What is phlegm-dampness constitution and how to take care of it?

People in this world are all different. Many people have different physiques. Some people have a cold physique, some have a hot physique. So what are the symptoms of people with phlegm-damp physique? What foods would help?

What are the symptoms of phlegm-damp constitution?

1. They are obese, with a fat and soft abdomen. They are gentle, steady, and modest in character, giving people a sense of reliability. They also have a good temper and are good at endurance. This is mainly closely related to the nature of phlegm and dampness.

2. The tongue is fat, with a white coating and a layer of something on it, which makes it feel greasy. The pulse is slippery, just like the slippery feeling of glass beads rolling on a plate. The mouth always feels sticky and not refreshing, or there is a sweet feeling in the mouth. The whole body is heavy and uncomfortable. In terms of diet, he likes to eat fatty meat and oily foods, and also likes to eat sweet, sticky, and greasy foods, such as cakes and snacks.

3. Normally, the stool is not dry, and there is either a feeling of incomplete defecation or sticky stool. It is always difficult to flush it clean and it will stick to the toilet. Generally, the amount of urine is not much and the frequency of urination is not often. Sometimes the urine is a little turbid. This physique is prone to high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and high blood lipids, which is metabolic syndrome.

People with phlegm-dampness constitution also show poor adaptability to the rainy season and humid environment, because their bodies are already damp and they naturally don't like the rainy season and humid environment. The specific manifestations are phlegm obscuring the clear orifices, internal accumulation of phlegm-dampness, phlegm blocking the airways, and phlegm-dampness trapping the spleen. Phlegm obstructs the clear orifices: baldness, calm personality, frequent dizziness and vertigo, more dizzy when work pressure is high and things to do, as if wrapped in something, not relaxing at all, tongue coating is white and greasy, and pulse is slippery.

How to take care of it?

Another characteristic of phlegm-dampness constitution is that it is slow and leisurely, and the body is fat and soft. Therefore, people with phlegm-dampness constitution should try whatever they want to do. Once they have made up their mind, do it immediately. Don't think about it over and over again. Sometimes you have to learn to not care. People with yin deficiency constitution should also pay attention to this.

What foods may help?

Poria: It can promote diuresis and eliminate dampness, strengthen the spleen, resolve phlegm, and also calm the mind and soothe the nerves.

Poria can enhance the body's immune function, increase the excretion of electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, and chloride in urine, and has the effects of calming and protecting the liver, inhibiting the occurrence of ulcers, lowering blood sugar, and resisting radiation.

Job's tears rice: It is a commonly used Chinese medicine and also a commonly eaten food. It has a light and slightly cold nature and has the effects of diuresis and swelling, invigorating the spleen and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and removing numbness, clearing away heat and discharging pus. It is a commonly used diuretic and dampness-removing medicine.

People with phlegm-dampness constitution should pay attention to their diet and try to eat light food, and eat more food that strengthens the spleen, benefits the kidneys, and eliminates dampness. They can often eat winter melon, lotus leaves, hawthorn, red beans, lentils, white radish, seaweed, jellyfish, onions, loquat, ginkgo, lentils, coix seed rice, broad beans, cabbage, etc.

Eat less fatty meat and sweet, sticky and greasy foods, such as cakes and snacks. Do not drink too much alcohol and do not eat too much.

Avoid eating too sweet foods, pomegranates, dates, and grapefruits, avoid overeating and eating fast, and limit salt intake.

In addition, you can eat more hawthorn. Hawthorn contains various vitamins, hawthorn acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., as well as flavonoids, lactones, sugars, proteins, fats, calcium, iron and other minerals. The lipase it contains can promote the digestion of fatty foods.