Heavy and light rain falls incessantly, the moisture in the air becomes heavy, and people feel tired and have no appetite. At this time, it is important to expel dampness from the body. To remove dampness, you can eat some dampness-eliminating foods...
Mung Bean:
It is the most common food for clearing heat and detoxifying, and also has the effects of lowering lipids and protecting the liver. It is a natural remedy for people with a damp-heat constitution.
Coad Rice (Job's Tears):
It is a mild product for clearing heat and removing dampness. Traditional Chinese medicine often uses it to treat splenic deficiency with diarrhea, soreness and heaviness of muscles, joint pain, edema, and beriberi.
Red Bean:
It is an excellent product for promoting urination, reducing swelling, and clearing heat. It is especially suitable for summer consumption, as it can dissipate heat and dampness, nourish the heart and spleen, and benefit the liver and kidneys.
Cucumber:
It can clear heat and detoxify, promote the production of body fluids to quench thirst, and is rich in various vitamins and fiber, making it a rare detoxifying food. Cucumber can also promote metabolism, whiten the skin, and inhibit fat formation.
Bitter Melon:
It has the effects of cooling and quenching thirst, clearing heat and detoxifying, calming the mind and brightening the eyes, replenishing qi to relieve fatigue, and benefiting the kidneys to promote urination. Bitter melon contains various vitamins and minerals, and has special ingredients for clearing fat and losing weight, which can accelerate detoxification. According to research, it also has good effects of lowering blood sugar, antiviral, and anti-cancer.
Winter Melon:
It has the effects of promoting urination to resolve phlegm, clearing heat, and detoxifying. People with a damp-heat constitution can consume it if they have edema, bloating, excessive phlegm, summer heat and vexation, thirst, eczema, or carbuncles, and it can also relieve alcohol intoxication.
Celery:
It can clear liver heat and nourish blood. In addition, celery also has the effects of clearing stomach heat, promoting blood circulation, strengthening teeth and moistening the throat, brightening the eyes and refreshing the mind, and moistening the lungs to stop cough. Therefore, people with a damp-heat constitution who have internal heat, poor appetite, and fatigue and weakness can often eat it.
Imperata Cylindrica Rhizome (Cogon Grass Rhizome):
It is sweet and cold in nature, and affects the lung, stomach, and bladder meridians. It has the effects of cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing heat to promote urination, and clearing lung and stomach heat. It can be used for stomach heat and discomfort, nausea, lung heat with cough and asthma, heart vexation, bitter taste, thirst, and gum bleeding. Its effects of clearing heat, promoting urination, and detoxifying are relatively mild. In addition to people with a damp-heat constitution, it is also suitable for the general public to consume on hot, humid summer days.
Lotus Leaf:
It has the effects of clearing summer heat and promoting urination, raising clear yang, and cooling blood to stop bleeding. Modern research shows that lotus leaf also has the effect of lowering blood lipids, so many weight loss, lipid-lowering, and acne-removing products contain lotus leaf.
Kale:
It has the effects of promoting urination to resolve phlegm, detoxifying and expelling wind, eliminating summer heat and clearing heat, relieving fatigue, and calming the mind and brightening the eyes. It can moisten the intestines to expel heat, lower deficient fire, and stop gum bleeding. It also has auxiliary therapeutic effects for those with heavy stomach heat, staying up late and insomnia, rising deficient fire, and swollen and bleeding gums.