Excess fire and deficiency fire are not only different in etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations, but also different in treatment principles and specific treatment methods. If we use the same method to clear away heat and reduce fire regardless of whether the fire is real or virtual, it may not cure the disease, but aggravate the condition. Therefore, it is very important to distinguish between real fire and virtual fire before deciding the treatment plan when getting angry.
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.
The following general principles should be followed when carrying out diet therapy for excessive internal heat:
(1) Foods that are soft, crisp and easy to digest and absorb should be the main dietary varieties, while non-staple food dishes should be mainly steamed, stewed and cooked, and less greasy things that are difficult to digest should be eaten.
(2) Take more water to supplement the loss of water when the body gets angry and gives off heat, and promote metabolism, promote fluid production and diuresis, and accelerate the excretion of toxins and heat.
(3) Do not eat spicy and hot food, such as pepper, dried ginger, raw garlic, pepper, strong tea, tobacco, spirits, coffee, green onions, etc., so as not to generate heat to help fire, burn body fluids and aggravate the illness.
Through the above detailed understanding, are we all clear about how to do it? In fact, the simplest thing is to drink more water and eat less spicy food. Pay attention to personal gum hygiene. This is much better than seeking a cure after we have this problem. Why don't we stop it before it happens? Only in this way can we have a good body. I hope everyone can start to pay attention to this article.