Traditional Chinese medicine believes that “internal heat” is a common state of bodily imbalance, related to improper diet, emotional fluctuations, weather changes, and other factors. This state can be subdivided into five types, each with its own characteristics and strategies for adjustment:
1. Excessive heart heat: manifested as irritability, insomnia, and oral problems. Adjustment suggestion: Maintain a good attitude, consume lotus seeds, lilies, mung beans, and other foods to help calm the mood and improve sleep.
2. Liver fire flaring up: unstable emotions, irritability, accompanied by eye discomfort, headaches, and tinnitus. Countermeasure: Maintain emotional stability, drink chrysanthemum tea, cassia seed tea, eat more spinach, celery, and other green vegetables to relieve symptoms.
3. Stomach fire raging: stomach discomfort, bad breath, digestive issues. Dietary adjustments should be light, avoid spicy foods, recommend watermelon, cucumber, mung bean porridge, and lotus leaf tea to alleviate stomach heat.
4. Lung fire raging: dry cough, sore throat, dry nose, sometimes accompanied by fever. Moistening the lungs with foods like Tremella, snow pear, lilies is beneficial, also pay attention to indoor humidity, avoid smoke and dust.
5. Kidney fire overly strong: symptoms include weak lower back and knees, dizziness, and tinnitus. Regulation can be achieved by consuming black sesame, black beans, mulberries, and other black foods, ensuring adequate sleep and maintaining a regular lifestyle.
In addition, universally applicable healthy habits include moderate exercise, adequate water intake, timely and controlled diet, herbal foot baths, and acupressure massage on acupuncture points. For example, massaging the Taichong point to soothe the liver, and the Laogong point to clear the heart can help prevent and alleviate internal heat, promoting physical and mental health.
Through these comprehensive measures, not only can internal heat be effectively addressed, but also the body’s self-recovery ability can be enhanced, achieving the goal of health preservation. Pay attention to daily health care and embrace a healthy lifestyle.
