As the saying goes: 'bathing in the morning kills yang, and taking a bath in the evening creates dampness', when is the best time to take a bath

Regardless of whether you have knowledge of health preservation or not, you will always see words such as dampness and yang qi on the Internet, and these words are often related to traditional Chinese medicine. From the perspective of TCM health preservation, in the process of body conditioning, some people will find that the body has too much moisture or insufficient yang qi.

So, do you know when bathing is easy to lose yang, and when is it easy for moisture to invade? When is the best time? Find out with your doctor today.

What is Yang Qi?

Yang qi is the driving force behind the metabolism and physiological functions of the human body, and is the determinant of human reproduction, growth, development, aging and death. The normal survival of human beings needs the support of yang energy.

The more "Yang", the stronger the body. If the yang qi is insufficient, people will get sick. When Yang Qi is completely exhausted, a person will die. It has the function of warming the tissues of the whole body and maintaining the functions of the zang-fu organs.

Deficiency of yang qi will lead to the weakening and decline of physiological activities, resulting in a decline in the body's ability to keep out the cold. "Neijing Lingshu" said: "When a person reaches forty, the yang qi is insufficient. The damage is due to the sun." It means that with the increase of age, the yang qi of a person will gradually be depleted.

What is moisture?

In traditional Chinese medicine, wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, and fire are called six qi under normal circumstances, representing the changes in natural climate. The pathogenic factors are called the six evils. Wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and dampness in fire are one of the six evils and one of the pathogenic factors.

Humidity is the main qi in the long summer. At the turn of summer and autumn, when the heat of the sun decreases, the water vapor evaporates and the humidity is full, which is the most humid season of the year.

Dampness is a disease, which can be divided into external sensation and internal dampness. External dampness is mostly caused by external dampness invading the human body, such as wet climate, wading in water and rain, or living in damp places for a long time; internal dampness is generally caused by spleen failure. It is a pathological state formed by water-wet cessation of aggregation.

The humid climate in nature will cause moisture to invade the human body. Modern people mainly eat meat, or prefer fatty, sweet and thick flavors, and they sit indoors for a long time, lack of exercise for a long time, plus cold drinks, unseasonable fruits and vegetables, staying up late and other unfavorable health factors, eventually lead to When the spleen and stomach yang is damaged, the ability to transport and transform water and dampness decreases, and dampness will accumulate in the body.

As the saying goes: "bathing in the morning kills yang, and taking a shower at night creates dampness", is it really true?

- Take a shower in the morning to kill yang?

We often see in Western movies the plot of taking a shower and shampooing after getting up, and now more and more young people are used to taking a shower and shampooing their hair in the morning.

Although it is not clearly stated in the traditional Chinese medicine texts of all dynasties and generations in China that you should not take a bath in the morning, the ebb and flow of yin and yang has long told us. The "Nei Jing" says: "The yang qi, one day, dominates the outside. In the middle, the yang qi is prosperous, and in the west, the yang qi is already empty.”

The so-called "Pingdan" is when the sun appears on the horizon. At this time, it is the time when the "yang qi" of the human body is born, and it is relatively weak because it is born, and it is also the time when it needs to be guided and expressed.

In addition, from 7:00 to 9:00 in the morning is when the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming is in season. Taking a shower and washing your hair at this time is equivalent to opening the skin of the whole body, and most of the qi and blood of the whole body is concentrated in the stomach meridian of Foot Yangming at this time. , waiting to digest breakfast.

In this way, the surface of the human body is easily invaded by cold evil, and the head is the head of all yang, so taking a bath at this time is equivalent to strangling the rise of yang in the cradle.

In fact, the habit of taking a bath in the morning was passed down from the West. Now we copy the living habits of Westerners, which will cause many problems.

——Damp in the shower at night?

This is also a habit that many people insist on, because they habitually take a bath before going to bed at night, and they will wash their hair while taking a bath.

In the "Nei Jing", it is pointed out that "the yang qi in the west of the sun has been deficient, at this time the yang qi is absorbed in, and the yin qi dominates the outside". Nowadays, most people are troubled by humidity, because they don’t exercise much in air-conditioned rooms for a long time, and the food they eat is also heavy in taste, and it is difficult to digest and obesity.

In the long run, yang qi will also be greatly consumed. Insufficient yang qi cannot promote the circulation of qi and blood, and the ends of the limbs cannot get the warmth of qi and blood, which will lead to cold hands and feet, and low body temperature at night.

If you wash your hair at this time, it will aggravate the yin and cold qi in the body and hurt the yang qi in the body. Even if the hair dryer is blown dry before going to bed, the roots of the hair are not easy to dry completely, and the hair is close to the pillow when falling asleep. , the residual water vapor cannot be ventilated, and drying can only rely on the human body.

Temperature evaporation will also greatly dissipate yang energy, and these moisture will also penetrate directly into the body through the pores of the skin, resulting in increased moisture in the body. The head is the supreme commander of the body. If you wash your hair before going to bed, it is easy for cold, damp and heat evils to invade the scalp, making the scalp more sensitive and causing symptoms such as scalp redness, allergies, and eczema.

To sum up, Chinese medicine believes that whether it is taking a bath in the morning or at night, it is harmful to the body and has evidence to follow. Take a shower at this time to help you have a healthy body.