Don’t Drink Indiscriminately To Remove Dampness! Only By Distinguishing Between These Two Types Of Dampness And Heat Can Traditional Chinese Medicine Be Effective.

Traditional Chinese medicine often talks about "dampness and heat are the cause of all diseases." However, many people do not know that dampness and heat are actually divided into two completely different categories.

A reader in his forties left this message, saying that he suffered from recurring oral ulcers, gastric bloating, and acid reflux. He tried a large number of dehumidification teas, but not only did he not achieve the expected effect, but he felt that his body became heavier.

There was a young woman who was troubled by frequent urination and abnormal leucorrhea. She took medicine to strengthen the spleen, but the moisture could not be discharged for a long time.

What's the problem?

Not a single form will be the manifestation of warm dampness. It will be divided into two main categories according to the location of the blockage. One type of stagnation is in the spleen, stomach and chest and abdomen, which is called middle burner damp heat. The other type sinks to the waterways and lower limbs, which is damp heat.

The root causes are different, the symptoms are different, and the treatment directions are even different.

If you use the wrong method, it may be ineffective at best, or it may cause harm to your body.

Now we will fully explain these two types of damp and heat, and introduce two classic prescriptions that have been passed down for thousands of years to help you find a way to regulate them.

Dampness and heat in the middle burner: The spleen and stomach are blocked, and a mixture of cold and heat is the core

If you have long-term uncontrolled eating, overeating, and emotional depression, the spleen and stomach will be injured first.

The spleen plays the role of transporting water and dampness, and the stomach has the function of accepting decomposition. Once these functions decline, the water and dampness that should be metabolized normally will no longer be metabolized normally, and then accumulation will occur between the epigastrium, chest and abdomen.

Humidity will cause heat if it is stuffy for a long time, which causes the formation of Medium coke damp heat .

Different from a simple case of getting angry, the physique of this kind of people is often a mixture of cold and heat. Ulcers will appear in the mouth, pain in the throat, and signs of acid reflux and heartburn. However, at the same time, the stomach is afraid of catching a cold, and eating some cold things will cause diarrhea, and the hands and feet will easily become cold.

If you only use cold-cooling drugs such as coptis and honeysuckle to clear away heat, the stomach will become colder; while using dry ginger and pepper to warm and tonify, the fire energy in the body will become more intense.

This is why many people buy gunpowder and feel more uncomfortable the more they eat it.

Banxia Xiexin Decoction: An ancestral recipe for harmonizing the spleen and stomach

Faced with the complicated situation of dampness and heat in the middle burner, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, preserved Banxia Xiexin Decoction in his work "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".

The entire prescription is composed of pinellia, skullcap, dried ginger, ginseng, coptis, jujube, and licorice. The idea of ​​drug compatibility is extremely clever.

Pinellia pinellia and dried ginger are pungent and warm products, just like a gust of warm wind, which can dissolve the cold dampness blocked in the spleen and stomach, and can also open up the Qi of the spleen and stomach; Scutellaria baicalensis and coptis have the property of bitter cold and reducing diarrhea, and can clear the fire and heat trapped in the gastrointestinal tract; Ginseng, jujube and Zhigancao can strengthen the spleen and replenish Qi, and fundamentally improve the ability to transport water and dampness.

The so-called "the pain opens and the pain falls" does not mean to use brute force to clear away heat, nor does it blindly warm and tonic, but to restore the rising and falling rhythm that the spleen and stomach should have.

There are many people suffering from chronic gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux, and functional indigestion. After syndrome differentiation, they are classified as cold and heat mixed type. After using this prescription for a period of conditioning, the gastric bloating, bitter mouth, acid reflux, and post-meal sleepiness will be significantly improved.

Damp and hot bet: sinking dampness and blocked waterways are the root cause

Wet and hot bets It's another path.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "dampness tends to go downwards", and dampness evil naturally likes to go downwards.

If you hold back your urine for a long time, sit still for a long time, drink spicy food, or live in a humid environment, then the evil of dampness and heat will sink into the bladder, large intestine, and lower limb meridians.

The main responsibility of the lower burner is the metabolism and excretion of water. If dampness and heat are blocked here, the urine will be yellow-red and short, and there may even be burning pain in the urethra. For women, leucorrhea may be yellow and thick with a peculiar smell; while for men, the scrotum is prone to be moist and accompanied by itching.

Some people may also feel heaviness in the thighs, aggravation of athlete's foot, and sticky and smelly stools.

Ordinary dampness-removing tea has limited drainage capacity and cannot remove deep-seated stagnation of heat and dampness. Therefore, such problems are often too stubborn to be cured.

Ba Zheng Powder: a special formula for clearing and clearing lower coke

deal with Wet and hot bets , there is a highly effective prescription in traditional Chinese medicine called Bazisan .

It is derived from the "Taiping Huimin Hejiju Prescription". It is composed of Qumai, also contains Akebia, Plantago, Talc, Gardenia, Rhubarb, Akebia, and Licorice.

In order to make the water flow smoothly, based on the whole prescription, Plantain Seed, Qumai, Akebia, Akebia, and Talc work together to produce effects in the bladder and urethra, excrete the accumulated dampness and heat, as well as turbid evil, out of the body through urination; Gardenia plays a role in clearing the stagnation of heat in the triple burner, and Rhubarb promotes the downward drainage of dampness and heat in the large intestine.

This prescription clears away heat without causing dryness and dampness, and does not cause damage to Yin fluid. It is specially designed to solve the problem of pure dampness and heat.

Many patients with recurring urinary tract infections, as well as patients with chronic prostatitis, as well as those with pelvic inflammatory disease and damp-heat accumulation, use Bazheng Powder in a short period of time under the guidance of a doctor. The burning sensation during urination and the distension of the lower abdomen can be quickly relieved.

The two cannot be mixed, and the order of complex physiques is important.

The most important thing to be vigilant about is that the two types of moist heat cannot be used in reverse.

Choosing cold and cool prescriptions to clear the lower Jiao to regulate dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach will further damage the Yang Qi of the spleen and stomach. Using prescriptions to strengthen the spleen and stomach to cope with the dampness and heat will not relieve the blockage of the lower Jiao.

There are also people who belong to the upper and lower combination type: they have stomach bloating, bitter mouth, and yellow urine and vaginal itching.

At this point, it is absolutely taboo to take two kinds of medicine at the same time. The correct sequence is to condition the middle burner first, and then clean the lower burner.

By opening up the spleen and stomach qi and restoring water-liquid metabolism to normal, dampness and heat in the lower burner will not breed repeatedly.

Banxia Xiexin Decoction, which has a long-lasting effect, takes into account the key points of strengthening the spleen and strengthening the essence; Bazheng Powder, which mainly clears diarrhea and removes evil, needs to be stopped after the symptoms are relieved, and attention must be paid to the maintenance of the spleen and stomach in the later period.

Conditions such as dampness and heat, which fall under the category of chronic constitution, are accompanied by severe digestive abnormalities or metabolic disorders for a long time. At the same time, it is necessary to seek professional TCM doctors for syndrome differentiation in a timely manner, and it is absolutely forbidden to take medicines on your own for a long time.

Get rid of those living habits that will cause damage to the spleen and stomach and cause dampness and heat to breed, and gradually restore the internal organs' own transportation and transformation capabilities. Only in this way can we effectively get rid of the troubles and entanglements of dampness and heat.