Excessive internal heat is mainly divided into the following categories:
1. Heart fire: it can be divided into two types: deficiency fire and excess fire. Deficiency fire is characterized by low fever, night sweats, upset and dry mouth. Excess fire is characterized by repeated oral ulcers, swollen gums, dry mouth, short and red urine, and irritability.
2. Lung fire: mainly manifested as dry cough with little phlegm, blood in sputum, sore throat and hoarseness, hot flashes and night sweats.
3. Stomach fire: there are two kinds of deficiency and excess. Deficiency fire is characterized by mild cough, less appetite, constipation, abdominal distension, red tongue and less fur; Excess fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, dry stool and yellow greasy tongue coating.
4. Anger: We often refer to some excitable people as "anger". In fact, the constitution commonly known as "liver fire" also has the following symptoms: dry mouth, bitter taste, bad breath, headache, dizziness, dry eyes, unstable sleep, sultry body and thick tongue coating.
5. Kidney fire: mainly manifested as dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, toothache, insomnia, five upset, weight loss, waist and leg pain, etc.
Fire can be divided into excess fire and deficiency fire, and excess fire refers to excess heat syndrome of yang. Excess fire in liver, gallbladder and gastrointestinal tract is common. Symptoms include high fever, headache, red eye, thirst for cold drinks, irritability, abdominal distension and pain, constipation, yellow urine, red tongue with Huang Gan fur or prickles, rapid pulse, and even vomiting blood and nosebleeds. Treatment should adopt the principles and methods of bitter cold to control fire, clearing away heat and toxic materials, purging excess and reducing fire. Deficiency fire is mostly caused by internal injury and strain, such as exhaustion of essence and qi after long-term illness and strain, which can lead to weakness and imbalance of viscera, excessive internal heat and then turn into deficiency fire.
According to different pathogenesis, deficiency fire is generally further divided into two symptoms: yin deficiency fire and qi deficiency fire. The hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency is mostly manifested as hot flashes, night sweats, emaciation, dry mouth and throat, vexation, restlessness, red tongue without coating and rapid pulse. Treatment should be based on the principle of promoting fluid production and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and reducing fire. Those with excessive qi deficiency and fire are characterized by dryness and heat, especially before noon, aversion to cold and wind, aversion to heat and cold, fatigue, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, loose urine, weak pulse, pale tongue with thin coating. Treatment should be based on the principles of tonifying the middle energizer, tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, warming the middle energizer and clearing heat. It is very important to analyze the deficiency and excess of internal heat and use drugs accordingly. In addition, some foods that can remove fire can also be tried, but they also need to be symptomatic. For example, eat lotus seed soup to get rid of heart fire, pig liver to get rid of lung fire, mung bean porridge to get rid of stomach fire, pear water to get rid of liver fire and pig kidney fire.
Clearing away heat and toxic materials: such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, Radix Isatidis, tomato, bamboo shoot, mung bean, bean curd, celery, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, etc. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and is suitable for various symptoms of excess fire;
Bitter and cold fire: such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, bracken, towel gourd, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frog and so on. , can turn cold into heat, reduce fire, mostly used for real fire.
There are many kinds of foods that can clear away heat and reduce internal heat:
Foods with heat-clearing and detoxicating functions include
1. Melons: Watermelon, wax gourd, bitter gourd, wax gourd, cucumber, loofah and fingered citron are some natural melon foods with calming, cooling and anti-inflammatory effects, which have the wonderful functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing away heat and purging fire, detoxifying and relaxing bowels. So in hot summer, you can usually cook some winter melon tea, bitter melon soup, loofah noodles or cucumber porridge. Another cup of watermelon juice after a meal will definitely dispel the summer heat;
2. Fruit juice: it can not only cool blood and detoxify, but also supplement vitamin C for whitening. Kiwi, grapefruit, apples and grapes are all good sources of natural vitamin C. When squeezing juice, several fruits can be squeezed together, which will be more nutritious.
3. Fish: herring, crucian carp, silver carp, etc
4. Beans: mung beans, soybeans, tofu, etc.
5. Vegetables: raw radish, chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoot, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, bitter gourd, bitter gourd, bracken, towel gourd, Chinese cabbage, celery, day lily, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, etc.
6. Fruits: watermelon, banana, strawberry, pear, persimmon, kiwi, grapefruit, grape and sugarcane.
General heat-clearing food has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is suitable for treating heat syndrome. Generally, foods with the function of clearing away heat and toxic materials are bananas, watermelons, celery, Chinese cabbage, amaranth, bitter gourd, cucumber, loquat, pear, millet, mung bean, tofu, soybean and wheat. But this kind of food is cold and cold, and it is not suitable for women with cold constitution, deficiency-cold syndrome and postpartum.
Commonly used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, such as rhubarb, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. , suitable for short yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth and bitter taste, abdominal distension and anorexia. Such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, rehmannia root, auricularia auricula, Monopterus albus, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn stigma, mango, eel, bamboo leaves, cogongrass rhizome, purslane and so on. It can be used for cases of blood-heat rash such as nosebleed, hematochezia, hematuria and gingival bleeding.
Here are some of the simplest and most commonly used foods:
Olives are also called olives. It has the effects of clearing away lung heat, relieving sore throat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for patients with wind-heat cold accompanied by sore throat. Folk use 2 ~ 5 olives, split, half to 1 fresh radish (both red and white), boil water without drinking tea.
Sweet potato can produce saliva to quench thirst, cure saliva or cook food. "Luchuan Materia Medica" records: "Produce body fluid to quench thirst, and cure fever and thirst." Suitable for wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, headache and polydipsia.
Water chestnut is suitable for people with wind-heat cold, cough, yellow phlegm, sore throat and dry mouth. It has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, and can be eaten raw, cooked or juiced for drinking. If you use jellyfish skin to decoct, the effect of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough is better.
Pears are cool and sweet, and can produce fluid, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. It is suitable for wind-heat cold, fever and thirst, cough and yellow phlegm, and can be eaten at will. People who are used to wind-heat, cold and cough use 1 raw pears, wash and chop them up, and stew them with rock sugar.
Radish has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for people with cough and phlegm caused by wind-heat cold.
Douchi is flat in nature and can dispel exterior evils. People often use lobster sauce with scallion, or decoct soup or cook porridge, which is suitable for both wind-cold and wind-heat colds, and has the effect of sweating and reducing fever.
People with wind-heat and cold should eat more cold things, such as mung beans, apples, persimmon frost, loquat, oranges, kiwi fruit, strawberries, Siraitia grosvenorii, figs, celery, water dropwort, day lily, lettuce, wolfberry head, tofu, gluten, wax gourd, sweet potato and so on.
Eriobotrya leaves are helpful for clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, harmonizing stomach, lowering adverse qi and relieving summer heat.
Bitter gourd can clear away heat and toxic materials, clear the heart and improve eyesight, and is suitable for people with strong hearts. But the degree of heart fire should be used as a measure of food intake.
Lily is sweet, bitter and flat, which helps to moisten the lungs and relieve cough, clear the heart and soothe the nerves.
Tea leaves, such as oolong tea and Kuding tea, have the effects of clearing away heat, strengthening the heart, inducing diuresis, clearing food and relieving hangover, and promoting fluid production to quench thirst. But excessive drinking will hurt the spleen and stomach.
Bitter almond has the effects of relieving cough and asthma, moistening intestine and relaxing bowels, moistening lung and strengthening spleen. But consumers must be careful not to eat untreated nuts. Nuts need to be peeled and pointed, soaked in hot water for one day, cooked without cover, and then eaten after hydrocyanic acid volatilizes.
Dandelion detoxifies food intake, disperses stagnation and promotes qi circulation, clears away heat and detoxifies, turns food into poison, and reduces swelling, tuberculosis and furuncle. It is a good medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass. Using dandelion with chrysanthemum and honeysuckle to soak in water has a good effect on removing fire. Dried dandelion can be bought in Chinese medicine shops, and making tea can cure throat fire.
Tofu is sweet, salty, cold and non-toxic. Indications: Broadening the middle energizer, invigorating qi, harmonizing the spleen and stomach, eliminating swelling, dredging turbid qi in the large intestine, clearing heat and promoting blood circulation. Liver fire is more prosperous in spring and summer, so eat less hot and sour, and eat more sweets to nourish. Tofu is a good choice. Its taste is sweet and cool, and it has the effects of invigorating qi, harmonizing middle energizer, promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and reducing fire, quenching thirst and relieving hangover.
Eggplant flavor: cool and sweet. Function: clearing away heat and cooling blood, removing blood stasis and reducing swelling. Can be used for treating carbuncle, sore, aphtha, hemorrhoid bleeding, hematochezia, epistaxis, etc. Of all the ways to eat eggplant, mashed potatoes are the healthiest. The method is simple. Wash eggplant, or break it, or slice it and steam it in a pot. It is best to use olive oil, sesame paste, garlic paste and a little salt as the seasoning of tomato sauce. Olive oil is undoubtedly a healthy oil, sesame paste is rich in calcium, protein and vitamins, and garlic paste has the efficacy of sterilization and cancer prevention. In the absence of spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea, the elderly and children are suitable to eat a little. Pregnant women friends should also choose fresh eggplant when choosing eggplant. It is best not to choose old eggplant, especially after autumn, which contains more solanine, which is harmful to human body and should not be eaten more.
celery
Sex: Cool, Ganxin. Function: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, calming liver and invigorating stomach. Indications: clearing away heat and relieving vexation, calming the liver, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Indications: hypertension, headache, dizziness, sudden fever, polydipsia, jaundice, edema, adverse urine heat, irregular menstruation, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, lymphoid tuberculosis and parotitis. Celery is cool and slippery, and it should be used with caution for those with spleen and stomach deficiency and intestinal instability. Celery is the best medicine. The climate in spring is dry, and people often feel thirsty, wheezing, upset and unwell. Eating celery often helps to clear away heat and toxic materials, and to get rid of diseases and strengthen the body. People with excessive liver fire, rough skin and frequent insomnia and headache can eat more appropriately. Celery is suitable for eating with tomatoes, beef and mutton, just like chicken, cucumber and pumpkin. Try to avoid it when eating. 90 grams of celery root and 9 grams of jujube, decocted and drunk before going to bed, can cure insomnia; Wash and chop celery roots properly and eat scrambled eggs to treat headaches; Chop celery root, put it into japonica rice and cook it into celery porridge, and add a little rock sugar, which is helpful for middle-aged and elderly people suffering from hypertension, arteriosclerosis and neurasthenia.
You can choose mint, mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, bamboo leaves, gardenia, cassia seed, honeysuckle, boat-fruited Sterculia, isatis root and kudingcha to soak in water, all of which have the effects of refreshing, expelling pathogenic wind, clearing away heat and relieving sore throat and detoxifying; In addition, you can also choose cool bitter gourd and old woman (dandelion); Or put some mung beans and lotus seeds in the usual cooking.
Suggestion: I suggest that you choose to quote or take the above food teas in spring and summer, because they are all cold, and it may be particularly cold in autumn and winter. Please pay more attention!
If the eyes are red, swollen, astringent and painful, or there are symptoms such as sore throat, swollen gums, oral ulcer pain and tongue tip erosion, you can adjust your diet. "Dietotherapy" has a unique effect.
Recommend several weight loss recipes:
Golden needle amaranth soup
Formula: day lily 30g, purslane 30g.
Methods: The first two raw materials were boiled in water for 20 minutes, and then the residue was removed to get juice.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Usage: Take it twice a day.
Plum blossom and mung bean porridge
Formula: Chimonanthus praecox 15g, mung bean 30g and japonica rice 50g.
Method: Boil Chimonanthus praecox with water to get juice, and then cook porridge with mung bean and japonica rice. When the porridge is ready, add the medicinal juice and mix well, then add rock sugar to taste.
Efficacy: clearing away heat, nourishing yin and detoxifying.
Usage: daily 1 dose, taken twice.
Wu Mei El Tang Dou
Formula: 2 ebony, black beans 15g, mung beans 15g.
Methods: The coarse powder of the three herbs was decocted in water to get clear juice.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
Usage: Always drink instead of tea.
Three bean soup
Formula: red beans, mung beans and black beans.
Methods: The above three herbs were decocted in water.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Usage: Always drink instead of tea.
Mung bean, lily and barley porridge
Ingredients: Semen Coicis 50g, mung bean 25g, fresh lily 100g.
Practice: Lily breaks into petals by hand and removes the inner membrane. When mung beans and barley are cooked to five degrees, add lily, cook porridge and add rock sugar to taste.
Times: 65438+ 0-2 times a day
Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials.
Lotus seed soup
Materials and practices: 30g of lotus seeds (without removing lotus plumule), 0/5g of gardenia/kloc (wrapped with gauze), adding appropriate amount of rock sugar, decocting in water, eating lotus seeds and drinking soup.
Function: to get rid of heart fire. Symptoms: there are two kinds of deficiency and excess, and deficiency fire is characterized by low fever, night sweats, upset, dry mouth and so on. Excess fire is characterized by repeated oral ulcers, dry mouth, short and red urine, and irritability.
Zhugan decoction
Materials and practices: pork liver 1 and chrysanthemum 30g (wrapped in gauze) are boiled until the liver is cooked, and the liver is eaten and soup is drunk.
Efficacy: dry cough without phlegm or less phlegm but sticky, hot flashes and night sweats, fever of hands and feet, insomnia and red tongue.
Mung Bean Congee
Materials and Practice: Gypsum powder 30g, and appropriate amount of japonica rice and mung bean. First, gypsum is boiled in water, then filtered to remove residue, and its clear liquid is taken, and then japonica rice and mung bean are added to cook porridge.
Efficacy: dispel the heart fire. Symptoms: There are two kinds of deficiency and excess. Deficiency fire is characterized by mild cough, less appetite, constipation, abdominal distension, red tongue and less fur; Excess fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry stool.
Lishui
Materials and Methods: Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 10g was mashed into powder, and two pears were peeled and cut into pieces, and then added with appropriate amount of rock sugar, and stewed in clear water.
Efficacy: to get rid of liver fire. Manifestations: headache, dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes, bitter taste, bad breath and pain in both ribs.
Zhushen decoction
Materials and practice: 2 pork loins, Lycium barbarum 15g, Cornus officinalis 15g, put them in a casserole and cook until the pork loins are cooked, then eat pork loins and drink soup.
Efficacy: Clearing kidney and purging fire symptoms: dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, backache, hot flashes, night sweats, and fidgety.
Horseshoe porridge
Raw materials: water chestnut, rice each 100g, proper amount of sugar.
Practice: Water chestnut is washed, peeled and cut into pieces for later use. Wash the rice first, add some water to cook the porridge, add water chestnut and sugar when it is almost cooked, and cook the porridge until it is cooked. Or wash the water chestnut, juice it, and when the porridge is cooked, put it into the porridge with white sugar and cook it.
Tip: Because water chestnut is cold and difficult to digest, eating too much can easily cause bloating. Children and people with weak digestive ability should not eat more, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should also eat carefully. Moreover, be sure to peel or wash before eating. Because water chestnut grows in paddy fields, harmful biological excreta and chemicals will gather on the skin, and there may be parasites in the skin of water chestnut. If you eat water chestnut skin without washing, you will get some diseases.
Fried pork with zucchini
Ingredients: main ingredient: zucchini 500g, auxiliary materials: pork (fat and thin) 100g, egg white15g; Seasoning: salt 3g, soy sauce 15g, onion 10g, ginger 10g, starch (corn) 25g and sesame oil 5.
Practice: 1, sliced tenderloin, marinated with soy sauce, cooking wine and water starch for more than ten minutes; 2. Slice zucchini; 3. Chop garlic; 4. After the oil in the pot is hot, add the tenderloin slices, stir-fry them evenly until they change color, and take them out for later use; 5. Heat the oil in the pot, add the minced garlic and stir fry, add the zucchini slices, stir fry evenly, then add a little clear soup or water and stir fry until soft; 6. Pour the sliced meat into the pot, stir fry and add salt and chicken essence to taste.
Function: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, relieving vexation and thirst, moistening lung and relieving cough.
Clam almond tofu
Ingredients: clams, tofu with inner fat, bitter almonds.
Practice: 1. After buying home, clams should be kept in light salt water for half a day to spit out sediment, then quickly boiled in boiling water and fished out; 2. Peel and tip bitter almonds, soak them in hot water for one day and cook them without cover; 3. Boil the water in the pot, add the tofu pieces to boil, add salt, pepper, chicken essence and oil to taste, and then add clams to cook; 4. After boiling again, add wet starch to make a thin paste, and add chopped green onion or parsley.
It is suggested that soybean, the raw material of tofu, contains saponins, which can prevent atherosclerosis and promote iodine excretion in the body. Eating too much tofu for a long time can easily lead to iodine deficiency. In addition, the content of protein in tofu is relatively high, which will hinder the absorption of iron by human body and easily lead to indigestion. It is advisable to take 100g each time.
Getting angry is prone to symptoms such as sore tongue coating, dry stool, dizziness, fatigue and weakness, and detoxification is also very important. In addition to keeping a good mood, you should also do the following in your life:
Drink plenty of water: water is the best detoxification carrier. Drinking more water can not only dilute the concentration of toxins in the body, reduce the harm of toxins, but also promote the metabolism of the kidneys and discharge more harmful substances.
Regular exercise: Do aerobic exercise with sweating at least 1-2 times a week. The skin is the largest detoxification organ of the human body, and the toxins that are difficult to eliminate in the internal organs can be eliminated by sweating.
Eat more fruits and vegetables: The existence of toxins in the body makes the blood oxidation acidic, while most fruits and vegetables are alkaline, which can neutralize excessive acidic substances in the body and dissolve toxins accumulated in cells. The cellulose rich in vegetables and fruits can also play the role of intestinal scavenger. Cellulose can absorb the metabolism of digestive tract and external toxic substances like a sponge, and excrete them in time, shortening the retention time of toxins in the intestine and reducing the reabsorption of toxins in the intestine.
It should be pointed out that the vegetables that can be eaten raw should be eaten raw as much as possible, because eating raw vegetables can provide more cellulose. Spinach coming into the market in spring has a strong detoxification effect. According to "Materia Medica Seeking Truth", it can relieve fever, hangover, relieve constipation and detoxify.
These are some of my own practices and suggestions from some friends in the medical field. I hope it works for you.