Look at the lips and know health
If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the lips can be seen as the window to health. The color, shine, and texture of the lips all reflect the health of the human body. Normal, healthy lips generally have a rosy and shiny complexion, and are moderately wet and dry, and elastic. Once there is a problem with the body, the lips will change. For example, the white lips are mainly weak and cold, the yellow lips are damp and hot, the red lips are mainly real heat, the purple lips are mainly blood stasis, and the black phlegm and dampness of the lips are the ......
So when you wake up early in the morning, you might as well look in the mirror and take a closer look at your lips to see if there is anything below.
People with pale lips indicate that your qi and blood are deficient and cold, and the qi and blood in your body are relatively scarce, and the cold main condensation makes the qi and blood unable to fully nourish your lips. This is mainly caused by spleen deficiency or excessive blood loss.
"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classics: The Five Organs Generation": "The spleen is also fleshy, and its glorious lips are also." The spleen is the source of qi and blood biochemistry, if the function of the spleen is weak and the qi and blood produced are insufficient, the lips will show the appearance of qi and blood deficiency. People with such lips often feel weak, sleepy, dizzy, easily sick, and slow to recover after illness.
Solution: For people with pale lips, it is best to nourish the qi and blood of the spleen and stomach, and it is recommended to eat more energy-filled root or seed foods, such as yam, barley, millet, lotus seeds, sweet potatoes, potatoes, seeds, white lentils, etc. In addition, you can also often eat shiitake mushrooms, poria cocos, white fungus, chrysanthemums, mulberries, wolfberry, cassia seeds, enoki mushrooms, etc. to support the body's righteousness, establish the body's defense barrier, and resist the invasion of external evil on the spleen and stomach.
The color of the lips is yellow, indicating that the liver and spleen have dampness and heat, mostly because of long-term depression or internal injuries to the diet (such as overeating, liking to eat fatty, sweet and greasy food), so that the spleen deficiency can not transport water and dampness well, and the dampness and depression for a long time will turn heat into the liver and spleen. There are often symptoms such as not wanting to eat, nausea, bloating, bitter mouth, and acne.
Yellow lips, lack of energy, and sometimes dazed and sleepy lips are among the most common problems among developing children, teenagers and young adults. And this kind of problem is often "made up"!
Because parents often ignore the problem of "excess liver and insufficient spleen" of children and teenagers, and blindly give them "nutrition", so the excess nutrients and moisture in the fruit are easy to stay in the intestines, which leads to gastrointestinal damage over time, the spleen and stomach are trapped by dampness and heat, and finally, the lips are yellow.
Solution: Those with yellow lips should eliminate food stagnation on the basis of strengthening the spleen and stomach, that is, on the basis of solution 1, you can eat ginseng, atractylodes, poria cocos, licorice, lotus seed meat, coix seeds, white lentils, yams, jujubes and other materials that invigorate qi and strengthen the spleen, regulate qi and stomach; Then mix with tangerine peel, poria cocos, hawthorn, white grass root and other decoction water or boiling water to soak; Supplemented with foods containing intestinal probiotics to cleanse the intestines.
Each meal insists on being full with more vegetables and less meat, and retains "three points of hunger", which can not only avoid food accumulation, but also reconcile the contradiction between the liver and spleen, so that the child's spleen and stomach are strong and smooth.
At the same time, it is necessary to dredge the bladder meridian frequently, hit the wall with the back or scrape and cupping on the bladder meridian on the back, because the bladder meridian is the largest detoxification meridian in the body, which can expel the dampness, heat, and blockage toxins in the body. When conditioning, remember not to eat spicy, greasy, sweet food, and don't stay up late, staying up late is a taboo for people with dampness and heat in the liver and spleen.
Stand 10~15 cm away from the wall, relax your whole body, hit the wall with your back back, and then hit it after the body bounces back, about a second to hit it, preferably from top to bottom on the entire back. Such a simple back hitting the wall can help the damp and hot physique dredge the meridians and clear the damp heat in the body.
Carmine refers to a color from red to crimson, red, crimson, and fuchsia all belong to this category, and the heat in the body of people with this color is relatively large, and the more the color develops towards crimson, the greater the fire. It is often accompanied by sore throat, toothache, constipation, yellow urine, etc.
Solution: Avoid all fried and greasy foods, and eat gruel for three consecutive days. A little salt can be added to the gruel to replenish the salt required by the human body. In addition, after tea and dinner, you can boil some winter melon soup, grass root soup, etc., and drink it instead of water to eliminate the symptoms of fire. Of course, if your lips are red and your lips are sharply dry, accompanied by dizziness, headache, high fever, and irritability, it is recommended to seek medical diagnosis and treatment in time.
The upper lip belongs to the stomach and the lower lip belongs to the spleen. The upper lip is dark red, and the lower lip is pale and slightly blue, which is a manifestation of "stomach heat and spleen cold", which is often accompanied by blushing, diarrhea after eating too much, and lazy limbs; The pale upper lip and the dark red lower lip are a manifestation of "stomach cold and spleen heat", which is often manifested as a person who does not want to eat, is prone to vomiting, and has a dizzy mind.
Solution: In this case, in addition to strengthening the spleen and stomach, it is also necessary to chew slowly during meals. Drawing on the habits of Taoism and Buddhism, each bite of food can be chewed about 36 times, so that the food is fully in contact with saliva, and the temperature is also equivalent to the temperature of the person's mouth, and then swallowed slowly, so that people are more likely to be full, and the food is easier to digest and absorb, which can effectively protect the spleen and stomach.
The lips are blue and black, which is a manifestation of blood stasis, indicating that your body is in a state of qi stagnation and blood stasis, and it is often accompanied by symptoms such as upset and chest tightness, nameless pain in the body, insomnia and dreams.
Solution: Hawthorn brown sugar water + 30 minutes of exercise every day to promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis
8 fresh hawthorns, 30 grams of brown sugar, crush the hawthorn and remove the core, add brown sugar and 500ml of water, boil to low heat and cook for 15 minutes. If you don't have fresh hawthorn, replace it with 20 pieces of dried hawthorn. This hawthorn brown sugar water has a very good effect on blood circulation and blood replenishment, if you insist on exercising for 30 minutes to an hour every day, you will see your lips rosy in half a month.
Exercise can be jogging, brisk walking, yoga, gymnastics...... As long as you like it, you can stick to it.
The best effect is the moxibustion Shenque acupoint and the tremor Guan Yuan acupoint, which can ignite the small stove in the body, warm the yang and drive away the cold, so that the qi and blood are unimpeded.
Located in the navel, the Shenque acupoint is considered to be the general center of the meridians, the confluence of meridians and qi, and the management of all the meridians and veins of the human body. Moxibustion has the function of adjusting the balance of yin and yang, qi and blood.
The tremor Guan Yuan acupoint is to cross and overlap the hands and place them on the Guan Yuan acupoint, that is, the 4 horizontal fingers (index finger to little finger) directly below the navel, and with a little pressure, the hands are quickly and slightly pushed up and down. Once in the morning and evening, 2~3 minutes each time, to the degree of local soreness.
The color of the lips is grayish and black, or the edges of the lips are black, which is a manifestation of heavy phlegm and dampness in the body, which is related to spleen deficiency and kidney yang deficiency. If the spleen is deficient, phlegm and dampness will be generated, and if the kidney yang is insufficient, the yang energy of the whole body will be insufficient, which is not conducive to phlegm and dampness metabolism. People with such lip color often overeat, like to eat cold, greasy, sweet food, and lack of exercise, often accompanied by decreased appetite, indigestion, heavy lower limbs, oily body odor.
Solution: Siwu tangerine peel porridge + push the heart, strengthen the spleen and kidney, dissolve phlegm and dispel dampness
Use 200 grams of fresh yam, 25 grams of seeds, 10 lotus seeds, 25 grams of white lentils, 10 grams of tangerine peel, cook porridge or soup, three or five times a week, have the function of strengthening the spleen and kidney, removing phlegm and dampness.
Pushing the heart and abdomen for 5 minutes every morning and evening can make the qi and blood unobstructed, the clear qi rises, and the turbidity decreases, helping to eliminate phlegm and dampness. Push the palm of the hand down from the heart socket to the lower abdomen and repeat for 5 minutes. Either with or without one hand. Standing and sitting work better.
If there is a blockage point such as a lump, a sore point, an "air mass" or a "sink", be sure to push it away and break it up by repeatedly pushing it away. It is not suitable for women during menstruation, pregnancy, and prolapse of internal organs (uterine prolapse, stomach prolapse).
If you want to make your lips beautiful and attractive, start changing them today, and I'm sure it won't be long before you get something out.