If we have a big stomach fire, we may know it through other people's reactions. When we are talking to others, if the expression on the opposite side is strange and there is nothing to stay away from, then at this time, we should not go forward in a shady way and find a chance to smell our hands quickly, because the opposite side may be smoked by our bad breath. If the conversation continues, we can only chew a piece of gum for a while before continuing, but this is only a temporary cover-up

When we have a big stomach fire, food may accumulate in our stomach, which may easily cause bad breath. At the same time, it may be accompanied by dry mouth, bitter taste, swollen gums and other problems. Many people will wake up naturally in the middle of the night and then find that their mouth is dry and bitter, which may be caused by stomach fire. Oral problems caused by excessive internal heat in the stomach can only be eradicated by treating the stomach. Brushing your teeth or chewing gum can cure the symptoms, not the root cause.

People with stomach fire will also be affected by the digestive system. Our usual diet can be processed by the stomach and intestines in one day, and then excreted, but once our stomach fire is too strong, our digestive ability will be reduced, and food residues will easily accumulate in the body. Moreover, people who get angry are generally dry inside. When the stomach is dry, it is easy to absorb the water in the residue. It may be difficult to defecate in the end.

Speaking of stomach fire, I believe everyone doesn't know much about it. The most direct symptom of stomach fire is bad breath. If you have bad breath, pay attention to whether it is caused by stomach fire.

How to regulate stomach fire

People are prone to red eyes, astringent pain, or sore throat, swollen gums, oral ulcer pain, tongue coating erosion and other symptoms of "getting angry".

These symptoms may suggest that our stomach fire is too strong, so what should we do about it? How can I eliminate my stomach fire through some dietotherapy methods?

What is stomach fire?

Stomach fire is stomach heat. Internal heat caused by improper diet, such as drinking, eating spicy food, overeating cream, strong taste, etc., is called stomach fire in Chinese medicine, usually caused by damp heat and food stagnation.

At the same time, getting angry is also caused by the quantity, quality and time of diet. People with mild stomach fire never seem to have enough to eat, which is actually an illusion brought by stomach heat to the brain.

When the fire reaches a certain stage, there will be inflammation in the stomach and you can't eat anything. It can be said that the extremes meet.

Symptoms of stomach fire

Gastrointestinal symptoms include heartburn and pain, abdominal distension, dry mouth and bad breath, loose stool, constipation, swollen gums and loss of appetite.

Classification of stomach fire

Stomach fire can also be divided into deficiency fire and excess fire. Deficiency fire is characterized by slight cough, loss of appetite, constipation, abdominal distension and red tongue with little coating. Excess fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry stool.

Symptoms of stomach fire

Gastrointestinal symptoms include heartburn and pain, abdominal distension, dry mouth and bad breath, loose stool, constipation, swollen gums and loss of appetite.

Stomach fire can also be divided into deficiency fire and excess fire. Deficiency fire is characterized by slight cough, loss of appetite, constipation, abdominal distension and red tongue with little coating.

Excess fire is manifested as epigastric discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry stool. Stomach fire is stomach heat. Anger caused by improper diet, such as drinking, eating spicy food, overeating sorghum, delicious food, etc., is called stomach fire in Chinese medicine, usually caused by damp heat and food stagnation.

At the same time, getting angry is also caused by the quantity, quality and time of diet. People with mild stomach fire never seem to have enough to eat, which is really an illusion brought by stomach heat to the brain.

When the fire reaches a certain stage, there will be inflammation in the stomach and you can't eat anything. It can be said that the extremes meet.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the regulation of stomach fire should follow the principle of clearing heat and resolving stagnation, and diet should be controlled. Eat less hot food, eat less sweet and greasy food, supplement more yellow-green vegetables and seasonal fruits, and supplement vitamins and inorganic salts.

Insufficient, and pay due attention to oral hygiene. In terms of drug therapy, Sichuan lotus, corduroy, lotus seed core and Ophiopogon japonicus can be used to purge stomach fire.

What should I do if the stomach fire is big?

There are many kinds of stomach heat, also called stomach fire, for many reasons, and the most common one is pathogenic heat invading the stomach.

Excessive drinking, overeating, spicy food and overeating can also lead to stomach fire. Congestion, phlegm-dampness, food retention, etc. Local coagulation, leading to poor stomach qi and blocked blood flow, will cause stomach heat.

In addition, if there is fire in the liver and gallbladder and the liver qi is uncomfortable, it may not take the original road, but "take a fork in the road" and invade the stomach, which may also cause stomach fever.

Food is not only digested quickly in the stomach, but also the loss of body fluid is often manifested as abdominal distension, abdominal pain, upwelling of sour gas, thirst and bad breath.

Or especially like to drink cold drinks, but it is easy to get hungry after eating too much, and there are symptoms such as swollen gums, short and red urine, constipation, red tongue and rapid pulse.

Getting rid of hunger, that is, eating more and being hungry quickly, is just a manifestation of stomach heat.

Healthy people may also be hungry, and only when accompanied by other symptoms can they be considered pathological.

If accompanied by polydipsia, polyuria and emaciation, it is caused by stomach heat, which is more common in diabetic patients.

Eliminating hunger is not exactly the same as high metabolism in western medicine. The latter refers to excessive synthesis and secretion of thyroid hormone in human body, which leads to accelerated metabolism and increased appetite due to increased consumption.

However, if excessive intake still can't meet the consumption of substances in the body, it can show symptoms such as overeating, hunger, fear of heat and cold, sweating, fatigue, damp skin and emaciation. , such as hyperthyroidism. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the regulation of stomach fire should follow the principle of clearing heat and resolving stagnation.

Eat moderately, eat less things that are too hot and eat less sweet and greasy food.

Yellow-green vegetables and seasonal fruits should be added to the diet to supplement the deficiency of vitamins and inorganic salts, and proper attention should be paid to oral hygiene.

In terms of drug therapy, Sichuan lotus, corduroy, lotus seed core and Ophiopogon japonicus can be used to purge stomach fire.

Stomach fire is mainly caused by diet, such as overeating fat, sweet and thick taste, wine and cheese, fried products, excessive energy and accumulated heat.

Diet is a necessary condition for human survival and health, and daily diet is the source of qi, blood and body fluids, so diet is the material basis for maintaining human life activities.

However, diet should be controlled, and improper diet is often the cause of the disease, which is also the main factor for the increase of fever at present.

The so-called irregular diet, or too hungry, or too soft and too hard.

Excessive stomach fire can prolong the inflammation time of Yangming stomach meridian.

High-calorie food will provide internal heat. When you get angry, you should not eat more foods with low water content, such as fried foods, biscuits, peanuts and other nuts.

Poor sleep will lead to excessive use of the body, easy to get angry, and even more taboo to stay up all night.

People engaged in mental work, blood will concentrate on the head, leading to fatigue but unstable sleep.

Etiology of gastric weakness

Deficiency of stomach fire is mostly caused by imbalance of yin and yang of zang-fu organs, while yin deficiency causes internal heat such as loss of body fluid of zang-fu organs, and external evils add to the body, resulting in deficiency fire.

Slow onset, long course of disease, low fever, hot flashes, five-upset fever or bone steaming fatigue.

Blushing cheeks, dry mouth and throat, insomnia, night sweats, short and red urine, red tongue with little coating, and rapid pulse, which should nourish yin and clear heat.

Excessive stomach fire is caused by pathogenic fire, or by the transformation of exogenous pathogens.

It is characterized by acute onset, red face and red eyes, swelling and pain, high fever and aversion to heat, excessive drinking, dry mouth, yellow urine and dry knot. Even manic, unconscious and talkative.

Vomiting, bloody stool, spotty bleeding, etc. Red tongue, yellow and black tongue coating, heavy pulse, suitable for purging fire.

Stomach heat is stomach fire. It refers to the pathological changes caused by the invasion of stomach heat or overeating spicy, warm and aromatic dryness.

There are many reasons for stomach fire, such as drinking and eating spicy food. So what can be done to reduce stomach fire?

Avoid spicy food

As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure, and stomach fire is mostly caused by improper diet. For example, spicy food and excessive drinking will help the fire generate heat and make the stomach fire flourish. Usually try to avoid spicy food, which may reduce stomach fire.

Symptoms of excessive stomach fire

Stomach fire means that our stomach gets angry. Stomach fire is mainly caused by pathogenic heat invading the stomach or drinking alcohol, eating spicy food and avoiding eating too much.

In addition, internal qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm-dampness, food stagnation and so on. Can cause stomach heat (stomach fire). Fire in the liver and gallbladder can also cause stomach heat (stomach fire).

Stomach heat is mostly caused by eating spicy and thick food, excessive stomach fire, or pathogenic heat invading the stomach, or qi stagnation transforming fire.

The internal heat is blazing, and the qi and blood in the stomach are stagnant, so the upper abdomen burns and the heat hurts the body fluid, so thirst likes cold drinks, and fire dissipates the valley, so it dissipates the valley hunger.

If the liver fire is offensive to the stomach, swallowing acid is noisy. Inflammation of fire pathogen along meridians leads to halitosis, swollen gums, nosebleeds, etc.

When Yangming has fever or body fluid injury, constipation is red, the tongue is red with yellow fur and the pulse is slippery.

Pathologically, if the stomach heat is excessive, the decomposition function will be over-developed, and symptoms such as stomach noise, hunger, and excessive body fluid will appear, resulting in dry heat, stomach imbalance, bitter taste, thirst, constipation and other symptoms.

What's more, it consumes yin fluid, resulting in insufficient stomach yin. Inflammation of stomach fire can lead to stomach qi upwelling, and symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and bitter yellow water can be seen. Stomach fire goes up along the meridians, or toothache, swollen gums, or epistaxis, which burns the veins of the stomach, so blood overflows and is hematemesis.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the regulation of stomach fire should be based on the principle of clearing heat and resolving stagnation, and the diet should be light and not spicy.

In addition, eat less food that is too hot. It is best not to eat sweet and salty food.

Principle of regulating stomach fire

The regulation of stomach fire should follow the principle of clearing heat and resolving stagnation, and the diet should be moderate. Eat less things that are too hot and eat less sweet and greasy food.

Yellow-green vegetables and seasonal fruits should be added to the diet to supplement the deficiency of vitamins and inorganic salts, and proper attention should be paid to oral hygiene.

In terms of drug therapy, Sichuan lotus, corduroy, lotus seed core and Ophiopogon japonicus can be used to purge fire.

Prescription for reducing fire

Fresh radish juice, mung bean porridge, watermelon.

Modern research shows that radish has obvious antibacterial effect. Taixuan health experts suggest that radish juice is pungent, sweet and cool, belonging to lung and stomach meridians. People with stomach fire can drink radish juice for conditioning treatment.

But it is not suitable for aphtha patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. Mung bean porridge has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, clearing heart fire and purging stomach fire.

Lotus seeds, gordon euryales and yam are all appetizers, while watercress, lettuce, lettuce, tomatoes and loquat are all digestive foods.

People with overheated stomach fire can also eat watermelon in the dead of winter to reduce the fire.

Stomach fire can be caused by pathogenic heat, or by drinking too much, eating too much spicy food, helping fire to generate heat, or by qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm dampness, food accumulation and so on.

Fire in the liver and gallbladder can also cause stomach heat (stomach fire).

Its pathological manifestations are excessive stomach heat, strong decomposition function, possible symptoms such as stomach noise and hunger, and excessive heat and blazing fire.

Excessive elimination of body fluids leads to dryness and heat, stomach disharmony, bitter taste, thirst, constipation and other symptoms. What's more, it consumes yin fluid, resulting in insufficient stomach yin.

Inflammation of stomach fire can lead to stomach qi upwelling, and symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and bitter yellow water can be seen.

Stomach fire goes up along the meridians, or toothache, swollen gums, or epistaxis, which burns the veins of the stomach, so blood overflows and is hematemesis.

Clinical manifestations and contraindications of stomach heat syndrome

Stomach heat is the main reason, epigastric pain is obvious, accompanied by eating and hunger.

Red face, body heat, dry mouth, bitter taste, bad breath, liking cold diet, upset, scanty and yellow urine, red tongue, yellow and dry fur, and slippery pulse.

Edible food

Foods that are cold in nature and have the function of clearing stomach and purging fire, such as millet, wheat, tofu, mung bean, mung bean sprout, bitter gourd, wax gourd, cucumber, amaranth, Chinese cabbage, celery, water bamboo, watermelon, banana, loquat, pear, peach, rabbit meat, etc.

Avoid food

1, warm in nature, is helpful to yang and heat, such as indica rice, walnut kernel, dog meat, mutton, chicken, river shrimp, sea shrimp, longan meat, litchi, chain fish, grass carp, Allium macrostemon Bunge, pickled mustard tuber, sword bean, brown sugar and red dates.

2, spicy warm food, such as pepper, leek, fennel, cinnamon, dried ginger, ginger, pepper, pepper, fennel, fennel, garlic, cardamom and so on.

How to eliminate stomach fire

Nowadays, many people think that excessive stomach fire is a trivial matter. In fact, excessive stomach fire will also endanger our health. To solve this problem, we should pay attention to diet conditioning, timely detoxification, and cultivate the habit of going to bed early and getting up early.

But today, I'm going to teach you a little coup. We can help us quickly "douse" the stomach fire by pressing the acupoints on our bodies.

Press and knead Neiting point

Neiting point, like Taichong point, is also an acupuncture point on our feet. Neiting point belongs to the line point of Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming, at the intersection of the gap between our second toe and our third toe. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "promoting the main body heat" is the nemesis of heat syndrome and getting angry.

If we often massage Neiting points, it can help us reduce stomach fire, and it also has the function of invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. Too much stomach fire can cause headaches, bad breath, sore throat and other discomforts. We rub this acupoint with our thumb about 100 times every morning and evening, which can effectively relieve the above symptoms.

Massage Taichong point

Our feet are very important to our health. There are many meridians and acupoints on our feet, which are also called the second heart of the human body. There is an acupoint on our feet called Taichong, which is about 1.5 cm upward between the big toe and the second toe of the foot. Taichong point is an important point in our body, belonging to the liver meridian of Foot Jueyin. Regular massage of this acupoint can help us effectively eliminate stomach fire and liver fire, and then relieve symptoms such as headache, dizziness, blushing, bitter taste and dry throat.

In addition, regular massage of Taichong point can also help us to soothe the liver and regulate qi and regulate triple energizer. So, how should we massage? We can massage Taichong point on the left foot with the thumb pulp, and then massage Taichong point on the right foot after three minutes, and massage alternately on both sides for about a quarter of an hour.

We can soak our feet with hot water before massaging Taichong point, which can make our whole body feel relaxed. In addition, you must use a little force when pressing and rubbing until your feet feel slightly sore.