1, what is stomach fire?
Stomach fire is also stomach heat. Traditional Chinese medicine divides stomach fire into moderate fire, excessive internal heat and intense downward pressure, which are often caused by drinking and eating spicy food.
There are also qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm dampness, food stagnation and other stasis, which can all lead to stomach heat (stomach fire); Fire in the liver and gallbladder can also cause stomach heat (stomach fire).
2. Symptoms of stomach fire
When the stomach heat is too strong, the decomposition function is too strong, and symptoms such as noisy stomach and hunger can appear. Excessive heat-filled body fluids are lost, resulting in dry heat, stomach imbalance, bitter taste, thirst, constipation and other symptoms.
Sometimes it is because of the consumption of vaginal fluid that the stomach is weak and the stomach fire gets angry, which will lead to the retrogression of stomach qi and nausea.
Stomach fire goes up along the meridians, or toothache, swollen gums, or epistaxis, which burns the veins of the stomach, so blood overflows and is hematemesis.
3. The cause of stomach fire.
Stomach heat is mostly caused by eating spicy and thick food, excessive stomach fire, or pathogenic heat invading the stomach, or qi stagnation transforming fire. The internal heat is blazing, and the qi and blood in the stomach are stagnant, so the upper abdomen burns and the heat hurts the body fluid, so thirst likes cold drinks, and fire can eliminate the valley, so it can eliminate the valley hunger; When liver fire offends the stomach, it is sour and noisy; Inflammation of fire pathogen along meridians leads to halitosis, swollen gums, nosebleeds, etc. When Yangming has fever or body fluid injury, constipation is red, the tongue is red with yellow fur and the pulse is slippery.
What should I do if the stomach fire is big?
1, replenish water at any time.
Drinking warm water often can solve many problems, including cooling the body's heat, promoting epidermal circulation, and washing away bacterial colonies in the mouth, inhibiting growth and reducing bad breath. Even people who often stay in air-conditioned rooms have less water evaporation, and drink about 1300 a day, especially when sweating. It is suitable to drink lemonade when getting angry and eat more sour fruits such as citrus. If you don't like bland water, you can also drink more soothing tea, such as mint, bitter tea, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle and other herbal tea.
2. Improve the quality of sleep
Poor sleep will lead to excessive use of the body, easy to get angry, and even more taboo to stay up all night. People engaged in mental work, blood circulation will be concentrated in the head, leading to fatigue but unstable sleep. At this time, foot bath can be used to reduce fire and make people sleep well.
Its practice is: first soak it in warm water (women's water should be flooded to two-thirds of the vicinity of Sanyinjiao, and men can reach their ankles), and then slowly heat the water until the feet are hot and sweat slightly, and then you can rest. Foot bath is very helpful to improve the terry of leather. After soaking for a week, you will find it easier to sweat, and even in an air-conditioned room, your skin will not be dry.
3, increase the body surface heat dissipation
Scraping during heatstroke can promote microvascular dilation, force heat dissipation and relieve discomfort.
4, light diet
High-calorie food will provide internal heat. When you get angry, you should not eat fried nuts, biscuits, peanuts and other low-moisture foods, and eat low-calorie diets such as vegetables and clear soup instead.
4. What is good for stomach fire?
1, mung bean porridge
According to ancient records, mung beans are sweet in taste, cold in nature, enter the heart and stomach meridians, reduce swelling and reduce qi, and clear away heat and toxic materials. In hot summer, people like to cook a pot of mung bean porridge at night and eat it after cooling, which will cool off the heat, even in dog days. Friends who feel angry may wish to cook a bowl of sweet and delicious mung bean porridge for themselves. An upgraded version of mung bean porridge, including mung bean lotus leaf porridge, mung bean barley porridge and so on. It belongs to cold food and is very helpful for reducing stomach fire.
2. Sugar cane
Sugarcane, as a common fruit, also has its unique side, that is, we only take its sweet juice. Sugarcane juice is rich in water and nutrients, such as sugar, organic acids, calcium and iron. At the same time, it is sweet and cool, which has a miraculous effect on relieving gastrointestinal fever caused by lung heat. Friends who feel stomach fire, have a juicy cane. If you feel troublesome, you can also use a juicer to juice, one cup a day, and the symptoms of stomach heat can be effectively alleviated.
3, white radish
As the most common root vegetable, white radish is planted and eaten everywhere, both raw and cooked, with a slight spicy taste. Traditional Chinese medicine in China has long pointed out that drinking white radish juice can relieve stomach fire, but it should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach should not take it. Therefore, if you want to relieve stomach heat through white radish juice, please consult a doctor first to understand your spleen and stomach type. If you don't like raw radish juice, you can also boil white radish to drink.
4. Stewed pear with rock sugar
Seeing this, some people will question, isn't this a diet therapy for cold and dry throat? Yes, usually when we cough and have phlegm, we will make a bowl of stewed pears with rock sugar. But what we don't know is that rock sugar stewed pears also have the effects of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production. It should be noted that do not stew pears with freshly stewed or very hot rock sugar. Too hot food will aggravate the symptoms of stomach fire. Take out a bowl of white crystal sugar stewed pear from the pot, let it cool, and then taste it slowly.
5, food to stomach fire
1 papaya
Papaya has the effects of calming the liver, relaxing muscles and tendons, harmonizing the stomach and relieving pain. Patients with stomach deficiency and fire can eat papaya raw or steamed.
2, mung bean porridge
30g of gypsum powder, and appropriate amount of japonica rice and mung bean. Firstly, gypsum is boiled in water, then filtered to remove residue, and its clear liquid is taken, and then japonica rice and mung bean are added to cook porridge. Mung beans are rich in nutrients, which can stimulate appetite and reduce blood lipid and cholesterol. Drinking mung bean porridge in summer can dispel stomach fire, but people with deficiency and cold should not eat more.
3.tremella fuciformis
Tremella fuciformis has the effects of invigorating spleen, stimulating appetite, nourishing yin and clearing intestines. Patients with stomach deficiency fire can eat tremella porridge and tremella soup, and generally eat more than half a flower every day.
4. Dendrobium
Dendrobium is cold, sweet, light, slightly salty, and enters the stomach, kidney and lung meridians, which is beneficial to the stomach to produce fluid, nourish yin and clear heat. It has a good effect on treating excessive stomach fire and deficiency of stomach yin, but Dendrobium is cold, easy to nourish the stomach and hinder the stomach, so it is not suitable for long-term drinking in large quantities, usually once a week, each time 10 ~ 15g.
5. Mai Denghong
Ophiopogon japonicus has high nutritional value and is beneficial to gastrointestinal health. A bowl of seemingly ordinary Ophiopogon porridge has many health care functions, such as removing stomach fire, regulating stomach and intestines, and clearing heart. It is worth noting that anyone who has diarrhea due to deficiency of the spleen and stomach, phlegm and dampness in the stomach, and sudden cold and cough should avoid taking Ophiopogon japonicus.
6. Apple
Apples that can be eaten all year round are suitable for men, women and children. Moreover, apples can help digestion, remove stomach fire and relieve bad breath.
A large plate of food with stomach fire
7. Adenophora adenophora
Adenophora adenophora has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, clearing away heat and cooling blood. Patients with stomach deficiency fire can decoct Radix Adenophorae with water, remove dregs and get juice to drink tea.
8. Xiaomi
Millet has the effects of nourishing kidney qi, clearing spleen and stomach and benefiting qi. Chen Xiaomi stored for more than one year has more obvious effects in removing stomach heat and quenching thirst. If you like spicy, fat and sweet food, or because you are frustrated, you might as well eat millet, millet porridge and millet regularly.
9. Macroalgae
Diabetic patients often have excessive stomach fire. This kind of patients should not eat watermelon, but should eat kelp, kelp knot, laver and kudzu root for treatment. This kind of food can not only clear the excess fire in the stomach, but also help to lower blood sugar. Diabetic patients with excessive stomach fire can eat kelp knots in cold dishes, or grind Radix Puerariae into powder and brew it with boiling water.
10, watermelon
Eating watermelon is the simplest way to treat excessive stomach fire. In addition to eating the pulp of watermelon, patients with excessive stomach fire can also eat the "watermelon green" between the pulp and peel of watermelon for treatment. Watermelon green is also called watermelon green coat, which has a good effect of clearing stomach fire. Its production method is: take a watermelon, cut it into four pieces with a knife, dig out the pulp of the watermelon, and cut off the waxy skin on the surface of the watermelon, leaving the watermelon green. Cut the watermelon green into filaments, add salt, vinegar and other seasonings, and mix well to serve.