This is you if
- Acid reflux, heartburn, or a burning stomach
- Irritability, a short fuse, anger that arrives fast
- Red face, red eyes, skin that flushes or breaks out
- Strong thirst, especially for cold drinks
- Loose, urgent, or burning stools
- Mouth ulcers, bleeding gums, bad breath
- You wake hot or sweat at night
- A bitter taste in the mouth
What is happening
There is excess heat in your system and most of what you eat and drink is adding to it. Coffee, alcohol, chilli, grilled and barbecued meat, and stress all pour in the same direction. Cooling is not about temperature, it is about the nature of the food. 🌡️
Your five rules
- Alcohol is the first and firmest cut. Nothing else you remove will matter as much.
- Bitter and green, daily. Bitterness is the flavour that drains heat.
- Never skip meals. An empty stomach in your type turns to acid and irritability fast.
- Stop at eighty percent full. Overeating is itself fuel for this pattern.
- Cool the method, not just the food. Steam and blanch rather than grill, roast, and fry.
Eat more 🍚
Mung bean, cucumber, celery, watercress, dandelion greens, bitter melon, radish, pear, watermelon, coconut, tofu, barley, spinach, coriander, mint, fennel, chrysanthemum tea.
Eat less 🚫
Alcohol, chilli, coffee, lamb, deep fried food, barbecued and char grilled meat, vinegar and fermented foods in quantity, garlic and ginger in large amounts, mango, refined sugar.
🔪 The habit that matters more than the food
Eat before you are ravenous. Your type gets sharper, angrier, and more inflamed when a meal is late, and then overeats to compensate, which restarts the cycle.
⚠️ The mistake your type makes
Warming “boost your metabolism” advice: ginger shots, cayenne, hot lemon water, intense heat training, saunas. You are already hot. These are prescribed for the opposite constitution and they will make you worse. 🔥
Your first week
Days 1 to 7: no alcohol, something green and bitter daily, three meals at regular times. Reflux and mood usually shift first.
Start here
Mung Bean and Mint Cooling Congee 🌿
🚩 See a doctor if
You are vomiting blood, passing black stools, have severe unrelenting pain, sudden severe headache, or visual disturbance.
