What to do if you get angry after the holidays? Chinese medicine gives advice!

After the Spring Festival, many outpatient patients suffered from "getting hot". In response to this, Chinese medicine practitioners gave suggestions to help those who suffered from "getting hot" quickly get rid of their troubles.

There are many different types of "getting angry". In terms of the nature of fire, there is a distinction between false fire and real fire; in terms of the location of the fire, there is a distinction between heart fire, liver fire, lung fire, stomach fire and kidney fire.

Types of inflammation

Stomach Fire

Excessive stomach fire is very common in clinical practice, most of which are real fire, manifested by oral ulcers, thirst for cold drinks, bad breath, swollen and painful gums, upper abdominal discomfort, dry and hard stools, acne in the triangular area of ​​the face, red tongue with yellow coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Liver Fire

Liver fire is common, with symptoms such as dizziness, swelling and pain, red face and eyes, bitter and dry mouth, irritability, tinnitus, constipation, short yellow urine, red tongue with yellow fur, and stringy pulse. Most patients have real fire, while some have virtual fire. Most patients with virtual fire have symptoms of yin deficiency on top of the symptoms of heat, such as sore waist and knees, and tinnitus.

Lung Fire

Excessive lung fire is also relatively common, with the main manifestations being fever, thirst, cough, asthma, red and swollen sore throat, short and red urine, constipation, red tongue with yellow and greasy coating, and rapid pulse.

Heart Fire

Symptoms of excessive heart fire include irritability, insomnia, red and painful mouth and tongue, red, astringent, burning and painful urine, red tip of the tongue and yellow tongue coating, etc.

Kidney Fire

Excessive kidney fire is rare, and is mostly virtual fire. The main symptoms include loose teeth, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, restless sleep, fever in the five parts of the body, weight loss, and sore waist and legs.

To reduce heat, you need to treat the symptoms

People with excessive liver fire can boil water with gentian, white peony, scutellaria and snow pear to drink; those with excessive heart fire can eat lotus seeds, or boil lotus seed and lily soup; those with excessive stomach fire are suitable for drinking mung bean porridge, or boil lean meat soup with gardenia, anemarrhena and dendrobium; those with excessive lung fire should steam lotus seeds, white fungus and snow pear with water for two hours and then eat them; those with excessive kidney fire can drink some light salt water.

If the discomfort symptoms are difficult to relieve, you can take Niuhuang Shangqing Pills, Longdan Xiegan Pills, Sanhuang Tablets, Daochi Pills and other heat-clearing Chinese patent medicines under the guidance of a doctor. Chinese medicine reminds that you should not buy heat-clearing medicines on your own when you feel "getting angry". You must follow the doctor's advice, treat the symptoms according to the syndrome, and prescribe the right medicine for the right condition.

In addition, it is also very important to adjust your work and rest schedule, participate in outdoor activities appropriately, combine work and rest, and improve immunity in order to maintain a healthy body.

Content sources: China Traditional Chinese Medicine News, Health China WeChat, etc.