Night owls tend to gain weight! Drink slimming tea to reduce edema

The night is more beautiful? For obese people, being a night owl for a long time will make them fatter, and may even induce recurrent attacks of diseases such as urticaria and eczema, endangering their physical and mental health. A man in his 20s worked late night shifts in a KTV for a long time, which resulted in a reversed day and night schedule, endocrine system disorders, and abnormal liver detoxification function. He repeatedly suffered from severe urticaria and general edema. It was not until he received Chinese medicine treatment that his urticaria was under stable control within 2 months and he unexpectedly lost 5 kilograms.

Night owls are puffy and fat, drink tea to prevent systemic edema

Many people mistakenly believe that young and middle-aged people have good physical strength and good metabolism, and can afford to work long night shifts without causing major impacts on their health. However, the results of many medical studies have shown that long-term night shift work, especially shift work, will increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, asthma, gastrointestinal dysfunction, reproductive dysfunction and other diseases. The most obvious feeling for night owls is "getting fat."

Chinese medicine practitioner Huang Huijuan said that most office workers suffer from obesity due to abdominal fat accumulation due to drinking at social gatherings. However, night shift workers have a reversed day and night schedule, eat only one or two meals a day at most, and generally lack exercise. Even if they sleep for a full eight hours a day, they are easily affected by the noisy environment around them during the day. Poor sleep quality can easily lead to physiological disorders in the long run, and an imbalance in the body's water regulation. The body is dehydrated but water is retained on the surface of the body, forming systemic edema and appearing obese.

In order to earn a living, many people have to work night shifts. How can we prevent systemic edema caused by reversing day and night sleep patterns? Chinese medicine practitioner Huang Huijuan suggests taking 2 qian of angelica sinensis, 2 qian of raw rehmannia, 3 qian of artemisia capillaris, 1 qian of ophiopogon japonicus, and 1 qian of Scrophularia ningpoensis, and boiling them with 1000cc of boiling water to make a "slimming and swelling-reducing tea". Drinking it every day can replenish blood, nourish the body, relieve liver fire, improve blood heat and blood dryness, improve sleep quality, and improve edema and puffiness caused by "wrong sleeping time". This tea can be consumed on an empty stomach, but should be avoided 2 hours before bedtime.

Day and night reversed! Night owls are prone to acute urticaria

In addition to edema and puffiness, long-term night work may endanger health. Clinical pulse diagnosis often shows a stringy pulse and abnormal liver detoxification function. It is easy to be affected by personal constitution, surrounding environment and eating habits, leading to repeated attacks of urticaria, eczema or keloid.

The eczema attacks of night owls are closely related to physical constitution, humid air, and a diet high in sugar, oil, protein, and seafood. Keloid pedis is often caused by working at night and lack of exercise during the day, which leads to poor blood circulation, poor metabolism, and blood stasis. In addition, the poor detoxification function of the liver meridian triggers an allergic reaction.

It is worth noting that people who work night shifts for a long time are more likely to develop urticaria than eczema or keloid. Chinese medicine practitioner Huang Huijuan said that working late at night for a long time will cause the depletion of kidney qi, resulting in blood deficiency and inducing urticaria. During acute attacks, Longdan Xiegan Decoction can be prescribed with modifications depending on the individual's constitution and symptoms to help clear away heat and detoxify and stabilize the condition.

Drugs to relieve urticaria, promote sleep and reduce swelling

Once the urticaria condition is under stable control and turns into a chronic condition, Chinese medicine conditioning will change to focus on blood tonification, and then depending on the syndrome type, herbs with detoxification or wind-proof functions will be used.

If urticaria presents with large areas of redness and swelling, obvious edema of the rash, and is prone to occur at night, it is usually a chronic urticaria of the blood-heat type. Clinically, it is often treated with "warm and clear drinks" composed of blood-tonifying and detoxifying herbs such as raw rehmannia, angelica, yellow celery, and coptis chinensis to help regulate the body and reduce the problems caused by urticaria, such as red and itchy skin, and edema caused by poor sleep.

Another type of urticaria has papules that are light red and not too swollen, but extremely itchy. This is the blood dryness type of urticaria, and can be treated with "Xiaofengsan", which uses herbs such as angelica, rehmannia, silkworm, and cicada shell to replenish blood and prevent wind, relieve skin discomfort, and improve sleep quality, physical condition, and obesity.

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