Stomach fire is burning acne, swollen gums, rotten corners of the mouth; liver fire is burning headache and dizziness, sleep instability; heart fire on the inflammation of the mouth ulcers sore throat, dry throat, insomnia; lung heat fire is burning dry throat pain, dry mouth and thirst. Only reasonable dietary regimen can achieve the purpose of reducing fire and removing heat.
Fire is a Chinese medical term for internal heat disorder that occurs when the body’s yin and yang are out of balance. If there are symptoms such as dry throat, red eyes, nasal cavity, dry mouth, dry tongue, rotten mouth, nosebleed, toothache, etc., Chinese medicine will consider it as “fire”. The five organs and six internal organs as an outline to divide, fire mainly has a stomach fire, heart fire, liver fire, lung fire several.
The first fire caused by eating disorders – stomach fire
Typical symptoms: long acne, swollen gums, rotten corners of the mouth.
Stomach fire is divided into two kinds of virtual and real, virtual fire manifested as a slight cough, bad appetite, constipation, red tongue, less moss, this part of the people generally have old stomach disease in the bottom, in Chinese medicine said “plain stomach yin deficiency, fluid loss”, coupled with the living disorders, fatigue caused by fire; New Year period accounted for the number or eat out of the real fire. “spicy and strong wine, thick sorghum”, manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth, bitter, dry and hard stools.
Fire prevention essentials: eat more coarse grains and drink more water
Since the fire is eaten out, then deal with also to eat from the source.
The new version of the “Chinese Dietary Guidelines” just said that we do not eat enough coarse grains, Professor Chen also stressed that eating more coarse grains can prevent stomach fire. Eating spicy, barbecue and other irritating foods will damage the spleen and stomach, internalizing heat, and in serious cases, the corners of the mouth will appear erosion.
Such “fire” should eat more beans, millet and other coarse grains and green fresh vegetables, etc., to increase the variety of food. The second is to eat more light food. Many young people sleep less than usual during the holidays, false fire rise, many girls also like to play while eating, melon, peanuts, chocolate and other snacks do not leave the hand, the body heat accumulation is too much, the face issued a lot of acne. Such “fire” from the internal heat, so the lighter you eat the better for the skin condition. In addition, drink more water is a good habit, can accelerate the body’s metabolism.
Fire reduction food recipe: lily and green bean porridge, water chestnut and lotus root juice soup
Lily and mung bean porridge: the ability of lily and mung bean to detoxify and reduce fire is recognized by everyone, mung bean is sweet and cool, with the effect of detoxification of heat, summer heat, thirst, stomach, water and swelling.
Regular consumption of lily has the effect of moistening the lungs and clearing the heart, and can stop coughing, stop bleeding and appetite. It is also relatively simple to make. Boil mung beans and lily for 15 minutes, then add rice to boil and turn down the heat, simmer until the porridge is thick and suitable, add rock sugar as appropriate.
Water chestnut and lotus root soup: choose 250 grams each of water chestnut and fresh lotus root, decoct them together and add appropriate amount of rock sugar. Eat it in three days, it has the effect of moistening the stomach and cooling the blood to lower the fire.
Often stay up late triggers the second fire – liver fire
Typical symptoms: headache and dizziness, sleep instability, temper tantrums?
Often stay up late will disrupt the body’s normal rest and rest time, the liver can not rest and detoxification as scheduled, so they have to work overtime to remove the body’s accumulated impurities and toxins, which undoubtedly increased the burden on the liver itself, liver fire is also then “ignited”. It is no wonder that some people have long tempers during long holidays, in fact, they have a lot to do with not sleeping well.
Some liver fire can also manifest itself as headaches and dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes, dry mouth, bitter mouth and bad breath, swelling and pain in the ribs, unstable sleep, stuffy body, thickened tongue coating, etc.
Fire prevention: stable emotion, sufficient sleep
For people who have high blood pressure and are usually anxious, they should pay attention to prevent the attack of liver fire. In Chinese medicine, this is known as “Yang Qi is strong”, try not to get angry, “anger is easy to make fire, easy to hurt the liver”, will cause the accumulation of liver gas in the body, which leads to liver gas easy to knot, Qi and blood is not smooth.
To prevent liver fire, sleep is a very important point, try to go to sleep every night before 12 o’clock, if you can not do not stay up late, then after that you must make up for the sleep.
To prevent liver fire, in addition to enough sleep and relaxation, some simple herbs or foods can also help to clear the fire. People with strong liver fire should eat more cool foods like wood ear, chrysanthemum and lotus seeds.
Eat less spicy, fishy, fatty and sour, fried foods, as well as mutton, sea shrimp, fatty meat, umeboshi, etc. to avoid “adding oil to the fire”.
Fire food recipe: pork liver fried fungus, Chinese wolfberry chrysanthemum tea
As the saying goes, what you eat is what you get, and to deal with liver fire, you should also get liver. Pork liver fried fungus on the role of calming the liver fire. Choose about 40 grams of fungus and 240 grams of pork liver.
Soak the fungus, cut off the hard pieces at the bottom, and then cut into coarse shreds; wash and dry the pork liver and then cut into thick slices, add the marinade and marinate for about 10 minutes; heat a wok, put 2 tablespoons of oil, pop the ginger, add the pork liver slices and stir-fry over high heat until cooked; then add the shredded fungus and green onion and stir-fry well, add a little sugar and salt to taste and serve.
Prevent liver fire, you can also drink wolfberry and chrysanthemum tea, the method is as follows: wolfberry first boiled for 30 minutes, add chrysanthemum and then boiled for 3 minutes, you can drink tea, for people who often use their brains.
Excessive thinking triggers the third fire – heart fire
Typical symptoms: mouth ulcers, sore throat, dry throat, insomnia
Chinese medicine says “labor of mind and thought, too consumed its true”, roughly meaning too much labor of mind, it is easy to hurt the mind. Although most people are happy during the Chinese New Year, the elders at home are too happy or overworked with household chores because of the presence of the younger generation, which will “make the heart fire flourish and the mind restless”, that is, on the heart fire.
Heart fire also has the difference between real and false, in general, the false fire manifested as low fever, night sweats, palpitations, heartburn, insomnia, forgetfulness, etc., the elderly, especially people with cardiovascular disease often have such symptoms; real fire is manifested as repeated mouth ulcers, urine short red, irritable, etc., physically fit young people are prone to appear.
Fire prevention essentials: stable emotions, adequate sleep
Since most of the heart fire is caused by fatigue or happiness, then the way to deal with these two aspects. Professor Chen reminded the New Year need to control emotions, reduce tension, less heart trouble.
In particular, reduce thinking about those delayed, dealing with complicated, involving a lot of interpersonal relationship worries, so as to avoid heart fire gas, inducing cardiovascular disease. Eat more vegetables and fruits to control heart fire is helpful, spicy food, tobacco and alcohol should be respected far away, more exercise.
You can eat more cold and bitter food, such as bitter melon, bitter vegetables, lilies, bitter tea, eat more sour dates, red dates, lilies or clean animal placenta and other products that nourish the heart and kidneys.
Reduce fire food recipe: ice sugar lotus seed soup, bitter melon fried white fruit
The “Compendium of Materia Medica” records that lotus seeds “clear the heart to remove heat”, in addition to annoying heat, clear the heart fire, nourish the heart and tranquilize the mind, for the heart fire within the cause of irritability and sleeplessness has a better therapeutic use.
Bitter gourd fried white fruit: appropriate to eat “bitter” in winter can lower the heart fire. Choose 1-2 bitter melon, white fruit 20. White fruit washed, bitter gourd washed and diced; bitter gourd, white fruit in boiling water for a little while, immediately fished out and set aside; frying pan with a little oil, add white fruit, bitter gourd and seasoning stir-fried; thicken with cornstarch on the dish. But it should be noted that the white fruit should not be consumed too much at a time, each person should not eat more than 10.
Repeated colds trigger the fourth fire – lung fire
Typical symptoms: dry throat, dry mouth and thirst
Spring is the high incidence of respiratory diseases, often in and out of public places and air-conditioned rooms, a variety of respiratory diseases naturally encountered. In Chinese medicine, these are the causes of lung fire.
People with lung fire often have dry mouth and nose, hot breath, and easily get windy, and have high fever, cough, thick and sticky phlegm, and a red tongue with yellow coating. Some children can’t cover the blanket when sleeping, like to lie down, like to eat cold drinks, the mouth and lips are red, is also a manifestation of lung fire.
Fire prevention: pay attention to warmth and increase and decrease clothing in time
Since the cold and other respiratory diseases are the cause of lung fire, then the primary prevention of lung fire is to do a good job of warmth measures, in and out of the air conditioning room in time to increase and reduce clothing.
In addition to lung fire, you can also use breathing and coughing to wash your lungs, through deep breathing and active coughing, to help the respiratory tract discharge secretions and enhance immunity. You can choose a place with fresh air, repeatedly inhale and exhale, try to discharge the gas in the lungs, in addition to actively cough a few times a day, is also a positive protective reflex action, can effectively cleanse the lungs.
Fire reduction food recipe: silver fungus and snow pear soup
Silver fungus snow pear soup: choose 50 grams of silver fungus, two pears. Cut the pear into pieces, add 500 ml of water to the silver fungus, boil for 20 minutes, add a little rock sugar, drinking has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough.
Summing up.
Special emphasis, in many people’s view, “fire” is really a minor problem, drink some herbal tea is good, really can not eat some niuhuang detoxification pills or clear throat tablets can be.
In fact, although the “fire” symptoms are similar, but each person’s physique is different, the treatment is also different. Especially the real fire and virtual fire, the treatment is just the opposite, if it is obviously a false fire, but also in the way to deal with the real fire to deal with, no doubt adding fuel to the fire.
So, when it comes to things that are not easy to grasp, you still have to find a specialist in time.