What to do about internal heat? Especially after the start of spring, it's easier to experience internal heat. Frantically consuming heat-reducing foods or medications may not necessarily help. Try traditional Chinese massage techniques—they provide comfort while effectively reducing internal heat.
Why Do We Experience Internal Heat?
1. Heart Fire
This stems from restlessness, excessive worry, or overwhelming stress. Symptoms include insomnia with vivid dreams and mouth ulcers.
2. Liver Fire
Patients feel bodily heat and exhibit irritability with easy fatigue. These issues arise from liver-kidney disharmony.
3. Stomach Fire
This condition is more common. Symptoms include a burning sensation in the stomach, a sour taste in the mouth, and a tendency to belch.
2. Liver Fire
Patients feel bodily heat, have short tempers, and experience fatigue. These symptoms stem from liver-kidney disharmony.
3. Stomach Fire
This commonly occurs after excessive heat intake. Overconsumption leads to poor digestion, causing constipation, bad breath, acne, and abnormal metabolism.
4.Deficiency Heat
Patients are prone to colds, sore throats, and similar symptoms. This condition is particularly common in those with disrupted sleep patterns, such as night owls.
V: Toxins in the Body
Harmful substances accumulate internally due to both external and internal factors, including pesticide residues, additives, hormones, and air pollution. These substances build up in the body, causing internal heat. This is another common cause of excessive heat.
TCM Massage Methods for Heat-Related Conditions
1. Tai Chong Point. TCM holds that the liver primarily governs "dispersion and regulation of qi flow." Water metabolism relies on qi propulsion; liver dysfunction disrupts qi flow, leading to qi stagnation and fluid retention. Excess liver fire often manifests as dry mouth and throat, dizziness, irritability, unstable sleep, internal heat, and thickened tongue coating.Massaging the Tai Chong point can reduce liver fire. Located on the top of the foot, it is found in the depression 1.5 cm upward from the gap between the big toe and the second toe. This point belongs to the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian. Before massaging this health-preserving point, soak your feet in warm water for about 10 minutes. Then use your thumb to push and rub upward for 3 minutes.
2. Hegu Point. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that "the lungs govern the regulation of water pathways." Poor lung function can lead to phlegm production and dry mouth. Lung "heat" often manifests as toothaches, nosebleeds, sore throat, tinnitus, red and swollen eyes, and constipation.Massaging Hegu (LI4) reduces lung heat. Located on the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, this point is found in the depression between the first and second metacarpal bones on the back of the hand, at the web space between the thumb and index finger. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that the large intestine and lungs are paired organs. Clinically, many patients with lung heat experience significant relief through massage or acupuncture at Hegu.
3. Pericardium Meridian. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that after fluids undergo the descending function of the lungs, they require the heart's propulsive force to circulate through the meridians alongside nutritive qi. Excessive heart fire may manifest as dry mouth and tongue, melancholy, irritability, insomnia, and a reddened tongue tip. Massaging, cupping, or scraping the Pericardium Meridian can all help drain heart fire.The Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian, one of the Twelve Meridians, is commonly referred to as the Pericardium Meridian. Its pathway ascends from the Tianchi point above the left breast to the axilla, then follows the midline of the inner arm to the Zhongchong point at the tip of the left middle finger.
4. Neiting Point.Traditional Chinese medicine holds that the spleen governs the transformation and transportation of fluids. When ingested water enters the stomach, its essence is transmitted to the spleen, which then distributes it throughout the body to nourish the organs. When the spleen is affected by heat, this fluid distribution is disrupted, leading to symptoms such as bad breath, constipation, dry skin, sore throat, toothache, and abdominal distension.