Why do Chinese medicine practitioners always like to say that patients are "damp"?

Many people go to Chinese medicine and are told that "wet weight" and where dampness comes from.

　　There are three factors for the presence of wetness

One. Because I ate too much greasy, I couldn't digest it and accumulated into wetness;

Two. Although I didn't eat much, my digestion ability was insufficient, and I got tired of eating a little bit, and it would become wet;

Three. There is also the influence of environmental and seasonal factors, such as the humidity of Sichuan, where people will be uncomfortable if they don't eat chili peppers. For example, in summer, many people will have dampness in their bodies, and their bodies will become very heavy and lazy.

In the final analysis, these three symptoms are related to the spleen, "wet weight" is the standard, and "spleen qi deficiency" is the foundation.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the spleen is responsible for functioning, and the elimination of any metabolites must rely on the power of the spleen. When the temper is weak, the dirt will be retained in the body. What is dirty? It can be excess fat, or it can be abnormal secretions, excretions.

　　Fat people have more yang deficiency "wet weight"

Many fat people seem to be strong, but they are actually cold. Especially for people who have a lot of belly fat and a bigger and bigger swimming ring, they can't ignore the coldness of their physique. If you touch this kind of fat person, their skin is generally cool. It is because their bodies themselves know that they lack yang energy, and instinctively increase fat to keep warm.

Just like in the past, when there was no refrigerator, people who sold popsicles in the summer would wrap their popsicles in a quilt to prevent heat dissipation. The fat on the fat of the fat person also plays this role, so there is also the theory of "fat people have more yang deficiency, and thin people have more yin deficiency", which is often the fatter the more weak, and the more weak the fatter, the fatter the fatter, forming a vicious circle.

The correct way for fat people to lose weight should be to warm up the cold and damp, "warm" is to increase the ability to metabolize fat, and "cold and damp" refers to those fats that should not be accumulated in the body.

　　Beware of sleeping children who love to sleep are "wet heavy"

The child of a colleague of mine is very well-behaved and loves to sleep, which is also trapped by dampness. The reason why this child is wet and heavy may first be that the child's congenital spleen and stomach are not very strong, and when he feeds the day after tomorrow, the parents may not notice it, which hurts his temper.

The spleen has the ability to digest food, absorb nutrients, and expel dross, and if this ability is reduced, the nutrients cannot be absorbed at the same time, and the dross cannot be discharged, and it will become wet if it remains in the body. With these wastes, the body naturally feels tired, so it is easy to get sleepy at a young age.

The typical symptom of being hit by dampness is that the body always feels tired, but this fatigue is not because of any soreness, if it is sore, it may be that you have a problem of blood deficiency and blood not nourishing tendons.

1. The body is heavy and heavy, and the head is also cloudy, although the head does not hurt, but it is not refreshing;

2. There will be eczema on the skin, the appetite is not good, I feel tasteless when I eat anything, and my mouth is sticky.

3. When the tongue sticks out, you will find that the tongue is very fat and light in color. If the symptoms are severe, there will be tooth marks on the side of the tongue, even like a child's small skirt, which is called "skirt tongue", which is a more serious spleen deficiency and dampness.

　　Chengshan Cave is a large cave to dispel dampness

When you get up every morning, stretch your legs out of the bed so that the Chengshan acupoint rests on the edge of the bed, and swing your legs from side to side to massage the Chengshan acupoint.

According to the Chengshan acupoint, there will be obvious soreness and pain, this is because of the dampness in the body; After kneading Chengshan for a period of time, you will feel a slight heat in your body, which is the yang energy on the bladder meridian at work, and the dampness and evil in your body are escaping outward with the slightly raised body temperature.

　Medicines for tonifying the spleen and dispelling dampness

If you want to get rid of dampness, you first have to strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, and almost all spleen and qi strengthening drugs can indirectly dispel dampness. You can also go to the pharmacy to buy Chinese patent medicines, such as "Shenling Baizhu Pill", which is a good medicine to tonify the spleen, which is very peaceful in nature, and can be taken for a long time to slowly improve the constitution of spleen deficiency and dampness (varies from person to person).