Eating too much salt during the Mid-Autumn Festival causes edema? Hawthorn and Astragalus Drink can help improve

Eating barbecue, moon cakes and grapefruit is the most appropriate food to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, Chinese medicine practitioners say that these are mostly high-calorie, high-fat and heavy-tasting foods. If consumed in large quantities without restraint, they may lead to obesity, edema and other post-Autumn Festival sequelae, which may distort your slim figure. It is recommended to drink Chinese medicine red tea or hawthorn and astragalus drink to improve the condition.

Wu Mingzhu, director of the Chinese Society of Gynecology and a practicing Chinese medicine practitioner, pointed out that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when a few close friends get together to chat and talk, the lively and joyful atmosphere often whets their appetites, and they accidentally eat too much high-calorie, high-fat, heavy-tasting food such as barbecue, moon cakes, grapefruit, and beer, causing problems such as obesity and edema. Many people even gain 2 kilograms in just three days of holiday.

What can we do to eliminate and improve the sequelae of overeating, not restraining diet, excessive intake of salt and sodium during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and avoid showing our fat belly and swollen calves? To help you solve the above problems, Dr. Wu Mingzhu has designed two teas that help promote metabolism, moisturize the intestines, and improve edema problems, and provides them to friends in need:

★Red tea

Ingredients: 3 roselle flowers, 3 qian of mulberry leaves, 5 qian of cassia seeds, 3 qian of capillaris, 2000cc of water.

Method: Rinse the Chinese medicine quickly, put it into a casserole, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer for 10-15 minutes over low heat. When the flavor comes out, turn off the heat and drink.

Effect: This tea helps to moisten the intestines, cleanse the liver, promote bile secretion, and promote metabolism. It can be drunk as tea for those who have constipation problems due to eating too many moon cakes and barbecues during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

★Hawthorn and Astragalus Drink

Ingredients: 3 qian of Astragalus, 3 qian of Red Bean, 5 qian of Poria, 3 qian of Hawthorn, 1500cc of water.

Method: Rinse the above herbs quickly, put them into a casserole, add water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 10-15 minutes until the flavor comes out, then turn off the heat and drink.

Applicable: It can be used by people of general physical condition, especially for those who have eaten too much heavy-tasting food during the Mid-Autumn Festival and have lower limb edema.

Ear acupuncture massage helps to suppress appetite and prevent weight gain

In addition to drinking tea to help metabolism and eliminate edema, if you want to successfully get rid of the belly and fat brought on by the autumn festival, it is even more important to control your diet and calories afterwards. But for many people, controlling appetite is not easy. Is there any way to help improve it? In this regard, Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu pointed out that ear canal acupoint massage is a very good way, and the method is simple and can be easily performed.

[2 tips for ear acupoint massage to help improve]:

1. When you can't resist the urge to eat, use your fingernails or fingertips to rotate vigorously in the depression in front of your ear, which is the hunger point.

2. At the same time, place your thumb behind your ear and your index finger inside your ear, pinch the Shenmen acupoint tightly and rotate it to massage, which can effectively suppress your appetite.