What Chinese patent medicine should I take for dampness blocking the middle jiao?

Dampness blocking the middle burner is the name of the disease. The middle burner refers to the stomach and intestines. That is, dampness and turbidity block the stomach and intestines, affecting their digestion and absorption functions. Symptoms include dizziness, fatigue, abdominal distension, poor appetite, sticky mouth and thirst, preference for hot drinks in winter, reddish and yellow urine, thick white or greasy tongue coating, and slow pulse. The treatment should be to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness.

The so-called dampness in the middle part of the body in traditional Chinese medicine means that because the stomach and intestines are located in the middle burner, once the spleen and stomach are deficient, the middle qi will sink, and the digestion and absorption function will be insufficient, resulting in excessive dampness in the stomach, which will lead to symptoms such as bloating, abdominal distension, fullness, and pain.

Dampness blocking the middle jiao can be treated through diet therapy.

Drinking honey in the morning is a good habit. Thick tongue coating indicates dampness in the stomach and intestines, which is why there is abdominal distension. The treatment is mainly to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. Raw materials: 250 grams each of Chinese yam, coix seed, and Poria cocos, and 600 grams of Huai rice. Preparation: Peel the yam, wash the coix seeds, Huai rice and Poria, dry them in the sun to remove moisture, fry until light yellow, grind them into powder and set aside. When taking it, take 5 tablespoons of powder, mix it with boiling water to make it viscous, and add sugar or a small amount of salt according to your preference.

Dampness blocking the middle burner usually means water stagnation in the stomach and intestines. It is because the stomach and intestines digest and absorb water or there is an abnormality in the function of water, which causes water stagnation in the body. Symptoms often appear, such as greasy white tongue coating, bad breath, anorexia, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, and abdominal distension. The treatment requires appropriate use of some aromatic and dehumidifying methods. You can use Pingwei Powder and Sanren Decoction for treatment, which can gradually improve or cure the condition. Oral Chinese medicine prescriptions are relatively limited. You can try Xiangsha Yangwei Pills or Xiangsha Liujunzi.

For spleen deficiency, you need to strengthen the spleen and stomach, help digestion, and strengthen immunity. Medicines can only be used to control symptoms. For the conditioning of sub-health, the wisest choice is to exercise properly, change the daily diet structure, maintain a stable mentality and get enough sleep, and the diet should be dominated by natural plant nutrients such as fresh fruits and vegetables. Animal food should be within 80g per day, and it is better to digest and metabolize smoothly, and then take food containing plant nutrients.

What foods can cure dampness?

1. Job's tears. The first recommendation is the large coix seed, which is known as the "longevity bean". Job's tears are slightly warm in nature and sweet in taste. They are rich in nutrition: in addition to carbohydrates, each 100 grams contains 28 grams of protein, 116 mg of calcium, and various other nutrients. It has the functions of harmonizing the stomach and eliminating dampness, strengthening the spleen and stomach and eliminating dampness, and treating diarrhea. It is mainly used to treat spleen deficiency diarrhea, nausea and retching, poor appetite, and red secretions.

2. Job's tears rice. Job's tears rice has the effects of promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, strengthening the spleen and stomach and removing dampness, relaxing muscles and tendons, activating collaterals and removing numbness, clearing away heat, detoxifying and discharging pus. It is a common diuretic and dampness-removing medicine. Good Job's tears rice has a medicinal flavor, without any peculiar smell or hair. Job's tears rice can be used to make porridge with red beans. It is simply job's tears rice and red beans without adding rice. Drinking water and eating beans will have practical effects if you persist for a long time. Secondly, you can wash the coix rice, dry it in a pan, and fry it in the same way as sesame seeds. You can eat coix seed rice alone or grind it into powder with a crusher at home and drink it like black sesame paste, which is better than making porridge.

3. Red beans. Red beans can replenish blood and qi, and can also remove dampness. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, red beans are warm in nature, sweet and sour in taste, and have the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, eliminating dampness, clearing away heat, detoxifying and removing dampness, and reducing swelling and detoxifying. Drinking red beans boiled in water, or boiling black beans and mung beans together, can effectively expel moisture from the body. Red beans can also be used to make red bean paste, rice porridge, and snacks, but be careful not to buy adzuki beans. That kind of soybean is a medicine and eating too much will cause poisoning. It is usually easy to confuse it with red beans.

4. Corn silk leaves. Pick clean corn silks and corn leaves and boil them in water. Cook them for a while and then drink the water. But it is best not to drink it before going to bed, because it has the effect of clearing heat and removing dampness, it is easy to relax the body due to falling asleep, resulting in the moisture in the body not being eliminated but becoming more serious. When corn is harvested in autumn, you can get some more tassel leaves, dry them and drink them for a year, so you don't have to worry about not getting them when there is no corn.