One thing left in the body is the source of all diseases

1. Dampness – the root of all evil

Nowadays, people eat too much meat, the food they eat is polluted, they exercise too little, their bodies are yin-dominant and yang-deficient, and dampness accumulates inside their bodies, so their bowel movements are not normal. Why is there so little formed stool? Traditional Chinese medicine says that loose stools occur when the spleen is weak. Chinese people were supposed to eat cereals, but now they mainly eat meat. Many people feel they are missing out if they don't eat meat for a day. If this continues for a long time, it will harm the spleen and stomach. The spleen is responsible for transporting and transforming water and moisture. If the spleen is damaged, water and moisture cannot be completely transported and transformed, and they accumulate in the body. Therefore, unformed stool means spleen deficiency, and also means that there is dampness in the body. Among the six evil spirits that cause disease, wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire, Chinese medicine fears dampness the most.

Wet is the most penetrable. Dampness never fights alone, it always colludes with other evil forces. When moisture meets cold, it becomes cold and damp. It is like in winter, if the climate is dry, no matter how cold it is, people can still accept it, but if the moisture is heavy, people will feel very uncomfortable. Winter in the south is more uncomfortable than winter in the north because the humidity in the south is heavier and the cold and dampness are more severe. When moisture meets heat, it becomes damp heat, which is like a sauna day in summer. It is hot and humid, making people breathless. It is obviously not as comfortable as when the sun is shining and the climate is dry. When moisture meets wind, it becomes rheumatism. It is easy to drive away the wind, but once it becomes rheumatism, it is often a chronic disease and cannot be cured in a short time. When moisture accumulates under the skin, it causes obesity, which is also a difficult health problem to deal with...

Why are modern people's diseases so complicated and difficult to treat? Because they have dampness in their bodies, and the evil qi outside the body always cooperates with the dampness inside the body and is entangled! Sichuan cuisine, which used to be only popular in southwest my country, is now popular all over the country? It's because Sichuan cuisine is spicy. In the past, only people living in the southwest where the dampness was heavier needed to use it to dissolve the dampness in their bodies. Now, people all over the country have dampness in their bodies, and they all need spicy food to dissolve it, so everyone instinctively falls in love with Sichuan cuisine.

2. Methods for judging moisture

The body of a sick person has stubborn dampness; the body of a seemingly healthy person also has dampness lurking there, waiting for an opportunity to take action. So, how can you tell if you have dampness in your body?

1. Look at the stool:

What kind of stool is normal? "Golden yellow, cylindrical; banana-shaped, and very smooth."

(1) If the stool is unformed and loose for a long time, it must be due to dampness in the body.

(2) If the stool is formed, but there is always some sticky material on the toilet bowl after defecation that is difficult to flush down, this is also a sign of dampness in the body, because dampness has the characteristics of stickiness.

(3) If it is not convenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. If the stool is normal, it can be wiped clean with one piece of toilet paper. But for people with dampness in their bodies, one piece of toilet paper is not enough, and it takes three to five pieces to wipe it clean.

(4) If you are constipated and your stool is unformed, it means that there is a lot of moisture in your body. The stickiness of the moisture causes the stool to stick to the intestines and be absorbed by the intestines, preventing it from being excreted from the body. In this way, fecal toxins enter the blood and all kinds of diseases arise. However, general doctors often treat the disease based on symptoms without understanding that the root cause of the disease lies in the dampness in the body, and they treat it indiscriminately, which is an even more terrifying thing.

2. Look at the state of getting up:

Some people still feel sleepy when they should get up at seven o'clock every morning. They feel like something is wrapped around their heads and makes them unable to concentrate, or they feel like something is wrapped around their bodies and makes them too lazy to move. Then, without looking at the tongue or the stool, you can judge that there is a lot of dampness in his body. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "dampness is heavy like a wrap." This feeling of being wrapped is the body's perception of dampness, which is as uncomfortable as wearing a washed but not dried shirt.

3. Methods to remove moisture from the body

Dampness is the nemesis of modern people's health and is the source or accomplice of most difficult and chronic diseases. As long as the dampness is reduced, all so-called modern diseases will stay away from us, and all disgusting and chronic diseases will lose their support for existence. How to deal with and eliminate dampness?

1. Drink barley and red bean porridge (made with a soymilk machine):

Job's tears, called "Coix seed" in traditional Chinese medicine, is listed as a top-grade medicine in "Shennong's Herbal Classic". It can cure dampness and arthritis, benefit the intestines and stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and long-term use can make the body lighter and benefit the qi.

Red beans are red in color, and red enters the heart, so they can also nourish the heart and blood. Ancient books record that "long-term consumption makes people thin", which means that eating red beans regularly can also help lose weight. It also has obvious effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Modern people are under great mental stress and have weak heart qi; they have irregular diets, little exercise, and weak spleen and excessive dampness. If you want to remove dampness, nourish the heart, and strengthen the spleen and stomach, then the best solutions are coix seed and red bean. Boiling it into porridge is intended to allow its effective ingredients to be fully absorbed by the human body while not causing much burden to the spleen and stomach. Summer is the time when the heat is unbearable, and it makes people wet inside and outside. These two medicines can nourish the blood and remove dampness.

The "de-swelling" effect of coix seed and red bean is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. At least five or six out of ten people around me are overweight, which is also swelling, called obesity. In traditional Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that there is dampness in the body. The water cannot flow with the blood and is retained between body cells, causing the body to swell rapidly. The same is true for edema and obesity, the only difference is the degree. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidifying properties can remove the water retained in the human body and reduce swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema. Practice has proved that barley and red bean porridge has good weight-loss effects. It can lose weight without hurting the body. Especially for obesity in middle-aged and elderly people, the effect is particularly good.

People often think they are smart: "When I was cooking barley and red bean porridge, I added a handful of rice, and the porridge became thicker and tasted delicious!"

“Don’t ever add rice into it!” Why? Because rice grows in water and contains moisture, which is sticky. Therefore, the rice will become thick once it is boiled. Red beans and coix seeds can both remove moisture, and they do not contain moisture themselves, so no matter how you cook them, the soup will not be thick and will be very clear. Traditional Chinese medicine uses its cleansing properties to remove moisture from the human body. Once rice is added, moisture is added, so the whole porridge becomes thick. Although the taste is better, it is not good for health. Because of that handful of rice, all the red beans and coix seeds are wasted and have no effect.

Can everyone drink barley and red bean soup? Are there any contraindications? In fact, this soup is a good health product and has no side effects, but for different people, some additions and subtractions can be made appropriately.

Some people have a cold constitution, so they can add some warming food, such as longan and jujube; some people suffer from insomnia and feel obviously damp inside their body, so they can add some lotus seeds and lilies; if female friends have dysmenorrhea, they can remove the coix seeds and boil some red bean soup, add some ginger slices, jujube, and brown sugar, drink it to warm the lower abdomen and relieve pain. For joint pain, add some raw white peony root and raw licorice, which can transform the acid and sweet into yin, nourish the blood and eliminate numbness.

People who are often worried, overworked and have little exercise often have pale faces, lack of energy, and even palpitations, drowsiness, a heavy feeling in the head, and emptiness in the heart. This is a sign of dampness in the body and insufficient heart qi. You can add some longan to the coix seed and red bean soup and cook it together. Longan is sweet and warm, and can stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen, calm the nerves and replenish blood. It can invigorate the heart yang, warm and nourish the heart qi, making people full of energy and full of vitality. Moreover, the taste of the barley and red bean soup alone is very ordinary. After adding longan, it becomes sweet. The light sweetness not only dispels the moisture in our body, but also brings vitality and warmth to our hearts. Let's call it Job's tears, red bean and longan porridge. It is especially suitable for heavy manual laborers and also for middle-aged and elderly people.

Young people are prone to irritability and insomnia, or rashes and pimples on their faces. These are all caused by excessive fire in the upper part of the heart and lungs, and internal disturbance of dampness and heat. Washing your face with coix seed and red bean soup has miraculous effects, or you can add lily and lotus seeds to coix seed and red bean and cook them together for drinking. Lily can moisten the lungs, nourish the skin, clear the heart fire, and calm the mind. Lotus seeds are best for nourishing the heart and clearing heart fire, while also strengthening the spleen and tonifying the kidneys. Of course, if you feel that the soup has no taste, you can add some rock sugar.

If you catch a cold, or have cold in your body, cold pain in your stomach, and poor appetite, you can add a few slices of ginger to the coix seed and red bean soup. Ginger is warm in nature and can warm the middle and dispel cold, strengthen the spleen and stomach. Note that you should not add too much ginger, as it will make the porridge spicy. If you want to add some seasoning to the soup, it is best to add brown sugar, which is warm in nature. It should be noted that when women are taking care of themselves after childbirth, they should remove the coix seeds when drinking red bean and coix seed soup, and add some jujubes to it. Jujubes are very suitable for warming the middle, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the blood.

People with kidney deficiency can add some black beans to the coix seed and red bean soup. Because black enters the kidney, and the shape of the beans is very similar to the kidney, it is an excellent product for nourishing the kidney.

The athlete's foot that people often talk about nowadays is a typical manifestation of damp heat. You can add some crushed soybeans to the coix seed and red bean soup, and use the soup to soak your feet. This is a little secret recipe for treating athlete's foot.

If you have a cough, you can peel and core a raw pear and cut it into small pieces of 1 to 2 cm square, add it to the coix seed and red bean soup and cook together. It can moisten the lungs, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.

Learn how to add or subtract ingredients from the barley and red bean soup. If used properly, it can have a good therapeutic effect on most common diseases in life.

2. Exercise to perspire, balance hormones and remove moisture:

Exercise and sweating are good ways to remove moisture; especially in the summer, do not turn on the air conditioner or fan, the sweat in the body must come out, otherwise your moisture will be too heavy and you will definitely get sick in the winter. Exercising moderately every day is very beneficial to the body. Exercise can relieve stress, activate the functioning of body organs, and accelerate the excretion of moisture from the body. Modern people use their brains more and consume less physical energy. In addition, they stay in closed air-conditioned rooms for a long time and rarely sweat, so the body's ability to regulate humidity has become worse. Try running, walking, swimming, yoga, Tai Chi, or any other exercise that makes you breathe a little and sweat. It can help activate blood circulation and increase water metabolism.

3. Use mugwort: It is sold in pharmacies. After lighting it, roast it on the Guanyuan acupoint.

4. Eat less salt to help the kidneys excrete water.

5. Take an appropriate nap.

6. Quit smoking and drinking.

7. Eat three slices of ginger in the morning.

8. Eat light and moderate meals.

The gastrointestinal system is related to the metabolism of nutrients and water. The best way is to eat a moderate and balanced diet. Oily foods such as alcohol, milk, fatty and sweet foods are difficult to digest and can easily cause gastrointestinal bloating and inflammation. Sweets and fried foods will cause the body to produce peroxides, aggravating the inflammatory response.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that raw and cold foods, ice cream or cool vegetables and fruits will cause the digestive and absorption functions of the stomach and intestines to stagnate, and it is not advisable to consume them in unlimited quantities. For example, lettuce, salad, watermelon, cabbage, bitter gourd, etc., it is best to add onions and ginger when cooking to reduce the cold nature of the vegetables.

9. Avoid moisture in the environment. It is best to reduce exposure to humid environments in daily life. People who are particularly sensitive to moisture should pay attention to the following matters:

Don't sleep directly on the floor. The moisture in the air will decrease and the floor will be very humid, which can easily invade the body and cause soreness in the limbs. It is best to sleep on a bed that is a certain distance away from the floor.

Avoid going out on wet and rainy days;

Do not wear wet clothing;

Drink enough water.