How to relieve constipation caused by Yin deficiency and excessive fire

Constipation is very common. Many factors can cause constipation, especially Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, which is a sign of false heat. As for what to do about constipation caused by Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, patients should mainly start with diet, mainly eating a light diet to achieve the purpose of reducing fire.

1. Diet

Yin deficiency and excessive fire must first be treated by reducing fire. In terms of diet, eat more heat-clearing foods, such as winter melon, bitter melon, wax gourd and the like. You can also drink some chrysanthemum tea every day, which can help clear away heat and reduce fire. It is recommended that if it is a problem with constipation, it is mainly because of old age and less body fluid, which causes dry stools and is not easy to defecate. I hope you can pay attention to your diet, eat more green vegetables, exercise more, and exercise more to improve your body's resistance. People with Yin deficiency should eat more light tonic foods, and foods that are sweet, cool, moisturizing, and Yin-nourishing, such as sesame, glutinous rice, honey, dairy products, sugarcane, vegetables, fruits, tofu, fish and other light foods. They can also eat more porridges such as Adenophora porridge, lily porridge, wolfberry porridge, mulberry porridge, and yam porridge. In addition, you can also eat bird's nest, white fungus, sea cucumber, mussels, turtle meat, crab meat, cordyceps sinensis, old drake, etc. Eat less spicy and dry foods, such as onions, ginger, garlic, leeks, shallots, and peppers.

2. 60 grams of asparagus and 100 grams of rice. Fry the asparagus into a thick juice, remove the residue, add it to rice and cook into porridge, and eat it for breakfast.

3. Raw Rehmannia glutinosa porridge

150 ml of raw Rehmannia juice (or 150 ml of concentrated juice of dried Rehmannia), 100 grams of rice. Cook rice into porridge, add Rehmannia juice when the porridge is cooked, stir well and eat.

4. Lily porridge

50 grams of fresh lily, 100 grams of rice, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar. First cook the rice into porridge, then add the lily when it is almost cooked, cook until done, and season with rock sugar before eating. If there are no fresh lilies, you can use 30 grams of dried lily powder and cook it with rice into porridge.