What are the foods that clear fire?

Commonly used fire-clearing foods include cucumbers, mung beans, bitter melon, celery, tomatoes, tofu, etc.

Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment. To clear fire, it is best to ask a traditional Chinese medicine doctor to conduct accurate syndrome differentiation and carry out targeted treatment according to the nature of deficiency and excess of the evil of fire and the location of the organs. Diet can play an auxiliary treatment role, but the fire-clearing foods for different syndromes are also different, mainly including cucumber, mung beans, bitter melon, celery, tomatoes, tofu, etc. For example, people with symptoms such as abdominal distension, sticky stools, nausea and vomiting due to heat in the spleen and stomach can eat more red beans, barley, winter melon, etc.; people with heat in the liver and gallbladder and symptoms such as irritability, dry mouth and bitter taste, jaundice, etc. can eat more Eat artemisia japonica rice porridge, money grass porridge, corn silk porridge, etc.

This content was reviewed by Fan Weiwei, deputy chief physician of the Department of Nephrology, Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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