What do Cantonese say: What is "moisture"

Dampness: in the long summer, it is mainly damp, which is yin evil and sticky. Symptoms of dampness invading the exterior. The whole body is hot and sleepy, the joints of limbs are sore, the nasal congestion is unfavorable, and the voice is heavy and unclear. Warm bath should be used to disperse exterior and adjust humidity.

Spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, and those with excessive endogenous dampness invade the spleen, resulting in endogenous dampness, or the spleen loses health and transports dampness due to excessive thinking.

Symptoms of internal dampness: weakness of limbs, loss of appetite, indigestion, fullness and discomfort of the epigastrium, frequent defecation, or dysuria, or even edema. The right pulse mouth should be heavy and astringent, and internal dampness should be treated by strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis.

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Dampness syndrome.

Its syndrome features are: wet outside, heavy head wrapped, head swelling and pain, joint and muscle pain, stuffy stomach, pale tongue with slippery fur and heavy pulse. Internal dampness is abdominal distension and discomfort, severe pain in limbs and joints, persistent pain, pale mouth without thirst, nausea and vomiting, unpleasant stool, short and red urine, pale tongue with greasy fur, wet or slippery pulse, etc. It is advisable to eliminate dampness or strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis.

External dampness: such as low body heat, heavy head and light body, stiff and painful joints, sticky mouth and moist pulse, which embodies the characteristics of dampness and slow weight.

Internal dampness: the physiological dampness of spleen soil, which is mainly reflected in the function and tone of Shui Gu's subtle metaplasia. That is to say, Shui Gu was absorbed by the stomach, transformed by the spleen, refined by the spleen, and then dispersed in his internal organs by the spleen. Under normal physiological conditions, if the spleen is full and has the right to transport qi and blood, it will subtly transport qi and blood, nourish the whole body and avoid getting sick and wet. Pathological spleen dampness is mainly reflected in Shui Gu's subtle metaplasia dysfunction. For example, the deficiency of spleen yin or yang makes the spleen unable to transport Shui Gu into subtle, while Shui Gu stops gathering dampness. Su Wen Zhi Zhen Da Lun is an example of "all dampness and distension belong to the spleen".

No matter external dampness or internal dampness, it has the characteristics of suppressing qi, hurting yang and invading spleen. Judging from the symptoms and signs, they are all heavy, dirty and sticky. The most serious symptoms are heavy fingers, heavy body, sore limbs and severe joint pain. This is because dampness invades the muscle surface and stays in the meridian joints, which hinders the normal physiological function of the human body, and nourishing and defending qi cannot be reconciled. Turbidity refers to the turbid secretions produced by the human body after the action of dampness evil, such as excessive dirt, diarrhea, dysentery, purulent blood mucus, turbid urine, excessive leucorrhea of women, eczema soaked in running water, etc. Stickiness refers to the long course of disease caused by feeling damp evil, which is difficult to heal; One finger is wet and unclean, with thick secretion and greasy tongue coating. In addition, dampness is more common in the lower part of the human body, such as increased leucorrhea, stranguria, diarrhea, dysentery and so on. And edema of lower limbs is more obvious.

Internal dampness can be caused by external dampness invading human body and affecting the physiological function of spleen, which is called dampness trapping spleen soil. It may also be due to improper diet, fatigue, or kidney-yang weakness leading to spleen-yang deficiency. Because the spleen governs transport and transformation, it is closely related to the metabolism and distribution of human body fluids. If the spleen is deficient and loses its normal physiological function, the water in the human body will get wet and even accumulate into water. Clinically, internal dampness is mainly manifested as sallow complexion, mental lethargy, loss of appetite, greasy mouth without thirst, chest tightness and fullness, vomiting, excessive phlegm and saliva, loose stool, short and red urine and edema, or excessive leucorrhea in women. Internal dampness can further evolve and develop in the human body. If it enters the chest diaphragm, it can form dryness and dampness and clear yang, and in severe cases, it can appear ignorance symptoms; Or chest pain, chest pain, chest pain. For example, if you get stuck in the large intestine, you can also see symptoms such as bloody stool, bloody color, or purple-black like red bean juice. The nature of its disease syndrome is different from that of cold and heat.

The clinical diagnosis of damp pathogen is mainly based on symptoms, combined with the comprehensive analysis of the climatic environment at that time and the patient's physique, emotion and diet. Treatment should be based on the characteristics of the disease, or aromatic dampness, or light osmotic diuresis, or spleen, or dampness. Can also be used in combination with several methods to enhance the curative effect.

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Summer evil is characterized by high fever, excessive sweating, mental fatigue and dampness. Due to the rising and dispersing of summer heat, symptoms such as high fever, irritability, sweating and thirst, short and red urine and pulse flood may occur after injury. When sweating heavily (body fluid changes), body fluid often leaks with sweating, resulting in symptoms such as qi deficiency, dizziness, shortness of breath, mental fatigue, and even sudden fainting, unconsciousness, chills in limbs and sweating. It is often rainy in summer, the environment is humid and sultry, and summer dampness often causes disease. Dampness hurts the spleen easily. At the same time, symptoms such as heavy lethargy, loss of appetite, chest tightness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea caused by spleen dampness are also common.

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Wet body feeding

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□ Kuang Family Medicine (No.10, 2006)

Wet body (greasy and stagnant) is very common in the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River. In the winter of 1999, we made a survey in Shanghai, and the elderly accounted for about 29%.

Zhu Danxi, a famous doctor in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, once said that "there are many husbands in the wetlands in the south of the Yangtze River". In fact, wet body is not uncommon among men, women and children, even infants and young children, but the degree is different. Its clinical characteristics are greasy tongue coating, thick or thin, white or yellow, gray or black, especially at the base of the tongue. This kind of human body is often fat, with yellow or white complexion, swollen eyelids but not swollen, dry mouth without drinking water, soft and shapeless stool, weakness of limbs, top-heavy, chest tightness and drowsiness, poor appetite, and continuous, thick and sticky female leucorrhea, or white or yellow or green.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that these clinical manifestations are caused by internal dampness. As for the material basis of internal wetness, it remains to be studied. According to the author's understanding, internal dampness may be the product of some metabolism in the human body, which should be excreted, and it is caused by dysfunction of viscera and retention in the body. Diuretic foods or drugs used in traditional Chinese medicine can often be effective.

In the early stage, due to insufficient accumulation, it showed pathological constitution. Once it changes from quantitative change to qualitative change, it can form a "wet syndrome" and become a disease. In addition, ancient medical books often say that "the drinker is wet". At this point, we often see it in clinic. When I was in Chongqing, I met a medical college leader who had been drinking for decades. His tongue coating is as thick as a blanket, and he has no other discomfort except coughing up a little phlegm in the morning. One day, I accidentally found that the center of the tongue coating was grayish yellow, so I consulted. I told him it was caused by alcoholism and advised him to drink less. It was winter, so he was advised to eat a lot of white radish to get the effect, but he was tired of moss because he couldn't give up what was in the cup.

Four people eat bean porridge.

Take 20 grams of Coicis Semen, 20 grams of Semen Phaseoli, winter melon seeds (with shells) 10 gram, white lentils 15 gram, 5 grams of bitter almonds, and cardamom 1 g (below), wash, and add refined rice to cook porridge. One meal a day for a week. This can clear away heat and promote diuresis, relieve summer heat and diarrhea, and neutralize dampness, so it has many conditioning effects on female leucorrhea, chronic cough and phlegm in the elderly, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency and so on.

It should be noted that white lentils should be cooked before other foods are cooked, because white lentils contain a kind of hemagglutinin and lysosaponin, which will be destroyed after cooking. If the tongue coating is thick, greasy and yellow, which is hot, 20 grams of mung bean can be added to remove nutmeg. If the tongue coating is thick and greasy, it is cold, and 3 slices of ginger can be added for cooking. I have been treating senile chronic bronchitis with excessive phlegm, and the effect is quite satisfactory.

Carp soup

A live carp with scales, gills and viscera removed is prepared by washing 50g of adzuki bean, 6g of dried tangerine peel, 6g of red pepper and 6g of Amomum tsaoko, stuffing them into the belly of the fish and decocting. You can add a proper amount of ginger, onion, pepper and other condiments, and the salt is much less. This prescription has the functions of detumescence, diuresis and dehumidification. This recipe is a slightly improved version of crucian carp soup introduced in Eating in the Yuan Dynasty. The whole recipe is a little warm. If the body is a little hot, it is necessary to remove hot and dry products such as red pepper, tsaoko and pepper and use 30 grams of mountain pills instead. Generally speaking, in the case of spleen edema, it can be effective even if it is eaten for three days.

Yiwei winter melon soup

Take 500 grams of wax gourd, wash it, remove the pulp, peel it, remove the seeds and cook it with wax gourd. Eat only melons and soup, not skins and seeds, and add less salt instead of more.

Winter melon is cold and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat, infiltrating dampness, resolving phlegm and discharging pus, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. When I am conditioning wet body in clinic, I recommend wax gourd and white radish in summer, both of which have the effects of resolving phlegm, promoting diuresis, regulating qi and strengthening spleen. Anyone who sees the above wet body can eat it, especially those who are hot and those who are cold, and add 5 slices of ginger.

1. Food is suitable for wet body.

White gourd, white radish, red bean, white lentil, coix seed, carp, houttuynia cordata, soybean sprouts, etc.

2. Avoid food when wet.

All flour products, including noodles, bread, steamed bread, jiaozi, biscuits, honey, dates, wine, tender broad beans, bean paste, chocolate, etc. Because they can all stay moist! Anyone who has made a dietary taboo because of his wet body is ineffective in taking dampness-removing drugs, let alone feeding and feeding!

From 65438 to 0990, we fed mice honey and lard. After 83 days, we found that the rat's tongue coating was as thick as human wet body, and obvious lesions could be seen in internal organs.