”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 what Chinese medicine calls “on fire”. 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
1.Dry throat and hoarseness
Drink light salt water; take honey pear cream; drink orange peel sugar tea.
2, sore throat
Eating raw pear can prevent sores and sore throat; gargle with vinegar and the same amount of water can reduce pain; mash and squeeze the juice of young loofah, gargle frequently; when the throat is sore, gargle with a spoon of soy sauce, gargle for about 1 minute and spit out, 3-4 times in a row, there are curative effects.
3, 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, the pain can disappear.
4.Nasal congestion is difficult to pass
If the left nostril is not passable, feasible prone or right lateral position, the right hand support the right back of the neck, palm root near the earlobe, hold up the head, facing the right side, elbow joint to the upper right, stretch the farther the better. 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 at the same time nasal congestion, can be successively rotate the action of treatment.
5.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 urine, irritable heart, etc. Eat lotus seed soup or lotus seed tea can go to the heart fire.
6.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.
7, stomach fire
Deficiency fire is manifested as mild cough, low diet, constipation, bloating, red tongue and less coating; real fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitterness, dry and hard stools. Drinking mung bean porridge can go to the stomach fire.
8, liver fire
The performance of headache, red face and eyes, dry mouth and throat pain, pain in the ribs, urine yellow constipation, and even vomiting blood. Drink pear water can go to the liver fire.
9, kidney fire
Mainly manifested as dizziness, tinnitus and deafness, hair loss and tooth shaking, sleep restlessness, five heart bothered by heat, physical wasting, waist and leg pain, etc.. Eat pork loin can go to the kidney fire.
10, dry and cracked lips
Recommended: cucumber kiwi juice
Directions: 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 do not lick with the tongue, that will only be more dry.
11, dry and itchy skin
Recommended: sweet potato fried milk melon (young cucumber)
Method: 300 grams of sweet potatoes, 100 grams of cucumber, cilantro leaves, scallions, garlic. Sweet potatoes, milk melon cut into pieces; when the oil is forty percent hot, add 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 prone to infection.
12, dry hair
Recommended: honey dates walnut soup
Practice: 250 grams of honey dates, walnuts 100 grams, sugar appropriate. Remove the core of the dates, wash and drain the water; stew with walnuts and sugar together in a pot over low heat; until the soup is thick and the walnuts are soft, turn off the heat and 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 and 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.
13.Dry and swollen throat
Recommended: honey pear cream
Practice: take raw pears, use the juicer to squeeze into pear juice, add the right amount of honey, simmering with a gentle fire into a paste. A spoonful a day, can clear the heat to remove fire, moisten 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.
14.Nose bleeding
Recommended: fruit sago dew
Directions: Wash the sago and pour it into boiling water; cook until the sago is translucent, separate the sago from the hot water; then boil a pot of boiling water, pour the sago cooked until translucent into the boiling water and cook 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 boiled sago milk and add the diced fruit to it.
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.
15.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 human minerals, can regulate human glucose metabolism to treat 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 Detoxification, lowering stomach fire, resistance to radioactive damage and anti-cancer effects. Among them, the best effect to taste Tieguanyin and green tea.
②Grapefruit: clear heat and remove fire.
③ boil green bean soup to drink.
Fire can be divided into real fire and deficiency fire, real fire refers to hyperactive Yang heat real heat evidence
The liver and gallbladder, gastrointestinal fire is common. Symptoms include high fever, headache, red eyes, thirst for cold drinks, irritability, abdominal distension and pain, constipation, yellow urine, red tongue with dry yellow coating or awning, solid pulse, or even vomiting blood, nosebleeds, etc. Treatment is appropriate to use the principles and methods of bitter cold to control fire, clear heat and detoxification, diarrhea and defeat fire.
1, most of the deficiency fire due to internal injuries and strain, such as long-term illness, depletion of essence, excessive strain, can lead to the internal organs disorders, weakness and internal heat, internal heat and then turn into deficiency fire. According to the different pathogenesis, the deficiency fire is generally further divided into Yin deficiency fire and Qi deficiency fire two symptoms.
2, Yin deficiency fire are mostly manifested as generalized hot flashes, night sweating, thinning of the body, 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.
3.Patients with Qi deficiency and fire manifest dryness and heat all over the body, which is worse before noon, fearing cold and wind, preferring heat and cold, tiredness and weakness, shortage of breath and lazy speech, sweating, loose urine and stool, large and weak pulse, and light tongue with thin 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 heart fire, eat pig liver can go to lung fire, drink mung bean porridge to stomach fire, drink pear water to liver fire, eat pork waist to kidney fire.
”To fire”: the selection of drugs have to be careful
Common symptoms of fire are “can’t eat”, “can’t stand”, “can’t pull” and so on, therefore, the selection of drugs to reduce fire also when the right symptoms.
1, “can’t eat” refers to the upper jiao (heart and lung parts) have fire, manifested as dry mouth, tongue rotten, lips cracked, eyes red, tinnitus and a slight cough. Adults can take Niuhuang Qingxin Wan (tablets), and children can take Zhu Huang San.
2, “can’t stand” refers to the middle jiao (spleen and stomach parts) have fire, manifested as sometimes the stomach fire is hyperactive, food does not know full, and sometimes the erratic gas upward rebellious, the abdomen is full, do not think about eating. It is advisable to use Gardenia Gold Flower Pill, Niuhuang Qing Stomach Pill, Qing Stomach Huanglian Pill, Qing Stomach San, and children should take Seven Precious Dan.
3, “can not pull” refers to the lower jiao (liver, kidney, bladder, large and small intestine and other parts) have fire, manifested as dry stool, urine short, urine yellow red, turbid smell, itchy pubic area, women leucorrhea increased, even with yellow. Commonly used Chinese medicine can be selected from San Huang Pills, Angelica Long Hui Pills, Gardenia Golden Flower Pills, Gentian Diarrhea Liver Soft Capsules and so on.
In addition, there is also “deficiency fire”, that is, Yin deficiency and heat, mainly manifested as physical wasting, waist and knee soreness, dry throat and tongue, dizziness and tinnitus, forgetfulness and insomnia, or dry cough and shortness of breath, or blood in the sputum, dry mouth and throat, hoarseness, hot flashes and irritability, red tongue and less fluid, thin pulse, at this time, you can select the right medicine such as Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan.