From the perspective of Chinese medicine and nutrition, there are more ingredients to reduce fire, such as bitter melon, amaranth and so on.
1. Bitter melon: for the cucurbitaceae plant bitter gourd young fruit, cold, bitter taste, with summer heat, heat, bright eyes, detoxification effect, can be used for summer heat caused by sweating and thirst, as well as heat sores and carbuncles (because of the body of the overabundance of heat and toxic sores and carbuncles appeared on the surface of the skin), redness, swelling and hot pain, eye redness and pain and the conditioning of the disease.
Bitter melon should be cooled, fried or boiled in soup, but those with deficiency of yang energy should be prohibited from eating, and its adverse effects are not clear.
2. Amaranth: It is the whole grass of the plant Amaranthaceae, which is cold in nature and sour in taste, and its effects are clearing away heat and detoxification, cooling blood and stopping dysentery (clearing away heat and cooling the blood, eliminating dysentery, etc.), and removing dampness and clearing away gonorrhea.
Amaranth is generally able to be used in the treatment of feverish diarrhea and dysentery, feverish sores, carbuncles and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative diseases occurring on the surface of the body, limbs and internal organs), and blood-heat hemorrhage, etc. However, it should be eaten with caution by those who have deficiency of the spleen and those who have a clear bowel movement as well as pregnant women, and its adverse effect is still not clear.
Although food therapy has a certain effect on lowering fire, but also to do evidence-based food, do not blindly choose to lower the fire of the food. In addition, food is not only weak, but also slow to take effect, usually need to be consumed for a long time before the effect may be achieved, generally not used for treatment of disease. If there is any discomfort, you should also seek medical attention and use medication under the guidance of a doctor.