When entering autumn and winter, the air humidity will decrease and the climate will be dry, making lips prone to chapped lips.

Mainly due to the dry climate and strong winds and sand in autumn and winter, coupled with insufficient intake of vitamin B2 and vitamin A in the human body, chapped lips are caused.

Moreover, most people’s lips are as dry as bark. They often can’t help but “lick their lips” and “tear off the dead skin” with their hands. They simply can’t bear to look at them without lipstick.

So, what causes chapped lips?

1. Why are lips easily chapped?

Our lip skin does not have sebaceous glands and sweat glands. These glands regulate the temperature, moisture and oil content of the skin. However, the lack of them in the lip skin makes it naturally more prone to dryness.

In addition, compared with the skin on other parts of the body, the cuticle of the skin on the lips is very thin. The skin on the face has up to 16 layers of cuticles, while the lips only have 3 layers. Without the protection of the cuticle, the skin on the lips is naturally more fragile and easier to lose moisture.

The dry climate in autumn and winter is more likely to cause chapped corners of the mouth, which doctors also call "angular stomatitis".

The temperature will continue to drop for a period of time, and people will start to use air conditioners, which will cause dehydration, affect the skin around the mouth, and further cause skin dryness and cracking.

2. What is the best drink for chapped lips?

When the weather is dry and the air is short of moisture, the body's water will also be lost, resulting in a loss of yin blood and body fluid consumption.

On the other hand, people often like to eat some thick, greasy, spicy food in the cold season, which causes heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach in the body, leading to symptoms such as insufficient body fluids, dry mouth, and internal heat.

Therefore, in order to relieve various discomforts, we must first pay attention to drinking more water, drinking appropriate tea, maintaining the humidity in the environment, and using lip balm appropriately.

In addition, you can brew a cup of "Double Winter Tea" to relieve dryness in autumn and winter.

How to make "Double Winter Tea": Take 10 grams each of Ophiopogon japonicus and Asparagus asparagus, add a little sugar, put it into a cup, cover with about 300 ml of boiling water and brew for about 10 to 15 minutes.

The efficacy of Ophiopogon japonicus can be summarized in four sentences, "Maimen is sweet and cold, quenches thirst and relieves irritability, nourishes the heart and lungs, and calms deficient heat." It can nourish lung body fluids, relieve dry throat, cough and other discomforts, and replenish body fluids in the stomach.

The functions of Asparagus are similar to those of Ophiopogon japonicus. It can clear the lungs, reduce fire, nourish yin and moisturize dryness. It can also nourish kidney yin and is suitable for symptoms of yin deficiency, fever, lack of body fluids, and thirst. The two complement each other and complement each other, making them a good partner for autumn and winter health care.

It should be noted that these two herbs are cold in nature and should not be consumed by those with symptoms of spleen and stomach deficiency, such as diarrhea, loose stools, white and greasy tongue coating, indigestion, and those with wind-cold, cold, and cough.

3. What should you pay attention to with chapped lips?

1. Don’t lick your lips if they are dry

In dry weather, lips are more likely to become dry. Many people like to lick their lips to relieve dryness. In fact, this approach is wrong.

Licking your lips with your tongue can easily cause inflammation of the corners of the lips, because saliva contains a variety of enzymes that can help digestion. Two of them, one called amylase and the other called maltase, can cause inflammation of the corners of the lips, which is equivalent to the two enzymes remaining on the lips "digesting the skin."

In addition, when the tongue licks the lips, the moisture it brings will evaporate, taking away the original moisture of the lips, making the lips drier, thus forming a vicious cycle of licking the lips and getting drier, eventually leading to lip eczema.

2. Do not tear the skin on your lips

Lips are dry and peeling. Do not peel off the skin with your hands, as this may tear the lips.

You can apply a hot towel for 3-5 minutes, then use a soft brush to brush off the dead skin on your lips, and then apply lip balm.

3. Avoid eating spicy food

In this dry season, eating too much spicy food will irritate the lips and worsen the dryness.

Some foods, such as abnormally spicy grilled wings, the chili powder on them will strongly irritate the lip mucous membrane, causing ulcers and even blisters, so be sure not to eat it too spicy.

It is best to carry lip balm with you during the dry season and apply it when your lips are chapped.

In addition, drinking more hot water can also moisturize your lips.

　(Editor: Bonnie)

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