Interviewed expert: Chen Guanghui, Chief Pharmacist, Department of Pharmacy, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
It is said that Guangzhou will experience continuous rain for the next ten days. Chen Guanghui, deputy chief pharmacist of the Department of Pharmacy at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, said that the high humidity in spring makes the body susceptible to dampness when the body's yang energy is insufficient. This can lead to spleen dysfunction, resulting in problems such as drowsiness, lack of energy, fatigue, and itchy skin. "Spring fatigue" is also known as "dampness fatigue." Feeling uncomfortable all over in dampness can be a good way to combat this problem. Trendy men and women might consider making a dampness-removing and spleen-strengthening soup.
Here's a soup for you to dispel dampness and strengthen the spleen, suitable for all ages.
Soup recipe: 30 grams each of Smilax glabra, Bombax ceiba, Coix lacryma-jobi, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Dolichos lablab. Simmer with lean pork for about an hour and a half, then add salt. This recipe is inexpensive and easy to buy, making it suitable for the whole family.
Smilax glabra
Properties and Channels Entered: Sweet, bland, neutral. Enters the Liver and Stomach channels.
Efficacy: Removes dampness, detoxifies, and promotes joint mobility.
Indications: Damp-heat strangury, leukorrhea, carbuncles, scrofula, scabies, syphilis, and limb contractures and muscle and bone pain caused by mercury poisoning.
Note: Avoid taking this medicine while drinking tea. Do not take it if you have liver or kidney yin deficiency.
Kapok flower
Properties and Channels Entered: Sweet, Cool. Enters the Spleen and Liver channels.
Efficacy: Clears heat from the large intestine meridian; promotes diuresis, detoxifies, and stops bleeding.
Indications: Treats diarrhea, dysentery, metrorrhagia, carbuncles, and bleeding from wounds.
Note: People with weak spleen and stomach should use with caution.
Job's tears
Properties and Channels Entered: Sweet, bland, and cool. Enters the spleen, stomach, and lung channels.
Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness, relieves numbness and stops diarrhea, clears heat and drains pus.
Indications: Edema, beriberi, dysuria, damp-heat arthralgia with contractures, spleen deficiency diarrhea, lung abscess, intestinal abscess; flat warts.
Note: This product should be used with caution by those with spleen deficiency and dryness, constipation, and pregnant women.
Atractylodes macrocephala
Properties and Channels Entered: Bitter, sweet, warm. Enters the spleen and stomach channels.
Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and replenishes qi, dries dampness and promotes diuresis, stops sweating, and calms the fetus.
Indications: Spleen deficiency with poor appetite, abdominal distension and diarrhea, phlegm retention with dizziness and palpitations, edema, spontaneous sweating, and threatened abortion. Atractylodes macrocephala (soil-processed) strengthens the spleen, harmonizes the stomach, and calms the fetus. Used for spleen deficiency with poor appetite, loose stools, and threatened abortion.
Note: This product is contraindicated for those with yin deficiency and thirst, or qi stagnation and abdominal distension.
Lentils
Properties and Channels Entered: Sweet, neutral. Enters the spleen and stomach channels.
Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, relieves summer heat and eliminates dampness.
Indications: Summer heat and dampness causing vomiting and diarrhea, spleen deficiency causing nausea and vomiting, poor appetite and chronic diarrhea, water retention causing thirst, leukorrhea, and infantile malnutrition.
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