The patient asked: “hi TCM Practitioner, what is the meaning of body “heated up”?”
Acne grown on the colleagues’s face, we asked: “Did you hardly sleep yesterday? Is your body heated up?
Our friend having fried banana causing a sore throat, we asked him: “Is that fried food causing sore throat?”
In our daily lifewe see acne growing on the face, sore throat, toothache, mouth ulcers, headache, eye pain, insomnia and constipation,these symptoms are categorized as “heated up” or “Heaty” group in TCM terms.
TCM diagnosis emphasize on the concept of “Coldness” and “Heaty”. Why?
For healthy people, the coldness and heaty is balancing (Ying Yang balancing), then he or she would not “heated up” easily.
When the body caught a flu (“Coldness”), the body temperature increases to fight against the flu. If the immunity system is weak, we will be easily attacked by the bacteria or virus, hence a flu started. The early stage is “Coldness”, decline blowing directly by wind, fever, sore throat, cough, nose blocking etc.
Some might say, “Easy job, just buy some pills from pharmacy.” Is this true?
We always feel afraid of chronic recurrent viral infection because the root cause has not been rectified. It seems that the fever has gone, the flu has stopped, less pain for sore throat, but new symptoms appear such as coughing and nose block. Why? Due to the long term underlying condition, viral has been incubating all the time. If we neglect some clothes protection and get caught of flu, the illness becomes more severe.
Metabolism of the body generates the heats in the body. The process started from the flow of blood circulation and water circulation, these are whence the body consumes oxygen, which helps to transform the food in the form of carbohydrate (starch), fats and protein into energy. If insufficient of heats been generated, our body tend to be “Coldness” type. If energy turned into excessive heats, our body tend to be “Heaty” type. Usually the “heated up” happened at the upper part of the abdomens such as gall bladder, liver, heart and lung organs.
TCM focus on issue like:
- 1. How energy (“heaty”) been deployed in the body.
- 2. How to process the energy (“heaty”).
- 3. How to get rid of the excessive energy (“heaty”).
“Heated up” meaning excessive energy causing the body temperature keeps increasing, if not discarded it will be remained in the body. According to scientific knowledge, “hot air is always floating and cold air is sinking” and “hot will expand and cold will shrink”, so the excessive energy heated up and rise to the head and face. Hence, we see people having symptoms like acne, sore throat, toothache, mouth ulcers, headache, eye pain, insomnia and constipation.
If the “heated up” condition keep happening, it will destroy the organs hence causing below consequences:
- 1. Dehydration of blood and liquid of the cells, affecting the blood circulation and water circulation eventually affecting the metabolism.
- 2. Organ been ‘burnt up’ affecting the functionality of the organs.
- 3. The cells or tissues started to shrink.
- 4. The functionality of the organ to maintain the “blood-forming” is undermined.
If our body has already been “heated up”, how are we going to “reduce heat”?
1. Drink more water.
2. Eat more vegetables and fruits.
a. Vegetables：Fresh green leaves vegetables, cucumber, green tea help reduce heat immensely. Carrot contains vitamin b helps to prevent cleft lip problem.
b. Fruits：Orange, pear, watermelon, mulberry etc. Mulberry is mild sweet and cooling, strengthening the liver and kidney, reduce heaty and improve diuretic effect. Pear reduce the heat in the lung, preserve fluid in the lung and stop coughing and clearing phlegm, help to rectify the problem of yellowish urine and dried lips or mouth. People with “Coldness” type need to be safeguard on these food as if taken much will end up with a cooling digestive system, transparent saliva and excrete loose stool.
3. Drink some handy-packed tea to reduce heat such as: Dandelion tea, Chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves tea etc.
4. Boiled drink：Imperata cylindrical+ Bamboo cane+ Water Chestnut
We clean the outer layer of the plants (Imperata cylindrical 50g、Bamboo cane 300g， Water Chestnut 300g). Bamboo cane to be cut into cube shape, water chestnut to be cut at both top and bottom portion. Boil over high heat for 15 minutes, then simmer the mix food drinks in the next 30 minutes. The drink suits many people and taste good.
5. “Reduced heat” soup such as bitter gourd soup, melon soup, old cucumber soup and lotus root soup.
6. TCM treatment
If we easily get “heated up”, and there is no way to get rid of the “fire”. Then it is time to see a TCM practitioner to get some treatment. We diagnose the disease based on the body type and each unique condition, we might need to consume oral prescription when it is needed.
To maintain the body, we should start changing the habits in our daily life style.
1. Discourage to sleep late – Deep sleep promote fluent blood circulation in the organ of liver and kidney. Improving the blood circulation hence expel more heats from the body.
2. Discourage to be anxious – Over anxiety will cause the 10 times of normal heat generated in the brain. The heat will “burn” the organs such as the theory of TCM, the “heated up” liver with fire.
3. Discourage to be exhausted – Over exhausted will slower down the metabolism and blood circulation, hence the process of expelling heat has decreased.
4. Avoid to catch a flu – Flu might cause fever happened and “heated up” the organs of the body.
5. Discourage to take spicy food, heaty food or food that reduced fluid or causing dehydration.
6. Encourage to drink more waterto replenish blood or fluid that been vaporized or flowed off from the cells.
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