What is the cause of stomach fire?

The term stomach fire is very common in traditional Chinese medicine. Stomach fire is generally a kind of getting angry. Excessive stomach fire can have a certain impact on the body. Many people want to know what causes stomach fire. In fact, excessive stomach fire may be related to excessive toxins in the body, or it may be caused by spicy food.

1. Excessive toxins in the body

Too many toxins in the body We have to eat every day and breathe every moment. Due to environmental and personal problems, many harmful substances will inevitably accumulate in our bodies, such as pesticide residues, additives, hormones, etc. If there are too many toxins in our body, our stomach will easily get inflamed. If you have symptoms of constipation and your stool is black, it means that the toxins in your body have exceeded the standard. There are many dangers of excessive toxins in the body. Not only will it cause symptoms of stomach inflammation, it will also lead to various diseases and accelerate the aging of the body.

2. Diet

Excessive stomach fire caused by eating spicy, damp and hot foods is a gastrointestinal disease. Generally speaking, most stomach problems are caused by eating. For example, stomach fire is caused by frequent consumption of spicy and hot foods, such as mutton and dog meat. The cold winter is here, and many people love to eat hot pot. When eating hot pot, mutton is inevitable. Eating mutton hot pot frequently is bound to lead to excessive stomach fire.

3. How to eliminate stomach fire

Nowadays, many people think that excessive stomach fire is a trivial matter. In fact, excessive stomach fire can also harm our health. To solve this problem, we must pay attention to diet conditioning, detoxify in time, and develop good habits of going to bed early and getting up early. However, today I will teach you a little trick. Just pressing the acupoints on the body can help us quickly "extinguish" stomach fire. Massaging the Neiting point is the same as massaging the Taichong point. The Neiting point is also an acupuncture point on our foot. Neiting point belongs to the Ying point of the Stomach Meridian of Foot Yangming, and is located at the intersection of the gap between our second and third toes. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "Xing is the main cause of body heat" and is the nemesis of heat syndrome and getting angry. If we massage the Neiting point frequently, it can help us reduce stomach fire and also have the effect of strengthening the stomach and digesting food. Many people have excessive stomach fire in their bodies, which can cause headaches, bad breath, sore throat and other discomforts. We can effectively relieve the above symptoms by rubbing this acupoint with our thumb about 100 times every morning and evening.