Eliminate edema and enjoy slim and beautiful legs with traditional Chinese medicine in 3 steps

Stress-induced obesity and edema make you fat, especially in your lower body? According to traditional Chinese medicine, if you like to drink cold drinks, have a big appetite, and often have bloating, you have a damp-heat constitution in the spleen and stomach and are more likely to become obese and suffer from edema. In addition, if you like to eat salty food, it will be more difficult for water to be excreted and it will accumulate in the lower body. In addition to diet control, it is recommended to use leg meridian tapping and acupoint massage to help you lose weight and have beautiful legs.

Zhang Wenxin, a beautiful Chinese medicine practitioner who is often invited to various programs, has spent a long time studying Chinese medicine weight loss methods. She mentioned that Chinese medicine believes that there are two common types of obesity. The first is stress obesity, which is caused by stress, fatigue, and prone to overeating; the second is edema obesity, which is caused by damp heat in the spleen and stomach and difficulty in metabolizing water, and is especially prone to accumulation in the lower body.

In addition to eating less kimchi, pickled vegetables, mustard, cheese, smoked ham, sausage, various pickled products, fermented tofu, fish floss, fish balls, meatballs, noodles, candied fruits, bean paste, sweet noodle sauce, ketchup, oyster sauce and other food sauces, you can eat more winter melon, ginger and other foods that induce sweating, remove dampness and reduce edema. To avoid swelling in the lower body, you can also tap and massage the Sanyinjiao and Yinlingquan acupoints on the leg meridians, and the effect is quite good!

Tip 1: Pat the liver meridian, spleen meridian, and kidney meridian

After taking a shower and applying lotion, you can cup your palms and tap and pat along the three meridians of the liver, spleen, and kidney in the calves three times each. Tapping can enhance blood circulation, promote metabolism, and eliminate leg edema and obesity. In addition, it is also very helpful in relieving leg soreness after a whole day at work. The feeling of patting should be mainly warm and swelling.

Tip 2: Massage Sanyinjiao acupoint

Sanyinjiao point is located 3 inches (about four finger widths) above the tip of the inner ankle, in the depression at the posterior edge of the tibia. It can promote blood circulation, improve lower limb edema. In addition, it can also beautify and anti-aging, regulate menstruation, improve gynecological diseases, and regulate hormone secretion. It is an important gynecological acupoint. It is recommended to press each acupoint alternately about 20 times after meridian tapping, especially for women who feel leg swelling in the afternoon.

Tip 3: Massage Yinlingquan Point

Yinlingquan acupoint belongs to the spleen meridian of foot Taiyin, located in the depression below and behind the medial condyle of the tibia. It can promote blood circulation and improve lower limb edema. In addition, it can also beautify and anti-aging, regulate menstruation, improve gynecological diseases, and is also very helpful to the digestive system. After tapping the meridians, press each acupoint alternately about 20 times.