Fire belongs to the folklore and belongs to the category of heat syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine. It will show dry mouth and tongue, sore throat and dry stools and other discomforts. Children in the summer this phenomenon, can be appropriate to eat bitter melon, lucerne, green beans and other foods to help clear heat.
1. Bitter melon: bitter flavor, cold nature. Attributed to the heart, spleen, lung meridian. It has the function of removing summer heat, clearing the eyes and detoxifying. Used for summer heat and thirst, eye redness and swelling pain, sores and canker sores, sunstroke and so on. Yang Qi deficiency is prohibited.
2. Loofah: sweet taste, cool nature. Attributed to the lung, liver, stomach, large intestine meridian. It has the function of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin. Used for fever, body heat and thirst, phlegm cough, intestinal wind hemorrhoids, leakage (excessive menstrual flow or dripping), with the next, hemorrhagic (blood in the urine with pain), boils, carbuncles, women’s breast milk, and so on.
3. Mung bean: sweet taste, cool nature. Attributed to the heart, liver, stomach meridian. It has the function of clearing heat, eliminating summer heat, inducing diuresis and detoxification. Used for summer heat and thirst, headache and redness, wind-heat colds, sores and canker sores. Mung bean products should not be consumed while taking it.
If children have heat symptoms, they can consume food with heat-clearing effect to help them recover. However, it is important to identify which internal organs the heat symptoms are mainly in. If the symptoms are serious, they should seek medical treatment in time and should not take medication on their own.