What Chinese medicine can be taken to remove dampness? 8 most effective Chinese medicines for removing dampness

The weather is hot in summer, there is a lot of rain, and the high humidity in the air can also be "infected" to humans. July and August every year are called the long summer. At this time, the humidity is in season, and the spleen in the human body corresponds to it, so the spleen is most active in July and August. So which Chinese medicines are best for removing humidity in summer?

1. Poria

Poria cocos has a sweet and mild taste and is neutral in nature. It enters the human heart, spleen, liver, and kidney meridians. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, nourishing the brain and body, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, and calming the mind and tranquilizing the nerves. It is known as one of the "Eight Treasures" of traditional Chinese medicine. The characteristics of Poria cocos are that it is tonic but not harsh, and beneficial but not fierce. The medicine has a mild nature and can both strengthen the body and eliminate evil. It is an indispensable spleen-strengthening and dampness-eliminating Chinese medicine for those with spleen deficiency and dampness.

2. Five-fingered peach

Five-fingered ginseng can be used as both food and medicine. Among many dehumidifying foods, it has a stronger tonic effect and can replenish the qi of the spleen and lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can strengthen the spleen, replenish qi, nourish the stomach and eliminate dampness. When the body is damp, boil the five-fingered peach in water and drink it to remove dampness and maintain health!

3. Atractylodes

It is the rhizome of perennial herbs Atractylodes lancea and Atractylodes macrocephala of the Asteraceae family. Fragrance can eliminate dampness, and bitterness can also eliminate dampness, so it has a stronger ability to eliminate dampness. When dampness is removed, the spleen functions well, so it has the effect of strengthening the spleen. It is suitable for loss of appetite, abdominal distension, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and greasy tongue coating caused by spleen dampness and dysfunction of transportation and transformation. It is often used together with Magnolia officinalis and tangerine peel.

4. Artemisia capillaris

Artemisia capillaris is a very familiar Chinese medicine for removing dampness among the people of Guangdong. It is often used as medicine in soups during the damp spring and hot summer. It is very cheap and can be found everywhere, but it was listed as a top-grade medicine as early as the "Shennong Bencao Jing". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can clear dampness and reduce fever, promote bile secretion and remove jaundice. It is especially good at treating dampness and heat in the triple burner, as well as jaundice, hepatitis, urinary problems, wind-induced itching, sores and scabies.

5. Acanthopanax bark

Acanthopanax cortex is a traditional Chinese medicine for removing rheumatism. It has the effects of removing rheumatism, strengthening muscles and bones, and promoting diuresis. It also has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys and strengthening muscles and bones. The medicinal uses of Acanthopanax Cortex are mainly for treating hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, residual urine, female waist and spine pain, foot pain, etc. Located in a humid area, it is particularly suitable for drinking Wujia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

6. Atractylodes macrocephala

Atractylodes has the functions of tonifying the spleen and stomach, drying dampness and harmonizing the middle, stopping sweating, promoting diuresis, and calming the fetus. It is recorded in Bencao Huiyan that Atractylodes macrocephala "is an important medicine for supporting the spleen and stomach, dispersing dampness and eliminating numbness, and digesting food and eliminating abdominal distension." Atractylodes can improve symptoms such as weak spleen and stomach, indigestion, loss of appetite, and diarrhea. It can also be used by people with jaundice, sweating, edema, and difficulty urinating.

7. Adzuki Bean

Red beans are sweet in taste and enter the heart and small intestine meridians. They have the effects of promoting diuresis and removing dampness, harmonizing blood and discharging pus, and reducing swelling and detoxifying. Its heat-clearing effect is weaker than that of mung beans, but its diuretic and dampness-removing effect is stronger. It can not only treat general edema, but even treat "ascites", that is, ascites caused by liver cirrhosis. Adzuki beans are generally used to make porridge or as stuffing.

8. Amomum villosum

Amomum villosum is pungent in taste and warm in nature. It enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. It can eliminate dampness and stimulate appetite, warm the spleen and stop diarrhea, regulate qi and stabilize pregnancy. This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and has a fragrant smell. It is effective in removing dampness and invigorating the spleen, promoting qi and warming the middle. The ancients regarded it as an important medicine for invigorating the spleen and regulating the stomach. Therefore, it can be commonly used for all symptoms of spleen and stomach disharmony such as abdominal distension and pain caused by dampness or qi stagnation, especially for those suffering from cold, dampness and qi stagnation.