What is cold dampness?

Excessive cold and dampness is the source of all diseases. Among the "six evil evils" of wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire that cause disease, Chinese medicine is most afraid of dampness.

Moisture is the easiest to penetrate. Dampness evil never fights alone, but always colludes with other evil spirits. When moisture encounters cold, it becomes cold dampness.

Spring is the season when liver qi dominates. Strong liver qi easily suppresses the spleen, causing the spleen and stomach to become weak, water and dampness cannot be melted, and dampness evil arises. In addition, with the continuous rain in spring, external dampness invades the human body and troubles the internal organs, so the body is easily trapped by dampness in spring.

But spring is the season when everything revives and the weather gets warmer, which is a good time to expel cold and dampness from the body.

Symptoms of cold and dampness in the body:

A pale, bluish, dark, or black complexion indicates that there may be coldness in the body. The darker the color, the heavier the cold and dampness.

A white tongue coating represents cold and dampness in the body.

Recurrent oral ulcers represent cold and dampness in the body.

When the tongue coating turns white when you have bad breath, it means there is cold and dampness in the body.

When coughing, the phlegm is thin and white, which means there is cold and dampness in the body.

A clear runny nose means there is cold and dampness in the body.

The sweat coming out is cold sweat, which means there is cold and dampness in the body.

If you like to sneeze, especially when you get up in the morning, and keep sneezing when exposed to wind, it means there is cold and dampness in the body.

When you have a cold or fever, you feel cold all over your body, which means there is cold and dampness in your body.

Frequent abdominal pain and diarrhea indicate cold and dampness in the body.

If your hands and feet are cold all year round, it means there is cold dampness in your body.

Swelling of the ankles represents kidney deficiency and coldness.

Symptoms such as joint pain in the limbs, neck and shoulder pain, frozen shoulder, back pain, etc. represent cold and dampness in the body. The more pain areas and the longer it lasts, the more severe the cold and dampness is in the body.

Spring is the time to relieve cold and dampness, don’t miss it!!

The best strategy is to use external heat and moxibustion to clear the meridians, allowing the body to expel cold and dampness from the body. Then drink some warm and tonic tea appropriately to increase the body's energy and help the body eliminate cold and dampness.

Pu'er Ripe Tea:

The simplest way to remove dampness is to brew a pot of Laoshupu and drink it slowly until your hands and feet feel hot, your forehead and back are slightly sweaty, and the rich aroma of tea surrounds you, just like a natural sauna. Why is there still moisture in your body?

Oolong tea:

Most people with heavy dampness have poor spleen and stomach functions. At this time, you can choose warm and stomach-nourishing tea such as oolong tea to drink. Although the dehumidification effect is not very fast, long-term drinking is still effective.

Barley tea:

Barley tea has a great dehumidifying effect. Buy barley in the supermarket, soak it in water and wash it, then dry it in the sun (shade), put it in a pot, stir-fry it over low heat until the barley changes color and the aroma of wheat comes out, then turn off the heat and let it cool. Boil the water, add the fried barley, then turn down the heat and simmer for 15 minutes, then turn off the heat and serve in a cup.

On a cloudy day, holding hot barley tea in your hand, the rich taste slides into your mouth with a mature sweetness, what a pleasure.

Ginger black tea:

There is no doubt that it deserves the title. Drinking a cup of ginger black tea on a humid day is as refreshing as soaking in a hot tub on a cold day. The preparation method is also very simple, just put a few slices of ginger into the boiling black tea, and you can drink it.

Wolfberry barley tea:

300 grams of barley, a handful of wolfberry, 2-3 red dates, appropriate amount of rock sugar and water. Pick out the impurities from the barley you bought, rinse it with clean water and drain it; put the barley into a pan, do not put any oil in the pan, stir-fry and bake the barley over low heat until the barley aroma comes out, then turn off the heat; cut the red dates into pieces Cut it in half or cut it and put it into the teapot. You can put a small handful of wolfberry in. If you like sweetness, you can put a few rock sugar. Then add the roasted barley, pour in boiling water, soak for 5-10 minutes and drink.

Barley is a commonly used medicine for diuresis and swelling, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and removing paralysis, clearing away heat and expelling pus. Coix seed and wolfberry tea nourishes the liver, improves eyesight, and dilutes water and removes dampness. It is suitable to be consumed in spring for health maintenance.

Fixing the moisture problem cannot be achieved in one day. It takes constant persistence and then adjustments to your living habits. In general, if there is heavy moisture, we still have to pay attention to it, because moisture has a relatively large impact on health.

　(Editor: Tea Ceremony Network)

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