Soaking feet with mugwort leaves has the effect of dispelling cold. Folium Artemisiae Argyi belongs to extremely yang medicine. Foot-soaking with Folium Artemisiae Argyi can effectively dispel deficiency fire and cold fire, and can treat oral ulcer, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other diseases. For patients with severe cold and dampness, it is ok to soak their feet with mugwort water once a week, but at the same time, they must avoid eating cold food. Don't let the cold and dampness invade again. Slowly, you will find that after eating nourishing food, your body will not get angry easily and your physique will gradually improve.
Soaking feet with wormwood in summer can effectively prevent or treat symptoms such as cold and fever caused by long-term air conditioning. However, experts remind that Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a bitter substance, which generally has a cooling effect and has the effect of reducing fire, especially liver fire. "People who are weak and lack of qi and blood are advised to drink a bowl of jujube longan soup or tea before soaking their feet to supplement the vitality that may be lost in the body." Soaking your feet with mugwort leaves is good for your health, but you can't soak them often. It is understood that foot-soaking with mugwort leaves will lead to deficiency fire and cold fire, which will cause deficiency of both qi and blood in the head and face and insufficient blood supply, but it will cause dizziness, headache and emotional changes.
50 grams of ginger, 50 grams of calamus, 50 grams of agastache rugosa and 0/00 grams of Artemisia argyi/kloc-are put into a cauldron, and water is added to boil for 0/0 minute; Filter the residue with gauze, add proper amount of hot water, and take a bath for 15-30 minutes, which is helpful for dehumidification and sterilization of the whole body.
Second, drink glutinous rice and red bean porridge.
Coix lachryma-jobi seed, called "Coix lachryma-jobi seed" in Chinese medicine, is listed as the top grade in Shennong Herbal Classic. It can eliminate dampness and benefit the stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, and can strengthen the body and replenish qi if taken for a long time. Red adzuki bean is red, and red enters the heart, so it can also nourish the heart and blood. It is recorded in ancient books that "slimming after long service" means that eating adzuki beans often has the effect of losing weight. It also has obvious effects of diuresis, detumescence and spleen and stomach strengthening.
Modern people are under great mental pressure and lack of spirit; Poor diet, less exercise, spleen deficiency and dampness. To eliminate dampness, nourish the heart and strengthen the spleen and stomach, it is none other than coix seed and red bean. Boiling it into porridge is intended to make its effective components fully absorbed by the human body, and at the same time it will not cause too much burden on the spleen and stomach. Summer is just a hot summer, wet inside and wet outside. Using these two drugs can just nourish blood and eliminate dampness. Practice has proved that glutinous rice red bean porridge has a good weight loss effect, which can not only lose weight, but also does not hurt the body. Especially for middle-aged and elderly obesity, the effect is particularly good.
Third, keep indoor ventilation when the north wind blows.
In fact, in addition to the problem of self-metabolism, a large part of the water produced in the human body is related to the environment. External moisture induces internal moisture, which often leads to moisture invasion in wet and cold environment. Experts remind the public that in humid weather, doors and windows should be closed to keep the moisture out, otherwise indoor furniture and home appliances will easily absorb moisture. In addition, don't wear wet clothes, cover with a wet quilt, and fully dry your body and hair after taking a shower. Also avoid wading in the rain. Don't let moisture wrap your body. If the floor is wet, you should mop it up immediately to avoid moisture retention.
Once the north wind blows, or the weather improves and the humidity decreases, the air should be circulated in time to take away the indoor humidity. If the humidity outside is still high, it is recommended to turn on the fan and air conditioner to keep air convection with these appliances.
Fourth, hot water soaks feet.
A good way to deal with dampness is to soak your feet in hot water. After entering the dog days, most people will ignore the good habit of soaking their feet in hot water. In fact, the hotter the weather, the heavier the humidity, and the more necessary it is to soak your feet with hot water. Dr. Zhang Shiqing explained that yang is the most abundant in dog days. Soaking feet with hot water can stimulate the six meridians of the foot, such as the stomach meridian of the foot Yangming and the bladder meridian of the foot Taiyang, thus playing the role of invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness, dredging collaterals and diuresis.
For most people, it is enough to soak their feet with hot water of about 40℃ in dog days. For people with weakness of limbs, lethargy and loss of appetite, 20 grams of Radix Clematidis (eliminating dampness), Rhizoma Atractylodis 15 grams (dredging menstruation) and Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae 15 grams (invigorating spleen) can be added into hot water, and the effect will be better. Add 20 grams of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. 15g of Dipsacus asperoides and 30g of Lycopodium japonicum are put into foot bath water, which can invigorate qi, strengthen tendons and bones, and are suitable for middle-aged and elderly friends suffering from osteoporosis.
People who are prone to cold hands and feet can add 15g cassia twig in water to warm the meridians and dredge the collaterals. Prunella vulgaris 30g and Alisma orientalis 15g should be added for hypertension. Prunella vulgaris clearing liver and purging fire, Alisma orientalis promoting diuresis and removing dampness. For patients with varicose veins, 20 grams of Angelica sinensis and 25 grams of Achyranthes bidentata can be added. These two drugs can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, dredge channels and activate collaterals.
Five, more exercise dehumidification.
Don't be afraid of sweating! Exercise more at ordinary times, even if you don't have exercise habits at present, you should do more housework or other physical activities to create opportunities for your body as much as possible! Sweating can accelerate the circulation and metabolism of stagnant water in the body, and then excrete it! Exercise can make the excess water in the body be discharged along the normal way. Every day, get into the habit of sweating! Running, playing ball, cycling, even simple stretching or local exercise can not only get rid of dampness, but also achieve the effect of losing weight!
Exercise during the day (especially in the morning) can effectively strengthen metabolism, but it is understandable if you can only exercise at night from nine to five! Even if you are busy in the morning, it is helpful to spend 5 minutes doing a short stretching exercise! In short, exercise is a good thing!
Sixth, the soup is moist: it is recommended to use yam Euryale ferox and lentil ribs soup.
Ingredients: Yam 15g, Euryale ferox 15g, fried Coicis Semen 15g, fried lentils 15g, North 12g, Atractylodes macrocephala 10g, and ribs 200g.
Method: Soak yam. Stir-fry lentils and Coix lachryma-jobi seeds in a pot until slightly yellow, wash the ribs with blood, chop them up, and wash Euryale ferox and Atractylodes macrocephala. Wash with clear water, then put all the ingredients into a soup pot, cook with medium heat for 1.5 hours, and season.
Efficacy: This soup has the effects of invigorating the spleen, waking the stomach, eliminating dampness and resisting fatigue, and is especially suitable for people with spleen deficiency and heavy dampness and listlessness.
Seven, eat less sweets, cold food.
Don't eat food that hurts the spleen and stomach in such a humid environment. Such as cold food and cold drinks. People who like sweets are also forbidden to eat, because "sweetness turns wet".
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold food, ice products or cool fruits and vegetables will make the digestion and absorption function of the stomach stagnate, and it is not easy to eat indefinitely. Such as lettuce salad, watermelon, Chinese cabbage, bitter gourd and so on. It is best to add onions and ginger in cooking to reduce the coldness of vegetables.
Eight, massage three acupoints to eliminate dampness
Acupoints located in three depressions of the body are the wet vents of the human body.
The weizhong point of the knee fossa is located in the center of the leg fossa. There is a point here called Weizhong point, which takes the bladder meridian. The bladder meridian is the largest channel for detoxification and dehumidification of human body, and Weizhong point is the sewage outlet on this channel. If it is not smooth and the moisture cannot be discharged, it may lead to arthritis, low back pain and other diseases. Therefore, you can press this acupoint at ordinary times, and every time you dial or knock, it will not be less than 36 times.
Quchi point of cubitus fossa is located at the lateral end of cubitus transverse stripes, which bends the elbow. When the connection point between Chize point and the lateral epicondyle of humerus is the midpoint, the moist and turbid qi of the large intestine meridian gathers here. Modern medicine is often used to treat shoulder and elbow pain (or scapulohumeral periarthritis), upper limb paralysis, hypertension, urticaria, influenza, tonsillitis, goiter, acute gastroenteritis, cold and fever, pharyngitis and so on. You can beat the elbow socket continuously for about 5 minutes and feel sore.