What medicine should I take for stomach heat?

Many people suffer from stomach heat, and those with stomach heat often have dry stools. In fact, stomach heat has a lot to do with our usual diet. If we usually eat some spicy food, it is particularly easy to cause stomach heat. It is also related to the environment we live in. If we often talk about the kang like in the countryside, it is easier to get angry. So what medicine is effective for stomach heat?

Stomach heat is also called stomach fire. Traditional Chinese medicine divides it into heat stagnation in the stomach, fire evil ascending, and fire and heat pressing downward. It is mostly caused by evil heat invading the stomach; or due to addiction to alcohol, spicy food, and excessive consumption of rich and greasy food, which help fire to generate heat; or due to qi stagnation, blood stasis, phlegm, dampness, food accumulation, etc., which turn into heat and fire, all of which can lead to stomach heat (stomach fire); the fire of the liver and gallbladder, which invades the stomach horizontally, can also cause stomach heat (stomach fire). Recommended foods: Foods that are cold in nature and have the effect of clearing stomach fire and purging intestinal heat, such as millet, wheat, tofu, mung beans, mung bean sprouts, bitter melon, winter melon, cucumber, amaranth, cabbage, celery, wild rice stem, watermelon, banana, loquat, pear, peach, rabbit meat, etc.

1. Corn and Beef Short Rib Soup [Ingredients] 2-3 corns, 500 grams of beef short ribs, 10 red dates, 2-3 slices of ginger.

This soup relieves stomach heat, nourishes the spleen and stomach and quenches thirst. The millet in the soup is corn, which is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It can strengthen the spleen and stomach and harmonize the middle burner. Its whiskers are also mild in nature, sweet and light in taste, and can eliminate dampness and relieve heat. "Lingnan Collection of Medicinal Herbs" says that it "can be boiled with pork to treat diabetes." The corn husk and corn heart can also eliminate food stagnation and aid digestion. Beef shank meat is mild in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and can nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood. "Famous Doctors' Records" says that it "calms the middle, replenishes qi, and nourishes the spleen and stomach." It is a commonly used product for weakness. Red dates are sweet and moist, and can nourish the spleen and produce body fluids; they can nourish the stomach and remove the fishy smell of beef shank. Combined into a soup, it has the effects of relieving stomach heat, benefiting stomach qi, strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency, and promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. This soup is neither cold nor hot and can be used as a home-cooked soup or as a dietary therapy for diabetes.

[Cooking] Wash the corn with its silk and skin, and cut into large pieces. Wash, soak and pit the red dates. Put the beef shanks into a pot of boiling water and boil over high heat for 2 minutes. Drain and wash with clean water, which is called "boiling" and "passing through the cold river". Then put them into a clay pot with ginger. Add 2500 ml of clean water (about 10 bowls of water). Boil it over high heat first, then simmer over low heat for 2.5 hours. Add an appropriate amount of salt and a little cooking oil. This amount is enough for 2-4 people. The beef shanks and corn can be scooped out and mixed with soy sauce for serving as a side dish.

.2 Take 50 grams of polished japonica rice and cook it into porridge as usual. When it is half cooked, add 10 grams of cleaned and shredded mushrooms. Cook until the rice is cooked and eat it. It can cure vomiting due to stomach heat, diarrhea due to intestinal heat, and loss of appetite.