No, cooking porridge with longan and red dates does not cause internal heat.

Causes for getting angry:

1. The weather is hot in summer, people don’t rest well and sweat a lot, so they often feel tired. Sweating a lot causes body fluids to dissipate along with the sweat, and the body's vitality is also dissipated. This can often lead to spleen and stomach Qi deficiency, and over time can also lead to Yang Qi deficiency. Therefore, Yin-fire may rise or Yang-deficiency may overflow. Symptoms of deficiency fire.

2. Mental stress can often lead to stagnation of liver qi. If stagnation lasts for a long time, it can turn heat into fire, causing various symptoms of internal heat. In addition to liver fire, mental stress, irritability and anxiety often lead to excessive heart fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the heart governs the gods, and mental activities often affect the heart. The heart opens to the tongue. Excessive heart fire often causes symptoms such as sores on the mouth and tongue, irritability, and yellow urine.

3. Dietary factors such as overeating mutton, wine, peppers and other high-calorie, irritating foods are also important causes of internal heat. Mutton is fat, sweet and has a thick taste. If it is taken in too much, it is not suitable for digestion and can easily cause food accumulation. Food accumulation can also easily turn into fire. In addition, fried foods such as melon seeds and peanuts can also cause internal heat. Most of these foods are of a warming nature and will be more warming and drying after being fried.

Both wine and hot sauce are pungent and warm. Consuming too much will cause stomach-fire symptoms such as gum swelling and pain, bad breath, and constipation. Modern medical research shows that irritating foods such as wine and chili peppers can easily damage mucous membranes, and wine produces a lot of energy during metabolism, and chili peppers can also promote the metabolism of sugar and lipids.

In short, a high-calorie diet will speed up the body's energy metabolism, especially lipid metabolism. Some metabolites will enhance the body's oxidative stress response, thereby causing the body's inflammatory immune response, coupled with irritating food Irritation and damage to local skin and mucous membranes, as well as changes in intestinal flora, lead to the occurrence of various symptoms of inflammation.

Extended information

Most cases of internal heat are transient and last for a short time. They usually recover in about a week. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that most cases of internal heat are real internal heat. There are also some patients who often suffer from internal heat, which come and go, and last for a long time, but the symptoms are relatively mild, with local redness, swelling, heat and pain not obvious. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that such internal heat is generally due to deficient fire.

Compared with real fire, the energy metabolism of deficient fire is relatively less increased, and the inflammatory response is relatively weak, but the antioxidant capacity and tissue repair ability are significantly reduced, and immune suppression is enhanced. The manifestation of real fire is equivalent to an acute inflammatory reaction caused by various factors leading to an imbalance in the human body's internal environment. Deficient fire is similar to chronic inflammation.

Excessive fire usually manifests as a long-lasting inflammatory reaction. Although the body initiates some protective anti-inflammatory responses, it is still not enough to eliminate inflammation.

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