Stomach heat

　　Stomach heat is often caused by excessive intake of spicy and rich foods, inherent strong stomach fire, or invasion of pathogenic heat into the stomach, or transformation of Qi stagnation into fire. With internal fire raging, the meridians and Qi of the stomach are obstructed, leading to burning pain in the chest. Heat injures body fluids, causing thirst and a preference for cold drinks; fire consumes grain, leading to rapid appetite. If liver fire invades the stomach, it can cause acid regurgitation and discomfort. Fire ascending along the meridians can cause halitosis, gum swelling and pain, and nosebleeds. Yangming heat or injury to body fluids can lead to constipation, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

　　Excessive stomach heat can lead to hyperactivity of the digestion function, causing symptoms such as discomfort in the stomach, rapid appetite, and increased thirst. With the heat intensifying, there is often consumption of body fluids, leading to internal燥热and disturbance of stomach harmony, which can manifest as bitter taste in the mouth, excessive thirst, and constipation. In severe cases, it can consume yin fluid, leading to stomach Yin deficiency. Rising stomach fire can cause upward reverse of stomach Qi, manifested as nausea, vomiting of sour and bitter yellow fluid. Stomach fire ascending along the meridians can cause toothache and gum swelling, or nosebleeds. If the fire burns the meridians of the stomach, it can cause blood to rise and be vomited as hematemesis.

　　Stomach fire rising can lead to reverse flow of stomach Qi, causing symptoms such as nausea, vomiting of sour and bitter yellow fluid. Stomach fire rising along the meridians can cause toothache and gum swelling, or nosebleeds. Fire burning the meridians of the stomach can cause the blood to rise, leading to vomiting of blood. It can also lead to complications such as epigastric pain, diabetes mellitus, gum swelling and pain, vomiting, constipation, and other diseases.

　　When stomach heat is severe, the function of digestion may become overly active, leading to symptoms such as a noisy stomach, increased appetite, and other symptoms. Excessive heat can consume body fluids, leading to internal dryness and constipation. Stomach heat can cause the stomach Qi to rise abnormally, leading to symptoms such as nausea, vomiting of sour and bitter yellow fluid. Stomach fire can rise along the meridians, causing toothache, gum swelling, or nosebleeds. Fire burning the meridians of the stomach can cause the blood to rise, leading to vomiting of blood. Complications may include epigastric pain, diabetes mellitus, gum swelling and pain, vomiting, constipation, and other diseases.

　　1. Keep hydrated at all times

　　Drinking warm water can solve many problems, including cooling internal dryness, promoting the skin's blood circulation, and washing away bacteria colonies in the mouth, inhibiting their growth, thus reducing halitosis. Even for those who often stay in air-conditioned rooms where water evaporation is less, one should drink about 1300 milliliters a day, and drink more when sweating. Lemon water is suitable to drink when there is heat in the body, and eating citrus fruits with a sour taste is also beneficial. If you do not like plain water, you can also drink soothing drinks such as mint, bitter tea, chrysanthemum, and honeysuckle herbal teas.

　　2. Improve sleep quality

　　Poor sleep can cause the body to overwork, making it easy to get overheated, and turning the day and night upside down is a great taboo. For those engaged in intellectual work, blood circulation tends to concentrate in the head, leading to fatigue and difficulty falling asleep. In this case, footbath can help bring down the fire energy, allowing for better sleep.

　　The method is as follows: first soak in warm water (for women, the water should cover about two-thirds of the lower leg near the three Yin Jiao acupoint, for men, up to the ankle), then gradually add hot water, soak until the feet are warm and slightly sweaty, and then rest. Footbath is very helpful for improving the skin's blood circulation. After a week of soaking, you will find it easier to sweat, even in an air-conditioned room, the skin will not dry out.

　　3. Increase body surface heat dissipation

　　Scratching the skin during heatstroke can promote the expansion of capillaries, force heat dissipation, and alleviate discomfort.

　　4. Eat a light diet

　　High-calorie foods provide fire energy, and it is not advisable to eat low-moisture foods such as fried foods, biscuits, peanuts, and other nuts when there is heat in the body. Instead, focus on low-calorie diets such as vegetables and light soups.

　　Watermelon Drink

　　Ingredients: Watermelon juice 150 milliliters, pear juice 80 milliliters, cabbage juice 50 milliliters.

　　Method: Mix and serve cold.

　　Benefits: Clears heat and relieves summer heat, quenches thirst, promotes urination.

　　Millet and Mungo Bean Porridge

　　Ingredients: Mungo beans 20 grams, millet 50 grams. Method: Boil mungo beans in water for 50 minutes, then add millet, and it is ready when the millet is cooked through. Serve cold.

　　Effects: Clear heat and detoxify, cool summer heat and promote diuresis, generate moisture to relieve thirst, effective for symptoms such as summer heat thirst, boils and abscesses, senile edema, etc.

　　Cold Celery

　　Ingredients: Celery 300 grams, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil.

　　Method: Cut celery into segments, blanch in boiling water, cool, add salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, mix well.

　　Effects: Calm the liver and clear heat, remove wind and moisten dampness. Suitable for liver and stomach heat, stomachache, stomach heat halitosis, intestinal dryness and constipation.

　　Cooling Drink

　　Ingredients: Fresh reed root, dried chrysanthemum, fresh grass root, fresh water caltrop, fresh mulberry leaf, fresh bamboo leaf, fresh mint, fresh lonicera.

　　Method: Mix the above ingredients in appropriate amounts and boil the water for drinking.

　　Effects: Clear heat and remove summer heat, generate moisture to relieve thirst, strengthen the stomach and promote diuresis, has a significant preventive and therapeutic health effect for symptoms such as heat, summer heat, restlessness, thirst, headache, swelling of the throat, nosebleed, stomach heat, vomiting, etc.

      1. Warm disease heat retching (stomach hidden heat, causing chest fullness, causing qi reversal, the qi reversal producing sound is called retching). Use half a jin of grass root, reed root, and kudzuvine root, add three sheng of water to boil to one and a half sheng. Take one cup each time, taken with warm water. Stop taking when the retching stops.

　　2. Stomach heat vomiting, use fifty cicada wings (cleaned), one liang of talc, grind into powder, take two qian each time, one bowl of water, add honey to mix and take, this prescription is named 'Qing Ge Powder'.

　　3. Treat stomach heat diabetes. Eat cooked rice with old millet.

　　4. Stomach epigastric fire pain. Use seven (or nine) large chrysanthemum seeds fried to a crisp, add one bowl of water, boil to 70%, add ginger juice for drinking, the pain will stop immediately. If this disease recurs, add one liang of xuanming powder to take to relieve the pain.

　　5. Stomach heat toothache. Use cimicifuga decoction, rinse and swallow the heat. Adding raw rehmannia root to the formula is also possible.

　　6. Hidden heat in the intestines and stomach. Use five liang of acid fruit, three liang of amaranth seed, two liang each of fried miltiorrhiza, fried ulmus pumila white bark, two liang each of bupleurum, common scutellaria, trichosanthes root, and liu ru, grind into powder, add refined honey to make pills the size of a wu zi. Take thirty pills each time, taken with miltiorrhiza decoction.

　　7. (Zi Gen) Extremely cold, treating diabetes, chronic heat in the intestines and stomach. External application for snakebite, boils and toxins.

　　8. Oral and Tongue Ulcers (Bladder heat transferred to the small intestine, ulcers on the mouth and tongue, heat in the heart and stomach, food and water not going down). Use three liang of bupleurum and three liang of periploca, decocted in water for internal use. This prescription is named 'Periploca Decoction'.