Heat Clearing Drinks
Heat Clearing Drinks
Catching a “heat” can be as problematic as catching a cold. In the summertime, or warm climates, and can lead to things like, rashes, fatigue, feeling like you have a cold, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, spontaneous bleeding, psoriasis, headache, vertigo, tinnitus, and much more. Here’s a list of a few drinks that could take the edge off, and hopefully prevent more serious things from developing
Cucumber/cucumber water
Cucumber is cooling and nourishing to the mouth, throat, stomach and intestines. Cooling and moistening. Great for cooling off. Also great for
Green Tea
Green tea cooling and astringent and can help cut through that greasy, saggy feeling on a hot afternoon, not just because of a little bit of caffeine, but because of its astringency. Some people use green tea as a face wash for oily, broken out skin, or for styes, by resting a cool green tea bag on the eyes for a few minutes, several times per day until it resolves. Too much tea can cause headaches (too much of anything can hav the opposite effect that we’re yooling for)
Chrysanthemum AKA Ju Hua AKA Flos (flower) Chrysanthemi
This little flower is fantastic for cooling off in the summer, and treating headache, eye redness and swelling with headache due to wind heat aka sudden onset heat exposure related conditions. Here’s a more exhaustive list of what It can do.
White Chrysanthemum Bai Ju Hua nourishes the Liver and clears the eyes better than other varieties. It is most often used for diminished vision due to Kidney and Liver Yin Deficiencies.
Yellow Chrysanthemum Huang Ju Hua has better Wind-Heat dispersing, draining Fire, and resolving toxicity properties. It is most often used in treating eye-redness and headache due to Wind-Heat.
It can be used as a beverage for those with Wind-Heat or Blood Heat.
It can be used with other herbs to treat brain cancer.
It is considered to be one the best remedies for Wind-Heat.
It ranks in the top twelve remedies for systemic hypertension and coronary disease.
It can ascend or descend, drain or tonify.
Ju Hua tonifies the Lungs and Kidneys and is stronger at calming the Liver and brightening the eyes tan Fol. Mori Sang Ye. It has a mild ability to resolve toxicity that allows it to treat toxic swellings, boils and furuncles. Sang Ye excels at calming Liver Wind and disseminating Lung Qi. It is stronger at spreading and dispersing than Ju Hua and can moisten the Lungs, stop coughs, cool the Blood and stop bleeding.
Dry-fried Chrysanthemum Flower Chao Ju Hua is used to calm the Liver and clear the eyes when the Spleen and Stomach are weak.
Charred Chrysanthemum Flower Ju Hua Tan enters the Blood, where it settles Wind and quiets the Blood. It is commonly used with Rx. Polygoni Multiflori Preparata Zhi He Shou Wu, Ligustri Lucidi Nu Zhen Zi, Fr. Tribuli Ci Ji Li and Fr. Lycii Gou Qi Zi, for dizziness, tinnitus and pain in the eyeballs from Blood Deficiency Generating Wind.
This plant flowers in the fall and therefore treats Wind.
https://www.americandragon.com/Individualherbsupdate/JuHua.html
Honeysuckle and forsythia together (with other attendant herbs) - Yin Qiao San
Please keep in mind that There are very few if any herbs that can be taken forever, regularly, every day, forever, and this formula is no exception. HOWEVER, It is incredibly useful for conditions that are caused by heat or aggravated by heat exposure. Here an extensive but not exhaustive list of heat related conditions treated by this fantastic formula.
Dry cough
Sore, red, swollen throat
Slight thirst, with desire to drink cold liquids
Runny or blocked nose
Fever with little perspiration
Slight chills
Maybe high fever
Aversion to Wind
Headache
May be dyspnea with flared nostrils
Initial stage of measles
Initial stage of mumps (epidemic parotitis)
Acute endometritis
Early stage encephalitis B
Canker sores
Early stage Lung Abscess
Early stage meningitis
Mononucleosis
Allergies
Acute suppurative infection
Viral myocarditis
Scarlet fever
https://www.americandragon.com/Herb%20Formulas%20copy/YinQiaoSan.html
Mint (herba menthe/peppermint)
Mint is great for venting heat out through the skin, bit has a fair number of contraindications, meaning, situations in which it can make things worse.
Great for clearing heat, treating eyes and styes, cleaning “toxic filth” from the body, clearing skin, treating rashes.
Taken for:
Wind-Heat with fever, cough, headache, red eyes and a sore throat, Early-stage rashes e.g. measles, Liver Qi Stagnation with pressure in the chest or flanks, emotional instability and gynecological problems, Exposure to unclean Qi in the Summertime leading to gastric distress with abdominal pain, vomiting. diarrhea and a thick, yellow, greasy tongue coat
Situations in which NOT to take it (contraindications):
Contraindicated for debilitated patients with Exterior Deficiency (spontaneous sweat).
Contraindicated for those with Liver Yang Rising.
Contraindicated for those with Yin Deficiency with Heat signs.
Contraindicated for those with Blood Deficiency due to Yin Deficiency Heat.
This herb is not recommended for nursing mothers. It may lead to insufficient lactation.
Contraindicated for those with hiatal hernia.
The essential oil should not be inhaled by small children.
https://www.americandragon.com/Individualherbsupdate/BoHe.html
Mung bean - Lu dou
One of the best herbs/botanicals for clearing heat and summer heat specifically; heat exposure. Very wide benefit, with few contra-indications.
Use for: Summerheat patterns of irritability and fever, especially when thirst is an important symptom
Often made into a tea in Summer to prevent Summerheat, Toxic sores and swellings (grind into a powder and take as a tea), Antidote for poisoning from toxic herbs such as Aconite Fu Zi, Chuan Wu or fava beans
Do not use in cases of: Loose stools or diarrhea. Do not use unless there is Heat. https://www.americandragon.com/Individualherbsupdate/LuDou.html
Biggest downside: it tastes like beans… which is weird, but works wonders!
Aloe - Lui Hui Aloe Gel
Aloe is the old classic. Very wide therapeutic value (can treat a lot of things) but there’s also a lot of contraindications, so in other words, cant be taken forever.
Use for:
Heat Accumulation with constipation, dizziness, red eyes, and irritability (especially for Hot constipation with Heart and Liver Fire with irritability, restlessness and insomnia)
Chronic constipation, Heat in the Liver channel or Liver Fire with epigastric discomfort, dizziness, headache, irritability, tinnitus, constipation and fever, Childhood nutritional impairment especially when due to roundworms, Tinea
Contraindicated during pregnancy.
Use caution during lactation.
Contraindicated during menstruation or uterine bleeding.
Contraindicated for those with rectal bleeding or hemorrhoids.
Contraindicated for children.
Contraindicated for those with Cold due to Spleen and Stomach Deficiency.
Contraindicated for those with anorexia.
Contraindicated for those with diarrhea.
Contraindicated for those with Stasis in the pelvis.
The purgative action may be accompanied by abdominal pain and Blood.
In serious case it may cause nephritis.
https://www.americandragon.com/Individualherbsupdate/LuHui.html