The lung meridian, short for hand Taiyin lung meridian, is one of the twelve meridians of the human body. The acupuncture points of this meridian treat cough, asthma, coughing up blood, sore throat and other lung disorders, as well as other illnesses in the circulation area of the meridian. When the lung meridian is hot and on fire, the body will show some symptoms such as fever and nosebleeds.
What are the symptoms of heat in the lung meridian?
When the lung meridian is hot, it will cause the lung meridian to be inaccessible, and the body will not be able to discharge the toxins, so the lung qi will rise and the evil heat will accumulate in the lungs.
Dietary Modification
Stewed mushroom with pear juice
Ingredients: 1 duck pear, 50 grams of mushrooms, ice sugar.
Method: Firstly, peel and slice the duck pear and squeeze the juice, then wash and slice the mushroom, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar and stew together, after 20 minutes or the mushroom stew is cooked, you can serve it and eat with soup.
Effect: The pear can moisten the lung and cool the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire, and the interferon produced by the double-stranded sugar nucleic acid in the mushroom can destroy the virus in the body, which can prevent and treat colds. This food therapy can prevent lung fever, cough and cold in autumn and winter, and generally take two or three days to see the effect.
Stewed duck with water chestnut
Ingredients: 100 grams of water chestnuts, 1 net duck, 20 grams of green onion, 15 grams of ginger, appropriate amount of cooking wine and salt.
Method.
1. Chop the duck and wash it, cut the green onion into sections, wash and slice the ginger, peel and wash the horse chestnuts, cut them into two halves and set aside.
2, add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, put onion, ginger, wine. Add the duck pieces, boil over high heat, fish out the duck pieces.
3, re-add sufficient water to the pot, add the horse feet, duck pieces. Cover, boil over high heat, stew slowly until cooked, add salt.
Efficacy: water chestnut can dissolve phlegm, clear lung heat, old duck is a good tonic, cool, can replenish blood and water, nourish the stomach, strengthen the spleen and lungs, water chestnut stewed duck for the lung heat on the fire has the effect of lowering lung fire, clear lung heat.
Green olive and carrot pork bone soup
Ingredients: 250 grams of green olives, 2 carrots, 400 grams of pork fan bones.
Method.
1. Peel and cut the carrots into pieces, and shoot the green olives to crack.
2: Cut the pork bones into large pieces and blanch them once in boiling water.
3、Put the green olives, carrots, pork bones and water into a soup pot, bring to a boil, then turn to low heat for one and a half hours, add salt to taste.
Efficacy: nourish Yin, moisten the lungs, help digestion, main treatment of sore throat caused by lung heat.
Vegetarian roasted winter melon
Ingredients: 200 grams of winter melon, salt, chicken essence, soy sauce, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar in appropriate amounts.
Method.
1: Peel and remove the flesh of winter melon, cut into squares and set aside.
2, hot pot with oil, hot oil into the winter melon pieces fried until slightly golden brown on all sides, the winter melon steak to the edge of the pot, the middle of a little sugar stir-fried sugar color and winter melon pieces together well.
3, add salt, appropriate amount of soy sauce, soy sauce, add a small bowl of water and stir well, cover the pot and simmer until the winter melon to cook.
4, then add oyster sauce, chicken essence, high heat to reduce the juice, pot sprinkled with green onions can be.
Effects: Clearing heat, resolving phlegm, generating body fluid, detoxifying, and promoting water retention. Mainly used to treat heart and chest trouble and heat, urine, cough and asthma.
Lily jujube and licorice porridge
Ingredients: 15 grams of lily, 5 jujubes, 5 grams of licorice, orange leaf, rock sugar, rice in appropriate amounts.
Directions: Put lily, jujube, licorice and orange luo in rice and add water to make porridge, add rock sugar when cooked to eight minutes.
Effect: Clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lung and relieving cough, calming the mind, treating sore throat and cough caused by lung heat.
Drink tea to regulate
Honeysuckle tea
Honeysuckle is sweet, cold and has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. Drinking honeysuckle tea often can lower lung fire, clear lung heat, prevent wind-heat colds and sore throats.
Chrysanthemum tea
Chrysanthemum is pungent, sweet, bitter and slightly cold. It belongs to the lung and liver meridians. The Compendium of Materia Medica records that "wild chrysanthemum has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying, calming the liver and clearing the eyes." It can remove wind-heat and lower lung fire. Drinking chrysanthemum tea regularly can clear lung fire and regulate the lung meridian.
Luo Han Guo tea
Luohan fruit is a kind of longevity fruit that prolongs life. It is sweet and cool in nature, and has the effect of clearing the lungs and relieving cough, laxative, swelling and stopping bleeding. According to "Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine", Luo Han Guo can stop cough and clear heat, cool the blood and moisten the intestines, which can cure cough and stomach heat, etc. Luo Han Guo tea can regulate the lung meridian and is very convenient.
Massage the Hegu point to regulate
The Hegu point is located on the back of the hand at the mouth of the tiger, in the first metacarpal bone and the second metacarpal bone trap, is the hand Yangming large intestine meridian points, Chinese medicine believes that the large intestine and lung epithelial, clinical many patients with lung fever, acupuncture Hegu point can often receive more obvious results. In clinical practice, many patients with lung fever often receive more pronounced results from acupuncture points.
Lifestyle changes
There is also a relationship between heat in the lung meridian and the usual inappropriate lifestyle, which should be changed appropriately. Pay attention to rest and don't stay up late. Eat a light diet, eat more fruits, and avoid spicy and fried foods. Usually when the indoor air is too dry, you can place a humidifier, which can prevent nosebleeds caused by lung fire. When things are smooth, do not be impatient, do not be anxious on fire.
