“Fire” is a common concept, corresponding to the traditional Chinese medicine said that the heat evidence, heat evidence of the formation of the possible causes include external heat, excessive spicy food, emotional upset, long illness and injury to the yin and so on.
1. External heat: If the external warmth evil, or other evil invasion of the accumulation of heat, such as cold evil into the heat, etc., can lead to the body appear heat evidence, the symptoms of fever, fear of cold light, sore throat, etc., belong to the real heat evidence. You can choose the forsythia powder and other treatments.
2. Excessive spicy food: if long-term or excessive consumption of spicy, fried and other dry food, can also lead to the occurrence of internal heat, part of the population may be thirsty to drink, like cold and hate heat, constipation and other gastric heat manifestations. It can be treated by clearing the stomach and so on.
3. Emotional upset: If emotional upset, stagnation of qi, can be depressed and transformed into heat (the evil qi stay too long will be transformed into heat), appearing heat evidence, part of the mood can appear irritability, coercive pain in the liver and gallbladder have heat manifestations, can be used to Zuojin Pills, gentian diarrhea of the liver and other treatments.
4. Injury to yin from prolonged illness: If the yin is injured from prolonged illness, or the fluid is depleted from prolonged staying up late, the yin is unable to constrain the yang qi and there is deficiency heat, which can be seen as dryness of the mouth, flushing of the cheekbones (redness of the zygomatic bone area on both sides of the face), night sweating (abnormal sweating after falling asleep, but sweating stops after waking up), etc., which can be treated with Liouweidihuangwan (Six-flavored Di Huang Pill).
Different individuals have different types of heat syndrome, the above medicines are for reference only, if heat syndrome occurs, it is recommended to choose the appropriate prescription after doctor’s diagnosis.