Five signs indicate heavy dampness

It is said: "A thousand colds are easy to get rid of, but one dampness is difficult to get rid of. Dampness is sticky and turbid, like oil in flour." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dampness is one of the six major causes of disease. Dampness together with cold is called damp-cold; together with heat, it is called damp-heat; together with wind, it is called rheumatism; together with summer heat, it is called summer dampness. If dampness is not removed, the disease may become protracted and difficult to cure. How to know whether there is dampness in your body can be judged by the following five signals.

Signal: Thick and Greasy Tongue Coating

If you find that your tongue coating is very thick and greasy, or the tongue is fat and there are obvious teeth marks on the edge of the tongue, then it can be basically confirmed that there is dampness in the body. This is the tongue diagnosis in traditional Chinese medicine. If your face is also dull and yellowish, your eyelids are swollen when you wake up in the morning, or you have obvious bags under your eyes, these signals indicate that there is a lot of moisture in your body.

Signal 2: Unformed stool

Normal stool is in the shape of strips with moderate hardness. If the stool is soft, sticky, and shapeless like an overripe banana, and sticks to the toilet and is not easily flushed away, it also means that there is dampness in your body and your digestive and absorption functions are abnormal.

Signal 3: Poor appetite

If you don't feel hungry when it's time to eat, your stomach will feel bloated after eating a little, and you may even feel a little nauseous while eating. This phenomenon is also a manifestation of weak spleen and stomach function and excessive moisture in the body, and this phenomenon is more likely to occur in summer.

Signal 4: Calf soreness

People with heavy dampness will feel sore and heavy in their calves after getting up. They may also gain significant weight in a short period of time and show signs of puffiness. More serious people will have problems such as lower limb edema.

Signal 5: Poor mental state

People with heavy dampness often feel chest tightness and want to take a long breath to feel comfortable. They feel particularly tired, too lazy to move, feel dizzy, easily sleepy, and have memory loss. In fact, this is not difficult to explain. The ancients said, "Once the spleen is weak, the lung qi will be exhausted first." This means that when the spleen is weak to a certain degree and the lung is not nourished, it is easy to show symptoms of poor mental state.