The hottest period of summer is coming, are you easy to get angry recently? Dizzy, feeling sleepy? Oily hair and lots of dandruff? Do you have pimples on your face, and the waves don’t stop? Dry mouth but don’t really want to drink water, have an odor in your mouth, and dare not talk to people? Girls often go to the doctor because of leucorrhea?

If you have the above situation, then you may be troubled by damp heat, and people who are prone to these problems are often called damp heat constitution in Chinese medicine.

Speaking of damp-heat constitution, the earliest record of constitution in traditional Chinese medicine comes from the “Huangdi Neijing”: human beings are born, there are rigid and soft, weak and strong, short and long, yin and yang.

This means that Chinese medicine believes that a person’s physique is determined by the comprehensive performance of innate endowments and acquired conditions. Congenital endowments can be understood as differences in each person due to genetic inheritance, and responses to acquired factors are also different. Acquired conditions include age, gender, personality, work, living conditions, work and rest, living environment, climate change, eating habits and many other factors.

The damp-heat constitution is one of the most difficult constitutions among various human constitutions, and its symptoms may be known to everyone.

What are the manifestations of damp heat? There are 6 categories of common symptoms

1. Overall body and mind

The body is often tired, the mood fluctuates greatly, the sleep is not good, and the quality is not good

2. Head and face symptoms

Oily hair, dandruff, often fluttering like snowflakes; prone to oily face, pimples, pimples tend to fester, and pimples appear in waves; dizziness, self-feeling heavy

3. Oral aspects

The mouth has a peculiar smell, bad breath, and people can smell it when talking to people face-to-face; and the mouth is prone to sores, which is not easy to heal; dry mouth but do not want to drink water

4. Digestion

Poor appetite, poor appetite; after going to the toilet, I always feel that the bowel is not clean, and the anus often feels bloated

5. Urinary

Urine is yellow, dark in color, and has a strong odor

6. Vulvar symptoms

Men may have genital eczema, women may have vaginal infections, etc.

The above symptoms may be different for everyone, but if there are more than 3 symptoms and they persist for a long time, it can be considered a person with a damp-heat constitution.

People with hot and humid constitution are easy to get angry, and the body is greatly affected by the external environment

The traditional Chinese medicine theory describes that the manifestations of dampness are lingering and difficult to heal, the characteristics of heat are fire-like inflammation, and dampness has these two characteristics. In order to better understand the concept of damp heat, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners often use a steam pot in the human body to explain the operation, and this steam pot constantly emits damp heat energy, which leads to the emergence of the so-called “getting hot”. “Problem, and because it exists in the body for a long time, it is difficult to recover, and conditioning takes a long time.

In fact, according to modern medicine, damp-heat constitution is mostly related to chronic inflammation in the human body, and damp-heat symptoms mostly indicate that the body is in a state of chronic inflammation. Western medicine believes that chronic inflammation is greatly influenced by the outside world, especially by daily life and bad habits. If people want to change, they need to adjust their daily life, so as to help people with damp-heat constitution and improve their troubles as soon as possible.

China is mainly affected by temperate and subtropical climates. The subtropics are affected by ocean currents, and there is a lot of rainfall. The overall climate tends to be warm and humid, and people are easily affected by such an environment. Some places in the north will also face the same problem in summer. Therefore, it is recommended that you develop the habit of using dehumidifiers in summer, control the relative humidity of the space at 50%-60%, and reduce the impact of humidity on the body.

In addition, sleep is also very important. The earliest “Ten Questions” unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb recorded that “recumbent is the first”. This refers to the fact that traditional Chinese medicine believes that sleep can nourish yin and cultivate vitality and help the body repair. Poor, or unstable daily life, will cause abnormal fire in the body, resulting in more serious heat and dampness.

Modern medical research has also found that the more irregular the time to fall asleep and wake up, the higher the risk of long-term cardiovascular mortality, obesity, and diabetes. Therefore, people with damp-heat constitution should not only sleep adequately, but also sleep regularly.

It is better to nourish the spleen and stomach than to take medicine, three meals should be light, and one side and two acupoints regulate dampness and heat.

In addition to adjusting the influence of the environment, regular work and rest can help improve the damp-heat constitution. What problems should we pay attention to in terms of diet?

Chinese medicine believes that dampness and heat are related to the spleen and stomach, and the spleen and stomach are the foundation of the acquired, responsible for digesting food and providing nutrients and vitality needed by the human body, also known as the source of biochemistry. If you have irregular meals, overeating, and like to eat “Gaolianghouwei” with high sweetness, high calorie, high fat, and heavy taste that are difficult to digest, it will overburden the spleen and stomach, cause digestion disorders, and then let the dampness and heat inside.

Therefore, for people with damp-heat constitution, traditional Chinese medicine generally recommends that the diet should be light, the amount of food should be moderate, 70% full, the meal time should be regular, it is best to quit smoking and alcohol and stay away from second-hand smoke to avoid these factors. .

In addition, if people with damp-heat constitution want simple conditioning, they can usually drink a little Sishen soup, which contains Poria, Coix, Gorgon and lotus seeds, which can strengthen the spleen and dampness, help the digestion of the stomach and stomach, and of course they can also be soaked in water. Drink to achieve health benefits.

Finally, traditional Chinese medicine also recommends Quchi acupoint on the elbow, which can remove heat, and Fenglong acupoint on the calf, which can remove dampness and turbidity. Check out these two points.

For massage, especially personal massage, Chinese medicine should be based on the premise of not hurting, and find the massage intensity and frequency that suits you. Once you feel that there is damage to the place, you should adjust it. Before and after the massage, remember to add more water, while helping the muscles and fascia to maintain their elasticity.

Traditional Chinese medicine has the preventive thinking of “prevention before disease” and “prevention of disease after disease”. It is recommended that people with damp-heat constitution not only adjust their daily life, but also find a professional Chinese medicine doctor nearby for conditioning, balance damp-heat constitution, and make chronic inflammation no longer a problem!

Of course, if the damp heat persists for a long time and has developed into some chronic diseases, such as hyperglycemia, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, or metabolic syndrome, the first method to be used is drug treatment, taking medicine under the doctor’s advice , don’t think that you can reverse chronic disease by adjusting your life.