Clearing Fire Home Cooking: Self-Regulating to Avoid Fire (Note: The translation follows your instructions, keeping the newline characters as they are and translating all other Chinese text into English.)

Author: Baishun Studio
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Feeling hot, poor appetite, insomnia, inability to focus at work, feeling annoyed. Symptoms of being "hot": Dry throat, hoarse voice, sore throat, mouth ulcers, cough with phlegm, dry mouth and tongue.
Starting Point: Clearing heat and detoxifying, with dietary therapy as the main approach; effective in regulating and preventing "feeling hot."
Keywords: Prevention first, address early signs with dietary therapy, focus on regulating and preventing "feeling hot."
Those days of constantly feeling hot are over!
"Feeling hot" is divided into two categories: external heat and internal heat.
1. External heat is caused by direct exposure to the "fiery pathogen" from nature, leading to "feeling hot."
2. Internal heat is caused by the transformation of wind, cold, summer, dampness, dryness into fire, as well as dysfunction of internal organs, emotional stagnation, or blockage of qi, blood, phlegm, and food turning into fire.
- Excess heat () is due to yang excess and heat, affecting the heart, liver, stomach, and lungs.
- In TCM, the heart is considered the sovereign organ, governing the body, and heart fire is the primary internal heat source. Excessive heart fire may cause irritability, flushed face, thirst, mouth ulcers, and insomnia.
- "Rage harms the liver, and five emotions turn into fire." Some people are narrow-minded, melancholic, and easily angered, leading to liver stagnation and liver fire rising, causing headaches, red eyes, tinnitus, bitter taste, dry throat, yellow tongue with yellow coating, burning pain in the side ribs, and irritability.
- Irregular diet, excessive alcohol consumption, or overeating greasy, spicy, and heavy foods can form "food stagnation," generating heat and turning into "fire," leading to stomach fire. Symptoms include nosebleeds, bad breath, swollen gums, yellow tongue with yellow coating, burning stomach pain, thirst for cold drinks, dry stools, and dark urine.
- Lung fire primarily manifests as cough with thick yellow phlegm, yellow tongue with yellow coating, shortness of breath, flared nostrils, nosebleeds, hemoptysis, dry stools and urine, and restlessness. It is often caused by changes in weather or physical stress.
- Deficiency heat () is due to yin deficiency and heat, affecting the heart, liver, stomach, and lungs, with the lungs and kidneys being the main targets.
- Kidney deficiency heat primarily causes symptoms like emaciation, sore waist and knees, dry throat and tongue, dizziness, tinnitus, poor memory, insomnia, restlessness, night sweats, and red, dry tongue.
- Lung deficiency heat primarily causes dry cough, shortness of breath, little but sticky phlegm, or blood in phlegm, dry mouth and throat, hoarse voice, bone-heat, restlessness, flushed cheeks, and red, dry tongue.