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Dampness in the body, a hundred diseases!

The body of these 8 signals, indicating that you in the damp poison very deep!

By keshawn kodyPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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Dampness in the body, a hundred diseases!
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Body dampness, a hundred diseases born! These 8 signs of the body, that you are in the damp toxins very deep!

Chinese medicine believes that the easiest toxins to invade and enrich the human body are dampness and heat toxins. As the saying goes, "a thousand cold easy to get rid of, a wet hard to go". And cause the body to get sick wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness, and fire of the six evils, the most annoying is the dampness because it is easy to invade but Henan to get rid of. Modern life is fast-paced, stressful, and irregular diet, it is easy to cause internal heat on fire, dampness, and toxicity invasion. Does damp heat hurt the body, the body of which signals indicate that it has been invaded by damp toxins?

1, get up tired

When you get up in the morning, the body does not have a sleep-wake up briskly, but like no sleep, weak, tired, like wearing a mountain of wet clothes. This is one of the typical symptoms of the beginning of damp heat in the body.

2, the skin loves oil, acne

If the skin color is yellow, often oily, acne, may be related to the body's damp heat.

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3, the whites of the eyes are yellow

If the eyes look a little yellow, but it is not jaundice and accompanied by eyelids edema, or eye droppings, may be due to damp-heat

4、Lips are red and swollen and peeling

The lips are outside the spleen, and the color and moistening of the lips also reflect the state of the spleen and stomach. Spleen and stomach damp heat. The lips will appear red, swollen, peeling, cracked, and other symptoms.

5、Thick and greasy tongue

When there is damp heat in the body, the tongue will show thick and greasy. If there are teeth marks or pressure marks on the edge of the tongue, it usually indicates that there is damp heat in the body.

6、Severe breath

Severe bad breath is not only a manifestation of oral hygiene and oral diseases, damp heat will also lead to bad breath.

7、Sticky stool

Sticky stool, unshaped, like pond mud, this is the performance of damp heat

8、Summer weakness, irritable heat

Dampness and heat tend to cause weakness, irritability, chest tightness, reduced appetite, thirst, and nausea in summer.

How to get rid of damp heat? There are 5 tricks to get rid of dampness and heat in summer

1. Eat lightly and not greasy

A daily diet should be light, especially in summer, damp-heat disease prone to commit, but also from daily life to start to damp heat. Eat more beans and vegetables, eat less, or do not eat smoked, fried food.

2, proper exercise to drain damp heat

Free time at work can stand up and walk more, to maintain exercise for 1-2 hours a week, you can use walking, jogging, and other forms of exercise, these exercises are helpful in the body of damp heat discharge.

3, to ensure sleep, do not stay up late

Chinese medicine says that staying up late hurts the liver, and the liver and gallbladder are each other, long-term staying up late hurts the liver and gallbladder, but also causes the body to damp toxins that can not be eliminated from the body. Therefore, we must ensure sleep to promote detoxification in the body.

4, massage Hegu point: clear heat and damp

The high point is an important point on the hand Yangming large intestine meridian, located on the back of the hand, between the 1st and 2nd metacarpal bone, the second metacarpal bone radial midpoint. Massage at this point can remove heat from the body so that damp heat has nowhere to hide.

Massage method: thumb finger pressed on the Hegu point, clockwise massage 30-50 times, the strength should be moderate, once a day in the morning and evening.

5, dampness porridge: red beans and barley gorgonzola

You can cook your damp porridge in summer, wash the gravy, red beans, and barley, then soak in water for two hours and add rock sugar, the right amount of hot water, and smothering can be eaten. Job's tear strengthens the spleen and removes dampness, red beans can clear heat and detoxify the spleen and benefit the stomach, and gravy strengthens the spleen and dispels dampness, strengthens the kidneys, and stops diarrhea, which has a good effect on getting rid of dampness and heat.

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