What foods can help clear away heat and relieve fire?

After entering autumn, the weather has become cooler. However, the dry climate that comes with autumn cannot be avoided. When the weather is dry, people are prone to getting angry. So what foods can you eat regularly to clear away heat and reduce internal heat?

(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 to treat excess fire syndrome.

(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 fire.

(4) Vegetables that attack the excessive fire: such as rhubarb, anemarrhena, coptis root, 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., which can be used for epistaxis, blood in stool, blood in urine, bleeding gums and other conditions of blood heat.