"A thousand cold is easy to get rid of, but one dampness is hard to get rid of"." Dampness" is a term used in Chinese medicine. You tell a foreigner that my body has "wet". The foreigner is confused: "what?wet?you say you got some wet"? Wet" of course can not be simply and roughly translated as wet or moist, or humid. so what exactly is "wet"? What is "wet" in Chinese medicine vocabulary?

Words about wetness include moist, damp, wet, etc., all related to water. According to the understanding of Chinese medicine, it is further divided into external and internal dampness. External dampness is the water qi and moisture in our environment, the dampness of our surroundings, including clouds, rain, fog, dew and frost, as well as the environment we live in, rivers, lakes and the sea, and so on. People who have lived by water for a long time have relatively heavy dampness. If you sleep directly on the wet ground, you will also be contaminated with dampness. Many people will sleep outdoors on the ground in summer, or directly on the grass; and sometimes, the clothes are not dry before wearing on the body, also easy to get wet. Also bathing at night before going to bed and going to bed without drying your hair makes it very easy for dampness to enter the body. These refer to external dampness, as well as what is commonly referred to as humidity.

Why the Yangtze River Slender Man, they always like to work after about a pot of spicy hot hot pot. Eat such hot food in order to facilitate a sweat, the riverside infested with cold and damp discharge. Living in Xishuangbanna Dai, their food is also mainly sour and spicy, sour flavor into the liver, in order to facilitate the excretion of liver qi, spicy flavor can promote the expansion of our pores to drain the body of moisture. In addition to this, almost all like to eat spicy places, compared to spicy not afraid, not afraid of spicy, afraid of not spicy Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hunan and other places. Are relatively wet in the air more areas. The people's food structure must be more spicy to promote the discharge of moisture out of the body.

These due to our pores open, resulting in this kind of wet into the body after, it becomes a kind of internal wet. This kind of dampness tends to be on the surface of the skin, the muscles to make up this layer, the treatment method has scraped, cupping, etc., as well as through some hot food will be discharged them.

However, there is another kind of dampness in Chinese medicine, which is caused by the deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, which is not enough to promote the operation of qi and blood, and the meridians are blocked. This kind of dampness is initially reflected in our face more greasy, easy to get dandruff, foot fungus and so on. Some are also reflected in rheumatism, joint pain, muscle aches and pains. The body is more obese, and then the legs and feet are unfavorable, lazy and so on these problems, is the initial state of wet. After that, wet - silt - block - phlegm - knot - lump - tumor. This is the step by step deterioration process of dampness.

People with sufficient spleen and kidney yang, those who like to exercise, and the industrious people around us. It is impossible for their body's qi, blood and meridians to produce Dampness when they are functioning properly. You can hardly imagine a soccer star like Crow, who exercises so much, that his body would have anything to do with dampness. What we call greasy middle-aged men, that is, exercise less and eat more, their bodies are heavier with dampness, and their faces are always responsible for a thick layer of grease and dirt. The belly is fat, like the belly of a bird or finch, commonly known as: finch belly.

So, in summary there are three concepts of dampness. The first is external dampness. The other two are attributed to internal dampness. Internal dampness is further divided into two types: one is caused by the external environment. Then there is the other which is caused by a deficiency of Yang in the Spleen and Kidneys within our bodies. Regardless of which kind of dampness, the way to discharge is no more than wind dry, heat dispersal, cold condensation.