The biggest difference between real fire and false fire

"Getting hot" is a very common term in daily life. Some people say that if you get hot, you should eat more foods that clear away heat and detoxify, and eat more cool foods. In fact, this is not the case. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that fire can be divided into real fire and false fire. If it is real fire, you can deal with it with traditional methods. However, if it is false fire, blindly eating cold foods will aggravate the condition. Therefore, it is very important to learn to distinguish between real fire and false fire. So how do you distinguish them specifically?

Getting a sore throat is a very uncomfortable thing, but it does not necessarily require clearing away heat and purging fire. First of all, you need to distinguish whether you have false fire or real fire, and prescribe the right medicine.

How to distinguish whether you have false fire or real fire

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The first characteristic of deficiency fire: hot flashes and night sweats. Hot flashes are like the rising tide of a river, with fever occurring at regular intervals, usually in the afternoon. Night sweats occur when you are sleeping at night and sweat during deep sleep, and the sweat stops when you wake up.

Oliguria and edema: The kidney controls water, and the metabolism of urine requires the promotion and evaporation of kidney yang. If the kidney yang is insufficient, less urine is produced and toxins cannot be metabolized and remain in the tissue gaps, causing edema.

Dizziness and tinnitus: Yang Qi has a consolidating effect. If the kidney is deficient, Yang Qi cannot be consolidating, and the rising virtual fire affects the brain. This causes dizziness and buzzing in the ears.

Throat soreness but no redness or swelling: When the internal heat rises, you will feel sore throat, but when you check the area around the throat, the color is not dark red. This is caused by false fire, so you cannot take heat-clearing and fire-purging medicine to treat sore throat.

Symptoms of 2 include red and swollen eyes, yellow urine, dry mouth and throat, sore throat, and fever in the five parts of the body. The most obvious symptom of these five kinds of heat is hot palms and feet, as well as irritability and heat, and the whole person feels like soaking in ice water.

Many people will suffer from oral ulcers. Oral ulcers are a disease that is common to people with both deficiency fire and excess fire. Generally, people with excess fire are more likely to suffer from oral ulcers, and this is mostly related to diet. If oral ulcers cannot be cured by methods of clearing heat and purging fire, you might consider that they are caused by false fire. Pay attention to whether you are particularly fond of coolness and cannot do without ice cream in winter.

Just clear away the heat and reduce the fire. If you have deficiency fire, you should pay attention to whether there is a problem with your internal organs. The weakness of internal organs will cause various deficiency symptoms. If the deficiency syndrome is allowed to develop and is accompanied by dampness and cold, the body's pathology will be aggravated.