Can fire therapy remove moisture?

When there is severe dampness in our body, the whole rhythm of life will be affected, because people with heavy dampness often feel tired and lack energy every day, and the whole person will become drowsy. The excess moisture will also affect bowel movements, and you will always feel like your bowel movements are not complete. Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, once you find that there is dampness in your body, you should find a way to solve it. So can the fire therapy method in traditional Chinese medicine remove moisture from the body?

Can fire therapy remove moisture from the body?

Fire therapy can remove moisture from the body

Fire therapy does have the effects of expelling cold and dampness, dredging meridians, removing stagnation, and promoting qi and blood circulation. For people with external dampness, the effect is more obvious, but people with internal dampness are more suitable for conditioning with Chinese medicine. This is also the reason why fire therapy for dehumidification is effective for some people but ineffective for others.

Which dampness is suitable for fire therapy?

Fire therapy is most suitable for patients with cold and dampness, followed by rheumatism. Fire therapy is not suitable for patients with damp heat.

Fire therapy can dredge the meridians and activate the collaterals, warm the meridians and dispel cold, remove wind and dampness, and is suitable for cold dampness or rheumatism. However, since fire therapy can increase heat, fire therapy for patients with damp-heat will not only fail to remove moisture from the body, but will make the heat symptoms more obvious.

Is fire therapy effective in removing dampness?

Fire therapy is more effective in removing dampness.

Fire therapy is a comprehensive method that combines body surface heat therapy, massage, and drug application. The effect is definitely better than a single method. Single massage will not reach the affected area if the force is not strong enough, surface heat therapy has a single effect, and the efficacy of drug compresses is concentrated in one place, while fire therapy combines the effects of the three, so the dehumidification effect is definitely better.

How to determine if there is moisture in the body

Mental fatigue

If you feel tired, lack energy and have a dizzy head every day, it is because there is dampness in your body.

Thick and greasy tongue coating

A normal person's tongue coating is thin, white and moist. If the tongue coating is thick and greasy and feels like water is sliding through it, it indicates that there is dampness in the body. A thick, white and slippery tongue coating indicates cold and dampness, while a thick, yellow and greasy tongue coating indicates damp heat.

Sticky and soft stool

If there is feces stuck on the toilet bowl when you flush the toilet after defecation, or the feces are loose and unformed, it indicates that there is cold and dampness in the body. If you always feel uncomfortable after defecation, and you cannot defecate completely and the feces are very smelly, it indicates that there is damp heat in the body.