How to regulate spleen and stomach fire

In our lives, many people choose Western medicine when they feel unwell, so many people do not know what the symptoms of spleen and stomach fire are. In fact, the main symptom of spleen and stomach fire is loss of appetite. Many people would think that this situation is related to the weather. Actually, it’s not. Inflammation in the spleen and stomach can cause many discomfort symptoms in our body. So, how to regulate the spleen and stomach fire?

If the stomach is hot, its digestion function will be overactive, which may cause stomach noise, hunger during digestion, etc. If the heat is strong, it will consume a lot of body fluids, resulting in internal accumulation of dryness and heat, and the stomach will lose its harmony and descending function. Symptoms may include bitter taste in the mouth, thirst, and constipation. In severe cases, it may deplete yin fluid and cause stomach yin deficiency. Gastric fire inflammation can cause gastric qi to rise, and symptoms such as nausea, vomiting of sour, bitter and yellow water can be seen. Stomach fire goes up along the meridians and causes toothache, gingival swelling, or nosebleed. The heat burns the stomach's veins, causing blood to overflow and cause hematemesis.

Symptoms of spleen and stomach fire

1. Toothache, gingival swelling, or epistaxis

Stomach fire is mainly caused by diet, such as overeating of fatty and greasy foods, wine and cheese, fried foods, excessive energy, and accumulation of heat. Diet is a necessary condition for human survival and health. Daily diet is the source of human qi, blood and body fluids. Eating will cause toothache, swollen gums, or symptoms of epistaxis. Therefore, diet is the material basis for maintaining human life activities. But diet should be moderate.

2. Too hungry or too full, or too soft or too hard

Improper diet is often the cause of disease and is also the main factor in the increase of heat syndrome at present. The so-called improper diet refers to irregular diet, or excessive hunger or fullness, or too soft or too hard food.

3. Dryness and heat in the body, stomach disharmony and descent

The spleen and stomach are a pair of inseparable internal organs, and the generation of spleen and stomach fire is closely related to diet. Therefore, spleen fire and stomach fire have three common symptoms. People with stomach fire are often accompanied by an obvious deficiency of stomach yin, which is often the culprit of Sjogren's disease and atrophic gastritis. Especially when the tongue coating of geographic tongue and mirror tongue appears, it is necessary to pay great attention and seek medical attention as soon as possible.

4. Dry stool and red tongue

In addition, dry and hard stools and red tongue indicate real fire; dry and hard stools, pale tongue and white tongue coating are still false fire; loose and soft stools or diarrhea indicate that there is cold in the body, which is false fire. If the urine is yellow in color, has a strong odor, and the tongue is red, it is a sign of real fire; if the urine is light in color and clear, it means there is cold in the body, which is a sign of false fire.

What to eat when the spleen and stomach are inflamed

1. Bitter recipes

The bioalkali contained in bitter foods has the effect of relieving heat and promoting blood circulation. It is the natural enemy of "internal fire" and can effectively deal with the "fire" in the body and heart.

Dish recommendation: Wash the bitter melon, add some salt and sesame oil and mix it cold before eating. This will not destroy the nutritional components of the bitter melon itself. You can also cut the bitter melon into slices and make tea or juice. Drinking raw bitter melon juice can enable the body to quickly absorb a large amount of effective ingredients in bitter melon. You can also add fresh celery leaves to water and boil them to extract juice, or blanch fresh celery with boiling water and then squeeze out the juice, which can also clear away heat and relieve summer heat after eating.

Symptoms of spleen and stomach fire

2. Light recipes

In the hot summer, people often have a poor appetite and reduced digestive function, so in summer we should choose light foods with yin-nourishing effects. Fresh fruits and vegetables naturally have the effect of cooling down and reducing body temperature, such as watermelon, cucumber, tomato, strawberry, beans and bean products, as well as some fruit juices. In addition, you can also eat some "heat-relieving medicinal porridge", such as mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, etc.

Special porridge drink: Strawberry and mung bean porridge is not only bright in color, sweet and delicious, but also light and heat-removing. Use an appropriate amount of mung beans, pick out impurities, wash them clean, and soak them in clean water for four hours; select an appropriate amount of strawberries, pick and wash them clean, wash the glutinous rice clean, put them into the pot together with the soaked mung beans, add an appropriate amount of clean water, boil it over high heat, then turn to low heat and cook until the rice grains are blooming and the mung beans are soft, add strawberries and sugar, stir well, and cook for a while.

3. Aromatic recipes

Some aromatic herbs, such as chrysanthemum, mint, lemon, cabbage and other foods are rich in minerals, especially calcium and magnesium, which have the effects of calming the mind, reducing internal heat or lowering blood pressure. Therefore, eating more and more aromatic foods in summer can calm the mind and reduce internal heat.

Special tea: Drinking a few cups of chrysanthemum tea or mint tea every day can effectively suppress the "anger" in the body, calm the mind and relieve fatigue. Chrysanthemum tea can also be reused. After cooling slightly, you can apply it on your eyes to eliminate inflammation and swelling caused by the sun's burning rays.

4. Eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and replenish qi

In terms of diet, you should eat more foods that have the effect of strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi, such as lentils, sorghum rice, coix seed, buckwheat, chestnuts, lotus seeds, water chestnuts, yam, jujube, carrots, cabbage, pumpkin, citrus, oranges and other foods, mainly to strengthen the spleen and regulate qi.

5. Spinach

Spinach is a vegetable with extremely high nutritional value. Pointed-leaf spinach has long petioles and thin leaves, thick roots, and high sugar content; round-leaf spinach has large flakes and thick flesh. The carotene content in spinach is much higher than other vegetables. Although the ascorbic acid content is lower than that in peppers, it is higher than that in tomatoes. The vitamin K content in spinach, which has a hemostatic effect, is the highest among leafy vegetables. Rich in riboflavin, it can also prevent angular cheilitis, cheilitis, glossitis, and dermatitis.

6. Honey

It tastes sweet and is neutral in nature. It has been an excellent product for nourishing the body, detoxifying and beautifying since ancient times.

Honey is rich in vitamin B, vitamin D, vitamin E, fructose, glucose, maltose, sucrose, high-quality protein, potassium, sodium, iron, natural flavors, lactic acid, malic acid, amylase, oxidase and other elements. It has significant effects on moistening the lungs and relieving cough, moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, detoxifying and beautifying the skin.

The main components of honey are glucose and fructose (content 65%-80%), which are easily absorbed and utilized by the human body. In addition, it also contains a variety of amino acids, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, iron, phosphorus, etc. required by the human body.

Eating honey regularly can help excrete toxins and beautify the skin. It is also beneficial for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases and neurasthenia.

7. Milk

Milk: Many people believe that drinking milk in summer will aggravate "getting angry" and cause irritability. In fact, milk not only does not cause "getting angry", but also can relieve heat and toxins and remove liver fire.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that milk is slightly cold in nature, and can play a "removing fire" effect by nourishing yin and relieving heat and toxins. Moreover, milk contains up to about 70% water, which can also replenish the water lost by the human body due to excessive sweating.

It should be noted that you should not freeze the milk into ice cubes for consumption, otherwise many nutrients will be destroyed.