What are the differences between moisture and cold air?

In real life, many people often neglect their physical health due to long-term busyness. Long-term irregular diet and rest will easily lead to dampness in the body. Cold is also a common physical disease in daily life. There is a certain difference between cold and dampness. Cold is the cold air that enters the body by the cold wind, which can easily cause symptoms such as cold hands and feet, while dampness is an internal disease of the body, which can easily make it difficult to sweat and easily cause gastrointestinal diseases.

The difference between cold and damp

What is cold air?

In traditional Chinese medicine, cold is defined as Yin evil, which can easily damage the Yang energy of the human body. In our daily life, getting caught in the rain, being blown by cold wind when sweating, catching a cold while sleeping, etc. are all likely to cause cold air to enter the body. Eating cold drinks in summer can cause cold air to be generated from the inside. The main manifestations of severe cold are fear of cold, susceptibility to catching colds, feeling tired and sleepy, and cold hands and feet. Cold is the key to the development of many diseases. Especially when summer comes, many people drink cold drinks, use air conditioning, and take cold showers, which will lead to an increase in coldness in the body.

To judge whether the body is cold or not, just touch your hands and feet.

If you feel your hands and feet are cold, it means that your body lacks Yang energy and has coldness; if your hands and feet are warm, it means that you have sufficient Yang energy and look very energetic. The palms of the hands may sweat easily, and the palms may be hot but the person feels cold, which is also a manifestation of coldness.

What is moisture?

Modern people spend most of their time under air conditioning and do not like to exercise, which causes the body's water to be unable to be discharged all year round. They also have irregular diets and stay up late. These habits affect the functioning of the spleen and stomach, causing the body to feel heavy and weak, the mind to be drowsy, the face to be oily and greasy, eczema and acne, itchy skin and other symptoms. These are all manifestations of dampness.

When dampness enters the body, initially the tongue coating is thick and greasy, with yellowish bad breath, jagged edges of the tongue, and rashes and pimples on the skin. In slightly more serious cases, there will be chest tightness, fatigue, tiredness, sore throat, and loose stools. If it develops further, there will be acne, joint pain, obesity, oily head and face, acne and spots on the face. Over time, it will lead to obesity, fatty liver, asthma, hypertension, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even malignant tumors.

To judge whether the body is damp or not, just look at the tongue

If the cold and heat in the body are evenly distributed, then our tongue should be light red and moist, with a layer of tongue coating that is thin, white and clear, with moderate dryness and wetness, neither slippery nor dry; if the tongue coating is too white, slippery and moist, it means that there is cold in the body; if the tongue coating is very rough, or very thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body; if the tongue is red and has no coating, it means that the body has become hot to a certain degree.

What is the difference between cold and damp?

What are the differences between the symptoms of dampness and cold: The main manifestation of cold is fear of cold, which can lead to pain, diarrhea and other functional impairment symptoms. Dampness has the characteristics of spreading and downward movement, and can cause weakness in the limbs, curling of the body, diarrhea, etc., which are all considered yin evil in traditional Chinese medicine.