How to regulate internal heat in children

  ”Internal heat” is also called “internal fire”, and there is a difference between real and virtual. Before regulating internal heat, we need to clarify whether the child is suffering from real heat or deficiency heat.  Children with real heat mostly have hot hands and feet, red face and ears, heartburn and palpitations, sores on the tongue, thirst for cold drinks, easy to eat, irritability, dry stools, yellow urine and thick red tongue and moss. These children usually like to eat fried, greasy or caloric food, so first of all, they should pay attention to a light diet, drink more water, and can take appropriate mung bean soup, water chestnut water, pear water, etc.  Children with deficiency fever have low fever, burning of the heart of the hands and feet, irritability and insomnia, dry mouth and eyes, dry throat and sore throat, flushed cheeks, red tongue, flaky moss or map tongue, etc. Children with deficiency fever should also pay attention to a light diet and should eat less spicy and fried, fried, exploded and baked foods, and can eat more sugar cane, silver fungus, lily water, and maitong ume tea drink instead.  The causes of internal heat in children are different, and the performance of different internal organs is also different. For example, if the heat is in the lungs, it can be manifested as red throat and sore throat and yellow cough and phlegm; if the heat is in the stomach, it can be seen as sores on the mouth and tongue, thirst and bad breath. If you are unable to identify the cause of internal heat, you should take your child to the hospital to prevent the precaution of “deficiency and actuality” (making the deficiency evidence more deficient and the actual evidence more actual). External Chinese medicine treatments such as pediatric tuina and ear acupressure are also good options to clear internal heat.