The best way to eliminate edema! Female Chinese Medicine Practitioner's Private Slimming Tea

Are you prone to edema? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that people who are prone to edema tend to have damp-heat in the spleen and stomach. The stomach heat is difficult to cool down, which leads to an excessive appetite and a distorted figure. If you want to lose weight healthily and eliminate edema, the first thing to do is to clear away heat and dampness. You can also prepare homemade swelling-reducing and slimming tea with coix seed, poria cocos, red dates, etc.

If you want to reduce edema and lose weight, you can drink more anti-edema and slimming tea.

Big appetite is caused by "excessive stomach fire"

Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Wenxin said that people who like to eat ice cream and cold foods should be careful, as the most direct damage is to the spleen and stomach functions. Chinese medicine believes that "if the spleen fails to function properly, dampness will be generated from within." When the spleen and stomach function abnormally, the spleen begins to spread water, and even the diuretic function is weakened, which will cause "water dampness" and make people swollen and obese. In the long run, it will also damage the yang energy of the internal organs and reduce the body's metabolic circulation functions.

In addition, being fond of spicy, fried, grilled and other heavy-tasting foods will cause "stomach fire". Chinese medicine believes that "stomach heat can digest food", which means that the greater the stomach fire, the easier it is to be hungry, eat more, and lose control of appetite, leading to overeating. The repeated cycle of improper spleen and stomach function and difficulty in reducing stomach fire will develop a damp-heat constitution in the spleen and stomach, making it more difficult to lose weight.

Doctor Zhang Wenxin recommends that people with damp-heat constitution in the spleen and stomach should eat less ice cream, raw and cold foods such as watermelon, pear, orange, pomelo, grapefruit, coconut, dragon fruit, banana, aloe vera, stone lotus, sashimi, etc. Spicy, fried and grilled foods should never be touched. In addition to drinking more water, she recommends her own homemade tea - detumescence and slimming tea, which can "cool down" the stomach and intestines and reduce swelling.

Anti-swelling and slimming tea

[Materials]: Prepare half a cup of coix seed, 2 cents of Poria cocos, and 5 seeded red dates.

[Preparation]: First wash the coix seeds and soak them until soft (you can soak them in hot water for 1 hour, or in cold water for the whole night or at least 5 hours); put the coix seeds, poria cocos and red dates into a pot, add water to 1500 cc and boil, then turn to low heat and cook for 30 minutes until the coix seeds are soft.

Ingredients of anti-swelling and slimming tea. (Photography by Huang Zilun)

Dr. Zhang Wenxin added that coix seed can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, clear away heat and discharge pus, while Poria cocos can strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote diuresis and eliminate dampness, and red dates can replenish qi and nourish blood, and beautify the skin. For those who want to actively control their weight, it is not advisable to add sugar, and only drink the boiled water, or eat starches such as Poria cocos and coix seed for breakfast.