What should I eat if I have dampness? The answers are all here

In humid seasons, people are easily troubled by dampness, which can cause various diseases. If you want to relieve the symptoms of dampness, diet therapy is an excellent way. So what should people with heavy dampness eat in their daily life?

Symptoms of excessive moisture in the body

1. Dampness, heaviness and turbidity: heavy head, tiredness, sore limbs; or sore, heavy joints, difficulty in movement, pain that does not move; turbid and difficult urine, loose stools, or bloody diarrhea, and even sticky and fishy leucorrhea in women.

2. Dampness and stickiness: It mainly manifests itself in two aspects. One is difficulty in urination, sticky and uncomfortable stool, etc.; the other is reflected in the course of the disease, which is difficult to cure, such as rheumatism.

3. Dampness is a Yin evil that blocks the Qi and damages the Yang Qi: symptoms such as chest and abdominal distension, short and astringent urination, and loose and uncomfortable stools will appear.

What food is good for removing moisture?

1. White Lentil Dragon Bone Soup

Ingredients: 500g pork spine, 50g white lentils, 8 dried dates, 10 lotus seeds, some green onion and ginger, some water and salt

practice:

1. Soak white lentils and lotus seeds in clean water for half an hour, wash red dates and set aside, slice ginger, wash green onions and cut into green onion sections and set aside;

2. Wash the pork bones and put them in cold water. When the water boils, remove the pork bones, wash off the foam, and pour away the blood;

3. Put the blanched dragon bones into a casserole, pour in an appropriate amount of water, add the soaked white lentils, lotus seeds and red dates, add the onions and ginger, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for about 2 hours, then turn off the heat. Add a small amount of salt to taste before serving.

Effect: White lentil tastes sweet and is slightly warm in nature. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians. Its fruit (white lentil), peel (lentil skin), flowers and leaves can all be used as medicine. It has the effects of nourishing the spleen and stomach, harmonizing the middle and eliminating dampness, relieving heat and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, internal heat and dampness, abdominal distension and pain, and red and white vaginal discharge.

(II) Red Bean and Crucian Carp Soup

Ingredients: 1 crucian carp, 150g red beans, 1 piece of ginger, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 stalk of coriander, salt, black pepper, cooking wine, and cooking oil as appropriate

practice:

1. Wash the red beans and soak them the night before. Kill the crucian carp, clean it, and apply a little salt and cooking wine on the fish. Slice the ginger and set aside.

2. Turn on low heat, put a little vegetable oil in a pan, sprinkle with salt and ginger slices and cook until fragrant (a little salt will not stick to the fish skin), put in the crucian carp and fry until both sides are golden brown, add garlic cloves and fry together;

3. While frying the fish, put the red beans into the casserole, bring to a boil over high heat, put the fried crucian carp into the boiling red bean water, and continue to boil over high heat;

4. Turn to low heat and simmer for more than 40 minutes (do not turn the crucian carp over during stewing, as the fish meat is tender and easily breaks apart), sprinkle with black pepper, and finally sprinkle a little salt to season according to your taste and serve. Garnish the fish with coriander and serve.

Effect: Crucian carp and red bean stewed soup can achieve the effect of a strong combination, which is more helpful to expel dampness accumulated in the body and prevent a series of symptoms such as poor spleen and stomach function, loss of appetite, indigestion, etc. caused by dampness.