To “relieve heat”, first clarify what “heat” is

There are many reasons for getting angry. For example, swollen and sore eyes, sore throat, and swollen and sore gums are mostly related to bacterial or viral infections in Western medicine, so antibiotics are used for treatment; while mouth ulcers may be related to vitamin B2 deficiency, and vitamin supplements should be used. In traditional Chinese medicine, there are two types of fire: good and bad. The fire that is useful to humans is called "Shao (shao) fire". The common saying "The fool sleeps on a cold kang, all thanks to the strong fire" refers to this kind of fire, which embodies the power of human metabolism. The fire that is harmful to humans is called "Zhuang fire", which is pathological fire, which will consume the body's energy and make people sick. When people usually talk about "getting angry", they are mostly referring to the latter, which can be roughly divided into six types.

Getting angry can easily lead to liver fire

The main cause of liver fire is emotions. When people have liver fire, there is a common characteristic, which is that they cannot suppress their anger and always want to get angry. Common people have a very vivid term for this kind of people, called "liver fire". A survey shows that women are more likely to get angry than men, especially older women, and the anger lasts longer. This is related to the fact that women are delicate and sensitive, and often become depressed once their wishes are not fulfilled. In addition, external heat evil can also easily cause liver fire. For example, in spring, wind-heat evil easily invades the liver, causing inflammation; in summer and winter, summer heat and cold evil invade respectively.

There are many symptoms of getting angry. How do you judge which symptom belongs to which kind of fire? Zhang Guoxi gave a simple method: Generally speaking, red and swollen eyes are caused by liver fire. Specifically speaking, liver fire can be divided into two types: real fire and false fire. It is caused by emotions and is generally a form of virtual fire. The main symptoms are: little and red tongue coating, dizziness, tinnitus, dry throat but no desire to drink water. The symptoms of real fire are: red face and eyes, bitter mouth and dry throat, and always wanting to drink water.

If you want to relieve liver fire, you must first determine what type of liver fire you have based on the symptoms. The duration of real fire is relatively long. To relieve fire, you must first clear the liver. You can soak Cassia seed and Ophiopogon japonicus in water, or go to the pharmacy to buy some Longdan Xiegan Decoction. The duration of false fire is relatively short, so you can eat soft-shelled turtle to nourish yin and reduce fire at the same time.

It is easy to get stomach fire in summer

Stomach fire is the only internal organ fire among all the internal organ fires, and it is mainly caused by three reasons: one is that liver fire attacks the stomach. The fire caused by emotions can easily lead to disharmony between the liver and stomach, so many people get stomachaches when they get angry. The second is that evil heat invades the stomach. Excessive heat is called "evil", which is more likely to occur in the summer, especially on sauna days. The third is eating too spicy, hot and humid food. Eating too much meat and fish such as mutton, dog meat, etc. will cause damp heat.

The main symptom of stomach fire is swollen and painful gums. In addition, when people have stomach fire, they tend to eat more. There is a saying in "Huangdi Neijing": "Heat can digest food", which means that if there is stomach fire, people will always feel hungry. Epigastric pain is also an important symptom of stomach fire, and you cannot press it with your hands, as the more you press, the more painful it will be. The real fire in the stomach causes yellow tongue coating, bad breath, dry mouth, desire to drink cold water, swollen and painful gums, dry stool, and yellow urine; the false fire causes less tongue coating, dry mouth, but no desire to drink more water, and a thin and weak pulse. To eliminate excessive heat, you can eat some berberine, gardenia, and papaya; to eliminate insufficient heat, you can eat some raw rehmannia and anemarrhena. It is particularly important to note that the thinner a person is, the more likely they are to get stomach fire. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is said that “thin people have more heat”, so the thinner you are, the less spicy food you should eat to avoid stomach fire.

Taking too much can easily cause heartburn

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that joy, anger and sadness can cause heart fire. "Fan Jin's success in the imperial examination" is a typical example of "joy causing sadness". Conversely, worry, anxiety, and intense emotional stimulation can also cause heart fire. In addition, hot weather and excessive consumption of spicy foods, such as chili, cinnamon, mustard, coriander, and pepper, can easily cause heart fire. Some people also eat too much warm supplements such as deer antler and ginseng, which can cause heart fire.

The sign of heart fire is ulcers in the mouth and tongue. The prominent manifestation of real fire is red face and constant feeling of heat in the body. In addition, people are prone to irritability, insomnia, thirst, mouth and tongue ulcers, red tip of the tongue, and yellow tongue coating. You can eat some reed roots and lotus seeds with cores to clear your heart and reduce internal heat. The symptoms of excessive heart fire caused by Yin deficiency are different. They are mainly palpitations, uncomfortable feeling of heartbeats, night sweats, red cheekbones, and a red tongue with little fluid. It is best to make some water with honeysuckle and drink it.

A loud cough is usually caused by lung fire.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls lung fire "lung heat", and this type of fire is most likely to occur when you are caught in the rain or suffer from wind and cold. The better the physical constitution and the more yang energy a person has, the more likely it is that blood stasis will accumulate in the body and cause inflammation after being infected with wind and cold.

Sore throat, usually caused by lung fire

When lung fire occurs, the most prominent symptom is coughing, and the sound is loud. People with real fire often have shortness of breath, heavy breathing, and thick, yellow sputum; people with false fire have less sputum, but the sputum may contain blood, and they also have hoarse voices, night sweats, and they will become thinner and thinner. Different symptoms require different treatments. If you have excessive fire, you can eat more bitter melon, or drink water soaked with mint or chrysanthemum. These foods can clear away heat, promote lung function, relieve cough and relieve asthma. If you have false fire, you can stew water with lily, pear and rock sugar to nourish yin, moisten the lungs and reduce fire.

All kidney fire is false fire

Kidney fire is generally caused by kidney yin deficiency, so there is no real fire, all of it is virtual fire. The main symptoms are dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, forgetfulness, hair loss, back pain, dry throat and mouth. Men are prone to nocturnal emission, and women may suffer from amenorrhea due to excessive internal heat. If you want to reduce kidney fire, it is best to nourish yin and nourish the kidney first. You can eat some soft-shelled turtles and oysters, or use Prince ginseng for tonic, or you can use "Liuwei Dihuang Pills".

In addition to these five types of fire, experts say that there is also spleen fire and small intestine fire in the human body. The former is mainly replaced by stomach fire, and the latter is mainly manifested as short, red, astringent and painful urine. However, both of these are relatively rare.