What is damp heat constitution

Many people will be diagnosed with a damp-heat constitution by Chinese medicine doctors after seeing them, but many people do not have a good understanding of this term. A damp-heat constitution means that there is both dampness and heat in the body. It seems contradictory but exists at the same time. People with this constitution generally have irregular diet, which leads to poor digestive function. This article introduces the specific manifestations of this physique. If you want to know more, you can take a look.

What is damp-heat constitution?

Simply put, there is moisture and heat in your body.

Dampness: It is divided into internal dampness formed inside the body and external dampness that invades the body from the outside. People who like to stay up late, have poor digestive function, irregular meals, unhealthy spleen and stomach, and do not pay attention to adding or removing clothes in daily life are likely to accumulate moisture in their bodies.

Heat: mostly caused by external factors. For example, exposure to hot weather, consumption of spicy food, long-term emotional depression, or excessive intake of supplements, etc.

What are the characteristics of damp-heat constitution?

Being overweight or thin, with heavy limbs and feeling sleepy;

Oily face, acne, and pimples;

Dry mouth, bitter taste, reddish, yellowish and greasy tongue;

Impatience, easily angered;

Prone to backache and body aches;

What kind of tea can improve damp-heat constitution?

——Kang Erfu Red Bean and Job's Tea

Ingredients: 20 grams of red beans, 20 grams of coix seeds, 10 grams of winter melon, and 10 grams of corn silk.

Method: Wash red beans and coix seeds and put them into the pot for half an hour, then add winter melon and corn silk and wait.

Effects: Strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, promote diuresis and reduce swelling, clear away heat and detoxify

Health tips: To remove dampness, you need to persist in conditioning. Giving up halfway will be a waste of effort.

Friends who are troubled by "damp-heat constitution" can make tea at home using these ingredients. If you think it's troublesome to do it yourself, you can buy the same tea bags online and drink them often to remove dampness.

What foods can improve damp-heat constitution?

Eat less: mutton, beef, cold drinks, seafood, onions, duck, chestnuts, blood, pig heart;

Avoid eating: new ginger, garlic, Polygonum, pheasant, dog meat, frost-covered melon, sunflower, pepper, Sichuan pepper, leek, pig kidney, sheep kidney;

Eat often: black beans, hawthorn, pork spine, kelp, pear, vinegar, hawthorn;

Eat more: Job's tears, wolfberry, longan, rice porridge, green leafy vegetables, bean sprouts, radish, cabbage, scented tea, etc.