With the arrival of the hot summer, many people begin to have symptoms of poor sleep, dry mouth, bitter mouth, heavy breath, and temper tantrums. At this time, we need to pay attention to the care of the liver. People who usually have strong yang energy, such as young men with strong blood and qi, or patients with liver diseases such as hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, fatty liver, and liver cancer, are prone to show the characteristics of liver fire. How to eat liver fire in summer? 3 treasure foods to help you clear your liver, dispel fire, and remove dampness and heat!
3 treasure foods
1. Mung beans
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, mung beans have the effect of lowering liver fire and nourishing liver yin, so patients with strong liver fire can take mung beans, such as patients with strong liver fire may have symptoms such as red face, increased eye secretions, dry mouth, bitter mouth, irritable temper, constipation, etc., taking mung beans has a certain relieving effect on the above symptoms, and mung beans can relieve symptoms such as dry mouth and short yellow urine caused by summer heat;
However, mung beans are cold, and excessive consumption may damage the spleen and stomach, so you can add some warm herbs to neutralize the cold. If used with tangerine peel. Tangerine peel not only has the effect of invigorating qi and strengthening the spleen, but also can dry and damp and dissolve phlegm, boiling water with mung beans, which can not only enhance the effect of mung beans to clear heat and relieve heat, but also protect the spleen and stomach from damage.
2. 栀子
Gardenia has a bitter taste, cold nature, returns to the heart, lungs, and three jiao meridians, and has a variety of effects such as clearing heat and removing trouble, clearing heat and dampness, cooling blood and detoxifying. It can treat fever and upset, damp heat jaundice, bloody drenching pain, blood heat vomiting, eye redness, swelling and pain. Gardenia has a good conditioning effect on symptoms such as heavy limbs, loss of appetite, easy oiliness of the head and face, dry mouth and bitter mouth caused by dampness and heat.
In summer, especially in the south, friends are prone to hot and humid conditions. Gardenia can be used to cook soup with tangerine peel, poria cocos and other medicinal materials to enhance its effect of strengthening the spleen and promoting dampness.
Note: Patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and diarrhea should avoid eating, and people with blood deficiency and fever are not suitable to use gardenias, which may further damage the yin fluid in the body.
3. Ume
Wumei belongs to a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, sour, astringent, flat in nature, return to the liver, spleen, lungs, large intestine meridian, with the effect of cough relieving the lungs, astringent intestine and antidiarrheal, anthral analgesia, shengjin quenching thirst, etc., often used to assist in the treatment of lung deficiency and long-term cough, diarrhea, vomiting and other diseases. The taste of black plum is sweet and sour, suitable for people with strong liver fire, it can reduce liver fire and help digestion, black plum also has the effect of promoting liver detoxification and promoting liver metabolism. Therefore, black plum has the effect of promoting detoxification and promoting liver metabolism on the liver.
Ume can be taken orally, soaked in water, and used in medicine, etc., but it should not be eaten too much, so as not to damage teeth, and children and cold patients, as well as women during menstruation should not use ume.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to dialectic, dietary therapy can only play an auxiliary treatment effect, if you feel unwell, please go to the hospital immediately!