What to do if your gums are swollen and painful due to inflammation?

The pressure in daily life and work is particularly high, and many people will suffer from getting angry. There are many symptoms of getting angry, the most common of which is swollen and painful gums. The best way is to adjust your diet, reduce the heat symptomatically, pay attention to rest, and adjust your state.

(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.

(7) Yin-nourishing and fire-reducing foods : such as soft-shelled turtle, kelp, seaweed, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, black chicken, pumpkin, clam, white fungus, etc. They are mostly used for symptoms such as Yin deficiency and fire excess, fever in the five parts of the body, hot flashes, night sweats, and insomnia.

(8) Foods that nourish the internal organs and extinguish internal heat: such as black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seeds, white fungus, pigeon eggs, quail, bird meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leeks, mulberries, etc., are suitable for various symptoms of internal heat caused by weak internal organs and insufficient yang energy.