How to take Chinese medicine to treat dampness

The situation of heavy moisture should of course be taken seriously. Excessive moisture is not good for physical health, and people with excessive moisture should also pay attention to understanding healthy and effective ways to regulate and remove moisture in their lives. In fact, it is better to use some dietary health care methods, such as barley and red bean porridge, or using wild yam, red beans, kudzu, lentils, and tangerine peel to make soup, all of which are very good at removing moisture, clearing heat and toxins and relieving fire.

1. Barley and red bean porridge:

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, strengthen the spleen and stomach, eliminate edema, and long-term use can make the body lighter and benefit the qi. Adzuki 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 can make people thin", which means that eating red beans regularly can also help with weight loss. It also has obvious effects of reducing swelling, promoting diuresis, 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.

Efficacy: If you want to remove dampness, nourish the heart, and strengthen the spleen and stomach, then coix seed and red bean are the best choice. 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.

2. Heat-clearing and dampness-removing soup

Ingredients: 250g of Poria cocos, 50g of adzuki beans, 250g of kudzu vine, 50g of lentils, half a dried tangerine peel, and 8 bowls of water.

Preparation method: Peel and cut into sections the Poria cocos, peel and cut into pieces the Pueraria lobata, put all the ingredients into a pot, bring the water to a boil and simmer for 3 hours.

Suitable for removing bone fire, removing dampness, and clearing away heat and toxins.

3. Hezhong Huashi Decoction

Ingredients: 30 grams of kapok flowers, 30 grams of frangipani, 30 grams of coix seeds, 30 grams of locust flowers, 100 grams of lean meat, 30 grams of fried lentils, 12 grams of tangerine peel or amomum.

Preparation method: Wash kapok flowers, frangipani, locust flowers, lean meat, coix seeds, fried lentils, tangerine peel or amomum villosum and put them in a clay pot. Add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 1 hour.

4. Grass Turtle Dehumidifying Soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of grass turtle, 200 grams of pork, 250 grams of fresh Poria cocos, and 6 red dates.

Method: Put pork, grass turtle, wild radish and red dates into a clay pot and simmer for 3 to 4 hours.

Efficacy: It has the function of clearing heat, removing dampness and detoxifying.