If you love eating salads to lose weight in the summer, be careful that it will lower your metabolism! Traditional Chinese Medicine: Avoid 4 major landmines when losing weight, and press 3 major acupoints to eliminate edema

Someone described it as: "Spring is the season for love, and summer is the season for weight loss." Now it is the hot summer, and many people have started to travel outdoors as the epidemic has gradually eased and they have resumed their normal social life. However, they found that the belly and butterfly sleeves accumulated on their bodies due to staying at home for epidemic prevention are lingering and very troublesome. What should you do if you want to lose weight quickly and effectively? You may want to ask a Chinese medicine doctor for help. In addition to medicated diet, tea, scraping and cupping, you can also use electroacupuncture or thread embedding to treat common obesity areas such as the abdomen, arms, thighs, and frequently press the three major acupoints that reduce edema and promote metabolism for better results.

Summer is a good time to lose weight. As long as you eat the right diet, exercise, avoid bad weight loss behaviors, and seek help from traditional Chinese medicine, you can lose weight healthily and beautifully. There are advantages to losing weight in the summer. The sunshine hours are long in the summer, and people are more willing to move and exercise. In addition, the hot temperature can easily cause a decrease in appetite, and people are less likely to eat and drink too much, which increases the body's excess heat burden.

[Four major landmines to avoid in summer weight loss]

Nevertheless, Chinese medicine practitioner Kang Hanjing reminds us that there are some landmines that should be avoided when losing weight in the summer:

1. Not drinking enough water

Normally, the recommended daily water intake for adults is body weight multiplied by 30 ml. If you sweat a lot in the hot summer, you should add more water to your diet. However, many people forget to drink water because of their busy work. If they do not drink enough water, it may not only cause the blood in the body to become thick and increase the risk of blood clots, but may also cause urinary tract infections or kidney damage.

The timing of drinking water is also very important. Drinking a glass of water first thing in the morning can promote gastrointestinal motility and help defecation. You can also drink 300-500c.c. of water before meals to increase satiety and reduce subsequent food intake. Chinese medicine practitioner Kang Hanjing added that if you want to further enhance the effect of suppressing appetite, you can brew "lotus leaf tea"; lotus leaves are sweet and cold in nature, and can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also have the effect of diuresis and lipid-lowering.

●How to brew: Wash a lotus leaf, cut it into small pieces and put it in a cup. Then add hot water and simmer for 5-10 minutes before drinking.

2. Overeating raw, cold or heavy-tasting food

In the hot summer, people may want to eat raw and cold foods, such as sashimi, salads, and iced drinks, but this kind of eating habits can easily damage the spleen yang in the human body. The main function of the spleen in traditional Chinese medicine theory is to control the digestion of food and the transportation of water and moisture. If you often eat raw and cold food, it will easily reduce the metabolic rate and cause bloating or edema. In addition, if you add too much seasoning to stimulate your appetite due to lack of appetite and consume too much sodium, it will also cause water retention in the body and produce edema.

Clinically, for those patients who suffer from edema due to raw and cold diet, Lizhong Decoction or Dajianzhong Decoction can be prescribed with the addition of drugs such as Poria cocos and dried tangerine peel to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and increase the body's metabolic rate.

Chinese medicine practitioner Kang Hanjing recommends choosing fruits such as apples, guava, kiwi, grapefruit, etc., and try not to make them into juice for drinking, otherwise blood sugar will rise quickly.

3. Eat fruit as a meal

Taiwan is a kingdom of fruits. Mangoes and lychees, which are abundant in summer, are high in sweetness. If you consume too much high-sweetness fruit, it may cause high triglycerides in your body. Chinese medicine practitioner Kang Hanjing recommends choosing fruits such as apples, guava, kiwi, grapefruit, etc., and try not to make them into juice for drinking, otherwise blood sugar will rise quickly.

The best time to eat fruit is between meals. Never eat fruit to replace regular meals. Otherwise, you will lack fat and protein nutrition in the long run. Although you will lose weight, you will lose muscle, which is not worth the loss. If you accidentally eat too much fruit and your body becomes inflamed, you can boil "watermelon rind water" to clear away heat and detoxify. The green rind of watermelon refers to the white flesh between the red flesh and the rind of the watermelon. It can not only clear away summer heat, but also reduce fat accumulation, and can also reduce swelling and promote diuresis.

●How to make tea: Cut the watermelon rind into dices, add into boiling water and simmer for 10 minutes, then let it cool and drink.

4. Wrong exercise time and method

If you want to lose weight without gaining weight again, you must do regular exercise. Chinese medicine practitioner Kang Hanjing reminds us that sweating more is not necessarily better. Remember to avoid times when ultraviolet rays are too strong to prevent excessive sweating that may lead to gas loss through sweat. Also, do not exercise in an overly hot environment as this may make you more susceptible to heatstroke. It is recommended that people can use the time in the morning or afternoon after the sun sets to do moderate aerobic exercise.

If you are a patient with qi deficiency who sweats excessively after a little exercise, you can drink "Shengmai Yin" to replenish qi and produce body fluids, relieve fatigue and improve exercise performance. For patients who have difficulty sweating no matter how they move, scraping or cupping can be used to dissolve qi stagnation and blood stasis at the back acupoints to achieve normal sweating and metabolism.

For overweight people who want to be slim and beautiful in the summer, in addition to taking the above-mentioned medications, drinking teas, scraping and cupping, they can also perform electroacupuncture or thread embedding on common obesity areas such as the abdomen, arms, and thighs. The effect will be better if they adjust the body constitution and body shape together.

3 major acupoints to suppress appetite and help defecation

Finally, Chinese medicine practitioner Kang Hanjing recommends that people frequently massage the following three acupoints, which can help remove dampness, suppress appetite and help defecation:

1. Yinlingquan Point:

Location: Inside the calf, in the depression on the inside of the tibia below the knee.

Efficacy: Helps expel dampness and eliminate edema.

2. Hunger point:

** Location: Midway between the tragus and the end of the helix.

Effect: Suppress appetite and reduce hunger.

3. Tianshu Point: **

Location: 2 thumb widths to the left and right of the navel.

Efficacy: Helps defecation and accelerates metabolism.