There are many kinds of foods with the function of clearing away heat and reducing fire. Generally, different symptoms can be divided into the following categories:
(1) Heat-clearing and detoxicating categories: such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, Radix Isatidis, tomato, bamboo shoot, mung bean, bean curd, celery, water chestnut, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, etc., which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and are suitable for various fire symptoms.
(2) Fire-fighting by bitter cold: such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, Juecai, loofah, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frog, etc., which can turn heat into fire by cold nature and are mostly used for excess fire.
(3) Dampness-promoting and fire-purging: such as wax gourd, watermelon, coix seed, lentils, barley, amaranth, melon, adzuki bean, snakehead, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard-membrane, etc., which are suitable for all kinds of real fire symptoms.
(4) attacking real fire: such as rhubarb, Anemarrhena rhizome, coptis root, scutellaria root, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc., which are suitable for symptoms such as short yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth and bitter taste, abdominal distension and poor appetite.
(5) cooling blood and astringing blood: such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, radix rehmanniae, auricularia, Monopterus albus, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn stigma, mango, eel, bamboo leaves, cogongrass rhizome, purslane, etc., which can be used for epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria and so on.
(6) Sweet-warm and heat-removing categories: such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, bee milk, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard, cherry, pomegranate, ebony, etc., which are suitable for the condition of qi deficiency and fire flourishing.
(7) Nourishing yin and reducing fire: such as soft-shelled turtle, kelp, laver, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, black-bone chicken, pumpkin, clam, tremella, etc., which are mostly used for yin deficiency, excessive fire, hot flushes, night sweats and insomnia at night.
(8) Visceral-nourishing and flameout: such as black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seed, white fungus, pigeon eggs, quail, sparrow meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leek, mulberry, etc., which are suitable for various symptoms of deficiency fire caused by weakness of viscera and failure of yang.
special recommendation
Milk
Many people think that drinking milk in summer will aggravate "getting angry" and cause irritability. In fact, drinking milk in summer not only won't "get angry", but also can relieve heat and poison and get rid of liver fire. Chinese medicine believes that milk is slightly cold, and it can play the role of "removing fire" by nourishing yin and clearing away heat and toxin. Moreover, milk contains about 70% water, which can also supplement the water lost by sweating in summer. It should be noted that milk should not be frozen into ice, otherwise many nutrients will be destroyed.
Strawberries
Strawberries are not only delicious, but also have medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of removing fire, clearing away summer heat, relieving fever and removing annoyance.
Watermelon
Watermelon is cool, eating it will not cause irritation, and it is rich in potassium salt, which can make up for the lack of potassium salt in the body caused by a large number of people. But be careful not to put the watermelon in the refrigerator for more than 3 hours.
Soybean
Soybeans can nourish yin and relieve inflammation, and at the same time, they can supplement protein which is consumed a lot because of high temperature.
Bitter gourd
Ancient famous doctors regarded bitter gourd as the best food to clear summer heat, remove internal fire and help improve irritability in summer.
Tomatoes
Although it can be seen all year round, tomatoes are the most abundant, sweetest and most nutritious in summer. It can also clear away heat and toxic materials, calm the liver and remove fire.
Go to bed before 23 o'clock
This is difficult to do, especially in summer. But professional doctors remind everyone that summer is precisely the season that needs to be guaranteed to sleep before 23 o'clock. Because, from 23: 00 to 1 o'clock in the morning is the time for qi and blood to return to the liver, if you don't sleep, it is equivalent to forcing the liver to continue working, coupled with external climate factors, so "whether to sleep or not" is particularly obvious in summer.