”When people have symptoms such as dry and sore throat, red eyes, hot nose, dry mouth and tongue, rotten mouth, nosebleed and toothache, it is called “on fire” in Chinese medicine. Fire has a deeper meaning, that is, some broad symptoms of fire, such as stomach fire can have symptoms such as stomach pain, dry stools, lung fire can have symptoms such as hemoptysis, cough, yellow phlegm, liver fire can have some irritability, insomnia, women will have breast pain, etc..
So how does “fire” arise?
Fire symptoms and solutions
A. Dry throat and hoarseness
Drink light salt water; take honey pear cream; drink orange peel sugar tea.
Second, sore throat
Eating raw pear can prevent sores and sore throat; gargle with vinegar and the same amount of water can reduce the pain; mash and squeeze the juice of young loofah, gargle frequently; sore throat, a spoonful of soy sauce gargle, gargle for 1 minute or so spit out, 3-4 times in a row, with curative effect.
Third, the mouth long blisters
Cut a few slices of ginger entrance chewing, can make the blisters slowly eliminate; wash your face before going to bed, squeeze some eye ointment coated in the mouth and lip pain, the next day the pain will be reduced, continue to apply a few days, can make the pain disappear.
Fourth, nasal congestion is difficult to pass
If the left nostril is not passable, feasible prone or right lateral position, the right hand supporting the right back of the neck, the root of the palm near the earlobe, hold up the head, facing the right side, elbow joint to the upper right, stretch as far as possible. Due to the stretching effect of the meridians, the nostrils can be ventilated in less than ten seconds and more than a few dozen seconds. If the right side of the nasal congestion, you can cure it with the opposite action. Both sides of the nasal congestion at the same time, you can successively rotate the action to cure.
V. Heart fire
Deficiency fire is manifested as low fever, night sweats, heartburn, dry mouth, etc.; real fire is manifested as repeated mouth ulcers, dry mouth, short red urine, irritability, etc. Eat lotus seed soup or lotus seed tea can go to the heart fire.
Six, lung fire
The main manifestations are dry cough without phlegm, blood in the phlegm, sore throat and mute voice, hot flashes and night sweats. Eating pig liver can remove lung fire.
Seven, stomach fire
Deficiency fire is manifested as mild cough, low diet, constipation, bloating, red tongue, less coating; real fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth, bitter mouth, dry and hard stools. Drinking mung bean porridge can go to the stomach fire.
Eight, liver fire
Performance for headache, red face and eyes, dry mouth and throat pain, pain in the ribs, urine yellow constipation, and even vomiting blood. Drinking pear water can go to the liver fire.
Seven, kidney fire
Mainly manifested as dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, hair loss and tooth shaking, sleep restlessness, five heart bothering heat, thinning body, waist and leg pain, etc.. Eat pork loin can go to the kidney fire.
Eight, dry and cracked lips
Recommended cucumber kiwi juice: 200 grams of cucumber, 30 grams of kiwi, 200 ml of cool boiled water, two tsp of honey. Wash the cucumber and remove the seeds, leave the skin cut into small pieces, kiwi peeled and cut into pieces, put together in a juicer, add cool boiling water and stir, pour out and add honey to drink an hour before meals.
Comment: Cucumber is sweet and cool, can enter the spleen and stomach meridian, can clear heat and detoxification, water. It can treat body heat, thirst and sore throat. Kiwifruit, on the other hand, is sweet, sour and cold, enters the kidney and stomach meridians, and can quench heat and thirst, so the two together can moisten the lips. Other vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables can also be used, such as tomatoes, grapefruit, etc. Reminder: dry lips should not be licked with the tongue, that will only be more dry.
Recommended sweet potato fried milk melon
(young cucumber): 300 grams of sweet potato, 100 grams of milk melon, cilantro leaves, scallions, minced garlic. Sweet potatoes, milk melon cut into pieces; oil forty percent hot into the minced garlic, scallions, pour into the sweet potatoes stir-fried five mature then put the milk melon stir-fried well, add the right amount of water, salt, chicken essence, soup can be dried.
Comment: sweet potatoes contain a variety of vitamins and calcium, phosphorus and iron, etc., its sweet and non-toxic, can strengthen the spleen and kidneys, and young cucumbers also contain a lot of vitamins, so the skin has certain benefits. Reminder: do not scratch the itchy skin, scratching is easy to infection.
Nine, dry hair
Recommended honey dates walnut soup: 250 grams of honey dates, walnuts 100 grams, sugar appropriate amount. The dates will be removed from the core, washed, drained of water; and walnuts, sugar together with a pot of low heat stew; to thick soup soup, walnuts soft to turn off the heat to eat. This sweet soup nourishes the liver and kidneys, moistens the lungs, nourishes the blood and moistens the hair.
Comment: walnuts are sweet and warm, can enter the kidney, liver and lung meridian, can moisten the bowels and laxative, and can nourish the blood black hair, long serving can make the skin delicate and smooth. And dates can supplement the lungs and moisten dryness, so more benefits for hair. In addition, other nuts, fish and coarse grains also have a lot of benefits to the hair. Reminder: try not to use the hair dryer hair to avoid more dry.
Ten, dry throat swelling
Recommended honey pear paste: take raw pear, use the juicer to squeeze into pear juice, add the right amount of honey, boil with a gentle fire into a paste. A spoonful a day, can clear the heat to remove the fire, the throat.
Comment: Honey is sweet and flat, enters the lung, spleen and large intestine meridian, can laxative, lung and throat, and can detoxify. Pear is sweet, slightly sour and cool, enters the lung and spleen meridian, and can cure thirst, cough and constipation. So the two put together boiling cream can play the role of throat moistening. Fresh green leafy vegetables, cucumbers, oranges, green tea, pears, carrots also have a very good role in clearing fire.
Reminder: “fire” period, should not eat spicy food, drinking, smoking, should pay attention to maintain oral hygiene, often rinse mouth, drink more water.
Eleven, nose bleeding
Recommended fruit sago dew: wash sago, pour into boiling water; cook until the sago is translucent, separate the sago from the hot water; then boil a pot of boiling water, cook until the translucent sago is poured into the boiling water and cooked until fully transparent, pour the boiling water away; boil a small pot of milk and add a little sugar; pour the sago into the milk and cook until it boils; cool the cooked sago milk, add diced fruit, and you can.
Comment: The use of some cool fruits such as pears, oranges, apples, kiwis, bananas to clear the dry heat, coupled with sago and milk to nourish the spleen and stomach, is a good way to regulate the winter. Eating cold foods such as radish, lotus seeds and pineal eggs can effectively relieve.
Reminder: do not drink a lot of cold drinks at once to prevent injury to the stomach and intestines.
Twelve, other methods
1, drinking tea can excite the nerve center, eliminate fatigue, clear heat and fire, moisten the throat and quench thirst, less sleep and benefit; drinking tea can supplement a variety of vitamins, improve the quality of human health; drinking tea can promote food absorption and metabolism, can improve the level of minerals in the body, can regulate human glucose metabolism for the treatment of diabetes; drinking tea can diuretic, enhance the excretory function of the kidneys; drinking tea can prevent aging, prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease; drinking tea can brighten the eyes, anti-inflammatory Tea can also be used to detoxify, lower stomach fire, resist radioactive damage and anti-cancer effects. Among them, the best effect of Tieguanyin and green tea.
2, grapefruit: clear heat to remove fire.
3, cooked mung bean soup to drink.
Fire can be divided into real fire and false fire, real fire refers to the hyperactive Yang heat real heat evidence. The liver and gallbladder, gastrointestinal fire is common. The symptoms are high fever, headache, red eyes, thirst for cold drinks, irritability, abdominal distension and pain, constipation, yellow urine, red tongue with yellow coating or dry mangosteen, solid pulse, or even vomiting blood, nosebleeds, etc. The treatment should be based on the principles and methods of bitter cold to control fire, clearing heat and detoxifying, diarrhea and defeat fire. Deficiency fire is mostly caused by internal injury and strain, such as depletion of essence and excessive strain in prolonged illness, which can lead to dysregulation of the internal organs, weakness and internal heat, which in turn turns into deficiency fire. According to the different pathogenesis, the deficiency fire is generally further divided into two symptoms: Yin deficiency fire and Qi deficiency fire. Yin deficiency fire is mostly characterized by generalized hot flashes, night sweats, loss of weight, dry mouth and throat, irritability of the heart, restlessness, red tongue without coating, and fine pulse. Treatment should be based on the principle of generating fluid and nourishing blood, nourishing Yin and lowering fire. People with Qi deficiency and fire are characterized by dryness and heat all over the body, especially before noon, fear of cold, fear of wind, fear of heat and cold, tiredness and weakness, shortness of breath and lazy speech, sweating, loose urine and stool, large and weak pulse, and thin tongue with light coating. Treatment should be based on the principles of tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi, strengthening the kidneys and stimulating the yang, and removing heat with sweetness and warmth.
It is very important to analyze the reality of the fire and use the medicine for it. In addition, some foods to remove fire can also be tried, but also need to be the right symptoms. For example, eat lotus seed soup to remove heart fire, eat pig liver to remove lung fire, drink mung bean porridge to remove stomach fire, drink pear water to remove liver fire, eat pork loin to remove kidney fire.