During the New Year's Eve, it is inevitable to consume "spicy spirits, thick flavors", which can easily cause real fire, and the symptoms include: bitter taste in mouth, bad breath, bloodshot eyes, swollen gums, constipation and so on. Chinese medicine practitioners recommend that you make good use of fire-reducing beverages, such as bitter tea, herbal tea, sugar cane juice, as well as utilizing fire-reducing herbal remedies, which can help reduce fire.
Be careful of the ingredients that make you hot
Why is it so easy to get hot during the New Year? The most convenient thing is to eat hot pot, which adds a comprehensive dumplings, pills, bean curd and other high fat, high salt processed food, are easy to fire the food. In addition, chatting must also eat snacks, such as shredded squid, beef jerky, pork jerky, dried beans, melon seeds, cashews, peanut candies and other high-calorie snacks, but also lead to fire accomplices.
Dietary disorders can easily trigger the first fire, and during the New Year's period accounted for the majority or eat out of the real fire, fire is actually eaten out, to deal with the problem of fire, but also should be adjusted from the dietary fundamentals.
Chen Chaozong, honorary chairman of the Taipei City Association of Chinese Physicians, recommended the following fire-reducing drinks and herbal remedies:
● fire-reducing drinks:
Green bean soup, winter melon tea, bitter tea, green grass tea, sugar cane juice, asparagus juice, lemon juice, umeboshi juice, coconut juice, Aloe vera juice, peppermint tea, jasmine tea, Lohas tea, Rose Tea, Chrysanthemum Tea, Immortal Herb Honey, Lotus Seed and Job's Tears Soup, Stone Lotus Flower Tea, White Fungus and Lotus Seed Soup, Lotus Root Juice, Chrysanthemum and Goji Berry Tea, and so on.
Special Recommendations
◎ Sugarcane juice: sweet taste of sugar cane has a quench, quench the thirst, the body, diuretic effect, dry mouth, indigestion, fever, you can drink sugar cane juice to clear the heat, help digestion.
◎ White fungus and lotus seed soup: white fungus is rich in gelatin, pectin and polysaccharides, whitening, laxative, moistening the lungs, lowering the cholesterol effect; lotus seed can be healthy spleen and stomach, clearing the heart and mind, it is the people who are on fire to quench their thirst for a good dessert choice.
◎ Lotus seed barley soup: Job's tears have the spleen and lungs, clear heat, eliminate the role of edema, but is not suitable for the body cold and pregnant women to eat.
◎ Herbal tea: commonly used in the fenugreek, psyllium, mint, salty grass boiled and made of herbal tea, has a cool fire, anti-heat, anti-inflammatory, diuretic effect, but the cold hands and feet, cold, low kidney function should not be consumed.
Herbal tea made from fenugreek, plantain, mint, and salmon grass has a cooling, anti-inflammatory, diuretic effect.