As autumn becomes deeper, many people who pay attention to health care have begun to prevent dryness in autumn, but few people pay attention to preventing moisture. Someone may have questions when seeing this: are “dry” and “wet” opposites? How could it exist at the same time?
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine:
Wetness and dryness are both internal and external dampness, and internal and external dryness. In autumn, dryness is the most prestigious energy.
"Wet" is water that cannot be used in the body and is a metabolic waste. If it stagnates in the spleen and stomach, it will not only affect the water and moisture transportation of the spleen and stomach, but also affect our digestion and absorption;
"Dry" is affected by the climate, and the body fluids in the body are quickly consumed, resulting in dry mouth and tongue, dry skin and other "dry" manifestations, which is a state of the body.
The dampness in the body not only cannot nourish the body, but also hinders the spleen and stomach from absorbing body fluids from food. Body fluids cannot nourish the body surface and skin;
The dry weather increases the loss of body fluids on the body surface or airways, and the internal and external attacks, and the autumn dryness is obvious.
So, if your autumn dryness cannot be relieved for a long time, it is very likely that the "wet" of the summer is causing trouble.
"Must be the basis for curing diseases". At this time, you can't just "moisturize" it. Instead, you should pay attention to removing dampness and to reduce the food that helps dampness in the recipe.
How important is the anti-humidity in autumn?
" Huangdi Neijing " says: "Autumn is hurt by wetness, and winter causes coughing." It means that if you are attacked by dampness in autumn, you will have a cough in winter. This is actually an embodiment of the concept of "preventing before illness" in traditional Chinese medicine.
In autumn, some mild yin and dampness may not be released immediately after the dry air is baked.
Wait until late autumn enters winter, and in winter, the "water" qi is in the right way, and the dampness is humidified, and the hidden evil of yin and dampness will be exposed, resulting in coughing with the upward reversal of lung qi and excessive phlegm.
There are also people with relatively weak constitutions who are troubled by moisture in autumn, which induces autumn fatigue, diarrhea, rheumatism, etc.
Moreover, it does not remove dampness in early autumn. If you nourish the body fluids in winter, the nourishing body fluids will easily be assimilated by moisture. Not only will it not achieve the effect of nourishing the body, but it will also encourage moisture.
But many people don’t understand these principles, believing that dry autumn will reduce moisture in the body, not only do not regulate it, but also do not pay attention.
How to judge whether you are Hydragon ?
At a glance, you can see Tongue coating : The tongue coating is white and thick, and even yellow, and there are easily traces of teeth on the tongue, indicating heavy moisture.
2. Look at the bowel movement: loose stools are unformed, and they are not easily washed away when stuck to the toilet, indicating heavy moisture.
Three-point look at appetite: reduced appetite, poor appetite, loss of appetite, and may be due to moisture in the body.
Four-looking mental state: poor mental state, easy to get tired and weak; especially difficulty getting up in the morning, unable to sleep, and listlessness.
When you find that you have the above symptoms, you basically have heavy moisture in your body.
Autumn spleen-strengthening
In fact, compared with external moisture, the endogenous moisture is more easily overlooked. Due to the change of seasons, if the living habit of greed for coolness is not adjusted in time, internal dampness will quietly arise.
So how do we avoid autumn wetness entering the body?
01 The spleen is healthy and healthy, and the fundamental to prevent moisture
People with healthy spleen are not prone to dampness, so the fundamental to prevent moisture is to have a healthy spleen and stomach.
For the spleen and stomach that digested the fruits and melons throughout the summer, it should be allowed to rest after autumn.
"Melon and fruit" is one of the cold, which damages the spleen yang. If the spleen yang is insufficient, it will be unfavorable for transportation and transformation; the other is dampness, which helps the spleen dampness, causing water and dampness to endogenously, causing diarrhea, loose stools, and the dampness lurks will also become the root cause of phlegm and dampness cough in winter.
"Fatty and greasy things" must also be controlled. After autumn, the dampness is still heavy, and the digestive function of the spleen and stomach is still weak. If you eat fatty, sweet and greasy things that are not easy to digest, you can imagine the heavy burden, which will make you more likely to cause phlegm and dampness.
In addition, we must know that the seven emotions can also cause the reaction of the human body's qi and blood, which affects the operation of the internal organs. The seven emotions that damage the spleen are "thinking".
Autumn is a season that makes people sad and melancholy. Thinking will make people's qi flow unsmoothly. The so-called "thinking will cause qi to become stagnant". Over time, qi will stagnate and problems will occur in the rise and fall of the qi. The spleen and stomach, as the key to the rise and fall of the qi, will definitely be damaged.
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Missed "damp-removing food"
Speaking of removing dampness, most people will think of eating barley . In fact, in autumn, nature has given us a better ingredient!
That is the " water chestnut ", known as "ginseng in water", also known as chicken head rice , and is known as "Eight Immortals of Water" together with 8 plants such as lotus root, water chestnut , and water chestnuts.
Gorgeous ferment, sweet and light taste. In traditional Chinese medicine, light can promote diuresis and can discharge excess moisture; at the same time, it can also absorb astringently, and better store the body fluids and essence that are replenished into the kidneys. Therefore, eating water chestnuts is equivalent to changing the moisture in the whole body into nourishing essence.
It is easy to cough dryly in autumn and always feel thirsty, friends who can eat it just right.
lotus seeds, coix seeds, chicken heads, rice sugar water,
Ingredients: coix seeds, 15 grams of lotus seeds, and 15 grams of water chestnuts.
Method:
1. Wash lotus seeds, coix seeds, and water fermented fermented 30 minutes each.
2. Put the ingredients into the pot, add 500ml of water, and simmer slowly in medium heat for 35 minutes.
3. Put it into a bowl, add a small spoonful of sugar osmanthus, and you can eat it.
Efficacy: The Outline records that lotus seeds have the effect of strengthening essence and energy. The combination with water chestnuts increases the astringent effect of the whole bowl of soup, allowing the body to discharge only wastewater and leave moisturizing.
Note: People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are recommended to fry the coix seed before cooking, which can be more warm to the spleen and stomach.
In addition, the common Poria , white lentil , red bean , red bean , dandelions that clear heat and remove dampness, white thirst root , etc., these foods help to resolve dampness lurking in the body.
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