Obesity was once regarded as a symbol of wealth, but now it has become a major health problem that threatens human beings. Many obese people want to lose weight, but they can't. If they want to lose weight, they must have perseverance. Diet plus exercise is indispensable to lose weight. In addition to eating less fatty foods, you can also eat some traditional Chinese medicine foods that help you lose weight. Now someone on the Internet asks if Chinese medicine can lose weight? Can those Chinese medicines help us lose weight? My answer is yes. But you have to follow the weight loss method to lose weight effectively. So, what Chinese medicines can help you lose weight? Chinese medicine can also lose weight. Many traditional Chinese medicines have the effect of losing weight, such as honeysuckle, Bupleurum and Polygonum multiflorum. Here are six kinds of Chinese medicines and five kinds of Chinese medicines to lose weight.
1, lotus leaf
The modern research results of traditional Chinese medicine show that lotus leaf has the function of reducing blood fat. The total effective rate of reducing cholesterol was 965,438 0.3%, of which the remarkable effective rate was 37.8%. It is reported that alkaloids in lotus leaves have the function of lowering blood lipid and are often used to treat obesity in clinic. Lotus leaf has the advantages of safe use, accurate dosage and no toxic and side effects. It is an ideal choice for people with "three highs", middle-aged and elderly friends and women who love beauty to lose weight and keep fit.
2. Poria cocos
Poria cocos is a fungal plant parasitic on the roots of pine trees. It is shaped like a sweet potato, with a dark brown skin and a white or pink interior. Traditional Chinese medicine has diuretic and sedative effects. The drug is the dry sclerotia of Poria cocos, a fungus of Polyporaceae, which is mostly parasitic on the roots of Pinus massoniana or Pinus densiflora.
3. Hawthorn
Hawthorn, also known as "hawthorn tree" and "rouge fruit", has high nutritional and medicinal value. Hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, peony bark, hawthorn cake, red jam, preserved fruit and hawthorn wine. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn skins are the most common and popular varieties.
4. Cassia seed
Cassia seed is a mature seed of Cassia seed, also known as cassia seed. According to Shennong's Materia Medica, Cassia seed is bitter and slightly cold, and belongs to liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians. It has the effects of clearing away liver-fire, improving eyesight, relaxing bowels, reducing blood fat and losing weight, and can be used for treating headache, dizziness, blurred vision, constipation, etc. In recent years, it has been used to treat bedridden hypertension.
5. adzuki bean
Sweet and sour in nature, it enters the spleen, heart and small intestine, and has good diuretic, detumescence and detoxification effects. Materia Medica for Dietotherapy says: "Eating thin people for a long time". Applying adzuki bean to lose weight is especially effective for obesity with edema.
6. dried tangerine peel
This product is the dry and mature peel of Rutaceae citrus and its cultivated varieties. Medicinal materials are divided into "Chenpi" and "Guangpi". Picking ripe fruits, peeling, sun drying or low temperature drying. Bitter, pungent and warm in nature. Enter the lung meridian and spleen meridian. Function of regulating qi and strengthening spleen, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm. Used for fullness in chest and hypochondrium, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea, and cough with excessive phlegm.
7.spirulina
Spirulina is a lower plant, belonging to Cyanophyta and Trematodaceae. Like bacteria, they have no real nuclei in their cells, so they are also called cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria, with primitive cell structure and very simple structure, is the earliest photosynthetic organism on earth, which has existed on this planet for 3.5 billion years.
8. Kumbu
Salty cold, entering the liver, stomach and kidney meridians, has the functions of softening and resolving hard mass, resolving phlegm and diuresis, and can also make people thin. Modern research has proved that kelp contains kelp polysaccharide, which is a kind of polysaccharide, and its low concentration sulfuric acid compound is similar to heparin, which has the effect of eliminating blood lipids.
It contains a variety of minerals and trace elements, which can reduce the deposition of animal fat on the heart, blood vessels and intestinal wall. Clinical evidence shows that obese people who eat 1- 1.5 kg of kelp (or kelp) every month can achieve ideal weight loss effect. Moreover, iodine deficiency can also cause insufficient thyroid secretion, thus reducing the basal metabolic rate of the body. Severe iodine deficiency will cause low-level energy output and induce obesity. Kelp has a good effect on obesity caused by hypothyroidism.
9. tea
It is one of the three major drinks in the world, which has the functions of clearing the head, quenching polydipsia, resolving phlegm, promoting digestion and diuresis. Modern research has proved that tea can reduce serum cholesterol concentration and the ratio of cholesterol to phospholipids, and can prevent and treat hyperlipidemia. Caffeine contained in tea can stimulate the central nervous system, reduce sleep consumption and increase consumption.
In addition, theophylline caffeine also has diuretic and metabolic effects. It can be seen that its weight loss effect is the result of multiple effects. So in general, drinking more tea is good for your health.
The above introduces 9 kinds of foods that can help you lose weight. If you want to lose weight, you can eat some properly. In addition, we should pay attention to exercise and keep exercising every day.
Traditional Chinese medicine for reducing weight
10, honeysuckle
Weight loss principle: Honeysuckle is sweet and cold, good at clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing fire and removing dampness, especially suitable for taking in summer, but it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.
Suitable for people: Generally speaking, honeysuckle has a wide range of applications, but only one type of people is not suitable. They don't eat much, but they have a lot of fat, which is obesity caused by endocrine disorders. If this is the case with you, honeysuckle is not suitable. Generally, this type of obesity is caused by weakness of spleen and stomach and disharmony between spleen and stomach, so honeysuckle is likely to aggravate this disharmony, aggravate obesity and make you run counter to the road of losing weight.
1 1, Bupleurum chinense
Weight loss principle: Bupleurum root is bitter in taste, slightly cold in nature, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the effects of soothing the liver, benefiting the gallbladder, promoting the circulation of qi, relieving depression and dispersing fire. Unique saponins in Bupleurum DC. Has lipid-lowering effect.
Suitable for the crowd: Do you have a good temper? If you are a short-tempered fat MM, soak some Bupleurum root to drink. Because the liver is an important organ for regulating fat metabolism, emotional instability will affect the unbalanced operation of the liver and cause obesity. Nowadays, women are stressed, emotionally unstable, hungry and full, often overeating, and their weight is the most vulnerable. Bupleurum into tea can also solve the obesity complications such as chest tightness, abdominal distension, emotional ups and downs, breast pain during menstruation, irritability and so on.
12, malt
When you are full, eating meat for a long time is easy to abdominal distension and even discomfort. Malt can digest overnight food, break air conditioning, and get rid of abdominal distension. Promote normal metabolism and have a healthy weight. In addition to losing weight, it is more important to beautify your body shape. Many people have abdominal distension and abdominal protrusion due to food accumulation, and malt has a significant effect on the small belly.
13, Polygonum multiflorum Thunb
Weight loss principle: I know Polygonum multiflorum Thunb is the first choice for hair care, but actually Polygonum multiflorum Thunb also has a good fat-reducing function. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. It tastes bitter and warm, and enters liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of moistening intestine and detoxicating, promoting intestinal peristalsis, discharging intestinal waste, reducing the absorption of cholesterol in intestine and preventing the deposition of cholesterol in liver.
Suitable for people: the most suitable for obese people with constipation. Because stool often accumulates in the body, the metabolic pathway of gastrointestinal tract is often blocked, and the hardest hit area of your body is the big belly that can't be reduced. Especially the lower abdomen, even if you don't eat much, it is bloated.
14, Alisma orientale
Weight loss principle: Alisma orientalis is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and has diuretic and damp-heat clearing effects. The reason why it has the function of reducing fat is to use it to eliminate body edema and accelerate metabolism.
Suitable for the crowd: Many obese people have this feeling. From the upper body alone, they are by no means obese, but as long as they look down, they can immediately see the depressed elephant legs and fat feet. Alisma orientalis is the best weight loss partner for this kind of obesity in the lower body. But it should be noted that every time you make tea with Alisma orientale, don't use too much, otherwise the cold Alisma orientale will make your stomach unbearable.
Traditional Chinese medicine formula for losing weight
1, lotus leaf ash formula
Composition: Lotus leaf.
Methods: Burnability, grinding and storage. Take a proper amount of water three times a day.
Efficacy: lose weight.
2. intellectual man fit
Composition: 500g of Radix Astragali, 3g of Poria, 3g of Radix Glycyrrhizae, 3g of Ginseng, 3g of Cornus officinalis, 3g of mica powder and 3g of ginger.
Methods: Firstly, Radix Astragali and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens were decocted and dried into powder. Sieve the other five ingredients such as Poria into powder and mix them evenly. Take 1g each time, add a little salt and take it with boiling water.
Efficacy: Yiqi Jianpi, lose weight and improve intelligence.
Note: All the above medicinal materials can be bought in pharmacies in China. If you are interested, you can also ask someone who can identify herbs to accompany you to collect on the spot.
3. Dachaihu Decoction
Composition: 9 grams of Bupleurum, 9 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, 0/2 grams of Paeonia lactiflora/kloc-,9 grams of Pinellia ternata, 9 grams of rhubarb, 3 slices of ginger, 3 pieces of jujube and 9 grams of immature bitter orange.
Methods: Eight herbs were decocted in water twice. Take it twice a day after meals.
Efficacy: Treating middle-aged people with overeating, obesity, lack of exercise, emotional disorder and subcutaneous fat deposition.
4, seaweed light body soup
Composition: seaweed, coix seed 12g, selfheal 15g, hawthorn, Alisma orientalis 15g, wormwood, Bupleurum root 9g, white mustard seed 6g and licorice root 5g are taken.
Methods: Decoct with clear water for 200ml, take orally 100ml each time, twice a day.
Efficacy: Eliminating phlegm and eliminating fat, invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, regulating qi, and treating female youth obesity.
5. Qinggong Fairy Herbal Tea
Composition: 3g of superior tea, 0/2g of perilla leaf/kloc-,0/2g of Acorus gramineus, 0/2g of Alisma orientale/kloc-,and 0/2g of hawthorn/kloc-.
Methods: The last four kinds were ground into coarse powder and mixed with tea for storage. Every time, take it with boiling water as tea.
Efficacy: Reduce fat and weight, and can be used to treat simple obesity and hyperlipidemia.