As the old saying goes, it is easy to remove a thousand colds but difficult to remove a dampness, so where should we focus on removing dampness?

Focus on methods of removing dampness.

Methods to drive away moisture:

One soak

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the more severe the dampness evil, the more necessary it is to soak your feet in hot water. The feet can stimulate the 6 meridians of the feet, including the stomach meridian and bladder meridian, thereby strengthening the spleen, dehumidifying, stimulating menstruation, and diluting water.

Two Don’ts

Don’t be greedy for coolness: In the hot summer, cold drinks and beverages are the best choices to relieve the heat. However, because the temperature of the beverage is too low, it is easy to affect stomach qi and gas, causing belching. , abdominal distension and other symptoms.

Don’t get exposed to rain: Try to avoid humid environments and avoid external dampness. This can avoid the occurrence of athlete’s foot, eczema and other diseases.

Three acupoints

Traditional Chinese medicine acupoint massage can also remove dampness. There are three acupoints commonly used to remove dampness:

Fenglong point: Massaging this acupoint can drain away the turbid dampness in the spleen and stomach. This point is located on the outside of the human calf, eight inches above the tip of the outer malleolus and two fingers across from the front edge of the tibia. Use your thumb or middle finger to massage it twice a day for 3 minutes each time.

Zusanli point: a good point for regulating the spleen and stomach and driving away internal dampness. In the depression below the outside of the kneecap, about 4 finger widths downward and one finger across the front edge of the tibia, do this twice a day for 3 minutes each time.

Zhongwan point: harmonizes the stomach and strengthens the spleen, promotes the transportation and transformation of the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for people with phlegm and dampness trapped in the spleen. It is located on the upper abdomen, on the front midline, at the midpoint between the lower end of the sternum and the umbilicus (4 inches above the umbilicus). Use your fingertips or the heel of your palms to rub the acupoint for 2 to 5 minutes.

Four soups

Health-preserving porridge and soup can also strengthen the spleen and stomach and remove dampness. It is recommended that you drink more red bean and coix seed porridge, gorgon seed porridge, yam and winter melon soup, and crucian carp soup in your daily diet. They have good effects of clearing away heat and diuresis, nourishing yin and removing dampness.

The reasons why there are dampness evils in the body:

As the old saying goes: "A thousand colds are easy to get rid of, but a dampness is difficult to get rid of." Dampness evils are divided into endogenous dampness and exogenous dampness. Exogenous dampness It is mostly caused by humid weather, exposure to rain and wading in water. The humidity in summer is very heavy, and it is easy to get sick due to dampness.

Internal dampness is mostly caused by insufficient congenital endowment, a preference for eating fat, sweet, thick and greasy foods, and excessive eating of raw and cold food, which causes the spleen to lose its health, and dampness arises from the inside. The source of dampness is in the spleen. Symptoms caused by dampness are generally treated by strengthening the spleen and removing dampness at the same time.

The above content refers to the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Health Preservation. A thousand colds are easy to get rid of, but a dampness is hard to get rid of! See the "grace" of Chinese medicine to teach you how to get rid of moisture