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Chapter 4 Preventing the Invasion of External Damp Evil

Exogenous dampness is a very scary thing. Once you find that your body has come into contact with exogenous dampness, you should avoid touching it again, otherwise the lingering will be difficult to heal.Here I want to remind two types of male compatriots: one is the man who falls asleep without washing his hair; the other is the man with sweaty feet.We say that it is best not to wash your hair at night, and this is what female friends do best.Women's hair is longer and it is not easy to dry after washing at night, so most of them choose to wash their hair at other times.But men seldom notice this, coupled with their busy work, they will not give up as long as they have free time.It is a very bad habit to wash your hair while taking a shower, and then fall asleep after washing your hair.If you wash your hair when you sleep at night, your scalp will be in close contact with external moisture for a long time, which is like creating a model that has lived in a wetland for a long time.So the problem came out, a rash will appear on the scalp, which is caused by stagnation of dampness and phlegm.Therefore, if you must wash your hair at night, wait until your hair is dry before going to bed.For those men with sweaty feet, if your shoes are often in a wet state, they will get wet, especially in winter.As the saying goes, "cold comes from the feet", so men with sweaty feet should not let their feet be in a humid environment, and must keep their shoes dry.In addition to these, we usually try to work in humid places as little as possible. If conditions permit, we should keep the indoor humidity at a moderate level; on cloudy and rainy days, we should open the doors and windows after the sky is sunny to allow air circulation; carry rain gear when going out to prevent rain.

Replenishment of Qi and blood is a good way to resist the invasion of damp evils. When Qi and blood are sufficient, the generation of Yang Qi will have a material basis; when Yang Qi is sufficient, all damp evils will have no place to stay in the body.When it comes to nourishing qi and blood, there are some traditional Chinese medicine diet therapy methods that have been passed down for thousands of years that we can learn from, such as making soup with barley and red beans, stewing soup with astragalus and black-bone chicken, or simply boiling water to drink astragalus, and adding some red dates when cooking porridge. Jujubes and goji berries are boiled and drunk, all of which have extraordinary effects of nourishing qi and blood.Developing good living habits can help suppress dampness. The diet should be light, and eat more foods that invigorate the spleen and reduce dampness, such as lentils, barley, wax gourd, lotus seeds, mushrooms, white fungus, celery, water spinach, cauliflower, and mung bean sprouts Wait for fruits and vegetables.Be sure not to eat too much raw, cold, greasy, and spicy food, so as not to injure the spleen by dampness or damage the spleen by evil heat.Excessive fatigue can easily lead to "damp evil" taking advantage of the weak spot, so it is necessary to arrange work and rest time reasonably.At the same time, we should also pay attention to exercise more. Moderate exercise can not only enhance physical fitness, but also promote digestion and blood circulation.In addition, maintain good sleep habits, don't stay up too often, don't indulge in excessive sex, etc. These good living habits are all helpful to suppress dampness.Shixie, like a very difficult child, once he entangles his parents, it will make people feel very upset, neither beating nor scolding.

In fact, the main reason why children are difficult to deal with is that their parents are too doting on them (eating raw, cold, greasy food, not paying attention to moisture and moisture, often using air conditioners, and preventing the body from perspiring normally, all of which will lead to damp evil upper body), as long as We are usually stricter and raise more yang energy in the body, and this difficult child will become well-behaved! ?Tips for benefiting a lifetime: a simple way to judge whether you are wet in your body (1) If you feel very tired when you wake up every morning, your head is dizzy, you can’t cheer up, or you feel like you are wearing a wet clothes It's not refreshing, and people don't bother to move... Then you can be sure that your body is wet. (2) After defecation in the morning, you can observe the stool.If the stool is not formed and loose for a long time, there must be dampness in the body; if the stool is formed, but the stool is very sticky and easy to stick to the toilet, this is also a manifestation of dampness in the body, because moisture is sticky and greasy. (3) Observing the tongue can also tell whether there is wetness in the body.Because "the tongue is the seedling of the heart, but also the spleen outside the spleen", the tongue can sensitively reflect our physical condition.If the tongue coating is white and thick, looks slippery and moist, it means that there is cold in the body; if the tongue coating is rough or thick, yellow and greasy, it means that there is damp heat in the body. 6. Watch out!Cold air enters the body and drives away yang qi. Cold air is a kind of yin evil, and it is most likely to damage people's yang qi.Yang Qi is the energy source of life, and normal life activities need the promotion of Yang Qi.

Once the cold air damages Yang Qi, it may cause insufficient "motivation" for warm "firewood" and normal physiological activities.After talking about damp evil, let's talk about cold evil. Although cold evil is not as serious as damp evil, the problems caused by cold evil are universal.Cold is the main Qi in winter, so cold pathogens mostly cause diseases in winter.Cold evil has the difference between internal cold and external cold.Exogenous cold is the pathogenic factor that causes diseases caused by external cold air invading the human body, which injures the skin surface, which is called typhoid fever; internal cold is the disease syndrome caused by the decline of human body function and insufficient yang energy.Although internal and external cold are different, they can influence each other.For example, people with yang deficiency and internal cold are susceptible to external cold; when external cold invades, it is easy to damage yang qi and cause internal cold.Cold is a kind of yin evil, which is most likely to damage people's yang.Yang Qi is the energy source of life, and normal life activities need the promotion of Yang Qi.Once the cold air damages Yang Qi, it may cause insufficient "motivation" for warm "firewood" and normal physiological activities.If the warmth is not enough, you cannot resist the cold outside, so you are afraid of the wind and cold, and you will sneeze and shiver when the wind blows.Insufficient motivation, various metabolic functions will decline, and symptoms such as hypotension, hypothyroidism, and indigestion will appear.In short, all diseases accompanied by symptoms of cold hands and feet and fear of wind and cold may be caused by cold air.According to traditional Chinese medicine, deficiency of yang leads to cold, and deficiency of yin leads to heat.Yang deficiency produces external cold, while yin deficiency produces internal heat.

The human body's yang energy is weakened, the qi and blood are insufficient, the Weiyang is not strong, and the muscles cannot be warmed to resist the invasion of external cold evils. The first manifestation is the fear of cold.Chinese medicine explains the fear of cold from the perspective of insufficient Yang Qi.The human body is a whole with the balance of yin and blood and yang qi. It is healthy under the condition of yin and yang balance, but if one side drops, the human body will have adverse reactions.Fear of cold is actually the result of "yang deficiency produces external cold".When yang qi is deficient, qi and blood cannot warm viscera and extremities, and many patients with cold hands and feet suffer from this.In other words, yang deficiency is an important cause of cold hands and feet.Cold hands and feet have always been the biggest problem for women, but in recent years, many male friends have also experienced the same problem, especially men in their 30s.Once, a young man who was only 34 years old came to see me.He is a typical patient with chills, so severe that he often cannot sleep at night because of the cold lower body.Although the conditions during the day were better, it was still too cold.If it wasn't for being afraid of being laughed at, he really wanted to put on the padded jacket.I suggested to him that when his hands and feet feel cold again in the future, he might as well rub the backs of his hands together to warm his body.Seeing that he was a little confused, I explained to him that there is an acupoint on the back of the hand called Yangchi acupoint, which is the main acupoint on the Sanjiao meridian.The so-called "Yangchi" means to accumulate the heat of the sun, and frequent pressing here can invigorate the body's yang energy.The Yangchi point is on the wrist of the back of the human hand, and its position is just at the meeting point of the bones between the back of the hand.

The way to find it is to turn the back of the hand up first, then there will be several wrinkles on the wrist, press on the center of the wrinkles on the side near the back of the hand, you will find a tender point, this point is the Yangchi point up.Yangchi point is an important point that controls blood circulation and hormone secretion throughout the body.As long as this acupoint is stimulated, the warm vitality can enter the cold body, and the "ice and snow in the body" can be turned into a trickle of spring.Stimulation of the Yangchi point should be done slowly, for a long time, and the intensity should be slow.It is best to use both hands, first press the Yangchi point on the other hand with the middle finger of one hand, and then switch to press the Yangchi point on this hand with the middle finger of the other hand.This posture can naturally transmit the power from the middle finger to the Yangchi point without the help of others.People with cold hands and feet generally only need to keep stimulating the Yangchi acupoint, and they will no longer worry about the coming of winter.In addition, combined with pressing and kneading Yongquan, Laogong, and Qichong points, and patting Shenshu points, it will have a very good auxiliary effect.Of course, we should not think that cold hands and feet are the patent of yang deficiency.Many vegetarians also have cold hands and feet in winter. "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" said: "Jue people have cold hands and feet." So cold hands and feet are called "Jue". "Where there is a Jue, if the yin and yang qi are not in harmony, it is a Jue." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yang receives qi from the limbs, yin receives qi from the five internal organs, and the yin and yang qi are intertwined, like a ring without end. Cause "jue".Therefore, no matter what the reason is, the yin and yang are not compatible with each other.

It can be cold, hot, empty, or solid, so don’t think that people with cold hands and feet must all have Yang deficiency. This kind of understanding is wrong.There are many causes of it, not just yang deficiency.Why are men in their 30s prone to cold limbs caused by yang deficiency?Let's start with their bad habits.Many young and middle-aged people often rely on their strong bodies and think that they are not easy to catch cold, but they are not.Those white-collar workers who work in air-conditioned offices for a long time may not have symptoms of cold and cold, but after a long time, the accumulated cold in the body will manifest in the form of air-conditioning syndrome, which makes people tired, insomnia, chest tightness, and inability to sleep. sweat.Of course, this situation is also easy to handle.Once you have a cold, even if you only have mild symptoms, the best way to do it is to boil a bowl of ginger and brown sugar soup, drink it while it is hot, then sleep and sweat, and you can easily get rid of the cold in your body.In addition, drinking cold beer, eating raw and cold food, wearing too little clothes in cold winter, flushing with cold water after exercising, and high work pressure are the main reasons why men are prone to cold.When the weather is hot, many people like to eat cold drinks, but cold drinks are not something that anyone can drink casually at any time.For example, people with weak constitution are not suitable.If the spleen and stomach are already uncomfortable and the body is dry and hot, eating a cold drink will make the stomach suddenly agitated, which will undoubtedly "add insult to injury" to it.

If the stomachache is caused by greed for raw and cold food, we can take ginger porridge (15 grams of galangal powder, 100 grams of rice, cook the porridge with a slow fire, and take it warm), which has the effect of warming the stomach, promoting qi, dispelling cold and relieving pain ; White pepper can also be used to stuff red dates (wash the red dates and remove the pits, crack the white pepper slightly, put 2 pieces of white pepper in each red date that has been pitted, and when cooking, put it on the rice surface to steam cooked food It can warm the spleen, warm the stomach and relieve pain, and has a good effect on cold stomach pain.Here, I advise 30-year-old male friends, if you want to avoid the invasion of cold evil, you should start with your living habits and develop good living habits, which will not only benefit yourself, but also bring blessings to the whole family.

?Warm tips that will benefit a lifetime: "Night owl" men also have cold hands and feet. Many men in their 30s are "night owls". The dead of night is a good time for them to work and play, or hang out on the Internet, or club , singing K, disco...the typical representatives are advertisers, IT professionals, night shift drivers, 24-hour convenience store employees, etc.Because these men stay up late for a long time and their bodies are overloaded, they easily lose the yang energy in their bodies, and suffer from neurasthenia, inattention, memory loss, dizziness, unresponsiveness, forgetfulness, dizziness, headaches and other problems.In addition, people who often stay up late are also very prone to gastrointestinal problems, and are often accompanied by symptoms such as weakness of the waist and knees, and cold hands and feet.The best way to deal with this situation is to establish a reasonable work and rest time.If you have to stay up late, you should take a break in the middle and pay attention to nutritional supplements.In addition, night shift workers should take adequate rest during the day, and it is best to take a nap at noon, and eat more foods rich in vitamin C or collagen, such as fruits and meat skins, for dinner; drink less alcohol, drink more freshly squeezed juice or soy milk etc.

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