(1) clearing the heat and detoxification class: such as chrysanthemums, cucumbers, blueberries, tomatoes, bamboo shoots, mung beans, tofu, celery, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, rhododendrons, amaranth, gold needles, etc., more than antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effect, suitable for all kinds of real fire symptoms.
(2) bitter cold fire class: such as bitter melon, bitter vegetables, syncope, squash, snails, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit, chicken, etc., can be chilled humanized heat to reduce the fire, mostly used for solid fire symptoms.
(3) wet diarrhea fire class: such as winter melon, watermelon, barley, barley, amaranth, melon, red beans, black fish, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gold, etc., for a variety of real fire symptoms.
(4) Attack down the real fire category: such as rhubarb, motherwort, Huanglian, Scutellaria baicalensis, bananas, celery, potatoes, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc., for short yellow urine, dry stools, dry mouth, bitter, bloating and other symptoms.
(5) cool blood and astringent blood category: such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, raw ground, fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, chestnut, corn husk, mango, eel, bamboo leaves, white lemongrass root, amaranth, etc., can be used for epistaxis, blood in stools, blood in urine, bleeding gums and other conditions of blood heat and delusion.
(6) Sweet warmth and heat removing category: such as Codonopsis, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese cabbage, lychee, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily of the valley, black sesame, bird's nest, bee's milk, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard, cherry, pomegranate, umeboshi, etc., which can be applied to the condition of qi deficiency and fire exuberance.
(7) nourishing yin and lowering fire category: such as turtle, kelp, nori, sea cucumber, spinach, pig's blood, pig liver, brown sugar, black chicken, pumpkin, clams, silver fungus, etc., is used for yin deficiency and fire, five heart heat, red flashes, night sweating, night sleeplessness and other conditions.
(8) complementary organs and extinguish fire category: such as black beans, yam, peanuts, cow's milk, barley, white fungus, pigeon eggs, quail, bird meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leeks, mulberry, etc., applicable to a variety of deficiency fire symptoms due to the weakness of the internal organs and yang qi due to the failure to lift.
Food therapy for fire, should pay attention to follow the following general principles:
(1) dietary varieties to fluffy thin crispy, easily digested and absorbed food-based, side dishes to the main varieties of steaming, cooking and burning, less food baking and frying a class of indigestible greasy things.
(2) more intake of water to replenish the body on fire when the loss of water, and can promote metabolism, diuretic, accelerate the excretion of toxins and heat distribution.
(3) Do not eat spicy and hot foods, such as chili peppers, dried ginger, garlic, pepper, strong tea, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, onions, etc., so as not to generate heat to help the fire, burn fluid, aggravate the condition.
(4) solid fire people should eat more cold and cool heat food, such as green beans, eggplant, winter melon, loofah, bitter melon, etc., avoid helping Yangxing hot food, such as leeks, mutton, dog meat, sparrow meat, sorghum, longan, cherries, apricots and so on.
(5) the false fire should pay attention to supplement the silver fungus, lily, mulberry, clam meat, turtle meat and other tonic and nourishing food, should not eat cold fruits and all kinds of cold food.
(6) To pay attention to the "dialectical food", analyze the fire of the real, targeted dietary therapy, choose to clear the heat of the food to defeat the fire. If you do not distinguish between real fire or virtual fire, generalization, often do not get good results, and sometimes even aggravate the condition, "burning oil on the fire". This is the reason why some patients do not pay attention to dialectical food, blind self-diagnosis and poor results.