In hot summer, because many people often stay in the air-conditioned room, it is difficult to discharge the water in the body, so it is easy to form a hot and humid constitution, so how to treat the hot and humid constitution? What are the manifestations of heavy moisture in the human body?
Symptoms of heavy moisture
1. Head: if the body is wet, the head will be faint and dizzy, as if feeling heavy and uncomfortable.
2. Tongue: thick and greasy tongue coating is a classic manifestation of rheumatism, which is often manifested when the body has not shown a prominent pathological situation. In the morning, after brushing your teeth, observe whether your tongue coating is thick and greasy. If so, it is humid. The normal niche is thin white moss.
3. Skin: for people with heavy humidity, the skin will feel itchy. It's like flea crawling on the body. It's hard to scratch with hands. It has red bulges, like being bitten by mosquitoes. But the comparison lasted for a while.
4. Joints: when dampness and evil affect the joints, part of Qi and blood will not move smoothly, and there will be heavy pain in the joints of limbs, and the joints will not bend and stretch properly.
5. Defecation: people with heavy moisture will have symptoms such as turbid urination, loose stools, excessive leucorrhea in women, pruritus in the vagina, etc. If the stool is formed, heavy moisture will make the stool sticky, it is difficult to clean the toilet, and several more toilet papers are needed to clean it.
6. Mental state: people with heavy moisture often have a feeling of chest tightness. They want to breathe for a long time to feel comfortable. They are particularly tired, lazy, dizzy, and prone to drowsiness and memory loss.
7. Appetite: for people with heavy humidity, their appetite will be affected. They don't want to eat, have a bad appetite, suffer from chest tightness and abdominal distension, and have a small amount of food. They also have the symptoms of deficiency of Qi and wet sleepiness, such as listless, sticky and boring mouth, thirsty but don't want to drink, listless and weak.
Eliminating dampness and reducing weight
Wet weight loss method red bean congee of job's tears
Materials: Job's tears 70g, red beans 90g, red dates 20g, longan meat 10g.
Practice:
1. Wash job's tears and red beans and soak them in advance (about 12 hours).
2. Put the soaked job's tears and red beans into the pot and boil them over high heat.
3. Wash the red dates and longan meat.
4. After the soup is boiled, add dates and longan meat.
5. Turn to medium and small fire and simmer slowly until the red bean is slightly blooming and soft to eat.
Efficacy: Job's tears is called "job's tears" in traditional Chinese medicine. It can cure dampness, promote stomach and intestines, eliminate edema, strengthen spleen and stomach, and take it for a long time to lighten the body and Qi. Red bean is red, red into the heart, so it can nourish the heart and blood. Ancient books record that it's "taking it for a long time makes people thin". That is to say, eating red bean often has the effect of reducing weight, and also has the obvious effect of promoting water, reducing swelling and strengthening the spleen and stomach.
White gourd and kelp soup
Ingredients: pork chop, wax gourd, kelp, salt, shredded pepper, shredded ginger, chicken essence.
Practice:
1. Cut the cleaned pork chop into about 5cm segments and wash.
2. Pour the water into the pot, put in the pork chop and kelp and cook for 45-50 minutes.
3. Peel and cut the wax gourd into 1.5cm thick pieces and put them into the soup. Then cook until the wax gourd is soft and ripe (you can add ginger at this time to prevent cold).
4, add a little salt and chicken essence into the soup and season with chili.
Efficacy: the winter melon is sweet and light, cold and cool, can clear away heat and water, reduce swelling and detoxification, and promote the production of Tianjin and eliminate boredom; the kelp is salty and cold, can clear heat and water, nourish yin and stop bleeding.
Note: kelp and wax gourd are cold food. It is not suitable to eat more at the turn of summer and autumn.
Lotus seed and Lily soup
Ingredients: 50g lotus seed and 50g lily, 250g pork lean meat, appropriate amount of scallion, ginger slice, salt, cooking wine and monosodium glutamate.
Practice:
1. Wash the lotus seed, Lily and lean pork, remove the lotus seed from the heart, and cut the lean meat into thin slices
2. Put the lotus seeds, lilies and pork slices in the pot at the same time, add some water, and then add onion, ginger slices, salt and cooking wine.
3. Put the pot on the fire and simmer for 1 hour with a small fire
4. When eating, add a small amount of monosodium glutamate to taste, eat lotus seeds, lilies, pork, and drink soup.
Efficacy: it can benefit the spleen and stomach, nourish the heart and mind, moisten the lung and kidney, remove heat and stop coughing;
Applicable crowd: it is suitable for the obesity patients with heart selection, insomnia and low fever and dry cough with deficiency of lung yin.