The weather becomes dry and cold as we enter autumn, and people are prone to internal heat. It is closely related to your lifestyle and diet habits. Especially after the weather gets cold, many people like to eat spicy food to keep warm, which provides favorable conditions for getting internal heat. Below are a few recommended dietary therapies to clear heat and relieve annoyance.
Herbal Recipe One: Lotus Seed Soup
Ingredients: 30g lotus seeds (without removing the lotus core), 15g Chinese yam (wrapped in gauze), appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Boil the above ingredients in water and eat the lotus seeds while drinking the soup.
Benefits: Lotus seeds can nourish the spleen, stop diarrhea, nourish the kidneys, and calm the mind. Chinese yam can relieve heat and annoyance, clear heat, diuretic, cool the blood, and detoxify.
Herbal Recipe Two: Fresh Lotus Root and Radish Drink
Ingredients: Several fresh radishes, 500g fresh lotus root.
Method: Mash and squeeze the two ingredients to obtain juice. Gargle with it several times a day for 3 consecutive days.
Benefits: Clear heat, relieve annoyance, generate body fluids, and quench thirst.
Herbal Recipe Three: Rehmannia and Bamboo Leaf Drink
Ingredients: 15g raw rehmannia, 9g baical skullcap root, 15g fresh bamboo leaves, appropriate amount of white sugar.
Method: Boil the first three ingredients in water to obtain the juice, then add white sugar. Drink it twice a day or replace tea with it.
Benefits: It clears the heart and relieves heat.
Herbal Recipe Four: Lampwick Grass and Persimmon Cake Soup
Ingredients: 6g lampwick grass, 2 persimmons.
Method: Boil the ingredients in 300ml water until the water is reduced to 100ml. Add an appropriate amount of white sugar, warm it up, and consume it twice a day. The persimmons can be eaten as well.
Benefits: This recipe clears and reduces heart heat, clears heat, and diuretic.
In addition to the above-mentioned heat-clearing dietary therapies, it is important to timely supplement vitamins and water to maintain the health and balance of the body. Only when the body is comfortable, can the symptoms of internal heat be relieved.
