Traditional Chinese medicine is divided into heart fire, liver fire, lung fire, stomach fire, kidney fire, etc. It is distinguished. Different parts of the fire, the symptoms of different virtual and real, there are different ways to get rid of fire. In summer, anger and heart fire are generally caused. Only by judging what kind of fire you are on, and then choosing the corresponding fire-removing food, can you play the role of reducing fire.
Heartfire
Virtual Fire: Mainly manifested as dry mouth, upset, low-grade fever and night sweats.
“Fire Extinguisher”: People with rising false fire can use Ophiopogon japonicus to soak in water to relieve it, and they can also drink Ophiopogon japonicus fruit tea
How to do it: Wash the pears and oranges, slice them with the skin on, put a few Ophiopogon japonicus, and soak them in boiling water for 10 minutes.
You can also choose tremella, lily, lotus leaf, etc.
Real fire: red face, red eyes, mouth ulcers, dry mouth, short red urine, irritability, red tongue, etc.
“Fire Extinguisher”: Dietary strategies for those with strong fire: lotus root / lotus root, bitter gourd, lotus leaf, lily, watermelon / green clothes, purslane, lotus seed heart tea, bamboo leaf tea, etc.
Tips: If the heart fire is strong, you can eat more foods that are cold in nature and bitter in taste, such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetables, lily, Kuding tea, and more sour dates, red dates, lilies and other nourishing heart and kidney products.
Liver
Real fire: In addition to red, swollen, and painful eyes, it is also irritable, easy to get angry, thirsty, and dry stool.
“Fire Extinguisher”: Chrysanthemum bitter gourd drink is mainly aimed at real anger.
Method: Slice bitter gourd, add a few chrysanthemums, add a little rock sugar, and soak in boiling water for a while.
Virtual fire: dry eyes, dizziness, heat in the hands and feet, irritability, sweating when falling asleep in the second half of the night.
“Fire Extinguisher”: Goji berries can be relieved by soaking in water.
Tips: You can eat more pig liver or chicken liver for liver support, especially for people who are dizzy, dry eyes, and often use their brains.
People with excessive anger should not eat spicy, fishy, greasy and sour, fried foods, as well as mutton, shrimp, fatty meat, black plum, etc., so as not to add fuel to the fire.
Adjusting emotions, stabilizing emotions, and maintaining a good mood can help regulate the anger in the body. Insufficient sleep or poor sleep quality can also cause anger to rise.
Stomach fire
Real fire: discomfort in the upper abdomen, accompanied by excessive eating and hunger, dry mouth and bitter taste, yellow and greasy tongue coating, dry stool, toothache, bleeding gums, bad breath and hot, red, swollen or ulcerated gums, etc.
“Fire extinguisher”: The daily diet of real fire is suitable to eat some loofah, cabbage, bitter gourd, eggplant, celery, cucumber, bamboo shoots, apples, etc.
Do not eat: Fennel, leeks, lamb, smoked sausages, cheese burgers, dried fruit and nuts.
Virtual fire: manifested as thirst, decreased diet, mild abdominal distension, low-grade fever or hot flashes, dry stool, red tongue with little or no coating, etc.
“Fire extinguisher”: You can eat some honey, pear juice, sugar cane juice, etc. in moderation.
Note: People with mild stomach fire seem to never be able to eat enough. In fact, it is an illusion given to the brain by stomach heat. When the fire reaches a certain stage, the stomach will become inflamed, and it will become unable to eat anything.
Tips: Chinese medicine believes that radish juice is acrid, sweet, and cool in nature, and it belongs to the lung and stomach meridians. People with stomach fire can drink radish juice for conditioning treatment, but it is not suitable for people with aphthous ulcers due to spleen and stomach deficiency.
Lotus seeds, gorgon nuts, Chinese yam, etc. are all good for the spleen and appetizers. Watercress, lettuce, lettuce, tomatoes, loquats, etc. are all good for digestion.
Lung fire
Real fire: Whether the lung fire is real fire or virtual fire, it is dry cough with little phlegm, dry mouth and throat. Lung fire constitution often has fever, thirst, irritability, yellow and sticky expectoration, sore throat, constipation, yellow urine, epistaxis or hemoptysis, red tongue and yellow coating, rapid pulse rate, etc.
“Fire extinguisher”: Imperatae root, reed root, and tangerine collaterals are boiled and taken with water, which can clear away heat and eliminate fire, nourish yin, cool blood and moisten lungs. Those with yellow phlegm and cough can choose Houttuynia cordata (or winter melon seeds) + Campanulaceae + almonds to cook and take.
Virtual fire: hot flashes in the afternoon, flushing of the cheeks, dry cough with less phlegm, dry mouth, hoarse voice, dry scabs in the nose, hot hands and feet, night sweats, red tongue, little tongue coating, etc.
“Fire extinguisher”: lily, white radish, lotus root, honey, white fungus soup. Those with dry mouth and throat can choose pear + rock sugar + almonds or Chuanbei to cook and take, and those with dry throat and hoarseness can take Qiu Li ointment, orange peel and honey tea.
Note: People with strong lung fire should avoid or eat less spicy and warming foods, such as chili, smoked roast lamb, grilled fish, grilled shrimp, etc. Those with a hot and humid constitution should reduce cheese desserts and eat hot fruits. Such as lychee, mango, longan, cherries, grapefruit, orange, loquat can also be selected for fruit.
Active coughing a few times a day is also a positive protective reflex action that can help clean the lungs.
Kidney Fire
Kidney fire is usually deficient fire, mainly manifested as dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, loose or painful teeth, dry mouth in the evening, irritability, insomnia, night sweats, dreaminess, easy nocturnal emission in men, and sometimes even burning pain in the urethra, waist and knees Soreness or shinbone pain, heel pain, etc.
“Fire extinguisher”: The kidney fire should be mainly nourished by nourishing yin, and black fungus, wolfberry, mulberry, tomatoes, pig blood, honey, milk, duck blood, duck meat, etc. can be eaten.
Taixi (at the back of the inner ankle, in the depression between the tip of the inner ankle and the Achilles tendon) and Yongquan (in the depression in the front of the sole of the foot) can be massaged at ordinary times.
(Master of Health and Wellness)