Eating ice in winter can easily cause edema. Here are three acupoints to help with drainage.

The temperature in winter is changeable. After several days of low temperatures, the sun often shines brightly, allowing many people to feast on ice cream and cold drinks and enjoy the pleasure of eating ice. However, Chinese medicine practitioners remind us that eating cold food frequently can easily lead to spleen deficiency and edema-type obesity. If you want to avoid a bloated figure, your daily diet should focus on "heat". You can also massage acupoints to promote water metabolism.

Eating cold food frequently can easily cause temper disorders, affect the metabolism of water in the body, and lead to edema-type obesity.

Edema type obesity constitution is mostly spleen deficiency

Zhang Jiabei, a part-time Chinese medicine practitioner at Cathay Hospital's Postpartum Care Home, said that according to Chinese medicine theory, edema-type obesity is mostly caused by spleen deficiency. Patients lack yang energy in the spleen and have abnormal water metabolism, which causes moisture and water accumulation in the body. Edema is particularly likely to appear in the waist and abdomen.

The spleen is an important organ for the human body to metabolize water. Eating raw, cold or sweet and greasy food frequently will cause a weak spleen and destroy the efficiency of water metabolism. Chinese medicine practitioners remind that people with edema-type obesity due to spleen deficiency should avoid eating sashimi, lettuce salad and other cold raw foods. Women should also eat less sweet and greasy foods such as root vegetables, starchy foods, thickened foods, and sugary foods before and after menstruation.

Eliminate edema, heat-related food, replenish yang energy and promote metabolism

Foods that reduce edema should be mainly "hot ingredients". In daily diet, you can use more natural spices such as onions, ginger, and garlic to season your diet, which will help increase the spleen's yang energy and promote metabolism. In addition, as winter is about to turn into spring, people with edema-type obesity can stir-fry ginger with sesame oil, add mutton and mushrooms and other foods containing high-quality protein to cook into mutton hotpot as a winter health care diet recipe.

People who are prone to edema-type obesity can consume more natural spices such as ginger and garlic to help enhance the spleen's yang energy and facilitate water metabolism.

Foods containing high-quality protein, such as beef, pork or lamb, can not only enhance the body's yang energy, but also adjust the endocrine system. They are important nutrients that promote normal water metabolism.

[Say goodbye to edema-type obesity and press 3 acupoints to drain water]

In clinical treatment, Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Jiabei said that in addition to using Chinese medicine prescriptions such as "Zhenwu Decoction" to regulate the physical constitution, acupuncture and navel fumigation are most effective in metabolizing water, but this type of treatment needs to be performed by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner. It is recommended that the public can instead use massage of the spleen meridian-related acupoints as a daily health care method to prevent edema.

1. Zusanli Point: Located in the groove 3 inches below the kneecap and about 4 finger widths away.

2. Sanyinjiao Point: Located 3 inches above the tip of the inner ankle of the calf, about 4 finger widths away, behind the inner edge of the tibia.

3. Guanyuan Point: 3 inches below the navel, about 4 fingers wide.

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