I am a member of the Tongue Research Specialty Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies.

The easiest way to recognize Damp-Heat and Cold-Dampness, from what we have studied in our special committee, is:

Look at the tongue - look at the tongue.

1. Look at the tongue to see the tongue texture first

Instead of looking at the tongue (the surface layer), look at the body of the tongue first. For example, the picture below.

Without looking at the top layer of white tongue moss, the entire tongue is reddish.

This, the hot body.

And you can see this person's white tongue coating with a little bit of red in the center, this, we call manubrium, is one of the hallmark tongue manifestations of a hot body.

The body of the tongue, which generally represents the base of the body, is your fundamental.

It is simply hot, and if there is dampness, it is all dominated by simple phlegm-dampness or damp-heat, and there is usually no cold-dampness.

How do you determine whether a heat body is based on phlegm-dampness or damp-heat?

Look at the color of the tongue

For example, this tongue pictured above is a distinctly yellow tongue.

Then this is damp heat.

So what color is the tongue other than dark red, look at the next two pictures.

These two tongues, the tongue texture is light or even dark. This tongue, in general, is weak or cold.

This means that the body is weak or cold at the base.

A body that is weak and cold with dampness is different from the two classifications of the hot body, but will have the following three conditions.

1. Simple phlegm-dampness

2. Cold-dampness

3. Damp heat

That is, a hot body will not have cold and dampness, but a cold body, will have dampness and heat.

How exactly do you tell the difference? Also look at the color of the tongue.

Yellow color is Damp-Heat, and white or slippery water is Cold-Damp or Phlegm-Damp.

The picture above shows a Qi deficiency phlegm-damp tongue.

Note that this image has petechiae on the tip of the tongue, suggesting possible heart or uterine pathology.

In addition to the tongue, there are a number of symptoms that can be used to differentiate between Damp-Heat and Cold-Dampness, after all

The tongue can be deceiving sometimes.

That's why we Chinese medicine practitioners say that we need to combine the four diagnoses and the more information we get, the better.

Symptoms in normal times

①Taste: Damp-heat is often characterized by dryness and bitterness in the mouth; cold-dampness or phlegm-dampness is often characterized by sweetness and stickiness in the mouth, which is not refreshing;

② Hot and cold: people with dampness and heat are more hot and dry, and people with cold and dampness are more afraid of cold. But regardless of dampness and heat, cold and dampness, may be cold hands and feet, because the qi and blood do not run smoothly.

(iii) Urine: in the case of normal drinking water, for people with Damp-Heat, the urine may still be yellowish and small in quantity; for people with Cold-Dampness, colorless/white in color, large in quantity, and urine when drinking.

④Sleeping: people who are hot and humid may be hot and dry and find it difficult to sleep; people who are cold and humid may be sleepy and drowsy.

It should be noted that: phlegm-dampness and cold-dampness are also somewhat different. The phlegm-damp body has no obvious cold signs, that is, there is no obvious fear of cold, or drink cold things easy to diarrhea; on the contrary, phlegm-damp heavy people, eat greasy things easy to diarrhea.

With the above, I believe you can also slightly distinguish whether you have a damp-heat or cold-damp constitution.

Sometimes, when faced with a complex situation, it is not necessary to be very accurate, but the general direction cannot be wrong.

The general direction is, as I said earlier, fundamental.

Whether it's cold or hot at all, this is a good one to confuse. Be sure to distinguish clearly.

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How can I tell if dampness is cold or hot?

As a lucky person who just got rid of dampness, I'll talk about how to distinguish whether dampness is damp-cold or damp-heat, which can be carefully divided into 8 points.

Difference between Damp-Cold and Damp-Heat

1. Facial features

Damp-Heat: The face is prone to oiliness and acne, acne and pimples.

Cold-Dampness: The face is prone to oiliness, dull and pale, and the eyelids are prone to puffiness.

2. Body shape

Damp heat: body types are fat and thin.

Cold-dampness: body types are predominantly fat.

3. Tongue

Damp-Heat: tongue texture is reddish, tongue coating is mostly yellowish or yellowish greasy, tongue is thin, teeth marks are not obvious.

Cold-Dampness: tongue texture is pale, tongue coating is thick, mostly white and slippery, and the tongue is fat with teeth marks.

4. Urination

Damp-Heat: yellowish urine color.

Cold-Dampness: clear and long urine, whitish or colorless urine.

5. Diet

Damp-Heat: Prefer cold drinks and often eat foods that are on the cool side.

Cold-Dampness: Prefers hot drinks and is often uncomfortable after eating cold and raw foods.

6. Stool

Damp-Heat: Stools are sticky and unpleasant, or dry and lumpy.

Cold-Dampness: frequent loose diarrhea and unformed stools.

7. Personality

Damp-Heat: Impatient and irritable temperament, blowing up at the slightest point.

Cold and Damp: Much gentler and duller in temperament, not easy to get angry.

8. Sweating

Damp-Heat: often sweats easily and has a strong body odor.

Cold-Dampness: does not sweat easily, even in summer, and has no body odor.

The above 8 points meet 3 and above can be judged, but also does not exclude some people are damp and cold and damp-heat mixed constitution.

How do I regulate dampness and cold?

1. Drink brown sugar ginger water: boil the water and add brown sugar and ginger, play the effect of warming the stomach and drive away the cold.

2. Drinking Qin Gongtang Qinyuan tea: more than a dozen flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, a cup of half an hour after the meal, eliminating dampness and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

3. Ginger or moxa leaf foot soak: before going to bed with ginger or moxa leaf foot soak, promote blood circulation in the body, improve the quality of sleep.

4. Exercise exercise: sitting still when the blood flow slows down, cold hands and feet more obvious, moving is born Yang, exercise can enhance the Yang Qi drive away cold and dampness.

How do I regulate dampness and heat?

1. Regular work and rest: go to bed early and get up early, staying up late will aggravate the body's fire, resulting in more dampness and heat.

2. Diet light: spicy greasy and other flavorful food will aggravate the body of dampness and heat, eat a light diet, eat more heat and dampness food, such as: barley, winter melon, green beans, bitter melon, cucumber and so on.

3. Avoid alcohol and tobacco: alcohol and tobacco will increase blood viscosity, making it more difficult to discharge moisture.

4. Exercise more: Sweating is the most effective way to get rid of dampness, which will be discharged with sweat.

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They say there are two diseases."The endless dampness."和"An endless supply of kidneys."I think it's a classic.It's not true, but it's true... Many people are in the team of dampness and kidney tonic, or are stepping into the team on the way. Dampness is indeed more common, but there is no need to amplify the dampness, day and night thinking about how to get rid of dampness; as for tonic kidneys, it is not recommended, there are so many kidney deficiency, a little bit of peace and quiet, there is no idea of what to call the kidney deficiency, that person and "walking Teddy" what is the difference.

Back to our topic of teaching people how to see if they are Cold-Damp or Damp-Heat. My favorite method islook at the coating of the tonguebecause the tongue is generally not deceiving.Capable of responding to the nature of the diseaseThe first thing I'm going to do is to show you a couple of tongues. Of course there are times when you need to combine some symptoms to judge together, next I will show you a few tongue to see how to distinguish and share a case.

Let's start with a briefWhat are the signs of dampness. Dampness invades the body and can manifest itself by easilyDrowsiness, fatigue, laziness, not wanting to eat, no energy all day, dizziness or heavy head, like wrapping something, epigastric constipation, impermeable sweating, or localized sweating, sticky and unpleasant stools, it is difficult to flush the toilet cleanly, the tongue is thicker, and the pulse is slippery or slippery.. As for Cold Damp and Damp-Heat, I will look at the following pictures.

You can look at the tongue coating above, like this one is lighterCold and Damp Tongue, because her tongue is whiter in the middle and watery, not dry. However, this cold-dampness of hers is not considered heavy, plus the color of her tongue is still kind of reddish, so her physical condition is still okay, and although there are some slight teeth marks, none of them are a big problem.

So for people with such a tongue, the general symptoms are not very obvious, you can not need to dispel dampness, may eat two spicy this tongue on the thin.

Take a look at the tongue coating aboveIt's also a cold, wet tongue.The tongue coating is relatively thicker than the first one, which means that the Cold-Dampness is a bit heavier than the first one. You can see that the middle and back part of the tongue coating is thicker, which means that the dampness in the middle and lower jiao is more obvious. Symptoms that are likely to occur areNot really wanting to eat, stuffy, bloated or bloated and stuffyIt's possible.Easily tired and sleepy, stools are sticky and unpleasant. Her tongue is redder, so her heart is quite hot and she should be prone toUpset, insomnia。

Does this one need to dispel dampness? If you look at the quality of the tongue, the body is also quite good, red and moist, and the teeth marks are not obvious. If you want to get rid of dampness, you can eat someGinseng and Atractylodis Macrocephalae GranulesOr, alternatively, moxibustion.Foot Sanli, Sanyinjiao, YinlingquanAnd so on. It should not be cold and damp enough to be serious, so if you can do without drugs, you can try to live with it.

Take a look at the tongue coating above, this one belongs to theToo much cold and dampnessThe teeth marks are still visible. Typical.Spleen deficiency with high dampness. People with this kind of tongue have obvious symptoms of the whole body, but they say they are not quite sure what their specific problems are, and they always feel uncomfortable all over. Often that way on their own to try a variety of methods to dispel dampness, and finally tossed into this.I don't want to drink water, I don't urinate much, I have a vague pain in my stomach, I feel uncomfortable, I also have chest tightness and discomfort, etc. I feel uncomfortable or on fire when I eat something hot.。

Those with this type of tongue have to get rid of dampness, but only with warmth, and I usually recommend moxibustion, with the same acupoints as before.Foot Sanli, Yinlingquan, Sanyinjiao, FenglongAnd so on. Moxibustion, of course.Shenque, Zhongkou, Spleen acupoint, Daxi vertebraeAnd so on are fine. This type of tongue moss should be moxibrated for at least a week. During the first few days of moxibustion, the whole person may feel uncomfortable as the water-dampness spreads out in the body and fills the whole body. After a few more days of moxibustion, the tongue moss will become thinner and the tongue body can be seen. You can also soak your feet in water boiled with mugwort leaves and peppercorns for a few more days. In the process of dispersing dampness, some will have dry mouth, if the dry mouth is obvious, the number of moxibustion can be reduced.

You can see the tongue on this one, above.This wet and hot tongue. The tongue is rather thin but somewhat yellowish and greasy, and belongs to theThere's a bit of dampness and heat, not a lot of humidityThe tongue is redder and belongs to the body heat a little more pronounced. The overall symptoms may be few orDry mouth and bitter mouth, or heavy breath, yellow urine, constipation, or sticky stools, anal burningetc.

So does this one need to get rid of dampness? Actually, it's not necessary.Eat more vegetables and fruitsIf you have a dry mouth, bitter taste, constipation and so on, you can drink a lot of water to help you get rid of it. If you have a dry mouth, bitter mouth, constipation and so on, you can drink some appropriateDandelion tea, mulberry leaf tea or cassia seed teaAnd so on.

And look at the tongue on this one, above.It's also a damp-heat tongueThe tongue is thicker and more greasy, and the surface of the tongue is slightly yellow. The tongue is thicker and greasier, looks shiny, and the surface of the tongue is slightly yellowish, so it belongs to the tongue of damp-heat, and the symptoms of this should be relatively obvious. For exampleDry mouth, or bitter taste in the mouth, bloating and stuffiness in the epigastrium, not wanting to eat, tiredness, fatigue, lack of energy, yellow urine, sticky or unshaped stools, often easy to have a big belly.. The tongue is redder on both sides, and there exists a certain deficiency of liver yin, or liver fire, etc.

Does this one need to dispel dampness? This dampness is still relatively obvious, so it is possible to dispel dampness, such as what is usually described asJob's tears and adzuki beans boiled in water, cornhusksAnd so on would be better for this. And of course you can drink it during the weekDandelion Tea, Lotus Leaf Hawthorn TeaAnd so on. Also.Exercise and sweat., which also helps to remove dampness from the body faster.

And finally, take a look at this tongue, above.Typical of Damp-Heat. The tongue is oily and greasy, and the yellowing is more pronounced in the middle and posterior portions, so that theDampness is too heavy, and heat is also evident, with dampness and heat in the middle and lower Jiao predominating.. Damp-Heat in the Middle and Lower Jiao generally tends to be associated with problems in the Spleen, Stomach, Liver, Gallbladder or Reproductive System. For exampleDry mouth, bitter mouth, upset, do not want to eat, stomach bloating, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, constipation, yellow urine, men are prone to scrotal itching, the lower half of the body sweating, out of the unimpeded; women may be more than the amount of subluxation, the taste of the heavyetc.

For this heavy dampness, one has to get rid of dampness, because those with this tongue coating usually have obvious symptoms and are disturbed in their lives. If the symptoms are dominated by Damp-Heat in the Liver meridian, you can use thegentian diarrhea pills. If symptoms of Damp-Heat in the Spleen and Stomach are predominant, you can use theLian Pu drink (Chinese medicine)或nectar disinfectantetc., the specific should be combined with the symptomatic evidence before choosing to use the drug. Previously mentionedJob's Tears, Red Beans, Dandelionetc. are suitable for taking.

However, it should be emphasized that these tongue pictures are some representative pictures found on the Internet, as for the above analysis are based on the tongue and past experience to analyze, rather than saying that it is necessarily what will appear which which symptoms. Just to make it easier for you to learn to recognize dampness and heat or cold dampness.

Of course, Chinese medicine practitioners can not just look at the tongue, usually need to look, smell, ask and cut the four diagnostic combination of reference, in order to more accurately grasp the disease mechanism. Just sometimes conditions do not allow the situation, can only give up one or two. Everyone learns to recognize tongue moss, they have what symptoms are clear in their minds, and they can also look at their own diagnosis, so they can almost recognize themselves.

Another thing to keep in mind is that there are times when the symptoms and the tongue don't match. A few days ago a male netizen in his 30s asked me to show him. He described himself as very susceptible to cold, not daring to blow the air conditioning, not daring to blow the wind, if you stay in the air-conditioned room for half a day, the whole person is uncomfortable, the summer is still wearing a long coat and long pants, and at night you have to wear socks, or else your feet are icy. Before the first of May this year has been turned on the electric blanket in order to sleep, listen to this is not the person's yang qi is weak? Doesn't it feel like the body is too weak?

I was more curious, a male in his 30s shouldn't be like this, so I asked him to send his tongue over to take a look at it, and once I saw this tongue, you can take a look at this tongue below. (Some blurred, make do with what you have)

This is clearly not a yang-deficient tongue.The tongue is still red, the front part of the tongue is red, the middle and back part of the moss is thicker, some yellow and some dry. So I asked him if he hadxerostomia (drying of the mucous membranes in the mouth)、Upset (red tongue, heart fire)、Insomnia, constipation (Damp-Heat in the Middle and Lower Jiao)And so on, and when I asked about all of them, he said that he had been constipated for a few days. He said he had been constipated for a few days. This is a typical case of qi stagnation in the interior, where yang qi does not come out, and so the manifestation of external cold and internal heat occurs. However, he bought Niu Huang Qing Xin Wan and Qing Hei Shen Xiong Wan for some unknown reason. As they are laxative medicines, I asked him to take them for the time being and see if the symptoms could be alleviated if the bowel movements were relieved.

This example is to tell you that sometimes when the symptoms and the tongue coating do not match, you should pay more attention, maybe the symptoms are an illusion, you should look at the tongue coating. Of course, if you are not very good at reading it yourself, it is better to see a doctor.

To conclude.If you have a heavy dampness or not, you can tell by looking at your tongue and feel it yourself. If the symptoms are not obvious, there is no need to think about getting rid of dampness all day long. If just tired, fatigue and so on, more exercise exercise it! Dampness this thing diet does not pay attention to, it is a constant source, so they do not grasp the method, over and over again to get rid of dampness, may lead to more heavy dampness, or hurt the body. As long as it is not affecting life and work, there is no need to magnify dampness. Instead of trying to get rid of dampness every day, it is better to adjust your life and diet to become healthy. With all that has been said, I'm not sure if you will be able to look at Cold Dampness and Damp-Heat anymore. That's all for now, we have questions, you can leave a message in the comment section. If you are a peer, welcome to discuss together!

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In the clinic, Dr. Tan is always asked by patients, "Dr. Tan, what should I do if I have too much dampness in my body?", and others ask, "Dr. Tan, what should I do if I have too much dampness in my body? Others ask, "Dr. Tan, why can't I get rid of my dampness?". Why can't I get rid of dampness?". In the face of these questions, first of all, you have to ask yourself, do you know you are "cold damp" or "dampness-heat"?

Then how to distinguish between cold dampness or hot dampness? You can start from the following 5 aspects!

1, you can first distinguish from self-perception - cold and heat

Cold-damp people have more obvious manifestations of yin and yang deficiency, such as fear of cold, fear of cold wind, can not eat cold. And people with this constitution often find it difficult to an all pain, this is due to the cold and dampness impede the flow of qi and blood, the meridians are different, and also pain.

Damp-heat people because of the "heat", so eat a little nourishing thick and greasy things will be on fire, bad breath, acne, etc..

2, the most intuitive and reliable distinction - tongue

When it comes to looking at the tongue, many people may look at it early in the morning just after waking up, or after eating, or at night, but in fact, these are not quite correct and can affect the judgment.

There is still a big difference between the tongues of people with Cold Dampness and Hot Dampness.

• In Cold-Dampness, the tongue is fat and large, with teeth marks, and the color of the tongue body and tongue moss is white.
• The tongue of Damp-Heat is "hot", so it will be red and the tongue coating is yellow and thick.

3. Distinctions with flavor - urine

It's still relatively easy to distinguish between the two based on pee, which is what it will smell like.

People with damp-heat body will have yellow urine with a heavy smellIn addition to this, there is an astringent pain when urinating.

Cold-damp body is very different, first of all, the urine is clear and long, not much smell, frequent urination, especially at night. But this frequent urination is not the kind of frequent urination where the amount of urine is small and frequent, but the amount of urine is large and frequent each time.

4, still have the flavor of the distinction - poop

Cold dampness and dampness-heat will appear diarrhea, damp-heat body diarrhea is more "fierce", like the dike of the water, and sharp and fierce, after going to the toilet can also feel the burning of the anus.

Cold-dampness makes the stomach uncomfortable when eating cold, and also makes me want to go to the toilet when eating greasy, especially in summer. Watery stools with no burning sensation at the end.

Both can also lead to constipation, theDamp heat constipation is very sticky and smelly. Cold-Damp Constipation has slow, easy stools that just won't come out.

5, which still has a flavor distinction - body odor

Damp-heat body type people have heavy body odor, fox odor, armpit odor, foot odor, bad breath, etc.. People in the West are just clearly hot and humid. Cold and wet body is basically no flavor. For female friends can also be judged from the leukorrhea, leukorrhea color yellow taste that is hot and humid, the amount of water is as small as cold and wet.

dietary counseling

Damp-heat constitution: wheat, barley, millet, winter melon, loofah, bitter melon, cucumber, bamboo shoots, cabbage, celery, pear, pork, duck, crucian carp, snails, kelp, mung beans, gardenia, psyllium, yin chen, lotus seed, and so on.

Cold-damp body: ginger and jujube tea, barley and red bean porridge, ginger and black sugar soup, etc.

From the perspective of Chinese medicine organs identification, there are several symptoms are high frequency, which includes spleen deficiency, Yang deficiency, cold and dampness, dampness and heat, there is often a link between these, often cause and effect each other, and jointly affect the health of the human body.

Spleen deficiency has several main effects, spleen deficiency poor function of transporting water and grain, spleen qi deficiency will appear to eat less, abdominal distension, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fatigue and fatigue, especially spleen yang deficiency, yang deficiency cold, spleen yang deficiency, the function of transporting water and dampness declined, there will be cold and dampness stagnation phenomenon, on the basis of the influence of some spicy and fatty and other stimulating diets, but also prone to dampness and heat, the symptoms are complex and varied. The symptoms are complex and varied.

Some of them are the influence of physical factors, or the influence of disease, poor living habits, which will lead to the character of the spleen and stomach system deficit, yang deficiency, cold, damp and hot metabolism function is not good, intermingled with the onset of the disease, and therefore the emergence of a variety of symptoms.

This series of symptoms, including often see dizziness, heavy body sleepiness, chest tightness, boredom and depression, poor diet, loose stools, or accompanied by dry mouth and bitter, throat discomfort, thick and greasy tongue or yellow tongue, etc., many of the human body's symptoms are mostly related to this factor above, so that the spleen and stomach deficiency, Yang deficiency, cold and dampness, dampness and heat are the most commonly occurring key words of the diagnosis.

Some of the classic clinical formulas, such as tonifying Zhong Yi Qi Pill, Radix Rehmanniae Pill, Ginseng Ling Bai Zhu San, Strengthening the Spleen Pill, and Chen Xia Liu Jun Pill, are basic formulas to regulate these aspects, and then combined with the specific symptoms plus slowing down, and treating them from this line of thought has a very high degree of clinical utility, and solves a lot of practical problems.

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To distinguish between the body is cold and dampness or dampness and heat, there are mainly the following aspects to see, ① tongue ② symptoms ③ pulse.

fur (on one's tongue)

The tongue of Cold-Dampness is pale, fat and slippery, and the moss is white and greasy.

In Damp-Heat, the tongue is red or dark red or has red spots on the surface of the tongue, and the moss is yellow and greasy

symptoms

Cold-dampness syndrome can be seen in the body sleepy, limb weakness, easy abdominal pain and loose stools, clear urine, sweet and greasy mouth, the limbs are not warm, fear of cold and cold, sleepy and drowsy.

Damp-heat body syndrome can be seen in the body sleepy, limb pain, sticky and foul-smelling stool, yellow urine, dry mouth and bad breath, fear of heat and easy to sweat, difficult to sleep.

condition or type of pulse (in Chinese medicine)

Cold-damp pulse is dull, slow and slippery

Damp-Heat pulse is slippery

Cold and dampness for a long time may also be depressed and turn into heat, becoming damp-heat. Damp-heat for a long time may injure the fluid and turn it into dryness, becoming Damp-heat injuring the Yin, and the tongue appears dry and cracked. This is also their process of change.

Cold-Damp and Damp-Heat body types should pay attention to foods that generate dampness in their diets, such as fruits, dairy products, and sweets. Cold-dampness should pay attention to cold, frozen foods such as crabs, cold fruits such as watermelon, pears, dragon fruits, kiwi, bananas etc. Damp-heat should pay attention to spicy, dry, greasy foods such as chicken, lamb, leeks, shrimp, fried and barbecued, hot fruits such as durian, mango, cinnamon, lychee and so on.

How can I tell if it's Cold Dampness or Heat Dampness?

Sometimes when you go to see a Chinese medicine practitioner, the doctor looked at your face, looked at the tongue and said you this person is too heavy dampness, you have to regulate it. In fact, the dampness here refers to the heat dampness or cold dampness, in traditional Chinese medicine is the yin and yang imbalance, with the Western medical theory explains the endocrine disorders. This is estimated that we are still not good to understand, I have a different way to tell you what is cold dampness and hot dampness.

1. Pooping

For within the cold and damp stagnation of too many people, the stomach and intestines are not very good, can not eat cold things, love to eat diarrhea, so cold and damp people are generally difficult to form stools.

As for people with damp-heat, the internal fire is strong, leading to dry and unpleasant intestines, dry stools and easy constipation.

2. Look at the tongue

The tongue is the beginning of the upper gastrointestinal tract in contact with food, on the surface of the tongue is rich in capillaries, the tongue is like a mirror, the tongue quality of people with excessive dampness-heat are more reddish, the tongue moss is more yellowish or yellowish greasy, the tongue is thin, the teeth marks are not obvious.

For people with excessive cold and dampness, the tongue is relatively light, and the tongue coating is also thick, more white, slippery, and the tongue is fat with teeth marks.

3. Sweating

Some people sleep at night especially easy to sweat all over the body, in fact, this is a manifestation of dampness and heat, most of these people sleep quality is very poor, the mental state is not very good.

And on the contrary cold and damp people will rarely sweat, even in summer is not easy to sweat, but this does not mean that it is healthy, sweating is the normal excretion of the person, if very little sweating also have to pay attention to.

4. Look at the face

It is said that by looking at the face you can generally tell if someone has a problem, this is the most basic identification in Chinese medicine, generally speaking people's faces are more oily, but also prone to pimples, acne, pimples. Endocrine disorders in Western medicine seem to be very intuitive from this point of view.

For those who are cold-damp and cold-damp, the color of the face is darker and paler, and the eyelids are easily swollen. From the overall view is a look of anemia appearance, very weak, six God's appearance.

How do you manage this so-called excessive dampness?

In fact, if we really follow this strict screening method, basically more than 90% of the people are patients with diseases. Because very few people are able to achieve a balanced state of yin and yang, some people have either too much cold and dampness or too much dampness and heat, in short, it is very difficult to achieve consistency.

However, I have a very good and very simple a method, so that hot and humid or cold dampness is too heavy people have a good night's sleep, every night before going to bed you can use hot water to soak your feet, as to how to soak, you feel the appropriate temperature of the water, can make the feet slightly red on the line. Why do you say that this method of cold dampness or hot dampness are useful, because our feet are covered with very many acupuncture points, with hot water soak can promote blood circulation, which can help to alleviate some of the cold dampness or hot dampness brought about by the discomfort symptoms.

Summarize:Damp heat or cold dampness in fact, most people have more or less a little, just that we are too busy easy to ignore, so in our daily lives we still need to pay attention to observe their own bodies, pay more attention to their habits.

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Cold damp and hot and humid are related to moisture, especially in the current rainy season, the weather temperature is higher rain more, many people will sweat, blowing air conditioning, eat cold drinks so that inadvertently hurt the body, the two in the diet on the dampness or there is a certain difference between the two, today to share the symptoms of the two differentiation between the two, hand in hand to teach you how to distinguish between their own in the end is hot and humid or cold damp, in the end, is not a cup of red beans and barley The water drink in the end.

1. Symptoms of Cold-Dampness

Less qi lazy speech do not like to talk also do not like sports, head like something wrapped like, always lazy, easy to sleepy, limbs are also afraid of cold, tongue is white and greasy, but also easy to get eczema, acne and inflammation of the lower Jiao, many people also show obesity is not good to lose weight. This kind of should dispel cold and dampness.

2. Symptoms of Damp-Heat

Head and face easy to oil, to dampness and heat evil two main, many people show is dry mouth and bad breath, tongue yellow greasy main. The stool is not good or sticky toilet, urine odor yellowish color, usually appetite is also general and easy to nausea and bloating. This kind of can and red bean barley water. But to get rid of dampness must be spleen.

Just remember one thing: heat goes to the surface and cold goes to the inside. The surface is the skin, and the interior is the muscles and bones. Hot color red red, cold color green gray. Tongue as an example: hot and humid tongue red and tongue yellow and thick, table to see the face of the nose red and swollen (commonly known as rosacea, more for the lungs hot and humid, clearing the lungs and dampness can be healed); but see the tongue gray tongue, tongue dark green, more for cold dampness.

As long as a little attention to health care people, have heard of the concept of "wet", it is different from our understanding of dampness, in the concept of Chinese medicine, "wet" is the cause of the six evils of disease, it is said that a thousand cold easy to go, a wet hard to get rid of, dampness is easy to be with other evils together, produce Wind dampness, cold dampness, summer dampness, stagnant body.

And today we want to talk to you is that everyone can get "cold damp" and "damp heat".

First of all, look at the "dampness and heat", modern people too much food, love to drink, overeating, cold and do not avoid, it is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, and the spleen is the master of transportation, the spleen is injured, dampness is more likely to stay in the body, Chinese medicine, "dampness resistance to the long-running heat", over time, dampness and heat will appear. , dampness and heat will appear, and, the weather is excessively humid, emotional depression, thinking, wearing improperly, etc., can also occur dampness and heat. Damp-Heat may occur in many parts of the body, such as Damp-Heat in the Spleen and Stomach, Damp-Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder, and Damp-Heat in the Lower Jiao. There will be some bloating, nausea, anorexia, dry mouth, bitter mouth, love of acne, yellow urine, and gynecological inflammation, which are more characteristic of the disease.

Part of the cold and dampness is caused by the external environment, such as rheumatoid arthritis, arthralgia, etc., and some of their own yang deficiency, such as kidney yang deficiency, spleen yang deficiency, etc., there will be a fear of cold, abdominal pain and diarrhea, swelling and other manifestations. Cold and damp people are mostly white, easy to diarrhea, long spots, fat, often accompanied by joint pain.

Dampness and heat management principle is to dispel dampness, clear heat, drain fire, you can eat more winter melon, green beans, bitter melon and other food to clear heat and remove fire. Usually eat less spicy, greasy, avoid staying up all night. Cold dampness is in the wet at the same time also to replenish Yang Qi, replenish blood, can eat more jujube, ginger, red beans and other nature of the mild food, and cold dampness also pay attention to warmth, eat less cold food, as far as possible, do not blow the air conditioning.

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