Test: Are you fat or puffy?

In traditional Chinese medicine, obesity can be simply divided into two categories: excessive obesity and puffy obesity. Puffy obesity can be divided into spleen deficiency and dampness obstruction of spleen deficiency and kidney deficiency. Excessive obesity has stomach heat, phlegm, blood stasis and stagnant blood stasis.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the causes of obesity can be divided into two types: internal and external factors. Internally due to "deficiency of true yang, weakness of temper, and stagnation of phlegm dampness inside". The external cause is excessive eating and too little exercise.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the "spleen" governs the muscles and can transport nutrients from food to digest to nourish the whole body. If true yang is insufficient, the spleen will lose its health and the body's transportation and transformation function will be abnormal. It will easily turn into phlegm and fat and accumulate in the skin, resulting in obesity. In fact, there are not many people who belong to the puffiness and water-fat type. What people in this category need is to replenish qi, strengthen spleen, remove dampness, and adjust metabolism, rather than blindly dieting. Even if they don't eat much, the effect will not be obvious.

puffy constitution

1. The amount of food is not large and the food is not much.

2. The body is easy to get tired.

3. It is easy to feel swelling in the hands and feet, especially when squatting, when you feel a strong swelling in the calves; compared with the upper body, the lower body is fatter.

4. The face is pale or blue, the speech is weak and weak, and is afraid of cold; it is not easy to sweat and has more white phlegm.

5. I rarely exercise in normal times, and my muscles are loose and fluffy.

6. The color of the resolved urine is light.

7. Dream often while sleeping.

If you meet 3 or more conditions, you are considered puffy.

Fat physique

1. I usually eat a lot, and it is easy to feel empty and want to eat again.

2. It is easy to constipation and may only have less than 3 stools a week.

3. It looks fleshy and strong on the outside.

4. I often feel dry and have thick and yellow phlegm.

5. The face is ruddy.

6. The urine is hot and the color is thick, turbid, yellow and deep.

7. I often have nightmares when I sleep at night.

If you meet 3 or more conditions, you are considered to be obese. (Internship Editor: Jiang Yan)