We often hear people say that irritability is the heart is hot, toothache is the stomach is hot, irritability is the liver is hot, etc., but modern science can't explain these problems of fire, today, let's talk about the human body from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine.
1. What is fire?
Before we begin, we first analyze what fire is, and our daily life experience tells us that fire is related to heat, and this experience is the same in the theory of Chinese medicine. From the perspective of life, people should be hot, and if each of these heats is where they should be, it is the power to sustain life, but if these heats leave their place and gather in one place, it is Yu heat, and if they gather a lot, it is fire.
After understanding the source of fire, we can understand why there is fire in the five internal organs, as long as the heat inside the human body is not where it should be, it gathers, which organ they gather in, we call it fire, for example, gathered near the heart is called heart fire, gathered near the liver is called liver fire, and near the gallbladder is called gall fire. Fire can occur in all internal organs, and generally speaking, we name each type of fire directly after the location where it appears.
2. What are the manifestations of the fire of the five organs?
Generally speaking, the tongue will turn red, and sometimes the tongue will have sores, which are generally red, and mouth ulcers are also manifestations of heart fire.
Liver fire will have bitter mouth, redness, swelling and pain in the eyes, and in severe cases, the eyes may be bloodshot and urinated.
Small sores will appear around the corners of the mouth and upper and lower lips, obvious dry mouth, bitter mouth and bad breath.
Lung fire often has a continuous cough, feeling that the chest is burning, and then the throat is dry and painful, with yellow phlegm.
If the kidneys are hot, it usually manifests as hot flashes, night sweats, and then there will be a feeling of burning in the hands and feet.
3. How to deal with fire in the five organs
Heart fire, the first to recommend lotus seed heart, lotus seed heart clear heart fire belongs to the common sense that Chinese know, but also developed a lot of food, such as clear heart lotus seed soup and so on, in addition is huanglian, huanglian bitter taste, into the heart, itself cold, to the heart fire extremely fast, the use of the method is to directly boil water to drink. The human body will want to eat what it needs, and the average person with a hot heart will drink it with boiled water in Coptis chinensis, and it will not even feel very bitter.
Liver fire, everyone drinks chrysanthemum tea every day, and chrysanthemum tea is promoted everywhere, so I am the first to recommend chrysanthemum, and then wolfberry, wolfberry tonifies kidney water, kidney aquatic liver wood, and can also extinguish liver fire. Then there is prunella, which is cool and cool, especially suitable for summer drinking.
Spleen fire, spleen fire is closer to daily honeysuckle, this is also used to make tea, and then gypsum, gypsum is sweet into the spleen, cold, clear the fire quickly, just boil water and drink it, stop when the fire is gone, and it is not suitable to eat more.
Lung fire, everyone knows that Chuanbei loquat ointment cough and clear fire, of course, the clear is lung fire, and then it is fishy
, whether this is boiled soup or eaten raw, it can clear the lungs, and then there is the lily, this boiled soup.
Kidney fire, since wolfberry can replenish kidney water, of course, it can clear kidney fire, and then it is Zhimu, Zhimu has the effect of relieving pain and removing annoyance, and this annoyance is the annoyance caused by hot flashes in the kidney fire.