Traditional Chinese medicine health treatment focus on "three due to appropriate measures", long summer for the chemical season, corresponding to the human spleen, and "spleen" and "stomach", the two sides of each other, the other side is bound to be affected。The first two days just entered the Fu, which means the arrival of the long summer season, this time the weather is hot and humid, the human body is open, in order to achieve the role of their own regulation of Yin and Yang, if you do not pay more attention to this time, the cold and damp evil into the body, then the Cou is closed, the adjustment function disorders, easy to cause disease。

"Dampness" is one of the six evil qi, which is characterized by viscosity, heavy turbidity and easy to injure Yang Qi。Chinese medicine believes that the spleen can transport water and dampness, if the transport function is normal, the evil can not overcome the right, not easy to cause disease;On the contrary, the function of the spleen is weakened or subsided, then the evil is flourishing and positive decline, and the dampness is too heavy to cause illness。After the disease, people often have symptoms such as heavy head, sore limbs, poor joint flexion and extension, chest tightness, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, eczema, edema, loose stool and other symptoms。

Attention!These bad habits will cause moisture evil to enter the body:

1.Like to eat fat and sweet taste (barbecue, hot pot), cold drinks (drink cold beer, milk tea, eat ice cream), eat cold and cold things such as cold melons and fruits, shrimp and crabs, resulting in hot wet or wet directly into the body;

2.Air conditioning, moisture can not be naturally distributed;

3.Living or working in a humid environment, such as cold storage, wading in the rain;

4.Qi deficiency, chronic illness does not heal, spleen and stomach transport disharmony, moisture is difficult to humidify。

How to dehumidify？

1.Change bad habits

Avoid fat and sweet taste, raw and cold, seafood, spicy and stimulating food，To prevent dampness from entering the body，Or help fire to produce wet，Long summer season to increase drinking water a small number of times;Exercise for at least 30 minutes every day，Such as jogging, tai chi, five poultry play and so on，To promote water metabolism in the body，Accelerate the discharge of moisture from the body;Blow less or no air conditioning，Summer let the body inside the sweat naturally discharge;Don't sleep directly on the floor in your daily life，Don't wear wet, wet clothes，Dry yourself well after taking a bath，Blow dry hair，The house has more Windows for ventilation，Wet even change the living or working environment。

2.Food therapy helps remove dampness

Since ancient times, Chinese medicine has emphasized the same origin of medicine and food, sweet and bitter food can clear heat and remove dampness, strengthen the spleen and water, and facilitate the movement of the spleen and stomach。The food of clearing heat are bitter melon, winter melon, pueraria root, honeysuckle, dandelion, isatis root, wild chrysanthemum and so on;Dispelling dampness and water food are coix seed, red bean, poria, poria, winter melon, kelp and so on;Invigorating the spleen and stomach food yam, lotus seeds, gorgon euryale seed, pork, white lentils, millet and so on。

Dietary recommendations: Coix seed red bean porridge, poria millet porridge, pork rib pot with winter melon, mung bean porridge, honeysuckle tea, etc。Because "bitter" can dry wet, when eating can be used with bitter food, such as bitter melon, lily, almonds, orange peel, etc., the two kinds of food complementary, remove the dampness effect is better。

3.TCM foot soaking to remove dampness

Hot blister feet can stimulate the acupoints on the sole of the feet, promote blood circulation, speed up metabolism, remove the body's damp poison gas, and soak until the forehead sweats slightly。You can put some mugwort leaves, ginger or zanthoxylum in foot water (aromatic drugs, for removing dampness magic weapon, you can use the aroma to walk through the smell, walk through the meridian。Mugwort leaf itself has the function of removing dampness, Qi, water and detumescence), which can speed up the blood circulation in the body, promote the metabolism of the skin, and discharge the cold and dampness in the body more quickly。

4.TCM characteristic physiotherapy

Balance cupping: can dehumidifying and clearing collaterals, promoting qi and blood circulation, removing poison and purging heat;Moxibustion: Moxibustion Zhongwan, Xiawan, Tianshu, Shenque, can warm the channel Tongluo, dehumidification and cold;Gua Sha therapy: syndrome differentiation gua Sha, can supplement and diarrhea;Acupressure: can massage Yongquan point, Jiquan point, Yin Ling spring, in order to promote the spleen transport water wet。

Department of Spleen and Stomach Diseases: Zhao Lihua