Is it because of dampness that I feel more sleepy the more I sleep?

Chinese people have more trust in traditional Chinese medicine, especially some sub-health conditions will be adjusted through Chinese medicine. Although the effect is slow, it can achieve the purpose of cure, so it is very popular. Many people are told that they have too much dampness when they see a Chinese doctor, and that dampness brings many symptoms. Some of them want to know if feeling more sleepy the more they sleep is due to dampness? Regarding this issue, we look at it from the following points.

I often can’t wake up, maybe it’s because there is too much moisture in my body?

How to determine whether your body is damp?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "due to dampness, the head feels like it is wrapped, and the dampness and heat cannot be eliminated, the large tendons become short, and the small tendons become loose. Shortness is stiffness, and looseness is flaccidity. Due to qi, there is swelling, and the four dimensions replace each other, and the yang energy is exhausted." Pay attention to 5 details when you wake up in the morning, and you can test whether there is dampness in your body.

1. Self-test of body moisture: See how you feel when you wake up

If you feel particularly tired, dizzy, and lack energy when you wake up every morning, or as if you are wearing wet clothes, feel uncomfortable all over, and are too lazy to move, then it can basically be determined that there is dampness in your body.

2. Self-diagnosis of body moisture: Look at your stool when you go to the toilet

After going to the toilet in the morning, you can observe the feces to see if they are stuck to the toilet bowl. If it is inconvenient to observe the toilet, you can also observe the toilet paper. If the stool is normal, one or two pieces of paper are enough. If three or five pieces of paper cannot be wiped clean after repeated wiping, it also means that there is moisture in the body.

In addition, the color and shape of the stool can also help determine whether there is moisture in the body. Normal stool is golden yellow and banana-shaped, but few people can have such healthy stool nowadays. When there is dampness in the body, the stool will be blue in color, loose and soft without any shape, and there will always be a feeling of incomplete excretion.

3. Self-diagnosis of body moisture: Check tongue coating when washing

“The tongue is the sprout of the heart and the external sign of the spleen.” The tongue can sensitively reflect our physical condition. Before brushing our teeth, we might as well take a few seconds to look at our tongue in the mirror.

A healthy tongue is pale pink and moist, with a thin, white and clear layer of tongue coating on the surface, with moderate dryness and wetness, neither slippery nor dry. If the tongue does not meet these indicators, it means that there is a problem with the body's functions. If the tongue coating is white and thick, and looks smooth and moist, it means that there is dampness and cold in the body; if the tongue coating is rough or very thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is dampness and heat in the body; if the tongue is red and has no coating, it means that the body is already hot to a certain degree and has damaged the "yin".

4. Self-diagnosis of body moisture: Do you feel sick when brushing your teeth?

If you vomit or feel nauseous as soon as you brush your teeth in the morning, and always feel a sticky sensation in your throat that you can't cough out or swallow, it is also a sign of dampness in your body.

5. Self-diagnosis of moisture in the body: sore and heavy calves

Feeling sore and heavy in your calves when you wake up in the morning is also a typical sign of dampness in the body.

If you experience most of the above conditions, it means that there is too much moisture in your body and you need to work hard to remove it.

6How to remove dampness?

Modern people suffer from great mental stress, unhealthy diet and lack of exercise, which not only often lead to spleen deficiency and dampness, but also weak heart qi. Therefore, in terms of health preservation, we must not only remove dampness, but also nourish the heart, spleen and stomach.

Add red beans, coix seed, oats, buckwheat and adzuki beans to water and boil them into porridge, which can remove dampness and nourish the heart without burdening the spleen and stomach. In addition, you can also use Shenling Baizhu powder to nourish the qi of the spleen and stomach and eliminate the dampness and turbidity that have accumulated in the body in the past, and then combine it with disaccharides to regulate the balance of intestinal flora and Hericium erinaceus to protect the gastric mucosa, so that you can achieve twice the result with half the effort.