Introduction: What's good for detoxifying and removing dampness? In southern China, the climate is quite humid, and excessive dampness in the body can affect health. Therefore, dietary dampness removal is extremely important. Here, the editor has brought you 10 foods to eat for detoxifying and removing dampness. Come and take a look!
1 Brown Rice
Brown rice is whole rice that retains the bran. It is a "light yellow rice" where only the coarse husk is removed from the paddy rice, keeping the germ and inner skin. The phosphorus content in brown rice is 7 times that of white rice, and its variety of B vitamins is incomparable to white rice. Brown rice is a treasure trove of vitamin B complexes, which is very beneficial for human health.
Brown rice is rich in fiber, has water-absorbing and fat-absorbing properties, and provides a significant sense of satiety. It can regulate the intestines and promote bowel movements, aiding in detoxification. The trace elements in brown rice help improve insulin sensitivity, making it very helpful for people with impaired glucose tolerance. Brown rice also has the effect of binding and decomposing radioactive substances such as pesticides, thus effectively preventing the body from absorbing harmful substances and achieving an anti-cancer effect.
How to cook brown rice: There are many ways to cook brown rice. You can make beauty-slimming Genmaicha tea, or brown rice and sweet potato porridge, brown rice, corn, and spare ribs soup, etc. Soak the brown rice in water for one day (two days in winter), then steam it in a steamer for 30 minutes, and finally cook it in an electric cooker. The brown rice cooked this way is delicious and retains the most nutritional value. Alternatively, eating a bowl of brown rice porridge or a cup of brown rice soy milk for breakfast every day is also a good way to detoxify.
Seafood Black Fungus and Brown Rice Porridge
2 Red Beans
Red beans nourish the heart. It has been believed since ancient times that if heart fire is excessive, it can easily trigger symptoms like mouth sores, carbuncles, dizziness, palpitations, and irritability. Red beans have the effects of clearing heat and removing dampness, reducing swelling and detoxifying, nourishing the blood and calming the mind. Therefore, people often cook red bean or mung bean soup in the summer to relieve heat, which is for this reason.
Red beans can also increase intestinal peristalsis, reduce constipation, and promote urination. You can soak red beans in an electric cooker before going to bed, and the next day, drink the sugar-free red bean water as plain water to effectively promote detoxification.
Red Bean and Coix Seed Soy Milk
3 Carrot
The spleen is associated with damp earth and prefers dryness over dampness. Excessive dampness can lead to a deficient spleen, and a deficient spleen can also generate dampness, often in a vicious cycle. Due to spleen deficiency and impaired transportation, water and dampness accumulate, which is often a condition of deficiency in the root and excess in the branches. For those with a primary deficiency, treatment should focus on strengthening the spleen, with dampness removal as an auxiliary. For those with primary excess, the focus should be on removing dampness, with spleen activation as a supplement.
Carrot is a food that tonifies the spleen and qi, awakens the spleen, stimulates the appetite, and aids digestion. Therefore, people with heavy dampness can eat carrots appropriately.
Moreover, carrots are very helpful for improving constipation and are rich in beta-carotene, which can neutralize toxins. Fresh carrots have a better detoxifying effect because they can clear heat and detoxify, moisten the intestines and promote bowel movements. Blend it into a juice and add honey and lemon juice; it's delicious, quenching thirst, and also beneficial for detoxification.
Carrot Rice Paste
4 Sweet Potato
The fiber in sweet potatoes is soft and easy to digest, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and aid bowel movements. It is also rich in vitamins, helping to balance nutrition. There are many ways to cook sweet potatoes. Here are a few of the simplest methods.
① Steaming/Boiling Method: Wash the mud off the sweet potatoes, do not peel them, place them in a pressure cooker or rice cooker with an appropriate amount of water, and cook until done. You can also steam them together with rice to be eaten as a staple food.
② Sweet Potato Porridge: Peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into chunks. Wash the rice and set aside. Put the rice in a pot, add water, add the sweet potatoes, and simmer for 1 hour after the water comes to a boil.
③ Baked Sweet Potato: To bake a sweet potato, you only need an oven or a microwave. Wash the sweet potato, do not peel it. For the microwave, do not dry it, wrap it in some kitchen paper, and cook on high power. For the oven, dry the moisture, place it on a baking sheet, and bake in a preheated oven. Remember to turn it over to ensure all sides are cooked.
Taro and Sweet Potato Porridge
5 Chinese Yam
Chinese yam is sweet and neutral in nature, with the effects of tonifying the spleen and nourishing the stomach, promoting the production of body fluids and benefiting the lungs, and nourishing the kidneys and securing essence. It is used for spleen deficiency with poor appetite, chronic diarrhea, lung deficiency with coughing, kidney deficiency with spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, frequent urination, and deficient-heat thirst. Chinese yam can remove dampness, which is recorded in the oldest existing pharmacopoeia in China, the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing". The most famous physician of the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xichun, held this medicine in high regard. In his medical monograph "Yi Xue Zhong Can Xi Lu", it states: "The nature of Chinese yam can both nourish yin and promote urination, and can be both lubricating and astringent. Therefore, it can tonify the lungs, tonify the kidneys, and also tonify the spleen and stomach."
Chinese yam can regulate the digestive system, reduce subcutaneous fat deposition, prevent obesity, and increase immune function. The detoxification effect is best when eaten raw. You can peel a white Chinese yam and pineapple, cut them into small pieces, and blend them into a juice together, which has the function of strengthening the stomach and regulating the intestines.
Chinese Yam, Corn, and Pork Bone Soup