4hw.com.cn: in summer, many people's bodies will have heavy moisture. The so-called "a thousand colds are easy to get rid of, but one dampness is hard to get rid of". When you feel sleepy, itchy skin, decreased appetite and other symptoms, be careful. You may have moisture in your body. Then how can you get rid of the moisture in your body?
What is moisture
Moisture belongs to the term of traditional Chinese medicine. According to traditional medicine, it is hot and rainy at the turn of summer and autumn, with heavy moisture. If there is heavy moisture in the human body, the daily performance is sleepy and sleepy, do not want to eat, pale face, loose stool or sticky stool. Sometimes it feels that the skin is generally uncomfortable to be bitten by fleas. The pruritus is like scratching, but it also quickly subsides. Therefore, the heavy moisture is the symptom of spleen and stomach deficiency.
How to judge whether you are wet or not
When you get up, look at the feeling
Heavy moisture symptoms: if you feel tired, dizzy and unable to get up in the morning, or like wearing a wet clothes, you are not fresh, and people are too lazy to move, then you can be sure that you are wet.
When washing, look at your face and tongue coating
Severe symptoms of moisture: in the morning, the eyelid is swollen, or there is a lower pouch; when you look in the mirror, you find that your tongue coating is thick and greasy; the tongue body is fat, or there are obvious teeth marks on the edge of the tongue. In summer, people with wet spleen often feel sticky and greasy in their mouth, dark and yellow in their face.
When eating, look at appetite
Heavy moisture symptoms: when it's time to eat, there's no feeling of hunger, and you don't want to eat anything; when you eat a little, you feel bloated in your stomach; when you eat, you feel faint nausea, and you feel that the food you eat goes up.
Most people in the hot and humid environment in summer, there will be decreased appetite and digestive function. But there are also some people whose appetite is not affected and who have a strong sense of hunger, but they will feel full immediately after eating. This is the expression of strong stomach and weak spleen, and also the symptom of spleen dampness.
Look at mental state at work
Severe symptoms of dampness: the feeling of chest tightness is comfortable only when you want to breathe for a long time; the feeling of limbs or body heaviness or even aching all over; the body is particularly tired and lazy; the joints are tight and inflexible during the activity; the feeling of dizziness and unsmooth mind; drowsiness and memory loss sometimes.
How to get rid of moisture in the body
Avoid wet conditions
The result of heavy body moisture is not only related to body regulation, but also to the environment. Staying in a humid and cold environment for a long time is easy to cause moisture to enter the body.
In summer, because of the heat, many people will choose to sleep on the floor at night. Of course, they will also lay a mat or mat. It looks like it can cool down and get rid of the heat very well, but they don't want to. This will easily cause moisture to enter the body.
The floor is connected to the ground, in which the moisture is very heavy and easy to enter the body. If you sleep on the floor for a long time in summer, you will often have the feeling of limb pain.
Adjustment of sleep
There is also an important reason that affects the body's heavy moisture, which is sleep.
Heavy dampness often reflects spleen deficiency, and the disorder of spleen will lead to excessive dampness, which often makes people feel heavy head and sleepy.
Don't think it's a very good thing to sleep in summer. Sometimes, heavy sleepiness is often caused by heavy moisture.
Regulate diet
Of course, the best way to get rid of dampness in summer is undoubtedly diet. A reasonable diet is very helpful to get rid of dampness. However, an unreasonable diet will affect the adjustment of the body and cause excessive moisture.
In summer, many people will eat cold drinks to cool down, but do not want to, this way will cause gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function to be in a state of stagnation, which is easy to create an invasion opportunity for external evils, and easy to cause the occurrence of aggravation of moisture.
The taste of food has a greater impact on people's intake. Some delicious food often affects appetite, such as barbecue and frying. These foods are very attractive, but they will affect the function of the stomach and intestines, cause water metabolism disorder, and then lead to the occurrence of dyspepsia, which is easy to cause abdominal distention.