Can Coffee Make You Drunk or Remove Dampness?

Coffee does not make you drunk in the way alcohol does, since it contains caffeine rather than ethanol, and the article's focus is a separate claim: an expert said on a TV interview that drinking coffee can help remove dampness from the body, which set off discussion among coffee lovers. The piece collects the expert's interpretation along with suitable groups and drinking precautions.

The claim comes amid unusually frequent rain in Guangdong and persistently high humidity, where traditional dampness-removing teas and herbal drinks work slowly or taste too bitter to keep up. The expert noted that coffee beans are roasted after harvest, and the roasting process is part of the explanation offered. Two groups of people are advised to be cautious, so the claim should be viewed scientifically.

In Guangdong, frequent rain and humid air cause many people to suffer from excessive dampness in the body. Traditional dampness-removing teas and herbal drinks do help, but their taste or slow effects make them hard to stick with. Recently, an expert suggested in a TV interview that drinking coffee can also help remove dampness, an idea that quickly sparked heated discussion among coffee lovers. This article compiles the expert's interpretation, the suitable groups, and drinking precautions to help coffee enthusiasts take a scientific view of the claim that coffee removes dampness.

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This year, rain has been unusually frequent in Guangdong, with air humidity staying high. In many residents' homes, mushrooms even sprouted in the corners, and effervescent tablets dissolved on their own inside bottles, showing just how severe the damp environment is. If people stay in such a humid environment for a long time, dampness in the body inevitably worsens, and many friends may have already noticed some uncomfortable reactions in their bodies.

As a result, the dampness-removing drinks commonly used by Cantonese people have appeared on dining tables one after another. Various tea bags, stewed soups, and herbal teas take turns showing up before people's eyes, silently urging them to drink up quickly and remove dampness. However, methods such as tea bags and stewed soups take effect relatively slowly, and the smell of Chinese medicinal herbs is not acceptable to everyone, so after a few days people may find it hard to keep going.

If switched to dampness-removing herbal tea, a few cups might produce some effect, but people who fear bitterness truly cannot stand the bitter taste brought by Chinese medicine. Just smelling the herbal tea is enough to drive them away, let alone drinking it. Therefore, for people who urgently need to remove dampness, this "path to removing dampness" is indeed not easy to walk.

So, is there a drink that can both achieve a dampness-removing effect and be easier to accept and stick with? The answer is yes. Recently, an expert pointed out in an interview with a TV station reporter that people with severe dampness can help remove dampness from the body by drinking coffee.

The expert explained that coffee beans must be roasted after being harvested, and the roasting process of coffee beans is similar to the processing of medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine, as it can transform coffee beans into a warm nature. Based on traditional Chinese medicine theory, the expert believes that a warm nature fundamentally has the effect of removing dampness and drying dampness, so coffee can provide some help in removing dampness from the human body.

This news delighted coffee lovers. Nowadays coffee shops can be seen everywhere, and many office workers cannot do without caffeine every day. Some even need to drink two or three cups a day to stay alert. After hearing this news, they joked one after another that "there's one more reason to drink coffee," "to remove dampness, it seems I need to drink more," and "it looks like I must drink a cup every day." Some even called for coffee to be "included in medical insurance."

However, everyone's constitution is different, and tolerance for coffee varies as well. The expert reminded that two types of people are not quite suitable for using coffee to remove dampness. The first type is people who cannot sleep after drinking coffee, and the second type is people with severe qi deficiency. She said that these people's bodies have already sent signals that they need rest, so drinking coffee, a beverage that refreshes the mind and wakes you up, will instead be counterproductive and add extra burden to the body.

In addition, although coffee has some effect, it should not be consumed in excess, and daily intake needs to be controlled. Some netizens also reminded that in addition to paying attention to moderate drinking, people should also avoid drinking iced coffee.

Once summer arrives, many people drink large amounts of cold beverages to cool off, but from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, drinking too many cold beverages worsens dampness in the body and is not conducive to removing dampness. So although coffee can support health and remove dampness, it must be drunk correctly, lest the dampness is not removed and symptoms instead worsen.

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