(1) Heat-clearing and detoxification: such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoot, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, etc. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and is suitable for various fire diseases.
(2) Fire fighting in bitter cold: such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, bracken, towel gourd, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frog, etc. Because cold can turn heat into fire, it is mostly used for real fire.
(3) Eliminating dampness and purging fire: such as wax gourd, watermelon, coix seed, lentils, barley, amaranth, wax gourd, adzuki bean, snakehead, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard-membrane, etc. , suitable for all kinds of fire diseases.
(4) attacking real fire: such as rhubarb, Anemarrhena rhizome, coptis root, scutellaria root, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. , suitable for short yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth and bitter taste, abdominal distension, loss of appetite and other symptoms.
(5) Cooling blood and astringent blood: such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, radix rehmanniae, auricularia, Monopterus albus, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn stigma, mango, eel, bamboo leaves, lalang grass rhizome, purslane, etc. Can be used for nosebleeds, hematochezia, hematuria, etc.
(6) Sweet, warm and heat-clearing: such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, bee milk, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard, cherry, pomegranate and dark plum. It is suitable for the situation of qi deficiency and excessive fire.
(7) Nourishing yin and reducing fire: such as soft-shelled turtle, kelp, laver, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, silky fowl, pumpkin, clam, tremella, etc. , mostly used for symptoms such as yin deficiency and excessive fire, hot flashes and night sweats, and insomnia at night.
(8) Nourishing viscera and extinguishing fire: such as black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seed, tremella, pigeon eggs, quail, sparrow meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leek, mulberry, etc. It is suitable for various symptoms of deficiency fire caused by weakness of viscera and yang deficiency.
The following general principles should be followed in dietotherapy for excessive internal heat:
(1) The main dietary varieties are soft, crisp and easy to digest and absorb, while the non-staple food dishes are mainly steamed, stewed and boiled, and the greasy and indigestible things are seldom eaten.
(2) Drink plenty of water to supplement the loss of water when the body is angry and hot, and promote metabolism, promote fluid production and diuresis, and accelerate the excretion of toxins and calories.
(3) Do not eat spicy food, such as pepper, dried ginger, raw garlic, pepper, strong tea, tobacco, spirits, coffee, green onions, etc. , so as not to produce heat to help fire, burn body fluid and aggravate the condition.
(4) The actual burn victims should eat more cold and heat-clearing foods, such as mung beans, eggplant, wax gourd, loofah and bitter gourd. And avoid foods that help the sun to generate heat, such as leeks, mutton, dog meat, sparrow meat, sorghum, longan, cherries and apricots.
(5) Patients with asthenic fire should pay attention to supplement nourishing yin foods such as tremella, lily, mulberry, mussel meat, and nail fish, and should not eat more cold fruits and all kinds of cold foods.
(6) Pay attention to "dialectical food application", analyze the deficiency and excess of internal heat, carry out targeted diet therapy, and choose foods that clear away heat and reduce fire. If you don't distinguish between real fire and virtual fire, you often can't get good curative effect, and sometimes it will even aggravate your condition and "add fuel to the fire." This is the reason why some patients do not pay attention to dialectical feeding, blindly diagnose and treat themselves, and the effect is not good.