(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, 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 yin deficiency, hot flashes, 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 deficiency fire caused by weakness of viscera and deficiency of yang.
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. [ 1]
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. [2]
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%.
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Since autumn, the weather has been less rainy and the air is dry, which is called "autumn dryness" by Chinese medicine. External dryness can damage body fluids and make the body appear "dry" phenomena: itchy throat, choking cough, dry mouth, dry eyes, dry throat, dry nose, poor stool and so on.
Expressed in people's emotions, they are prone to irritability and depression, which is called "autumn sorrow". When it is expressed on the skin of the face, the whole face will feel tight. So our slogan is: autumn dryness focuses on "breaking the fire"!
● Eat more liquid food.
There is a saying in ancient Chinese medicine books that "autumn dryness should be moistened." First of all, drink plenty of boiled water, light tea, juice drinks, soybean milk, milk and other liquids to nourish yin and moisten dryness, and make up for the loss of vaginal fluid and body fluid.
● Eat more fruits and vegetables
Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. Autumn dryness hurts people's body fluids, and most vegetables and fruits are cold, which has the effects of moistening dryness, clearing away heat and relaxing bowels.
● Eat more sour and less spicy.
Huangdi Neijing records that "the lung governs autumn, which is supplemented by acid and pungent diarrhea." Sour taste converges and nourishes the lungs, while pungent taste diverges and clears the lungs. Autumn diet should be more sour and less spicy, so it is necessary to reduce spicy foods and condiments, such as leeks, garlic, onions, ginger and so on.
● Eat less fried food.
Be sure to eat less fried food, such as fried chicken legs, fried tenderloin and fried quail. These foods will help dry and hurt yin and aggravate autumn dryness.