What food to eat when the heart is hot

I always hear people talking about what kind of diseases can be caused by excessive heart fire, but I don’t really understand what kind of situation it is. In fact, Chinese medicine says that there are two types of excessive heart fire: one is real fire and the other is false fire. As for the real fire, it mainly refers to yellow urine, dry mouth, oral ulcers, etc., while the false fire refers to night sweats, irritability, poor sleep, etc. What should you eat when you have a strong heart?

According to experts, excessive heart fire is actually a psychological manifestation. The main symptoms of excessive heart fire include insomnia, sores, or fever and dry mouth. How to treat when these situations occur? We can treat them through diet therapy. What should we eat when the heart fire is strong?

Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature. They can relieve summer heat, eliminate irritability and heat, and have detoxification effects. It can be used to make soup, porridge or mung bean cake. But be careful not to take it together with traditional Chinese medicine.

Rabbit meat is sweet and cool in nature, and has the effects of removing heat and toxins, cooling blood and promoting bowel movements. Can be braised or stewed.

Pears are sweet, slightly sour and cold in nature. They have the effects of clearing away heat and moistening the lungs, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst. They are especially suitable for irritability, thirst, yellow urine and dry stool after fever. It can be eaten raw or by removing the core of the pear, stuffing it with rock sugar or honey and steaming it. Note that pear juice is cold in nature, so people with loose stools should eat less.

Mulberries are sweet, sour and cold in nature, and have the effects of nourishing yin, blood, and benefiting the liver and kidneys. It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on tinnitus, insomnia and palpitations caused by yin deficiency and internal heat. Eat raw or decoct in 50g water.

Water chestnuts are sweet and slightly cold in nature. They have the effects of clearing away heat, relieving thirst and reducing phlegm. They are suitable for people with fever who suffer from irritability, thirst, sore throat, mouth ulcers, dry stool and yellow urine. It can be eaten raw or cooked, or it can be mashed into juice and taken cold. It is especially good for sore throats.

Lily tastes sweet, slightly bitter and slightly cold in nature. It can clear away heat and moisten dryness. It is effective for dry cough, little sputum or low fever, and sore throat caused by insufficient lung yin. Mash fresh lilies and add water to drink the juice, or you can cook it or cook it with rock sugar.

Celery tastes sweet and bitter and is slightly cold in nature. It has the effect of clearing liver fire and promoting blood circulation. It has auxiliary therapeutic effects on dizziness, flushed face and eyes, swollen and painful gums, etc. It can be served cold or boiled in water.

Daylily tastes sweet and cool in nature, and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It can be used for swollen and painful gums, liver fire, headache, dizziness, nosebleed, etc. It can be fried or boiled into soup. Please note that improper consumption of fresh daylily may cause poisoning.

Lotus root is sweet and cold in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting body fluid, eliminating summer heat, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. In addition, it also has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough. It is best to eat fresh lotus root raw or mash it into juice.

Lotus seed and gardenia soup: 30 grams of lotus seeds (without removing the lotus core), 15 grams of gardenia (wrapped in gauze), add appropriate amount of rock sugar, decoct in water, eat the lotus seeds and drink the soup.

We have some understanding of what to eat when the heart fire is excessive. Finally, the experts also remind people with excessive heart fire to develop good living habits, keep an optimistic attitude, pay more attention to rest, do not put too much pressure on themselves, and learn to relieve and release stress. Adjust your pace of life so that you can live a relaxed life, and at the same time pay attention to increasing nutrition.