What are the manifestations of moisture removal?

Too much moisture in the body is harmful to the body and may cause rheumatoid arthritis. This disease is difficult to treat, so everyone must pay attention. If you want to effectively remove moisture from your body, you can take a bath by boiling water with mugwort leaves, or eat barley and red bean porridge, and just insist on doing proper exercise in your life.

1. Bathing with mugwort leaves to remove moisture

Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves has the effect of dispelling cold. Mugwort is an extremely yang medicine. Soaking your feet in mugwort water can effectively eliminate false fire and cold fire, and can treat diseases such as oral ulcers, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media, etc. For patients with severe cold and dampness in the body, it is okay to soak feet in mugwort water once a week, but at the same time, they must stop eating cold food. Don't let cold and dampness invade you anymore. Slowly you will find that your body is no longer easily inflamed after eating nourishing food, and your physical condition is slowly improving.

In summer, soaking your feet in mugwort can effectively prevent or treat symptoms such as colds and fevers caused by long-term use of air conditioning. However, experts remind that mugwort is a bitter substance and generally has a cooling effect. It can reduce fire, especially liver fire. "People with weak constitution and insufficient qi and blood are advised to drink a bowl of red dates and longan soup or tea before soaking their feet to replenish the vitality that may be lost in the body." Soaking your feet in mugwort leaves is good for your health, but you can’t do it too often. It is understood that soaking feet in mugwort leaves can draw the false fire and cold fire downwards, which will cause deficiency of qi and blood in the head and face, and insufficient blood supply, which will cause dizziness, headaches, and emotional changes.

You can take 50 grams each of ginger, calamus, and patchouli, and 100 grams of mugwort, put them in a large pot, fill it with water, bring it to a boil and then simmer for 10 minutes; filter out the residue with gauze, add appropriate amount of hot water, and soak in a bath for 15-30 minutes, which will help to dehumidify and sterilize the whole body.

2. Drink barley and red bean porridge

Job's tears, called "Coix seed" in traditional Chinese medicine, is listed as a top-grade medicine in "Shennong's Herbal Classic". It can cure dampness and arthritis, benefit the intestines and stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and long-term use can make the body lighter and benefit the qi. Red beans are red in color, and red enters the heart, so they can also nourish the heart and blood. Ancient books record that "long-term consumption makes people thin", which means that eating red beans regularly can also help lose weight. It also has obvious effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

Modern people are under great mental stress and have weak heart qi; they have irregular diets, little exercise, and weak spleen and excessive dampness. If you want to remove dampness, nourish the heart, and strengthen the spleen and stomach, then the best solutions are coix seed and red bean. Boiling it into porridge is intended to allow its effective ingredients to be fully absorbed by the human body while not causing much burden to the spleen and stomach. Summer is the time when the heat is unbearable, and it makes people wet inside and outside. These two medicines can nourish the blood and remove dampness. Practice has proved that barley and red bean porridge has a good weight-loss effect. It can lose weight without hurting the body. Especially for obesity in middle-aged and elderly people, the effect is particularly good.