Often patients and friends because of the emergence of red and swollen eyes, corners of the mouth erosion, or yellow urine, toothache, and some are staying up all night, irritability, dry stools, hot hands and feet, like to eat cold drinks, and poor appetite, will always ask: “Doctor, am I on fire?” “How can I clear the fire when I’m on fire?” In fact, “fire” or “heat”, “heat poisoning” are similar to the folk saying, is a Chinese medicine concept. From the gas, fire is one of the body’s gas, when its quiet hidden in the internal organs, with warmth, biochemical role, is Yang Qi, “Nei Jing” called “less fire”, is the body’s normal function. And Yang Sheng too much, become a fire and dissipate the body’s vitality for the disease, “Neijing” called “strong fire”, then it became one of the causes of disease in Chinese medicine. Usually we mention the disease-causing “fire”, there are internal and external points. Directly feel the warmth of the evil for the external fire, for example, we feel the fire in the summer and other hot seasons of the evil, there will be high fever, thirst, sweating, upset, insomnia. Chinese medicine is very attention to analogical images, because the fire is up burning, it is believed that the fire of the evil has the characteristics of the upper inflammation, so the clinical manifestations of the upper part of the human body, such as sores on the mouth and tongue, swollen gums, eye redness and pain, etc.; fire is easy to consume yin and Jin, the clinical manifestations of more than thirst, dry throat and tongue, constipation, urination, etc. Short and red. In addition, the human body viscera yin and yang imbalance can also lead to internal fire, which is often referred to as false fire. As the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” said, “Yin deficiency generates internal heat, Yang Sheng generates external heat.” The body’s five organs in certain conditions can be fire, such as stomach fire can have stomach pain, dry stools, bad breath and other symptoms, lung fire can have hemoptysis, cough, yellow phlegm, etc., liver fire will have some irritability, insomnia, women will have breast pain, heart fire will palpitation, insomnia, heartburn. As the saying goes, “no gas turns into fire” or “no will turns into fire”. Of course, eating “fire” food, or staying up all night will also cause fire. How to prevent fire? To pay attention to the combination of work and rest, quit smoking and less alcohol. Diet should pay attention to eat more vegetables and fruits containing vitamins. Eat fruits and vegetables should also be selective, is hot such as lychee, orange, pineapple, longan, pomegranate, mango, etc. Try to eat as little as possible, eat more radish, watermelon, bitter melon. Drink more water and less carbonated beverages, less spicy fried foods, such as onions, ginger, garlic, chili, pepper, pepper, and fumigation of food, Sichuan’s hot and spicy, as well as Guangdong’s “hit the side of the stove” and so on are prone to fire. In addition, the fire and emotional relationship is inseparable, optimistic and open-minded state of mind is the best fire extinguisher. Once you have a “fire” symptoms, you can use some Chinese medicine herbal tea or take soup to clear heat and fire, such as nourishing yin tian dong, mai dong, xuan shen, and so on, there is a heat detoxification forsythia, honeysuckle, big green leaves, or clearing the role of heat and diarrhea of rhubarb, rhizoma, cypress, and so on. Usually eat some turtle jelly, for easy to fire in the south is also a lot of benefits. Turtle jelly with wild money turtle, fresh turtle shell or turtle gelatin and Poria cocos as the main raw material, together with dozens of traditional Chinese medicine (licorice, jujube, mulberry leaves, honeysuckle, honey, chrysanthemum, etc.) and other decoction and become, has a heat-clearing and fire-reducing, moistening the lungs and relieving cough effect. At the same time, Chinese medicine acupuncture, fire pots, massage, massage and other treatment of fire also has a very good auxiliary effect.