Traditional Chinese Medicine on How to Remove Dampness

Traditional Chinese medicine has always been a means of health preservation and disease treatment that we have highly advocated since ancient times. Although it is basically Western medicine now, traditional Chinese medicine can be said to be quite good for problems such as conditioning and removing dampness. We can find out whether there is dampness in our body by ourselves. Once there is, we must start to prevent it. We can make some ginger tea or something like that in our spare time, press acupoints such as Zusanli, and use cupping in traditional Chinese medicine.

There is an old saying: "It is easy to get rid of a thousand colds, but difficult to get rid of one dampness. Dampness is sticky and turbid, like oil in flour." Dampness and cold together are called cold and dampness, dampness and heat together are called damp-heat, dampness and wind are called rheumatism, and dampness and summer are called dampness.

If the evil dampness is not removed, no matter how many supplements or health-preserving medicines you take, it seems like they are only treating the symptoms and not the root cause, and it seems like the effect is not being used in the right place. Many people in life suffer from various diseases such as fatty liver, hypertension, asthma, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even malignant tumors. In fact, the occurrence of many symptoms is related to the evil dampness in the body.

As early as 1,800 years ago, the great medical scientist Zhang Zhongjing said in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases": "When the body is very hot, one feels cold and wants to put on more clothes. This means that even though a person's body temperature is very high, he or she feels cold and wants to put on more clothes. This shows that there is a lot of dampness and coldness in the body, which has reached the bone marrow. At this time, it would be even worse if you take medicine or antibiotics, as it would bring the damp and cold air from outside directly into the body, which would make the situation even worse.

In that era, people still could not solve the problem of food and clothing, and most diseases were caused by cold evil, which could be directly treated with hot medicines. Nowadays, with the changes of the times, simple typhoid fever is rarely seen. External cold and internal heat are often intertwined to form evil dampness. Dampness is a yin evil that can easily damage yang energy and hinder the body's qi flow. An interesting phenomenon is that few people catch colds in winter, while the warm spring and summer are indeed the peak periods for fever and colds.

Nowadays, people have air conditioning wherever they go, their sense of the world is becoming less and less clear, and their ability to adapt to the external environment is getting worse and worse. Hide in the air-conditioning in summer and have heating in winter. This makes it impossible for the human body's yin and yang to be balanced, which can easily lead to the accumulation of evil dampness in the body and cause Yang deficiency. This is what the old saying means "If you don't store your essence in the east, you will get a fever in the spring." The harm caused by evil dampness to human body is greater than that caused by evil cold.