My metabolism is too bad. I gain weight by drinking water and my face looks pale! Chinese medicine doctor: Drink this tea to lose weight and improve your complexion

Many people have small stomachs and do not eat much, but their bodies swell faster than big eaters. These people with a puffy physique generally have problems such as poor metabolism, inability to excrete excess water, insufficient calorie consumption, and a pale complexion. For this kind of physique, Chinese medicine is a good choice to regulate the body and help lose weight.

Drinking water makes you fat! Need to enhance metabolism

Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Zheming said that common weight loss methods are nothing more than dieting, diuretics, etc., which often cause muscle tissue to become less or dehydrated, and the basal metabolic rate becomes lower and lower. Although temporary weight loss results can be achieved, weight will return after a period of time. The lower the basal metabolic rate, the faster the weight rebounds, and there is even a phenomenon of "getting fat by drinking water".

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Obesity is divided into "excessive syndrome" and "deficient syndrome"

Traditional Chinese medicine divides obese people into two types of constitutions: "positive syndrome" and "negative syndrome". The former is mostly related to excessive food intake, while the latter is closely related to the body's own metabolic capacity, and is particularly prone to gaining weight without eating much.

Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Zheming believes that the basic principle of weight loss is that "calories consumed" are greater than "calories eaten". For obese people with poor metabolic capacity, in addition to moderate diet control, it is more important to increase energy and water consumption by improving metabolic capacity. How to enhance metabolism? Sports and tonic food and medicinal materials are both good choices.

"I get fat as soon as I drink water!" People with this type of puffy physique generally have problems such as poor metabolism, inability to excrete excess water in the body, insufficient calorie consumption, and a pale complexion.

Phlegm-dampness accumulation type obesity: Lotus leaf oolong tea helps to drain water

This type of obese people have abnormal water metabolism in the body, which causes water to accumulate in the body like phlegm and dampness. Clinically, they complain of edema and feel swollen, heavy and weak. Chinese medicine practitioners usually use drugs that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness to regulate and promote normal metabolism of water.

In terms of medicinal diet, you can cook Si Shen Soup (equal amounts of Poria cocos, Euryale ferox, lotus seeds and yam) to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. You can also add some hawthorn and tangerine peel to strengthen the gastrointestinal function. In addition, yam, poria cocos and coix seed porridge is also a good choice. Take 100 grams of fresh yam, 30 grams of coix seed and 15 grams of white poria cocos, add water and boil, take it once every 2 days, it can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, reduce fat and lose weight.

For health tea, you can grind 10 grams of hawthorn, 10 grams of tangerine peel, 30 grams of dried lotus leaves, and 30 grams of oolong tea, and brew them with hot water to make "lotus leaf oolong tea". You can also take 10 grams each of cassia seeds and hawthorn, and 5 grams of lotus leaves, boil them with 6 bowls of water, and then add 10 grams of chrysanthemum after removing the pot to make "Juxian Cassia Tea". Both have the effects of clearing away dampness and heat, reducing fat and losing weight.

"Lotus Leaf Oolong Tea" brewed with hot water has the effect of clearing away dampness and heat, and reducing fat and losing weight.

Obesity of spleen and kidney yang deficiency type: Fried mutton with leeks warms up the metabolism

Obese people with spleen and kidney yang deficiency often experience symptoms such as fatigue, poor physical strength and fear of cold. The main problem is that their body's metabolic capacity is too poor, and they do not consume enough calories, making them look weak. Even if they reduce their food intake, it will be difficult for them to lose weight due to their slow metabolism.

If one wants to improve the body's metabolism, promote fat loss, and replenish vitality at the same time, Chinese medicine practitioner Zhang Zheming said that clinical drug prescriptions will be based on the principle of "warming and nourishing the spleen and kidneys". People can also moderately consume more fried lamb with leeks, sesame paste, walnuts and wolfberries on a daily basis to warm and regulate the spleen and kidney functions.