"Office workers generally move about very little and stay indoors in the air-conditioning, so they should eat bland foods, because that helps open up the apertures," says Li Chia-hsiung, another doctor of Chinese medicine, who explains that opening the apertures means freeing the pores and the seven bodily orifices so that moisture and perspiration are not trapped inside the body.
「一般而言，勞心者活動量少，又多待在冷氣房裡，所以要吃清淡食物，因為淡能『通竅』」，中醫師李家雄解釋說，通竅就是使毛細孔、七竅暢通無阻，使濕氣不致鬱積體內。