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Since the beginning of the dog days, there have been heavy rains across the country. More rain means heavy humidity, and the dog days are the time when humidity is rampant. As the saying goes, a damp constitution is a tumor constitution, so you should eat more dehumidifying foods in your daily diet. So how do we get rid of moisture during the dog days of summer? The editor will share it with you now! 2020 ushers in a special month - leap April, and the next leap April will not come until 2058. Come to Shuimoxiansheng.com to learn more about the unique leap April of 2020! What should we do when the humidity is heavy during the dog days? 》Head: If there is a lot of moisture in the body, the head will feel dizzy and swollen, as if it is very heavy and very uncomfortable.
》A thick and greasy tongue coating is a classic manifestation of dampness, which often manifests itself before the body shows obvious pathological conditions. After brushing your teeth in the morning, observe whether your tongue coating is thick and greasy. If so, it means that you have a lot of moisture. Normal niche thin white moss.
》People with damp skin will feel itchy, as if fleas are crawling on their body. When they scratch the itch with their hands, red bumps will appear, as if they were bitten by a mosquito. But it lasts for a short time and disappears.
》Joints When dampness damages the joints, some qi and blood will not flow smoothly, and there will be symptoms such as soreness and heaviness in the joints of the limbs, and difficulty in flexing and extending the joints.
》People with heavy moisture in their urine and feces will have symptoms such as turbid urine, loose stools, excessive vaginal discharge in women, and genital itching. If the stool is formed, heavy moisture will make it sticky and difficult to flush the toilet clean, and it will take more than one piece of toilet paper to wipe it clean.
》People with heavy dampness in their mental state often feel chest tightness and want to take a long breath to feel comfortable. They feel particularly tired, too lazy to move, feel dizzy, easily sleepy, and have memory loss.
》People with heavy dampness in the stomach will have their appetite affected, and they will not want to eat, have poor appetite, experience chest tightness and abdominal distension, eat less, have a bland and sticky mouth, feel thirsty but do not want to drink water, feel tired and weak, and other manifestations of qi deficiency and dampness. What are the best ways to remove moisture during the dog days of summer? 1. External treatment
1. Press the Zusanli acupoint. To deal with summer heat and dampness, you can press the Zusanli acupoint, which helps to transport and transform water and dampness. Choose the Zusanli point, also known as the "old hen point", make a fist and tap it lightly 200 times until you feel a slight soreness and swelling. Do this once in the morning and once in the evening, which can achieve the effect of harmonizing the Ying and Wei Qi.
2. The "Dehumidifying Prescription" on the spleen meridian is to use your fingers to push from the Sanyinjiao point along the edge of the bone to the Yinlingquan point, repeatedly. During the pushing process, find the most painful point and push it until it no longer hurts, then the spleen meridian will be unobstructed. If you do it every day, it can not only strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, but also help lose weight and beautify the body.
Note: If not performed by a doctor, pregnant women should be careful when pressing Sanyinjiao.
3. Major acupoint for removing dampness - Chengshan Chengshan acupoint is a major acupoint for removing dampness. People with heavy dampness will feel obvious soreness, swelling and pain when pressing the Chengshan acupoint. When you often feel sleepy due to heavy dampness, pressing Chengshan point can wake you up. After massaging Chengshan for a few minutes, you will feel a slight warmth in your body, which indicates that the Yang Qi on the bladder meridian is stimulated and is expelling moisture.
4. Scraping to prevent heatstroke. The humidity is heavy during the dog days, and symptoms such as nausea and dizziness are likely to occur. Scraping can be used to prevent heatstroke. Specifically, use a scraping board or gauze disinfected with alcohol to scrape both sides of the spine, or both sides of the ribs or forehead up and down until a dark purple color appears. You can also apply cooling oil and scrape. Or take Huoxiang Zhengqi Pills (water), drink more mung bean soup, lotus leaves, and patchouli instead of tea. If you sweat a lot, you should replenish light salt water in time.
2. Advice in life
1. Prevent dampness and strengthen the spleen and stomach. Pay attention to the maintenance of the spleen and stomach. People with weak spleen and stomach should drink less cold drinks, eat less cold dishes, and be careful not to let the navel get cold. The dog days of summer are the time when digestive tract diseases are prevalent. We should change our bad habits of eating irregularly, eating unclean food, and having certain dietary preferences. We should not drink too much cold drinks or eat too much cold food. Everything should be consumed in moderation.
2. Soak your feet in warm water. Soak your feet in 40℃ warm water before going to bed to remove moisture and improve sleep quality. You can also sweat deliberately to let the moisture dissipate with the sweat.
3. Ensure good sleep. Adequate and high-quality sleep helps the body repair itself, is the basis for ensuring the body's good functioning, and is a natural dehumidifier. You should follow the weather and go to bed late and get up early, but it's best not to go to bed later than 11 o'clock at night. You need to take a nap at noon, but it should not exceed an hour. Also, remember to remember not to be greedy for coolness, avoid sleeping in an air-conditioned room with very low temperature or on a damp ground, and don't sleep facing the window.
4. Drink more ginger tea. As the saying goes, "Eat radishes in winter and ginger in summer." Ginger has a warming and tonic effect. You can eat more ginger in summer to replenish your yang energy. Ginger is pungent and warm in nature, and has various effects such as dispelling cold and inducing sweating, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, harmonizing the stomach, and stopping vomiting. Drinking ginger tea is a simple and easy health care method, and summer is the best season to drink ginger tea.
5. Exercise regularly. The best way to prevent and remove dampness is to move your limbs lightly, so that the body's yang energy can slowly recover and the dampness can gradually dissipate. However, avoid strenuous exercise that causes excessive sweating.
6. Eat foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Eating more foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness can also be helpful. Cooking porridge with red beans, mung beans, and lotus leaves, making tea with patchouli, perilla, and atractylodes, and boiling water with sliced ginger all have the effect of removing dampness. Although chili peppers can stimulate appetite and aid digestion, their effect in removing dampness is average.
The editor has something to say: The humidity is high during the dog days, and the most important thing is to cool down and remove dampness. Do you remember the above methods? |
