Chinese patent medicine for clearing heart fire

In the hot summer, affected by the climate, many people experience depression and heat, which will not only affect the patient's daily life, but also threaten their physical health. At this time, you should eat more foods that help clear the heart fire. If the situation is serious, you can also choose some Chinese patent medicines that can help clear the heart fire. So what medicines are suitable for helping clear the heart fire?

The main manifestations of heart fire are red tip of the tongue, irritability, frequent dreams or insomnia, yellow urine or even a hot and stinging feeling, thirst and the desire to drink large amounts of water, etc.

Niuhuang Qingxin Pills: have the effects of invigorating Qi and nourishing blood, calming the mind, resolving phlegm and calming wind. It is used for chest stagnation, palpitations, restlessness, dizziness, stroke, aphasia, facial paralysis, hemiplegia, slurred speech, coma, etc. caused by phlegm-heat.

Angong Niuhuang Pills: Mainly used for high fever coma, heat entering the pericardium, phlegm confusing the mind, hepatic coma, stroke, viral cold, high fever in children, etc. Being angry causes fire to accumulate in the heart, which is caused by liver depression turning into fire. For Chinese medicine treatment, you can choose Lophatherum gracile, Andrographis paniculata, Scrophularia ningpoensis, Coptis chinensis, etc. to remove heart fire. You can choose to use Bazheng Powder, Coptis chinensis Ejiao Decoction, etc. to add or subtract.

As we all know, medicine is poisonous, so it is best not to take it. The best way to get rid of heart fire is to regulate your body more in daily life and drink more teas that clear away heat and reduce fire, such as honeysuckle and chrysanthemum tea. In summer, you can drink some mung bean soup and eat less fried, greasy, spicy and irritating foods.

Ten Chinese medicines for clearing heart fire:

1. Lotus core

Lotus core is lotus seed heart, also known as lotus coix, bitter coix, and lotus heart. It was first seen in the "Food Materia Medica" in the late Tang Dynasty. It is the dried embryo of the mature seeds of lotus, a perennial aquatic plant in the Nymphaeaceae family. When harvesting lotus seeds in autumn, peel them, take out the green embryo (lotus core), and dry them in the sun. It has the effects of clearing heart fire, calming liver fire, stopping bleeding and consolidating semen.

Lotus core and Prunella Vulgaris drink is recommended. 5 grams of lotus core and 15 grams of selfheal, boil in water and drink as tea. Lotus seeds can clear away heat and relieve restlessness, while Prunella Vulgaris has the effect of clearing liver fire and lowering blood pressure. It can be used for hypertension, restlessness, fever, dizziness and headache.

2. Prunella vulgaris

Prunella Vulgaris is a traditional Chinese medicine commonly used for diet therapy in Guangdong during the summer. It is a herbal medicine for clearing away heat and purging fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cold in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and has the effects of clearing heat, improving eyesight, dispersing nodules and reducing swelling. It is often used for red and swollen eyes, headache and dizziness, scrofula, goiter, breast abscess, thyroid enlargement, lymph tuberculosis, hypertension and breast hyperplasia, etc.

If you want to clear liver fire, you can take 12 grams of Prunella Vulgaris, 10 grams each of mulberry leaves and chrysanthemum. Add proper amount of water to selfheal and mulberry leaves, soak for half an hour, then boil for half an hour. Finally, add chrysanthemum and boil for 3 minutes. It can be drunk as tea. Can be flavored with rock sugar or honey.

3. Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is rich in vitamin A, which is an important substance for protecting eye health and is also a good medicine for treating various eye diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. Chrysanthemum tea can make people clear-headed and bright-eyed. It is especially effective for dry eyes caused by liver fire and excessive eye use. Chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, clearing the liver and improving eyesight, nourishing the liver and reducing fire. It can relieve symptoms such as bitter mouth, headache, and sore throat. The best choice for calming liver fire is chrysanthemum or fetal chrysanthemum (the unopened buds of chrysanthemum).

You can take a little chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, and jasmine, soak them in water and drink them as tea, which can clear away heat and detoxify. It is suitable for preventing and treating wind-heat colds, sore throats, carbuncles, etc. Regular consumption can reduce internal heat and has the effect of calming the mind and meditation.

4. Mint

Mint can relieve liver fire and help alleviate the irritability caused by excessive liver fire. Drinking mint tea can dispel wind and heat, reduce liver fire, and mint tea has a cooling feeling, making it a good medicine for clearing heat, detoxifying and diuresis. It is worth noting that mint is not suitable for postpartum women and infants and should be avoided as much as possible.

American scientists also recommend putting a mint tea bag in a cup, placing it in boiling water, and drinking it after 15 minutes before the essential oil evaporates. This will be more effective in assisting the treatment of stomach discomfort.

5. Mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves can dispel wind-heat, clear the lungs and moisten dryness, calm the liver and improve eyesight, cool blood and stop bleeding. Mulberry leaves can not only be used to treat red eyes and photophobia caused by wind-heat, but also can clear liver fire. For red and swollen eyes caused by liver fire, it can be used in combination with chrysanthemum, cassia seed, plantain seed, etc.

If your liver fire is too strong, you can try to use "mulberry leaf and chrysanthemum porridge" to regulate it: first prepare 15 grams of fresh mulberry leaves, 30 grams of fresh chrysanthemums and 50 grams of japonica rice. Boil mulberry leaves and chrysanthemums with 300 ml of water, filter out the juice, and then add 300 ml of water again and boil. After that, pour the juice obtained from the first decoction and japonica rice into it, cook over low heat for 1 hour and then it can be consumed. Once a day.

6. Gentian

Gentiana scabra is a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing heat and drying dampness. It is bitter and cold in nature, and enters the liver and gallbladder meridians. It has the effects of clearing damp-heat from the liver and gallbladder, and relieving depressed fire in the lower abdomen. It was first recorded in "Shenlong Bencao Jing" and listed as a medium-grade medicine. It has a very long history of being used as medicine in China.

Gentiana can clear the liver and reduce fire, while bamboo leaves can clear the heart and relieve restlessness. First, add water to boil 10 grams of gentian and 20 grams of bamboo leaves, take the juice instead of water and add 100 grams of rice to cook into porridge, and take it instead of breakfast. It is suitable for people suffering from insomnia, irritability, red eyes and bitter taste in the mouth, and those with liver depression and fire transformation.

7. Dandelion

Dandelion is a common species and it also has great medicinal value. Therefore, in spring and summer, you might as well eat some fresh dandelions to reduce internal heat and eliminate liver fire. Dandelion is cold in nature and has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, eliminating carbuncles and dispersing nodules. It is a heat-clearing and detoxifying medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. For all sores, carbuncles, etc., mash fresh dandelions and apply them to the affected area, or boil them in water and take them orally, which is very effective.

Dandelions have great therapeutic effects, especially spring dandelions. It is best to pick them in April and May in early spring, before they bloom. At that time, their effects of clearing heat, reducing inflammation and fighting cancer are best. Nowadays, many rural areas still have the habit of eating dandelions, which is a common wild vegetable. Usually the bitterness will be reduced after blanching in water, then you can mix it with minced garlic, light soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, sesame oil and salt before eating. It has a fresh and fragrant taste and is very effective in removing heat.

8. Lotus Leaf

Lotus leaf tea can be used to reduce liver fire, and lotus leaf tea can also be used to regulate negative symptoms such as depression and mental stress. Lotus leaves taste bitter, pungent and slightly astringent, and have a cold nature. They enter the heart, liver and spleen meridians. They have the effects of dispelling heat and dampness, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. They are mainly used to treat summer heat, thirst, headache, dizziness, etc. They can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also promote spleen yang. They are effective in treating summer heat diarrhea and are often used in combination with lentils.

Lotus leaves are cold food, so people with weak constitutions should not drink them often. Especially for women who are menstruating, it is absolutely not suitable to drink lotus leaf beverages, as it will cause menstrual blood to be difficult or blocked, and in severe cases, it may even cause amenorrhea.

9. Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle has been praised as a good medicine for clearing heat and detoxifying since ancient times. It is sweet and cold in nature, with a fragrant aroma, and is an important ingredient in traditional herbal tea. Honeysuckle can clear away heat and detoxify, effectively eliminate toxins from the body, and prevent and inhibit the growth of acne and pimples. Honeysuckle can cool blood and remove blood stasis, promote cell metabolism, and effectively remove various pigmentation and dark spots. Therefore, honeysuckle tea is a good choice of drink during the liver protection season.

Take a little honeysuckle, put its dried product into a cup, brew it with boiling water, and let it cool. Season with rock sugar or honey water.

10. Hedyotis diffusa

Traditionally, it is believed to have the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. It is used for appendicitis, sores, boils, swellings, damp-heat jaundice, and difficulty urinating; it can be used externally to treat sores, boils, carbuncles, and snake bites. Houttuynia cordata can not only clear the heat from the lungs, stomach, liver and spleen, but also remove dampness from the middle burner and has the ability to resolve blood stasis. It is actually a medicine with multiple uses, killing three birds with one stone.

Take 200g loach (fry in a pan until slightly yellow first), 50g chicken bone grass, 30g white flower snake tongue grass, 10 dates, 2000ml water, boil it into 750ml, remove the residue and drink the soup. It has the effect of protecting the liver and reducing enzymes.