Gastric heat is a common symptom in traditional Chinese medicine, mainly manifested as bad breath, dry mouth, and constipation. If the symptoms of gastric heat are not resolved for a long time, it not only affects physical health but also impacts the social life of patients. Below, I will recommend several health-preserving dietary therapies that can clear the stomach and reduce heat.
1. Winter Melon Soup
Ingredients: pork ribs, winter melon, ginger, star anise, pepper.
Method: Chop the pork ribs into small pieces, wash and drain them. Peel and cut the winter melon into appropriate chunks. Crush the ginger. Blanch the pork ribs in boiling water for 5 minutes, then remove and rinse with clean water. Put the pork ribs, ginger, star anise, and an appropriate amount of water into a pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 60 minutes. Add the winter melon and simmer for another 20 minutes. Remove the ginger and star anise, then add salt, pepper, and monosodium glutamate. Serve.
Efficacy: Winter melon has a cooling nature, which can clear the stomach heat, nourish the stomach, and reduce appetite. It can also convert fats into heat energy instead of storing them as body fat. Additionally, winter melon has anti-aging effects, can keep the skin fair and smooth, and maintain a well-proportioned figure. Most importantly, winter melon has excellent heat-clearing and heatstroke-preventing effects.
2. Watermelon Drink
Ingredients: 150ml of watermelon juice, 80ml of pear juice, 50ml of cabbage juice.
Method: Mix the ingredients and serve chilled.
Efficacy: It clears heat, relieves thirst, and promotes diuresis.
3. Monk Fruit Herbal Tea
Ingredients: 2-3 monk fruits, 1 fat sea, some rock sugar or honey.
Method: Remove the shells from the monk fruits, brew them with the fat sea using boiling water, and add an appropriate amount of rock sugar or honey before drinking.
Efficacy: Monk fruit has a sweet and sour taste, a cool nature, and various effects such as clearing heat, cooling blood, nourishing yin, stopping coughing, promoting bowel movements, beautifying the skin, and moistening the lungs. It is commonly used for symptoms such as lung heat cough, sore throat and loss of voice, dry intestines and constipation. It has a good therapeutic effect on acute bronchitis, acute tonsillitis, throat heat, and acute gastritis.
4. Millet and Mung Bean Porridge
Ingredients: 20g of mung beans, 50g of millet.
Method: Boil the mung beans in water for 50 minutes, then add the millet and cook until the millet is soft. Serve chilled.
Efficacy: It clears heat and detoxifies, relieves summer heat and promotes diuresis. It also nourishes the yin and relieves thirst and is effective for symptoms such as summer heat and irritability, sores, swelling, and elderly edema.
5. Celery Salad
Ingredients: 300g of celery, salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil.
Method: Cut the celery into sections, blanch it in boiling water, let it cool, then add salt, monosodium glutamate, and sesame oil, and mix well.
Efficacy: It soothes the liver, clears heat, dispels wind, and promotes diuresis. It is suitable for symptoms such as liver and stomach heat, stomach pain, bad breath due to stomach heat, and dryness and heat in the intestines.
6. Cooling Drink
Ingredients: fresh reed root, dried white chrysanthemum flowers, fresh Imperata cylindrica grass, fresh Chinese water chestnut, fresh mulberry leaves, fresh bamboo leaves, fresh mint leaves, fresh honeysuckle flowers.
Method: Mix the above ingredients in appropriate amounts, boil them in water, and drink.
Efficacy: It clears heat, dispels summer heat, nourishes yin, relieves thirst, and benefits the stomach and diuresis. It has a significant preventive and therapeutic effect on diseases such as fever, heat injury, irritability, thirst, headache, throat swelling, nosebleeds, gastric heat, and vomiting.
