The key to keeping healthy in summer is to "get rid of dampness". Eating these foods is very effective in getting rid of dampness

What can you eat to get rid of dampness in summer? The weather is getting hotter in summer, and the humidity in the air is getting higher and higher, which can easily lead to excessive moisture in the human body. So how do we get rid of moisture? Let’s find out together!

1. Oats

Oats can lubricate the intestines and promote bowel movements, increase the volume of stool and the amount of water in stool, and work with fiber to promote gastrointestinal motility, thereby playing a role in laxative and detoxification. It is a good choice to blend the steamed oatmeal into juice and drink it as a beverage. You can also add other ingredients such as apples and raisins while blending, which is nutritious and can promote bowel movements!

2. Winter melon

It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and detoxifying, promoting body fluid and relieving restlessness, and it can expel excess water and moisture from the body through diuresis. Only a small amount of salt should be added when cooking winter melon, because too much salt will offset the diuretic effect of winter melon.

3. Job’s tears

Job's tears can promote blood circulation and water metabolism in the body, exert a diuretic and swelling-reducing effect, and help improve edema-type obesity. Barley water is a good detoxification method. Simply boil the barley in boiling water, then add a little sugar according to personal taste. It is a natural skin whitening product.

4. Kapok

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kapok flowers are sweet and cool in nature, and belong to the spleen, liver, and large intestine meridians. They have the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing dampness and promoting diuresis, strengthening the stomach and relieving heat. They are quite effective for diarrhea, dysentery, coughing up blood, vomiting blood, sores, eczema and other diseases. In addition, kapok bark has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, and detoxifying.

5. Xiaomi

Millet does not contain gluten and will not irritate the intestinal wall. It is a relatively mild fiber and is easily digested, so it is suitable for consumption with detoxification meals. Millet porridge is very suitable for detoxification, has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, is rich in nutrients, and also helps whiten the skin.

6. Purslane

It has the effects of clearing away heat and dampness, dispersing blood and reducing swelling. It is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, hot urination, jaundice, gingivitis and other diseases.

7. Carrots

Carrots are very helpful in improving constipation and are also rich in beta-carotene, which can neutralize toxins. Fresh carrots are better for detoxification because they can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. Blending them into juice and adding honey and lemon juice is not only delicious and thirst-quenching, but also helps detoxify.

8. White Beans

Lentils have the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, relieving heat and dampness, and are suitable for symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea due to summer heat and dampness, vomiting due to spleen deficiency, poor appetite and loose stools, diarrhea, edema, and red and white vaginal discharge. White lentils have a mild nature and flavor and are suitable for consumption by the general population. Especially for people with weak spleen and stomach, eating more white lentils can strengthen the spleen and stomach.

9. Onion

It has the effects of harmonizing the stomach and relieving qi, eliminating dampness and expectorant, detoxifying and killing insects. It is suitable for symptoms such as chest tightness, abdominal distension, cough with excessive sputum, and difficulty urinating.

10. Carp

The climate in summer is warm and humid. Drinking some carp soup can help remove dampness, stimulate appetite, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. From a nutritional point of view, carp is rich in high-quality protein, minerals and vitamins, and is easily digested and absorbed.

11. Water celery

It has the effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for symptoms such as painful urination, bloody urine, and leucorrhea.

12. Crucian carp

It has the effect of strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for symptoms such as spleen deficiency, poor appetite, weakness and fatigue, thirst, edema, and difficulty urinating.

13. Lettuce

Lettuce tastes sweet and bitter, is cool in nature, enters the intestines and stomach meridians, and has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. Suitable for mild edema and difficulty urinating. It can be eaten cold or cooked in soup, and it is best to eat it with the leaves. Lettuce is cold in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much.

14. Corn silk

Corn has the effects of regulating the stomach, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity and promoting diuresis. Corn silk has the effects of diuresis, reducing swelling and removing dampness. You can take 15-30 grams of dried corn silk (double the weight of fresh corn silk), add water to boil, remove the residue and take the juice; you can also put the corn silk in a teacup, brew it with boiling water, soak it in warm water for ten minutes, and drink it instead of tea.

15. Adzuki Bean

Red beans are sweet in taste and enter the heart and small intestine meridians. They have the effects of promoting diuresis and removing dampness, harmonizing blood and discharging pus, and reducing swelling and detoxifying. Its heat-clearing effect is weaker than that of mung beans, but its diuretic and dampness-removing effect is stronger. It can not only treat general edema, but even treat "ascites", that is, ascites caused by liver cirrhosis. Adzuki beans are generally used to make porridge or as stuffing.