Medicinal diets that are mainly composed of heat-clearing medicinal foods have the functions of clearing away heat, purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying. Medicinal diets used to treat internal heat syndrome are called heat-clearing medicinal diets.

The causes of internal heat syndrome are mainly exogenous and endogenous.

The six exogenous factors caused by the external factors can enter the interior and transform heat; the excessive five willpower and excessive internal organs can also transform the fire; internal injury and long-term illness, depletion of yin fluid, and internal deficiency of heat.

Internal heat syndrome can be divided into different parts of Qi, blood and internal organs, as well as excess heat and deficient heat. Therefore, medicated meals can be divided into qi-clearing and cooling medicated meals, heat-clearing and heat-clearing medicated meals, and heat-clearing and detoxifying medicated meals. Five categories: medicated diet for clearing viscera heat and medicated diet for clearing away heat from deficiency.

This type of medicated diet is mostly composed of cold and cool ingredients, and should be used with caution by people with yang deficiency and weak spleen and stomach.

1. Qingqi Liangying medicated diet

Qingqi Liangying medicated diet is suitable for febrile diseases, where the heat is in the qi and nutrient components, or when the heat is excessive and the yin and fluid are damaged, the symptoms are High fever, irritability, profuse sweating, thirst, excessive drinking, yellow coating, etc., or high fever, irritability, dark tongue, etc.

Bamboo leaves, gardenias, gypsum, reed roots, raw materials, pears, water chestnuts, lotus roots and other medicinal foods are commonly used.

1. Heat-clearing tea drink

Ingredients: 20 fresh green fruits, 4 fresh reed roots

Instructions for consumption: Remove the core of the green fruits and chop the reed roots , boil it in water and make tea.

2. Five Juice Drink

Ingredients: 200 grams of raw pears, 500 grams of water chestnuts, 100 grams of fresh reed root, 50 grams of fresh Ophiopogon japonicus, and 500 grams of lotus root.

Instructions for consumption: Wash and peel, squeeze the juice and drink. If you don’t like cold drinks, you can also drink them by stewing them in water.

2. Clear away heat and dispel summer heat

It is suitable for summer heat and summer-dampness syndrome caused by summer heat or summer dampness. Symptoms include body heat, upset, thirst, sweating, and weight gain. Tired of waiting.

Huoxiang, Peilan, watermelon, luffa, mung beans, lentils, tea, lotus stems and other medicinal foods are commonly used.

Two watermelon cups

Ingredients: 1 watermelon, 50g reed root, 50g Imperata root, 50g snow pear, 50g sugared water chestnuts, 50g fresh lychee, hawthorn cake 50 grams of strips, 50 grams of sugared lotus seeds, 100 grams of canned white fungus, 25 grams of dendrobium, 25 grams of bamboo root, and 400 grams of white sugar.

Instructions for consumption:

Wash the reed root, Imperata cognac root, dendrobium and bamboo root, add water to decoct 250 ml of concoction and set aside;

Wash the watermelon, Dig out the melon sac; cut the snow pear into small slices, dice the water chestnuts and hawthorn cake strips, core and cut the lychees into small pieces, cut the lotus seeds into halves and set aside;

Pour the concoction into the pot, add the sugar, and heat it over low heat Open, add snow pears, water chestnuts, lychees, and lotus seeds and bring to a boil, then add hawthorn and serve.

Remove the seeds from the melon pulp, put it into a watermelon cup together with the fruit ingredients, condiment soup, and white fungus, cover it and put it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours before serving.

3. Clear away heat and detoxify

Suitable for plague, warm toxin and other diseases.

Honeysuckle, dandelion, purpurea, mung beans, purslane, Houttuynia cordata, garlic, etc. are the most commonly used.

1. Purslane and mung bean porridge

Ingredients: 120 grams of fresh purslane, 60 grams of mung beans.

How to eat:

Wash the purslane and cut into sections;

Wash the mung beans, put them in a casserole, add purslane and an appropriate amount of After the water is boiled over a high fire, it can be cooked over a slow fire.

2. Water chestnuts and pork ribs soup

Ingredients: 250 grams of water chestnuts, 500 grams of pork ribs, 50 grams of smilax, 15 grams of ginger, and appropriate amount of salt.

How to eat:

Wash all the raw materials, stew until soft, add salt and eat.

4. Clearing away internal heat

Suitable for fire-heat syndromes caused by excessive heat evil, such as upset and insomnia, mouth sores, red tongue, headache, dizziness, red eyes and bitter mouth , deafness, ear swelling, chest and hypochondrium pain, etc.

Bamboo leaves, gardenias, duck meat, radish, winter melon and other medicinal foods are most commonly used.

Dengxin Bamboo Leaf Soup

Ingredients: 15g Dengxin and 10g bamboo leaves.

Instructions for consumption: Substitute for tea.

5. Clear away deficiency heat

Suitable for evening heat and early coolness, red tongue with less coating, and liver disease caused by late-stage febrile disease, incomplete evil heat, and damaged Yin fluid. Deficiency of kidney and lung yin fluid causes bone steaming, hot flashes, low-grade fever that persists, and night sweats.

The most commonly used are Bupleurum baicalensis, Digupi, Anemarrhena, Baiwei and soft-shelled turtle.

1. Wolfberry leaf porridge

Ingredients: 250 grams of fresh wolfberry leaves, 60 grams of light tempeh, and 250 grams of japonica rice.

How to eat:

Fry the tempeh in water, remove the residue and get the juice;

Use the tempeh juice to cook the rice porridge, and when it is cooked, add the wolfberry leaves together Add it and season with oil, salt, green onions, etc.

2. Steamed Hu duck with lotus seeds and lotus leaves

Ingredients: 15 grams of lotus seeds, 1 fresh lotus leaf, 300 grams of Hu duck breast, 25 grams of dried shiitake mushrooms, salt, Chicken powder, oyster sauce, Huadiao wine, chives, sugar, pepper, sesame oil, and appropriate amount of cornstarch.

Instructions for consumption:

Soak lotus seeds in clean water for 20 minutes and steam until cooked;

Wash fresh lotus leaves and set aside;

Duck Cut the breast into pieces, add Huadiao wine, salt, pepper, sugar, oyster sauce, cornstarch, green onions and ginger to marinate to taste;

Soak the mushrooms in warm water, cut into pieces, and marinate with the marinated duck, Mix the lotus seeds well, wrap them tightly with fresh lotus leaves, and steam them in a steamer for 40 minutes until cooked.