How to reduce swelling and pain in gums caused by inflammation?

Nowadays, when we walk on the street, we can see all kinds of delicious food everywhere. There is everything from frying, stir-frying, and deep-frying. Most people, like me, find it hard to resist the temptation of delicious food. After a brief struggle, he ate with relish. There is nothing wrong with this. As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people. The temptation of delicious food is hard to resist. But have we ever thought about this while enjoying delicious food? Are our bodies enjoying them too? The answer is no. If you do not replenish water in time after eating a good meal. When food is broken down in the body, a lot of water is consumed. Long-term dehydration will cause us to get inflamed and our gums to swell and ache. So how can we reduce the swelling?

1. According to the different causes and pathogenesis, symptoms of getting angry can be divided into two categories, namely, real fire and false fire.

Real fire is mostly caused by the six external evils (wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire). In addition, excessive mental stimulation and dysfunction of internal organs can also cause it. Patients with real fire show symptoms such as red face and eyes, chapped lips, bitter and dry mouth, erosion of mouth and tongue, sore throat, bleeding gums, epistaxis, tinnitus and deafness, sudden onset of boils, fever and irritability, oliguria and constipation, hematuria and bloody stool, red tongue with yellow coating, which may have thorns, and a strong, slippery and rapid pulse. In treatment, it is advisable to adopt the principles and methods of controlling fire with bitter and cold herbs, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and purging the solid and eliminating fire.

2. Virtual fire is mostly caused by internal injuries and strain. For example, long-term illness can lead to the depletion of essence and energy, and excessive strain can lead to internal organ disorders and weakness, which can cause internal heat, and internal heat can turn into virtual fire. According to the pathogenesis of different, generally further divided into two kinds of symptoms: Yin deficiency fire and Qi deficiency fire. Wang are more manifestations for the whole body hot flashes, night sweats, emaciation, dry mouth and throat, five upset hot, irritability, red tongue without coating, pulse breakdown. The principles of treatment should be to promote the production of body fluids and nourish blood, nourish yin and reduce fire. Qi deficiency and fire-wang performance performance body hot, why before noon, fear of the wind chills, fear of the wind, joy of heat and cold, tired body weakness, shortness of breath, disinclination to talk, spontaneous endless, clear urine, loose stools, weak pulse large, pale tongue, thin. The principles of treatment should be to tonify the middle and replenish qi, strengthen the kidney and invigorate yang, and use sweet and warm methods to eliminate heat.

So what foods can we eat?

(1) Heat-clearing and detoxifying foods: such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoots, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water caltrop, purslane, day lily, etc. Most of them have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are suitable for various symptoms of excess fire.

(2) Bitter and cold foods that reduce fire: such as bitter melon, bitter herbs, water chestnuts, loofah, snails, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frogs, etc., which can reduce heat and fire with their cold nature and are mostly used to treat excess fire syndrome.

(3) Foods that promote diuresis and relieve heat: such as winter melon, watermelon, coix seed, lentil, barley, amaranth, melon, adzuki bean, black fish, duck meat, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard lining, etc., suitable for various symptoms of excess fire.

(4) Vegetables that attack the excessive fire: such as rhubarb, anemarrhena, coptis root, scutellaria, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc., suitable for symptoms such as short yellow urine, dry stool, dry and bitter mouth, abdominal distension and poor appetite.

(5) Blood-cooling and blood-retaining foods: such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, raw earth, fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn silk, mango, eel, bamboo leaf, Imperata root, purslane, etc. They can be used for epistaxis, bloody stool, hematuria, bleeding gums and other conditions caused by blood heat.