How to treat children’s excessive heart fire and what foods should they eat?

Most people have experienced excessive heart fire, especially in autumn and winter when the weather is dry, which can easily cause excessive heart fire. People usually choose to eat something to reduce fire, but this cannot solve the problem fundamentally. Symptoms of excessive heart fire often include insomnia, dreaminess, palpitations, pain at the tip of the tongue, yellow urine, etc. Excessive heart fire is generally divided into two types: false fire and real fire. In life, you should pay more attention to your diet and eat more foods and medicines that are easy to reduce fire. So what foods can effectively relieve the excessive heart fire?

1. Drink lotus seed soup to relieve heart fire:

Symptoms: There are two types of fire: deficiency and excess. Deficiency fire is manifested by low fever, night sweats, irritability, dry mouth, etc.; excess fire is manifested by recurrent oral ulcers, dry mouth, short and red urine, irritability, etc.

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

2. Eating pig liver can relieve lung heat:

Symptoms: dry cough without sputum or little and sticky sputum, hot flashes and night sweats, hot palms and soles, insomnia, and red tongue.

Diet therapy: 1 piece of pork liver, 30 grams of chrysanthemum (wrapped in gauze), cook until the liver is cooked, eat the liver and drink the soup.

3. Drink mung bean porridge to relieve stomach fire:

Symptoms: There are two types of deficiency and excess. Deficiency fire is manifested by mild cough, small amount of food intake, constipation, abdominal distension, red tongue and little coating; excess fire is manifested by upper abdominal discomfort, dry mouth and bitter taste, and dry and hard stools.

Diet therapy: 30 grams of gypsum powder, appropriate amount of polished rice and mung beans. First boil the gypsum with water, then filter out the residue, take the clear liquid, and then add polished rice and mung beans to cook porridge.

4. Drink pear juice to relieve liver fire:

Symptoms: headache, dizziness, tinnitus, dry eyes, bitter taste in the mouth, bad breath, and pain in the ribs.

Diet therapy: Crush 10 grams of Fritillaria cirrhosa into powder, peel and cut 2 pears, add appropriate amount of rock sugar, and stew it with appropriate amount of water.

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.

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.

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.

In fact, heart fire in traditional Chinese medicine refers to the internal heat of the human body. Clinically, it is mainly manifested in symptoms such as heat in the five hearts, dry throat, dry mouth, and sores in the mouth and tongue. In the correspondence between the five internal organs and the five elements, the heart corresponds to fire. In addition, "the heart controls the blood vessels throughout the body", so when the heart fire is strong, the child's hands, feet, and five hearts will feel hot. Furthermore, "the tongue is the root of the heart, and the tongue is the sprout of the heart." The tongue and the heart are mutually external and internal, so when the heart fire is strong, the tip of the tongue will turn red.