What should mothers do if they have internal heat? What should babies do if they have internal heat after drinking breast milk?

During the period of childbirth, women will experience internal heat for a short period of time as their bodies are adjusting themselves. However, because they need to breastfeed after giving birth, the mother will also get internal heat after feeding the breast milk to the baby. The baby's internal heat mainly manifests as white tongue coating, mouth ulcers, and blistering lips. After the mother gets internal heat, she can drink more lotus seed soup to reduce internal heat, and drink mung bean soup, and eat pork kidneys, all of which can clear away heat and reduce fire.

1. Drink lotus seed soup to relieve heart fire

Symptoms: There are two types of fire: deficiency fire and excess fire. Deficiency fire is usually manifested as low fever, night sweats, irritability, dry mouth, etc.; while excess fire is manifested as repeated 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, cook until the liver is cooked, eat 30 grams of chrysanthemum (wrapped in gauze), and drink the soup together with the liver.

3. Drink mung bean porridge to relieve stomach heat

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

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

5. Eat pork kidneys to reduce kidney heat

Symptoms: dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, soreness of waist and spine, hot flashes, night sweats, and irritability.

Diet therapy: 2 pig kidneys, 15 grams each of wolfberry and cornus officinalis, put them into a casserole and cook until the pig kidneys are cooked, eat the pig kidneys and drink the soup.