What should women eat to treat dampness and heat?

Women are more likely to develop a damp-heat constitution due to various reasons such as not liking to exercise, preferring to stay in air-conditioned rooms and improper diet. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness is the main cause of all diseases. When dampness enters the body of women, it affects the health of the body. Based on this, we should learn to regulate ourselves in daily life to avoid the influence of dampness and heat on the body. For example, cupping through traditional Chinese medicine, increasing exercise and spending more time in the sun can help to expel dampness and heat. So from a dietary perspective, what should we eat more of?

1Avoid living in humid places

If you live in a low-lying and humid place, with high temperature and humidity in the summer and no ventilation, it would be strange if your body does not have dampness and heat if this continues for a long time. To prevent and treat a damp-heat constitution, the living environment should be ventilated and dry. In winter, do not close the doors and windows tightly. Open the windows for ventilation every day.

2. Use Chinese medicine scraping and cupping

When patients with damp heat in their bodies seek medical treatment, many doctors will recommend scraping and cupping. Scraping and cupping have the effect of removing dampness. If it is the first time to scrape and cupping, let the doctor do it to avoid unnecessary trouble.

3. Exercise

Life lies in exercise. Exercise is the most common method to help people prevent and cure diseases. People with dampness and heat in their bodies can choose exercises such as jogging and mountain climbing. These exercises can make you sweat without being too intense. Sweating is good for removing dampness. When going out for exercise in the summer, choose a relatively cool place.

4. Adzuki beans

According to the experience of doctors of all dynasties, red beans have the functions of diuresis and swelling reduction, detoxification and pus discharge, clearing away heat and dampness, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea. Skin eczema is mostly caused by spleen deficiency and dysfunction, and dampness and toxicity. With the help of the effects of red beans on strengthening the spleen and dampness, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, patients with skin eczema can recover after eating them. Therefore, people with both acute and chronic skin eczema should eat them more often.

5. Loofah

It is cool in nature and sweet in taste. People with skin eczema should eat it regularly. It can clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify. "Introduction to Medicine" once said: It can cure all kinds of malignant sores in men and women, the remaining toxins of smallpox in children, as well as mastitis and furuncle. This type of disease is mostly caused by dampness and heat. Just like skin eczema, eating loofah can achieve the purpose of removing dampness and heat and detoxifying.

6. Mung Beans

It is cool in nature and sweet in taste, and has the effects of clearing away heat, dispelling summer heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Ancient doctors believed that it can cure erysipelas, fever, rubella, acne, carbuncle, acne and other skin diseases, all of which rely on its heat-clearing, diuretic and detoxifying effects. People with acute skin eczema can eat it to remove dampness and clear heat.

7. Amaranth

It is cool and sweet in taste. It is rich in calcium that is easily absorbed by the human body. It also has the effects of detoxifying and clearing heat, promoting urination, and replenishing blood and stopping bleeding. Amaranth can remove dampness and heat, but people with weak spleen and stomach should avoid eating it; people who usually have cold stomachs and intestines and are prone to diarrhea should also not eat too much.