During the summer heat, the human body sweats more, which is easy to consume gas and hurt yin. In addition to drinking more water, eating porridge and eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, we should also eat more foods that benefit qi and nourish yin, such as yam, jujube, honey, lotus root and lily. Duck meat is also a good tonic to relieve summer heat. Cool and sweet, it can nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear away the heat of deficiency and fatigue, replenish blood and promote blood circulation, nourish the stomach and promote fluid production, and relieve cough and spasm. It was called a "panacea" by ancient physicians.
After the heat, people are prone to loss of appetite, bloating and heavy limbs. Eating something that dries the dampness and strengthens the spleen can relieve the symptoms. For example, adding a proper amount of rock sugar to dried tangerine peel and brewing it with boiling water to make tea for future generations can play the role of regulating qi, appetizing, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm.
Here are some "summer" diet lists to share with you:
1. Qingshu Qushi Tea
Ingredients: flat bean curd, lotus leaf and rose each 20g.
Practice: first cut the lotus leaf into filaments, put it into the pot with flat tofu and roses, add 500 ml of water, fry it into thick juice, and drink it after adding appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Efficacy: aromatic turbidity, clear damp heat.
2. patchouli leaf porridge
Ingredients: patchouli leaves 20g, japonica rice100g.
Practice: Take the leaves of Pogostemon cablin and decoct the soup for later use. Add water to the cooked rice porridge, and add the fried agastache juice when the porridge is cooked.
Efficacy: aromatic turbidity, clear damp heat.
3. Watermelon skin porridge
Ingredients: watermelon peel100g, 50g of rice.
Practice: peel off the hard skin of watermelon and cut it into dices; Wash the rice clean, put it in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water and watermelon peel, boil it with strong fire, and then turn to low heat to cook porridge.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, and preventing heatstroke.
4. Wax gourd, lotus leaf and barley ribs soup
Ingredients: 500g wax gourd, 250g sparerib, fresh lotus leaf 1 slice, 30g coix seed, salt and ginger slices.
Practice: Wash melon with skin and cut into pieces; Wash Job's tears and lotus leaves and soak them slightly; Wash the ribs and chop them into small pieces; Put the wax gourd block, coix seed, lotus leaf, ribs and ginger slices into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, then change the pot to low fire for about 3 hours, and add appropriate amount of refined salt to taste.
* Note:
Don't "be greedy for cooling off the heat." Because when the weather is hot, the human body sweats more and the pores are open. At this time, the body is most vulnerable to external evils. If you want to be comfortable for a while, eat cold drinks, cold food, etc. , it is easy to hurt the human Yang.