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What Chinese medicine is good to eat in summer?
Traditional Chinese medicine suitable for drinking in summer

1, acanthopanax bark

Acanthopanax senticosus is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine which can dispel wind and remove dampness, strengthen tendons and promote diuresis. At the same time, it also has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney and strengthening bones and muscles. Acanthopanax senticosus is mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, enuresis, female low back pain and pain in both feet. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wu Jia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. Atractylodes macrocephala

Atractylodes macrocephala has the functions of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, eliminating dampness, regulating middle warmer, stopping sweating, inducing diuresis and preventing miscarriage. Yan Hui in Materia Medica records that Atractylodes macrocephala is "an important medicine for invigorating spleen and stomach, eliminating dampness and arthralgia, promoting digestion and reducing swelling". Atractylodes macrocephala can improve spleen and stomach weakness, indigestion, loss of appetite, easy diarrhea and other symptoms, jaundice, easy sweating and edema, and unfavorable urination can also be used.

3. adzuki bean

Red beans are sweet, enter the heart and small intestine, and have the effects of diuresis, dehumidification, blood discharge and pus discharge, swelling reduction and detoxification. Its heat-clearing effect is weaker than mung bean, but it has a strong diuretic and dampness-removing effect. It can not only treat common edema, but also treat "large ascites", that is, ascites due to liver cirrhosis. Red beans are generally used for porridge or stuffing.