The moisture in the body is heavy, how to eat the most dehumidification of barley? How long should I eat continuously to remove dampness?

When you hear about dehumidification, you should think of barley, which is a kind of food with the same origin of medicine and food. the most common way to dehumidify with barley is to eat "red bean barley porridge", so how to eat the most dehumidification? How long does it take to remove dampness?

First, a brief introduction to barley

Coix rice, also known as Coix seed and six millet, is a variety of Coix, with cool nature, light taste and high nutritional value, so it is known as "the king of Gramineae plants in the world". Barley contains starch, for food or wine, although it is a cereal, but its fat and protein content is high, and easy metabolism, so eat too much will not have the worry of getting fat. Chinese medicine records barley slightly cold, sweet, function of clearing heat and dampness, invigorating the spleen, the main treatment of edema beriberi, rheumatism, diarrhea, intestinal carbuncle, lung carbuncle and so on.

Second, how to judge whether your body has moisture or not?

1. The edge of the tongue is serrated and the tongue coating is white and thick.

2. it is easy to have diarrhea, the stool is not shaped, and it is not easy to wash it off.

3. Poor appetite, poor mental state, poor sleep quality, easy chest tightness

4. Oily hair, dark face in the morning, puffy eyelids and dark circles under the eyes

5. Easy to dropsy and puffy.

If you meet the above conditions, then you should pay attention to whether the body has moisture, then you need to take dietotherapy to remove dampness.

Third, how to eat the most dehumidifying barley?

Nowadays, due to some reasons of daily routine and environment, our dampness is heavy, so that our spleen and stomach are not good, and when we have symptoms such as loss of appetite, indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea and so on, we can use the following methods to dispel dampness:

1. Drink cooked barley in water.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, barley rice is cold, tastes sweet, belongs to the meridians of spleen, lung and kidney, can benefit water, dehumidification, invigorate the spleen, and the quality of raw barley is cool. often cooking and drinking is easy to hurt the body, but fried barley is much milder, heat the pot over low heat, put no oil in the pan, put in clean barley, stir-fry over low heat until the epidermis is yellowish and bulge (about 1 hour). Put it in a sealed container and store it. Cooked barley can be fried by yourself, or you can buy it from a traditional Chinese medicine store.

Practice: about 15 grams of fried barley rice soak in 300 milliliters of water, soak before going to bed every night, get up the next morning to add some boiled water, drink on an empty stomach.

2. Red bean porridge with barley rice

Barley rice and red beans are common ingredients, but at least 90% of people don't know how to eat them to help the body reduce moisture. The red beans that can remove dampness here refer to adzuki beans, not adzuki beans, which are common in supermarkets; barley refers to cooked rice that has been baked or fried, and the two ingredients can be boiled together to achieve the effect of removing dampness.

Ingredients: barley, Euryale seed, adzuki bean, rock sugar

Practice: adzuki bean, barley seed, Euryale seed is very difficult to boil, it is best to soak in hot water for an hour before cooking, and finally add the right amount of sugar can be eaten.

I would like to remind you that not everyone is suitable to drink red bean barley porridge. Too much turbid gas in the body, renal edema, cardiac edema, cirrhotic ascites, malnutrition edema and obesity should be avoided. Pregnant women and menstrual women should avoid eating.

Fourth, how long does the barley continue to eat to remove dampness?

Barley has a very good effect on dehumidification. In general, there will be an increase in urine after eating for a period of time. Slowly, you will find that the moisture in the body is gradually discharged, and the body will feel very relaxed. 28 days is a cycle. If you want to remove dampness faster, you might as well cooperate with other ways, such as exercise, moxibustion and cupping (not frequently, once a week), massage acupoints, and so on.

Can I drink rice porridge with red beans every day?

Although barley rice red bean porridge is dehumidified, we should also pay attention to the fact that barley rice cannot be drunk every day, generally eating about 3 times a week for a continuous month; do not eat too much at once, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea; it is not suitable to eat on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning.

Conclusion: although Coix barley is rich in nutrition and has a good effect of removing dampness, it is also necessary to use cooked barley to dispel dampness, and it is not suitable for long-term consumption, general physical deficiency cold, irregular menstruation, pregnant women and menstrual women had better not eat.