What are the symptoms of fire in the stomach?

The health of the stomach and intestines is something that people tend to overlook, especially modern people who are in a busy work rhythm and are prone to simply deal with diet due to the rush of time. This may cause great harm to the body in the long run, causing serious gastrointestinal diseases, etc. Some people may also have symptoms of fire in the stomach. Let’s take a look at the symptoms of fire in the stomach. I hope everyone can understand.

Stomach heat is a disease in traditional Chinese medicine, namely stomach fire, which is mostly caused by pathogenic heat invading the stomach; or due to alcoholism, spicy food, excessive consumption of rich and greasy food, which help fire to generate heat; the fire of the liver and gallbladder, which invades the stomach, can also cause stomach heat (stomach fire). Traditional Chinese medicine divides it into heat stagnation in the stomach, fire evil ascending, and fire and heat pressing downward.

symptom:

If the heat in the stomach is intense, the digestion function will be overactive, and symptoms such as noise in the stomach, rapid digestion and hunger may occur. If the heat is intense, the body fluids will be consumed, resulting in internal accumulation of dryness and heat, and the stomach will lose its harmony and descending function. Symptoms such as bitter taste in the mouth, thirst and constipation may be seen. 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 may occur. 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.

treat

1. Heat hiccups due to febrile diseases (latent heat in the stomach causes chest fullness and causes qi reflux, which manifests as hiccups). Use half a pound each of Imperata root, Phragmites australis and Pueraria root, add three liters of water and boil it down to one and a half liters. Take one cup each time with warm water. Stop taking the medicine once hiccups stop.

2. For vomiting caused by stomach heat, use fifty cicada sloughs (remove the mud) and one liang of talcum powder, grind them into powder, take two qian each time, add one bowl of water and honey to mix, this recipe is called "Qing Ge San"

3. Treats stomach heat and thirst. Cook rice with old corn.

4. Epigastric fire pain. Fry seven (or nine) large gardenias until they are charred, add a bowl of water, boil until 70% cooked, add ginger juice and drink it, the pain will stop immediately. If the disease relapses, you should take one more qian of Xuanming powder to relieve the pain.

5. Toothache due to stomach heat. Boil the Cimicifuga heracleifolia in water, rinse your mouth with the hot water and swallow it. You can also add raw Rehmannia root to the prescription.

6. Stomach and intestines hidden heat. Use five liang of Physalis fruit, three liang of Amaranth fruit, two liang each of Iris seed (fried) and Salinulum salsa bark (fried), one liang each of Bupleurum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Trichosanthes root, and Rhizoma Lucidum. Grind them into powder, add refined honey and make into pills as big as walnuts. Take 30 pills each time, with costus root soup.

7. (Zhizi root) is very cold and can treat diabetes and chronic heat in the stomach and intestines. Apply externally to treat snake bites and sores.