Remove dampness and lose weight? A bowl of barley and red bean porridge can do the trick!

When moisture accumulates under the skin, it causes obesity. So why is it that people with heavy moisture are more likely to become obese? Barley and red bean porridge is a great dehumidifying product suitable for everyone and has a good weight loss effect! So how is it prepared?

Why is it easy to become obese if you have heavy moisture?

Among the six evil spirits that cause disease, wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire, Chinese medicine fears dampness the most. When moisture meets wind, it becomes rheumatism. It is easy to drive away the wind, but once it becomes rheumatism, it is often a chronic disease and cannot be cured in a short time. When moisture accumulates under the skin, it causes obesity, which is also a difficult health problem to deal with...

Both cold and heat are easy to deal with. If it is cold, warm it up; if it is hot, cool it down. If there is wind, we drive it away; if there is dryness, we moisturize it; if there is heat, we clear it away. However, what if it’s wet? That’s a bit difficult. Using the method of drying dampness will most likely damage the body fluids, and the dampness will still not be eliminated. Therefore, in traditional Chinese medicine, in addition to drying dampness, there are also methods such as promoting dampness, transforming dampness, and penetrating dampness to deal with dampness. The more methods there are, the more difficult it is to deal with this enemy.

Two ways to identify whether there is moisture

Look at the tongue: You might as well take two precious seconds every morning before brushing your teeth, stick out your tongue and observe whether it is yellow and greasy. If so, it is also a sign of dampness in the body. The yellower or greasy the skin is, the more severe the dampness is.

Dampness is heavy like being wrapped: Some people still feel very sleepy when they should get up at seven o'clock every morning. They feel like something is wrapped around their heads and makes them unable to concentrate, or they feel like something is wrapped around their bodies and makes them too lazy to move. Then, without looking at the tongue, you can judge that there is a lot of dampness in his body. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "dampness is heavy like a wrap." This feeling of being wrapped is the body's perception of dampness, which is as uncomfortable as wearing a washed but not dried shirt.

A good dehumidifying product for everyone - barley and red bean porridge

The method to remove moisture from the body is very simple and only requires two "medicines". These two medicines can be drunk as tea, eaten as food, and can solve big problems. One is coix seed and the other is red bean. There is no need to follow any specific ratio for these two ingredients. Just grab a handful each time, wash them clean, and put them in a pot with water to boil. After it is cooked, it becomes barley and red bean porridge, a great product for removing dampness and strengthening the spleen.

As for the efficacy, it is truly extraordinary. 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, called "adzuki beans" in traditional Chinese medicine, also have obvious diuretic, anti-edema, and spleen and stomach strengthening effects. Because it is red, and red enters the heart, it can also nourish the heart. 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 choice is coix seed and red beans. 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.

The "de-swelling" effect of coix seed and red beans is also very interesting. We must not think that swelling is edema. Look at people today, at least five or six out of ten are overweight, which is also swelling, called obesity. In traditional Chinese medicine, obesity or edema means that there is dampness in the body. The water cannot flow with the blood and is retained between body cells, causing the body to swell rapidly. The same is true for edema and obesity, the only difference is the degree. Drugs or foods with strong dehumidifying properties can remove the water retained in the human body and reduce swelling. Therefore, red beans must be used to treat edema. Practice has proved that barley and red bean porridge has good weight-loss effects. It can lose weight without hurting the body. Especially for obesity in middle-aged and elderly people, the effect is particularly good.