What to do if your gums are swollen and painful

The problem of red and swollen gums can be said to seriously affect and torture our daily lives. If you want to effectively relieve it, you must pay attention to some methods of clearing heat and detoxifying. You can eat foods such as bitter melon, bitter vegetables, loofah, etc. to relieve the painful symptoms of getting angry.

(1) Heat-clearing and detoxifying foods : such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoots, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water caltrop, purslane, day lily, etc. Most of them have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are suitable for various symptoms of excess fire.

(2) Bitter and cold foods that reduce fire: such as bitter melon, bitter herbs, water chestnuts, loofah, snails, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frogs, etc., which can reduce heat and fire with their cold nature and are mostly used for symptoms of excess fire.

(3) Foods that promote diuresis and relieve heat: Such as winter melon, watermelon, coix seed, lentil, barley, amaranth, melon, adzuki bean, black fish, duck meat, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard lining, etc., suitable for various symptoms of excess heat.

(4) Attacking the Excessive Fire : Such as rhubarb, anemarrhena, coptis, scutellaria, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc., suitable for symptoms such as short yellow urine, dry stool, dry and bitter mouth, abdominal distension and poor appetite.

(5) Blood-cooling and blood-retaining foods : such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, raw earth, fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn silk, mango, eel, bamboo leaf, Imperata root, purslane, etc. They can be used for epistaxis, bloody stool, hematuria, bleeding gums and other conditions caused by blood heat.

(6) Sweet and warm herbs that can eliminate heat: Such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, royal jelly, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard greens, cherry, pomegranate, black plum, etc., suitable for conditions of Qi deficiency and excess fire.