Traditional Chinese medicine refers to purging fire and clearing heat. The way to reduce fire is to remove fire. You can take drugs that nourish yin and clear heat, detoxify and reduce swelling, as well as acupuncture, cupping, massage, massage and so on. Usually, we should pay attention to the combination of work and rest and eat less spicy fried food.
Traditional Chinese medicine refers to purging fire and clearing heat. The way to reduce fire is to remove fire. You can take drugs that nourish yin and clear heat, detoxify and reduce swelling, as well as acupuncture, cupping, massage, massage and so on. Usually, we should pay attention to the combination of work and rest and eat less spicy fried food.
Excessive internal heat is a very common symptom and sign in daily life, such as blushing eyes, hoarse throat, furuncle swelling and pain, redness and heat pain, oral erosion, toothache swelling and pain, irritability and insomnia, epistaxis, red tongue and yellow fur, short and red urine, fever and sweating, etc. These manifestations belong to the category of heat syndrome and fire syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine, and the reasons are mostly the result of wind, cold, summer heat, dampness and dryness invading the body to generate heat and turn into fire. In addition, visceral dysfunction, mental overstimulation, and irregular life can also cause excessive internal heat.
From the point of view of western medicine, the symptoms of excessive internal heat are more common in acute infectious diseases, such as acute pharyngitis, pulpitis, oral ulcer, blepharitis, conjunctivitis, urinary tract infection, constipation, skin furuncle and cellulitis. And some chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, hypertension, autonomic dysfunction, hyperthyroidism and advanced cancer.
According to the different etiology and pathogenesis, excessive internal heat can be divided into two types of symptoms: excess fire and deficiency fire.
Excess fire is mostly caused by exogenous six evils (wind, cold, heat, humidity, dryness and fire). In addition, excessive mental stimulation will also cause dysfunction of viscera. Patients with excess fire are characterized by red face and red eyes, chapped lips, bitter mouth and dry mouth, erosion of mouth and tongue, sore throat, gingival bleeding, epistaxis, tinnitus and deafness, furuncle at the beginning, body heat and irritability, short and red urine, bloody stool, red tongue with yellow coating and prickly and slippery pulse. Treatment should adopt the principles and methods of bitter cold to control fire, clearing away heat and toxic materials, purging excess and reducing fire.
Deficiency fire is mostly caused by internal injury and strain, such as exhaustion of essence and qi due to long-term illness, which can lead to weakness and imbalance of viscera and internal heat, and then turn into deficiency fire. According to different pathogenesis, deficiency fire is generally further divided into two symptoms: yin deficiency fire and qi deficiency fire. The hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency is mostly manifested as hot flashes, night sweats, emaciation, dry mouth and throat, vexation, restlessness, red tongue without coating and rapid pulse. Treatment should be based on the principle of promoting fluid production and nourishing blood, nourishing yin and reducing fire. Those with excessive qi deficiency and fire are characterized by dryness and heat, especially before noon, aversion to cold and wind, aversion to heat and cold, fatigue, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, loose urine, weak pulse, pale tongue with thin coating. Treatment should be based on the principles of tonifying the middle energizer, tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, warming the middle energizer and clearing heat.
To sum up, excess fire and deficiency fire are different not only in etiology, pathogenesis and clinical manifestations, but also 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 it will aggravate the condition. Therefore, when getting angry, it is very important to distinguish between real fire and virtual fire before deciding the treatment plan.
Summer is a season that often makes people get angry. There are many kinds of foods that can clear away heat and reduce fire. Generally speaking, different symptoms can be divided into the following categories:
(1) Heat-clearing and detoxification: such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoot, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, etc. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and is suitable for various fire diseases.
(2) Fire fighting in bitter cold: such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, bracken, towel gourd, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frog, etc. Because cold can turn heat into fire, it is mostly used for real fire.
(3) Eliminating dampness and purging fire: such as wax gourd, watermelon, coix seed, lentils, barley, amaranth, wax gourd, adzuki bean, snakehead, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard-membrane, etc. , 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 seed, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. , suitable for short yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth and bitter taste, abdominal distension, loss of appetite and other symptoms.
(5) Cooling blood and astringent 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, lalang grass rhizome, purslane, etc. Can be used for nosebleeds, hematochezia, hematuria, etc.
(6) Sweet, warm and heat-clearing: 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 and dark plum. It is suitable for the situation of qi deficiency and excessive fire.
(7) Nourishing yin and reducing fire: such as soft-shelled turtle, kelp, laver, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, silky fowl, pumpkin, clam, tremella, etc. , mostly used for symptoms such as yin deficiency and excessive fire, hot flashes and night sweats, and insomnia at night.
(8) Nourishing viscera and extinguishing fire: such as black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seed, tremella, pigeon eggs, quail, sparrow meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leek, mulberry, etc. It is suitable for various symptoms of deficiency fire caused by weakness of viscera and yang deficiency.
The following general principles should be followed in dietotherapy for excessive internal heat:
(1) The main dietary varieties are soft, crisp and easy to digest and absorb, while the non-staple food dishes are mainly steamed, stewed and boiled, and the greasy and indigestible things are seldom eaten.
(2) Drink plenty of water to supplement the loss of water when the body is angry and hot, and promote metabolism, promote fluid production and diuresis, and accelerate the excretion of toxins and calories.
(3) Do not eat spicy food, such as pepper, dried ginger, raw garlic, pepper, strong tea, tobacco, spirits, coffee, green onions, etc. , so as not to produce heat to help fire, burn body fluid and aggravate the condition.
(4) The actual burn victims should eat more cold and heat-clearing foods, such as mung beans, eggplant, wax gourd, loofah and bitter gourd. And avoid foods that help the sun to generate heat, such as leeks, mutton, dog meat, sparrow meat, sorghum, longan, cherries and apricots.
(5) Patients with asthenic fire should pay attention to supplement nourishing yin foods such as tremella, lily, mulberry, mussel meat, and nail fish, and should not eat more cold fruits and all kinds of cold foods.
(6) Pay attention to "dialectical food application", analyze the deficiency and excess of internal heat, carry out targeted diet therapy, and choose foods that clear away heat and reduce fire. If you don't distinguish between real fire and virtual fire, you often can't get good curative effect, and sometimes it will even aggravate your condition and "add fuel to the fire." This is the reason why some patients do not pay attention to dialectical feeding, blindly diagnose and treat themselves, and the effect is not good.
Bitter food: In summer, people often feel unwell. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this is mainly due to high temperature and humidity, which hurts the kidney and traps the spleen. Bitter food can balance the body function by invigorating qi, strengthening kidney, strengthening spleen and drying dampness. The best food for fire is bitter food. Besides bitter gourd, other bitter foods also have very good effects, such as lettuce and Chinese cabbage.
Watermelon: Chinese medicine believes that "White Tiger Decoction" is the best prescription for clearing away heat. Watermelon is considered as a natural "white tiger soup". Watermelon is sweet and cool, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving annoyance and quenching thirst, and has diuretic effect. It is a good food for relieving summer heat.
Tomatoes and roses: tomatoes are slightly cold and sweet; Entering the spleen, stomach and liver meridians can nourish yin and promote fluid production, strengthen the spleen and stomach, calm the liver and clear heat, strengthen the stomach and promote digestion, and treat anorexia. At the same time, tomatoes are also rich in vitamin C, which has the effect of beauty. Roses as tea also have the effect of clearing heat and caring skin.
Summer is a good season to eat fruit. But some fruits are easy to get angry when eaten. For example, durian, although delicious, of course, there are also some things that you don't like to eat. If you eat too much, you get angry easily. But after eating durian, you can eat mangosteen to reduce fire. In addition, after eating durian, frying durian shells with water and drinking the water can also reduce the fire.
Litchi, as the saying goes, one litchi has three fires. To eat litchi, you can prepare a bowl of salt water first, drink half a bowl before eating, and then drink half a bowl after eating. You can also dip litchi in salt water when eating.
You can also eat Gui Ling ointment, which can nourish yin and tonify kidney, moisten dryness and protect skin, eliminate acne, regulate viscera, clear away heat and toxic materials, prevent skin aging and constipation, promote old and new gratitude, and enhance human immunity. Guiling ointment is an indispensable health care product for modern people. It is pointed out in the research report of Guiling Ointment; Tortoise shell contains various amino acids, seven of which are essential amino acids beyond human control, and the proportion of these essential amino acids in the total amino acids is very high, about 20%.