In the past, we rarely paid attention to spleen deficiency, but in recent years, with the development of society and changes in lifestyle, spleen deficiency has increasingly appeared in our lives. So, what are the differences between dampness and coldness in the body, and what is the best food for those who are cold and overweight? Below, the editor will introduce you to these questions.

Table of Contents:

1、What are the differences between dampness and coldness in the body?

2、How can you determine if there is dampness in your body?

3、What is the best food for those who are cold and overweight?

What are the differences between dampness and coldness in the body?

Dampness and coldness in the body have both differences and commonalities.

Dampness refers to the spleen's failure to transform and transport, with dampness existing in the body. Dampness is divided into external dampness and internal dampness. External dampness is mostly caused by the external environment, such as rainwater, fog, puddles, and working in damp environments, including not drying off quickly after bathing or washing hair, allowing damp evil to invade the surface.

Internal dampness is mostly caused by irregular diet, damaging the spleen and stomach, leading to a decline in spleen yang, and abnormal transformation and transportation functions, with dampness arising internally, gathering and causing trouble, such as eating ice cream, drinking chilled beer, and ice water.

People with dampness often exhibit symptoms such as loose stools, general fatigue, heavy waist and legs, greasy hair, and acne on the face.

Coldness is mostly caused by kidney yang deficiency and is divided into external cold and internal cold. External cold is mostly caused by low temperatures in winter, of course, other seasons can also cause diseases due to sudden temperature drops.

Cold evil easily injures yang qi. When the body is invaded by cold evil, the external yang qi is blocked, leading to fear of cold and fever. After cold evil enters the body and lingers in the skin, meridians, and viscera, it causes poor blood circulation, leading to pain, and lingering in the stomach and intestines can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.

Internal cold, due to the prevalence of yin qi in the body, extreme yin generates coldness, leading to a preference for heat and fear of cold, cold hands and feet, reduced appetite, clear and long urine, abdominal pain, and intestinal rumbling, etc.

However, the two often combine to form a disease, with damp-cold manifesting as arthritis, back pain, periarthritis of the shoulder, bad breath, eczema, psoriasis, etc., and the face turns pale, dark, and black, the darker the color, the more severe the damp-cold in the body.

How can you determine if there is dampness in your body?

The most convenient way is to observe the stool. If the stool is not formed and has long-term diarrhea, there must be dampness in the body. If the stool is formed, but there is always some residue on the toilet bowl after defecation, which is difficult to flush away, it is also a sign of dampness in the body because dampness has a sticky characteristic.

If there is constipation and the stool is not formed, it indicates that the dampness in the body is very heavy. If you really don't want to observe the stool, you can stick out your tongue and observe the yellow and greasy appearance, which is a sign of dampness in the body. The more yellow or greasy it is, the more severe the damp evil.

Some people still feel very sleepy at seven o'clock in the morning when they should get up, feel that there is something wrapping around their heads, making them unable to refresh, or feel that there is something wrapping around their bodies, making them lazy and unwilling to move, which can also judge that the dampness in their body is very heavy. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that "dampness is heavy as if wrapped," and this wrapped feeling is the body's sensation of dampness, as if wearing a shirt that has been washed but not dried, so awkward.

What is the best food for those who are cold and overweight?

1、Eat more warm or neutral foods: such as yam, lotus seed, cabbage, sweet potato, milk, hawthorn, fungus, red dates, etc.;

2、Moderate cold foods: melons like wax gourd and sponge gourd have the effect of reducing edema, but they are too cold, and you can add some ginger to neutralize the cold properties;

3、Hot and cool balance: cook hot and cool foods together, or eat hot foods for one meal and cool foods for the next meal;

4、Drink Job's tears + mung bean + red bean water: Job's tears and mung beans have good diuretic effects, but they are also cold, and it is best to cook them with red beans (continue cooking for 30 minutes after boiling), and only drink the soup, do not eat the ingredients!

5、Mutton pot: cook mutton, angelica, and ginger slices together into a nourishing mutton pot, eat once a week, which has an effect on improving the cold constitution.