My legs swell every afternoon.

If the body shows some disease symptoms or abnormal reactions at a certain moment, people generally do not pay too much attention to it. However, if the body has problems regularly at a certain time period, it will cause people to worry. Office workers will find that their calves swell in the afternoon every day. This is a phenomenon that occurs in a specific time period. So what is the reason for the swelling of the calves in the afternoon?

What habits make you prone to edema?

Often eat ice cream, drink cold drinks, and eat sweets; or eat lettuce salad for a long time to lose weight; drink vegetable and fruit juice on an empty stomach before eating hot food in the morning; like to eat cold fruits and vegetables: watermelon, pear, pomelo, grapefruit, orange, kiwi, dragon fruit, banana, cabbage, white radish, and aloe vera.

If you like to eat strong flavors (salty, MSG, hot sauce, satay, kimchi, sauerkraut...), excessive salt intake will cause water to be retained in the body and difficult to excrete.

Sitting and standing for long periods of time at work, and love wearing high heels.

What causes constitutional edema? How to improve it?

If you have weak spleen and stomach function, or you have been fond of ice cream, cold drinks and cold food for a long time, the most direct damage to your spleen and stomach function is from your diet. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, if the spleen fails to function properly, dampness will be generated from within, which means that the spleen's function of transportation and transformation is abnormal, and it cannot properly handle the metabolism of body water, causing the pathological products of "dampness" to remain in the body. In the long run, it will also damage the yang energy of the five internal organs, causing the body's metabolic circulation functions to decline, and it is easy to gain weight!

One-day anti-swelling measures

1. You can drink coix seed juice and red bean water early in the morning to reduce edema.

2. For those who need to stand or sit for a long time, it is recommended to wear elastic socks to prevent swelling of the lower body and varicose veins.

3. Sitting in the office for a long time - it is recommended to stand up and move around every hour. The feet hidden under the office can be exercised at this time (alternately hooking the soles of the feet up and stepping down, 30 times every hour) to enhance the blood return to the heart.

4. In the afternoon, make a cup of ginger black tea and massage Sanyinjiao and Yinlingquan.

5. Go home and prepare dinner. When cooking, remember to add more ginger slices or ginger shreds to remove moisture. The diet should be light and avoid heavy-flavored foods to avoid edema.

6. After bathing, you can massage the Sanyin meridians and massage the Sanyinjiao and Yinlingquan points again.

7. Soak your feet in hot water before going to bed to accelerate blood circulation in the lower limbs and eliminate leg muscle fatigue.

8. Do 50 aerial bike strokes before going to bed every day to tighten your thighs and lower abdomen, then lift your feet for 20 minutes.

9. When sleeping, use two pillows to elevate your calves to increase blood circulation.

Diet to improve edema

Eat more diuretic and swelling-reducing foods. Such as barley water, winter melon ginger soup, red bean water, four spirits soup (for those who want to lose weight in the morning), young ginger dishes or ginger black tea

【Ginger Black Tea】

Drink a cup of ginger black tea every afternoon, bring 2-3 slices of sliced ​​ginger from home (it is recommended to wash the ginger with the skin and soak it together, which has a stronger diuretic and swelling-reducing effect), or grind it into ginger juice first, and add it to the black tea brewed in tea bags. For office workers who often stay in air-conditioned rooms, ginger black tea can not only reduce edema, but also has the effect of resisting cold.

Dietary considerations to prevent calf swelling

What you should really follow is the following low-salt diet!!

People with edema should strictly follow a low-salt diet to prevent water retention in the body. Not only should salt added during cooking be reduced, but many processed foods have already added a lot of salt or MSG during the production process. These invisible salts can easily make people eat them unknowingly. Once consumed in excess, water will be retained in the body.

Swelling of the face or lower body occurs!!

The following are foods that are easy to overlook but are high in salt. People who are prone to edema should eat less:

Chili sauce, shacha sauce, kimchi, cheese, various pickles, pickles, mustard tuber, smoked ham, sausage, fermented bean curd, fish floss, fish balls, meat balls, noodles, candied fruit, bean paste, sweet noodle sauce, ketchup, oyster sauce

Increase exercise to promote water elimination, such as brisk walking, jogging, swimming or aerobic exercise such as walking on the spot for 20 minutes. Exercise can contract muscles, promote circulation, eliminate edema, and promote fat burning.