent to adding water, so the whole porridge is thick. Although the taste may be better, it is not a good thing for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and barley were wasted, and the effect was useless.
Besides red bean glutinous rice porridge, you can learn more about the nature and taste of various foods, add and subtract by yourself, and form more dietary prescriptions suitable for your physique. Only in this way can food really become a good health care product.
Look dull, listless, even palpitation, drowsiness, emptiness in the heart: barley, red beans and longan.
Irritability and insomnia, or rash and acne on the face: barley and red beans with lily and lotus seeds.
Cold stomach pain, poor appetite, fear of cold: barley and red beans with ginger.
Kidney deficiency: barley, red beans and black beans
Beriberi: barley, red beans and soybeans.
Cough: red beans, pears and glutinous rice
Loss of appetite and thin figure: barley, red beans and yam.
Diarrhea, abdominal pain and diabetes: barley, red beans and pumpkin.
Physical weakness, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission and polyuria: add Coicis Semen and Euryale Semen.
Pregnant women: reduce coix seed and add a small amount of astragalus and codonopsis pilosula.
Maternity: Reduce coix seed and increase jujube, millet and brown sugar.
A patient once told me that he, his wife and son insisted on eating glutinous rice, red beans and pumpkin porridge for dinner every day. After eating for 28 days, the stools of all three people turned into "golden cylinders, banana-shaped", which was very smooth. I said, "Yes, your statistics are very accurate. 28 days is just a biological cycle of the human body. After a period of conditioning, I finally saw the effect. "
1, Coix seed tea: Twice in the morning and evening, about 5g of cooked Coix seed powder each time, and washed with warm water. Take it after meals. It can moisten skin, whiten and moisturize, promote qi and blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain. According to the owner's experience, adding some sugar or honey will be better, very fragrant, delicious, beautiful and slim!
2, summer tea: soak 5 grams of cooked barley powder in 500 ml of warm water, drink tea, can quench thirst, diuretic swelling, heat and detoxification. It can nourish hair, prevent hair loss and make hair smooth and soft.
3, slimming soup: a, fresh milk boiled, add 3-5 grams of barley, stir. Moisturize skin, whiten skin, promote qi and blood circulation, regulate menstruation and relieve pain, and drain water to lose weight. B oolong tea, dried kelp and coix seed. * * * Grind into powder and brew with boiling water for drinking. It has the effect of losing weight.
4. Coix seed porridge: Coix seed is rich in water-soluble fiber, which can reduce the absorption rate of fat in the intestine by absorbing bile salts responsible for digesting fat, thus reducing blood lipids. In addition, coix seed can promote the metabolism of blood and water in the body, and has the functions of diuresis and edema elimination, so it can achieve the effect of losing weight. Because coix seed is not easy to cook, overcooking will destroy the effect, so it is best to soak it in water for more than three hours before cooking. Coix seed is not high in calories, but it feels full. It is a very nutritious diet in a healthy natural diet, which can remove impurities from the body.
5. Mung bean glutinous rice porridge: Wash15g rice,15g mung bean and15g glutinous rice, and add water to cook porridge. It can satisfy hunger, clear away heat and quench thirst, nourish lung, strengthen spleen and stomach, clear away heat, dispel wind and remove dampness, and eliminate edema. You can also add mung bean powder to make bean paste and cook it into mung bean and barley porridge. Both mung bean and barley have diuretic and edema-improving effects. Coix seed itself has the effect of fading dark spots and whitening skin, while mung bean has the effect of detoxification, allowing toxins in the body to be discharged as soon as possible. For mm who loves beauty, job's tears porridge not only has whitening effect, but also is a low-calorie slimming food.
6, acne glutinous rice porridge: 50 grams of glutinous rice, sugar 15 grams. Usage: Take Coicis Semen and add water to cook porridge and sugar once a day. (China's folk prescription)
7. Lily glutinous rice porridge: Wash 50g of glutinous rice and 50g of lily15g, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook until the glutinous rice is hot and rotten, add honey and mix well, then serve. Features: Sweet, hot and waxy, slightly fragrant, this porridge can strengthen the spleen and stomach, moisturize and remove spots if eaten frequently. Can be used for treating female facial freckles, acne, eczema and other symptoms, and is beneficial to beautifying girls.
8. Cao Qian's one-meter porridge: put 30 grams of Cao Qian, put people in a casserole, add water for half an hour, filter the residue to leave juice, add 100 grams of Italian rice to cook porridge, and add appropriate amount of sugar to serve.
【 Efficacy 】 Diuretic, lithagogue and stranguria.
[Indications] kidney calculi and urinary calculi.
9. glutinous rice porridge of Chinese yam: [Raw materials] 30g of Chinese yam and glutinous rice, 50g of lotus seed meat15g, 0/0g of jujube/kloc-0, 50g of millet and a little sugar. [Production] Slice the yam, remove the core from the lotus seeds and remove the core from the red dates. After washing, cook porridge with millet, add sugar and mix well.
[Usage] Take it twice a day on an empty stomach.
[Efficacy] Spleen and qi. It is suitable for spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, abdominal distension, loose stool, weakness of limbs, senile edema, and leukorrhagia.
【 Precautions 】 Constipation should not be eaten.
10, Lily-job's tears porridge for gout: Lily-job's tears porridge can provide patients with the necessary calorie demand, has a direct therapeutic effect on gout, and can improve the symptoms of arthritis, so it is an ideal staple food for gout patients. In clinical treatment, it is found that under the principle of low purine diet, it is very effective for gout patients to take lily and barley porridge as their staple food.
【 Method 】 Wash 60g of dried lily, 60g of Coicis Semen and 60g of japonica rice, then put them into a pot to cook porridge, and take them twice a day in the middle and evening, even if the symptoms improve, at least once or twice a week to prevent gout from recurring.
★★★★★ Precautions for eating Coix seed ★
1. Because coix seed can make the body cold, and the deficiency-cold system is not suitable for long-term use, pregnant women and menstruating women should avoid eating it.
2. The sugar contained in coix seed is very sticky, and eating too much may hinder digestion!
3. Although Coix seed has the function of lowering blood fat and blood sugar, it is only a health food and cannot be used as medicine. Therefore, patients with hyperlipidemia still need to see a doctor for treatment, and they must not eat barley for treatment.