The five most common symptoms of excessive internal heat include: lung fire, liver fire, stomach fire, heart fire, and excessive fire due to kidney yin deficiency.
First, lung fire
The lungs are invaded by wind-heat and heat-evil, and they are prone to dry mouth, cough, sore throat and other heat diseases. Or a series of symptoms with dry mouth, cough, sore throat, etc. as the main manifestations after the body feels exogenous pathogens or the normal physiological function of the lungs is affected by internal injuries of seven emotions. There are two types of lung fire: deficiency fire and excess fire, which is excess fire due to lung heat, and deficiency fire due to lung yin deficiency.
Foods for regulating lung fire: At this time, first consider quitting smoking, and then you can choose some foods and medicines with good heat-clearing effect, such as white radish, tremella, cabbage, celery, bananas, lilies, lotus seeds and other cool ingredients. There are also apples, sugarcane, lotus mist, water chestnuts and Sydney in fruits, which are also good foods for clearing fire and nourishing yin. You can also regulate lung fire by soaking some drinks such as chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and dandelion every day.
Second, liver fire
Liver yang in the liver is easy to be hyperactive, which is easy to cause liver fire. Therefore, many people with irregular diet, irregular life and excessive stagnation in modern times are easy to cause symptoms of liver fire. Bed manifestations include headache, dizziness, envy, eye pain, blushing, bitter taste, impatience and irritability, sharp red tongue edge, yellow fur, and strong pulse and string number; In severe cases, madness may occur, or hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, etc.
Foods for regulating liver fire: Fructus Lycii, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis, Semen Ziziphi Spinosae, etc. can clear liver fire. Usually, you can eat some lotus seeds, drink chrysanthemum tea and pork liver soup for conditioning. You can choose from fruits and vegetables: watermelon, hawthorn, strawberry, tomato, carrot and spinach.
Third, stomach fire
No matter whether you are in a bad mood, or foreign pathogenic heat disturbs your stomach, or liver-qi stagnation leads to weakness of the spleen and stomach, the symptoms of stomach fire are bloating, easy hunger in diet, stomachache, bad breath, thirst, dry stool, heartburn and so on. Stomach fire can also be divided into two types: deficiency fire is characterized by slight cough, poor appetite, constipation, abdominal distension, red tongue and little fur; Excess fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry and hard stool.
Foods for regulating stomach fire include: pears, mung beans, barley and other foods. Pear is a cool food, which can reduce fire and reduce fever, and is of great help to people with dry stool. Mung bean is our common summer food, which can clear away heat and induce diuresis. Such as mung bean soup, mung bean cake, mung bean porridge and so on. Coix seed is also a kind of cool food, which belongs to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians, and can promote diuresis and seep dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea.
Fourth, heart fire
The heart governs the blood vessels, and a strong heart fire will affect the spirit of the heart, which will cause insomnia, dizziness, headache, palpitation, irritability, forgetfulness, dry throat, sores on the mouth and tongue, and oral ulcers. In addition to the inflammation of the upper part caused by the inflammation of the upper part, the heart fire will move down the small intestine, because the heart governs the small intestine, and the heart fire will affect the secretion of the small intestine, causing intestinal diseases, and some diseases will occur, such as some intestinal tumors and colon cancer, which are closely related to the heart fire, so the heart fire is the root cause of many diseases.
Food for regulating heart fire: lotus plumule, cold and bitter, is a good hand to remove heart fire, and can be soaked in water to drink. Lotus leaf, antipyretic and fire-clearing, calming the heart and tranquilizing the mind, clearing heat and diuresis of wax gourd, invigorating spleen and removing dampness of coix seed, and cooking it into porridge to drink, has a good effect of clearing heat and removing heart fire. In addition, there is mung bean soup and rock sugar, which can also effectively dispel the heart fire.
Five, kidney yin deficiency and fire flourishing
Deficiency of kidney yin is also called deficiency of kidney water or deficiency of true yin. It is due to deficiency of kidney yin, loss of nourishment and endogenous deficiency heat. If the kidney yin is insufficient, the secretion of body fluid will be reduced, which is manifested as internal heat due to yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang due to yin deficiency. In other words, you will have the following symptoms: waist and knee pain, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia and dreaminess, feverish sensation, hot flashes and night sweats, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, dry throat and cheekbones, red tongue with little body fluid and no coating, and rapid pulse.
Food for nourishing kidney yin deficiency and flourishing fire: Eat more black food, such as black sesame, black beans, black rice, black fungus, kelp, laver, black-bone chicken, etc. Black rice and black-bone chicken are warm, enriching blood and tonifying kidney; Black sesame, sexual balance, kidney, liver, intestines, hair care; Black beans, sexual equality, tonifying kidney, promoting blood circulation and detoxifying. Auricularia auricula, kelp and laver are cold, especially suitable for those with kidney yin deficiency and internal heat.
In short, determine what fire you are on, and then you can correspondingly supplement the food that has gone to this fire. Only in this way can we get twice the result with half the effort in the process of fire.