Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the humid climate and meat-eating in nature are the sources of moisture, and excessive moisture is easy to hurt Yang. Among the evils of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire, TCM is most afraid of dampness. Damp pathogen is a kind of disease, which mostly occurs at the turn of summer and autumn, but it can occur in all seasons.
Moisture in the body is mostly caused by eating cold drinks, gluttony of cold fruits and vegetables and other cold things, which damage the human yang. Under normal circumstances, the human body has the ability to naturally adjust the changes of external temperature and humidity.
However, some people's health is affected by poor health, diseases or living habits, resulting in imbalance of water regulation system in the body and inability to discharge water.
Chinese medicine believes that:
Spleen can transport water and dampness. Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness. If the spleen yang goes up, the spleen is healthy, the function of transporting water and dampness is normal, and dampness is not easy to cause disease. On the other hand, patients often suffer from dizziness, heavy head, sore limbs, heavy body pain, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thin stool, thick and greasy tongue coating and other symptoms.
How to judge whether there is moisture in the body?
The most convenient way is to look at the stool: if the stool is not formed, the loose stool will be wet in the body for a long time. If the stool is shaped, but after the stool is finished, there will always be some sticking to the toilet, which is difficult to flush down. This is also a manifestation of moisture in the body, because moisture has the characteristics of viscosity. If there is constipation and the stool is not formed, it means that the water in the body has disappeared.
In addition, by spitting out the tongue, the yellow tongue is greasy, which is a manifestation of dampness in the body. The yellower, or the fatter, the heavier the moisture.
Some people still feel sleepy when they should get up at seven every morning. They feel that something is wrapped around their heads, which makes people feel depressed, or something is wrapped around them, which makes people lazy to move. They can also tell that their bodies are very wet. In Chinese medicine, it is said that "it is as wet as being wrapped". This feeling of being wrapped is just like the body's feeling of moisture, just like wearing a washed shirt that is not dry.
Among the evils of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness and fire, TCM is most afraid of dampness. When it is cold, it is cold and wet, when it is hot, it is damp and hot, when it is windy, it is rheumatism, and it is obese under the skin. Why are the diseases of modern people so complicated and difficult to treat? Because they are wet in the body, the pathogens outside the body are always intertwined with the moisture in the body.
Hazards of moisture
Because the lifestyle is very different now, everyone likes to eat thick cream, barbecue and drink cold beer. Ice cream is indispensable all year round. It tastes very heavy and salty, and air conditioning is also blown in summer. This has caused the outside to be often surrounded by cold air, and the wet weight can't be exceeded, which leads to the wet weight in modern human body.
Heavy moisture can easily lead to various diseases in the body, including allergies, eczema, beriberi, gynecological inflammation and so on.
First of all, the damage to joints
Moisture enters the joints, and when it encounters "cold", it will form cold and dampness, which is an important cause of inflammation and joint pain.
Second, excessive leucorrhea
Too much moisture in the body can easily lead to spleen deficiency, so that moisture stays, increasing female leucorrhea, increasing leucorrhea, etc., and even leading to inflammation in severe cases.
Third, irregular menstruation.
Women who often live in a humid environment, or often suffer from humidity, will have poor physical fitness, and symptoms such as limb weakness, low fever, less menstrual flow and dysmenorrhea will appear before and after menstruation.
Fourth, vaginitis.
Vaginitis is not only related to the source of infection, but also related to moisture in the body. For people who belong to damp heat constitution, or fall in love with people who like to eat spicy and greasy food, it is easy to cause internal fire and heavy humidity, thus inducing vaginitis or repeatedly causing vaginitis. The conditioning of this kind of person must first start from the body to get rid of dampness.
Five, obesity+edema
When water enters the skin, it will affect the metabolism of skin cells and reduce the efficiency of fat burning, which will lead to obesity. Excessive water in the body and wet overload of the spleen, just like carriage overload, will even affect the diuretic function of the kidney and even lead to edema.
Sixth, it affects excretion.
Too much moisture will cause "moisture sticking to the intestines", and the number of stools will increase, which will make you feel unclean. Chinese medicine says "moisture is like a wrap". Heavy moisture will affect the permeability between cells and others, just like a wet quilt covering a person, which often makes you feel heavy.
Seven, affect sexual function
The external humidity is mostly caused by the humid climate and sitting in the wetland. Internal dampness is mostly caused by eating cold drinks, gluttony cold fruits and vegetables and other cold things, which damage human yang. Moisture affects the function of kidney-qi, leading to stagnation of moisture, hydronephrosis and decreased sexual function.
In addition to the above hazards, people with heavy body moisture will also have a variety of discomfort symptoms such as general weakness and sticky defecation. After a long time, it is easy to get fatty liver, asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even malignant tumors.
People with relatively high internal humidity can adjust their diet, especially some bad eating habits. Should eat less greasy food, otherwise it will aggravate the moisture, eat more light, diuretic, diuretic food, which has a certain effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Everyone knows that red bean barley porridge is a good food for eliminating dampness, but the disadvantage is that it is not easy to control the dosage and it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.
In addition, people with heavy moisture can choose Chinese patent medicines for conditioning, such as Qushi Granule (Yun Zhi), whose main components are Poria, Coix seed, Juncus Juncus, Crataegus pinnatifida and kidney beans. Its function is mainly to dispel dampness and clear heat, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and it can be used to treat obesity, anorexia, loose stool, yellow and greasy tongue coating caused by damp-heat of spleen and stomach, and the four drugs in the prescription are "medicine and food are homologous".
Although moisture is invisible and intangible in the human body, its existence does affect people's health. Therefore, in daily life, we should learn how to remove moisture, gradually improve our physical condition and get a healthy body.