How should northerners deal with hot and humid weather when they go to the south?

Lao Guang, who has rich knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, knows how to deal with the hot and humid weather in the south. In the small shops on the street, herbal tea made of various sex drugs or soup added with Chinese herbal medicines are all marked with adaptation symptoms. When you are tired while playing, sit down and ask for a bowl of turtle ling paste or mung bean soup. If the effect is remarkable, you can choose a cup of herbal tea. Most of the drinks developed by Lao Guangren are aimed at "eliminating dampness and removing fire" and are often drunk.

The weather environment is closely related to people's physical reaction, and the physical dysfunction caused by damp heat is a common manifestation of northerners' acclimatization. It usually interferes with the normal work of the stomach and spleen, causing loss of appetite or vomiting and diarrhea. Wet-the so-called water wet, there are external wet and internal wet. External humidity is due to the humid climate, wading in the rain or humidity at home, so that external water invades the human body. Internal dampness is a pathological change closely related to digestive function. External humidity may cause internal humidity. Heat-mainly refers to the internal heat in the body. Like the performance of getting angry, external heat may also lead to internal heat. The damp heat caused by northerners entering the south is probably due to excessive moisture stagnation in the body, which is transformed into internal heat. This kind of heat accompanied by moisture often requires a two-pronged approach of clearing heat and removing dampness to be effective.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "dampness traps the spleen", so the function of the spleen and stomach is easily weakened under the weather conditions in the south. It is characterized by dizziness, nausea, heavy limbs, or abdominal pain, diarrhea and indigestion. But human spleen has the function of "transporting water and dampness". If the spleen is indigestion or overeating, and the diet is greasy or high in sugar, it will not be able to "transport water and dampness" normally, so that "water and dampness will stay inside". As a result, many northerners are prone to catch a cold in hot and humid weather, which greatly reduces the fun of traveling.

Eat carefully

It doesn't matter if the weather is hot and humid. If you are adaptable, you will get used to the sticky feeling on your skin in half a day. Chinese medicine experts say that the external damp and heat comes from the external environment, while the troublesome damp and heat in our body is mostly caused by the problem of "eating out" and the sexual taste of food in Chinese medicine theory. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold are particularly sensitive to damp heat, because their digestive ability is relatively weak. Eating food that is easy to induce damp heat, spleen and stomach weakness do not have enough ability to resolve, and damp heat will stagnate in the body.

Among tropical fruits, litchi, longan, mango and durian are the most typical fruits that cause damp heat, so it is not advisable to eat more. Chinese kale, onion and leek are vegetables with the strongest ability to grow damp and heat, so eat less in summer. Note that when cooking, the oil temperature is too high, and it is easy to contribute to damp heat.

Everyone's physique is different, so you should fully understand your physical condition before going out. A drink like herbal tea is not suitable for everyone. Chinese medicine believes that a person's physique can be divided into deficiency, excess, cold and heat. Most herbal teas are cold and only suitable for people who are hot, while people who are deficient in heat can not only "put out the fire" but also "add fuel to the fire" by drinking hot herbal teas.

Herbal tea, which Guangdong people often drink, is composed of medicines with bitter and cold taste, and is suitable for the symptoms of exogenous wind-heat, damp-heat stagnation, such as four-hour cold, fever and headache, sore throat, dry mouth and bitter taste, red lips and red eyes, dull pain in the lower abdomen and constipation. However, herbal tea is a medicine after all, which varies from person to person and cannot be taken as a health care medicine for a long time.

It's hot and humid in the south in summer, so it's best to strengthen the spleen and clear away heat and dampness. Cooking soup or sugar water with Hu Aishan and thorn stone can play a good therapeutic role. In addition, cold or tonic foods should not be eaten in summer, and bitter cold medicines such as Rhizoma Coptidis and Wang Bai and tonics such as Korean ginseng and red ginseng should not be taken.