A bowl of therapeutic soup can help you solve the source of dampness. It is suitable for cold dampness and damp heat.

Saying goodbye to the changeable weather in the summer of Xin Chou year, we are finally looking forward to the cooler autumn.

In the hot and humid summer days, how many people are suffering from the heat and humidity in the bitter summer?

Autumn has finally arrived, and the temperature finally shows signs of being willing to let humans go.

In this increasingly suitable weather for growing fat, the body naturally begins to be able to eat and sleep. There is also a tendency to retaliate for sleep delayed by high temperatures in summer. How many people have started the mode of not getting enough sleep for 12 hours a day? Does all kinds of eating make the tongue coating thicker?

Have the following situations also come to you?

1. The spleen and stomach are not functioning well, and the epigastrium always feels distended after eating;

2. I want to lie down after eating, and I am really tired from washing dishes;

3. The belly seems to be thicker again;

4. The face is greasy, the hair is greasy, the skin is greasy, and acne occurs;

< p> 5. Not fat, but very swollen, especially in the afternoon;

6. The spleen and stomach are weak, people don’t want to eat, and the whole body is lack of energy;

7. The stool is sticky in the toilet, Sometimes there is diarrhea;

8. Always feeling sleepy, unable to wake up in the morning, not getting enough sleep, and wanting to go back to sleep;

9. Seasonal eczema;

< p> 10. I always have phlegm and heavy breath when I wake up in the morning.

At this time, we look at our tongue coating in the mirror, it may be like this.

I believe everyone has already guessed it without me saying it. This is another wet and heavy thing.

Speaking of wet weight, you may subconsciously think: drink some red bean and barley tea.

If you feel heavy, drink red bean and barley tea.

Is it really good?

In fact, the fact that drinking red bean and barley water regularly can remove dampness can be listed as one of the top ten false rumors in recent years.

Why do you say that?

Let’s talk about red beans and barley first.

There are two types of red beans on the market. One is round and is an ingredient. Its main function is to clear away heat and detoxify.

The other is a long oval shape called adzuki bean. This is the medicinal material recorded in the "Pharmacopoeia" and can be used as medicine. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" says that it "has a sweet and sour smell, and is non-toxic. It is used to treat edema in the lower limbs and expel carbuncle, pus and blood."

Li Shizhen recorded these two kinds of red beans: "This bean The ones that are small and red and dark-colored are used as medicine, and the ones that are slightly larger and bright red or light red are not used to treat diseases. "Among them, "the ones that are small and red and dark-colored" are adzuki beans, and the ones that are "slightly larger and bright red or light red" are used. It is adzuki bean (red bean).

Sun Simiao said in "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies" that red bean: "It tastes sweet, salty and cold, non-toxic. It produces edema and discharges pus and blood. It cannot be taken for a long time as it will make people feel boring." "Although adzuki bean can help the moisture in the body go down and be excreted through urine. It is good for symptoms such as spleen deficiency and dampness, edema and fullness, heavy sleepiness in the limbs, etc., but it cannot be taken for a long time.

Barley is very unfriendly to people with non-damp and hot constitutions.

Barley has a sweet and slightly cold taste. It can diuresis and dampness, clear away heat and expel pus.

It is classified as a diuretic medicine. It has a very strong diuretic effect and allows the body to effectively eliminate moisture. Where is the energy used to powerfully remove dampness? The answer is the body’s own Qi and blood. Excessive use of Qi and blood to accomplish a certain purpose is called "breaking blood and consuming Qi".

A friend of mine who is a traditional Chinese medicine doctor had a patient, and she used to drink red bean and barley tea until she saw the doctor.

At first, this girl just had sticky stools. She knows something about health care and knows that it is wet weight. Seeing the overwhelming advertisements for red bean and barley tea, she decided to give it a try. After drinking it for a few days, my stool became much clearer. In order to consolidate the effect, I persisted for another ten days.

Ten days later, the sticky stool reappeared. What should I do? The girl thought that maybe her body's tolerance had increased, so she might as well drink more to enhance the effect. After a fierce operation, about ten days later, the girl's stools were no longer sticky, but became loose stools, and the number of times she went to the toilet increased from once to two or three times.

The optimistic girl thought, this is good, the body is getting rid of the dampness poison. I continued to persist for ten or twenty days, but one day my stomach began to feel uncomfortable, and my appetite suddenly dropped. When I ate raw or cold food, I felt that my stomach was blocked, uncomfortable, and even distended and painful. Up to this time, the girl was still persistently using red bean and barley tea to remove dampness. Until one time, she drank red bean and barley tea before her menstruation and began to suffer from menstrual cramps. Only then did I think of going to the doctor to ask the reason.

So can drinking red bean and barley tea remove dampness?

The answer is "yes", but it is only suitable for people with hot and humid constitutions. Barley is slightly cold, so it is suitable for those with damp and hot constitutions. But what if you have a cold and damp constitution? Of course, the more you drink, the colder your body becomes. Just like the girl above.

What is the correct way to "remove dampness"?

If we talk about "wet", it's like there is a pit on the ground with water accumulated in it. Simply removing moisture is to clean the water in the pit. After cleaning it once, will the pit always be clean in the future? Of course not. As long as the source of the water in the pit is still there, the pit will continue to accumulate water. Therefore, only by dealing with the source can the problem be fundamentally solved.

The function of red bean and barley water is only to clean up the water in the pit, so what can be used to solve the problem from the source?

We need to find the spleen, the general manager in charge of transportation and transformation.

We often talk about "spleen deficiency and dampness syndrome". It can be seen that spleen deficiency and dampness syndrome are really like a pair of incompatible brothers. Therefore, when dampness syndrome occurs, we have to ask, Is the function of the spleen still good? Usually, the spleen is deficient first, and its function of transporting and transforming water becomes poor, and then it becomes wet and sleepy.

For example, when the spleen function is normal, it can transport 1000ml of water every day easily. But my spleen is weak, and now I drink 500ml of water every day, and I’m still very tired. I wish I could go on strike all the time. The water that the spleen has no time to process cannot go where it should go. Instead, it stagnates in unnecessary places and becomes the waste water that we all hate - "wet".

Dampness and weight are the symptoms, while spleen deficiency is the root cause. Therefore, to solve the "dampness" problem at the source, we need to give the spleen sufficient power to work hard and metabolize unnecessary water.

Gently replenish the spleen and remove dampness

Try Sishen Decoction

Recommended here A classic traditional Chinese medicine recipe for strengthening the spleen that is suitable for all ages - Sishen Decoction.

It brings together the four "magic medicines" of Poria, Gorgon, lotus seeds and Huaishan in a ratio of 1:1:1:1.

Lotus seeds nourish the heart and calm the mind, yam nourishes the body, Poria cocos removes dampness, and Gorgon strengthens the spleen and removes dampness.

The Sishen Decoction not only contains Poria cocos to reduce dampness, but also Gorgon Fruit to convert moisture into body fluid. It also contains yam and lotus seeds to replenish deficiency and calm water, soothing the nerves. , so that moisture is no longer harmful, thereby regulating the body as a whole and achieving health.

Moreover, the four medicinal and food ingredients in Sishen Soup are very mild in nature and have good effects. While removing dampness, there is no cold or hot bias. It can be used whether you have dampness, heat or coldness.

Children who have accumulated food and do not like to eat can drink it; people with weak spleen and stomach and indigestion can also drink it.

These four ingredients also have the same characteristic, which is to nourish the spleen. Among them, raw barley is cool in nature, so you can fry it until the skin is slightly browned and smells faint. The burnt aroma of barley is much milder after frying, and it has the effect of tonifying the spleen, because the burnt aroma enters the spleen. Of course, if you have severe dampness and heat, you can also use raw barley. Raw barley is best at clearing away dampness and heat. In other words, the Sishen Decoction can be used whether you have cold-dampness or dampness-heat, and it tastes very good. It is both a food prescription and a medicine, and medicine and food come from the same source. When drinking this soup, it is best to eat the cooked yam, lotus seeds, poria and barley together for the best effect!