What can be used to make tea for removing dampness?
May 08, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhang Xiuhong
Introduction
Under normal circumstances, dampness is a common body constitution imbalance in traditional Chinese medicine theory and may trigger various health problems. Therefore, one can choose to drink water infused with coix seed, red adzuki bean, poria, winter melon peel, corn silk, and other ingredients to promote the elimination of dampness and improve related symptoms. In daily life, activities such as walking and jogging can be performed to accelerate metabolism and promote the removal of dampness.
Generally, to eliminate dampness, you can choose to drink water infused with Job's tears (coix seed), red adzuki beans, poria (Poria cocos), winter melon peel, corn silk, etc., which may help improve related symptoms. Detailed explanations are as follows:
1. Job's Tears (Coix Seed)
Job's tears is a commonly used ingredient known for its dampness-resolving properties. It is cool in nature, with a sweet and bland taste, and functions to promote diuresis, resolve dampness, strengthen the spleen, and stop diarrhea. Drinking Job's tears-infused water helps promote the elimination of dampness from the body and alleviate symptoms such as physical heaviness and edema caused by excessive dampness.
2. Red Adzuki Beans
Red adzuki beans are neutral in nature with a sweet and sour taste. They have functions of promoting diuresis, reducing edema, detoxifying, and discharging pus. Drinking water infused with red adzuki beans can accelerate dampness metabolism in the body and relieve symptoms such as swelling and difficult urination caused by dampness.
3. Poria (Poria cocos)
Poria is the dried sclerotium of a fungus from the Polyporaceae family. It is neutral in nature with a sweet and bland taste, and has effects of promoting diuresis to resolve dampness, strengthening the spleen, and calming the mind. Drinking poria-infused water can improve symptoms of spleen and stomach weakness and mental restlessness caused by dampness, and promote the elimination of dampness from the body.
4. Winter Melon Peel
Winter melon peel is the outer skin of winter melon. It is cool in nature with a sweet taste, and has functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, and detoxifying. Drinking water infused with winter melon peel not only helps remove dampness from the body, but also alleviates symptoms such as thirst and edema caused by excessive dampness.
5. Corn Silk
Corn silk refers to the styles and stigmas of corn. It is neutral in nature with a sweet and bland taste, and has functions of promoting urination to reduce edema, clearing heat from the liver, and benefiting the gallbladder. Drinking corn silk-infused water can promote urination, thereby removing excess dampness from the body and improving symptoms such as edema and jaundice.
In daily life, to prevent excessive dampness, activities such as walking or jogging can be performed to accelerate metabolism and promote dampness elimination. At the same time, maintaining good indoor ventilation and dryness, and avoiding staying in damp environments for prolonged periods, can help reduce dampness intrusion.
