Can I eat leek dumplings when I have internal heat?

Dumplings are a staple food for people in the north, but people in the south are also slowly accepting this food because it is very easy to make, especially now that many supermarkets sell frozen dumplings, so you can just boil a bowl of them in water even if you get home late from get off work. There are many types of dumplings, the most common ones are filled with shepherd's purse, pork, cabbage, and leek. During the period of getting a sore throat, you need to control your diet in time. So can you eat leek dumplings when you have a sore throat?

It is best not to eat leeks when you have a fever. Leek is warm in nature and can warm the kidneys and assist yang, benefit the spleen and stomach, and promote qi and blood circulation. Eating more leeks can nourish the liver and strengthen the spleen and stomach. The sulfur-containing compounds in leeks have the effect of lowering blood lipids and dilating blood vessels, and are suitable for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and hypertension.

"Getting angry" is a folk slang, also known as "heat", which can be explained from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine theory and belongs to the category of heat syndrome in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that when the yin and yang of the human body are out of balance and the internal fire is strong, it will cause internal heat.

Heat-reducing foods

(1) Heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoots, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water caltrop, purslane, day lily, etc., have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are suitable for various syndromes of excess fire.

(2) Bitter and cold foods that reduce fire include bitter melon, bitter herbs, water chestnuts, loofah, snails, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frogs, etc. They can reduce heat and reduce fire with their cold nature and are often used for symptoms of excess fire.

(3) Foods that can dispel dampness and relieve fire include winter melon, watermelon, coix seed, lentil, barley, amaranth, melon, adzuki bean, black fish, duck meat, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard lining, etc. They are suitable for various syndromes of excess fire.

(4) Vegetables that attack the excessive heat include rhubarb, anemarrhena, coptis root, scutellaria, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc. They are suitable for treating symptoms such as short yellow urine, dry and hard stool, dry and bitter mouth, abdominal distension and poor appetite.

(5) Foods that cool the blood and astringe the blood include lotus root, pear, water chestnut, raw earth, black fungus, eel, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn silk, mango, eel, bamboo leaf, Imperata root, purslane, etc. They can be used for epistaxis, blood in the stool, hematuria, bleeding gums and other conditions caused by blood heat.

(6) Sweet and warm herbs that can eliminate heat, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, royal jelly, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard greens, cherry, pomegranate, black plum, etc., are suitable for conditions of Qi deficiency and excess fire.

(7) Foods that nourish yin and reduce internal heat include soft-shelled turtle, kelp, seaweed, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, black chicken, pumpkin, clam, white fungus, etc. They are often used to treat symptoms such as yin deficiency and excessive internal heat, fever in the five parts of the body, hot flashes, night sweats, and insomnia.