What are the causes of damp heat in the body?

It's very hot in summer. Speaking of summer solstice, it often rains heavily. At this time, people often have symptoms of damp heat in the body, which not only seriously affects our health, but also brings some unnecessary troubles to our normal life. So why do we have symptoms of damp heat in our bodies?

High temperature and high fever in summer and autumn are easy to cause damp heat.

After sleeping, the temperature continues to rise. When people live irregularly, often stay up late and work overtime, eat irregularly, or overeat spicy and greasy food, internal heat will appear. At this time, when external heat and internal heat are combined into one, human body can easily feel the invasion of external dampness, resulting in general weakness, turbid tongue coating, disharmony between spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, upset and anxiety, heavy head and tiredness, thirst and nausea. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "typhoid fever in summer" or damp heat. At this time, we should pay special attention to diet aftercare, mainly light, and often eat foods with heat clearing, spleen strengthening and diuretic effects, such as adzuki bean, coix seed, mung bean, lotus seed and yam. And once the symptoms of dampness and heat in the body appear, then don't eat fish smell, sheep dog meat and other foods. Otherwise, it is not conducive to physical recovery.

The sultry weather is also the cause of the damp heat.

Recently, the number of patients affected by hot and humid weather in summer has increased significantly, most of whom are elderly people. Among them, chest tightness, poor breathing, general weakness, fatigue, dizziness, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, dryness and heat, profuse sweating or sweating are particularly common. The sultry weather in summer and autumn has many adverse effects on people's life and health. In a sultry environment, when the human body is metabolized vigorously, it consumes a lot of energy. In addition, if the human body perspires poorly, it is easy to cause moisture to accumulate in our body, which will also cause many symptoms.

Wet and rainy is also one of the incentives.

In summer, especially after the solstice, many areas have entered the rainy season. If the physical quality is not good enough, damp-heat evil will take advantage of it. If spleen deficiency comes to join in the fun again, it is easy to accumulate wet and turbid qi in the body, especially in the viscera and meridians. At this time, the heat in the body will continue to bake these humid and turbid gases, just like covering things with a quilt on a hot day. After a long time, it will produce a certain amount of heat, which is what Chinese medicine calls "thermal transformation", thus forming damp heat. So in life, don't get caught in the rain, try to avoid the humid environment and avoid exogenous dampness. This can also avoid beriberi, eczema, leg ulcers and other diseases.

Above, we have learned a lot about the causes of damp heat in our bodies. These factors are very likely to cause damp heat in our bodies, so we should do some work to prevent damp heat in our lives from these aspects. Only by doing preventive work can we keep healthy.