The "moisture" in the long summer is more important than the five ingredients to nourish the spleen and stomach.
Dr. Wang Meijun mentioned in his book "Twenty-four solar terms health and beauty book" that Chinese medicine believes that among the five elements, the long summer belongs to the soil, and the spleen in the five internal organs of the human body also belongs to the soil, and the two just correspond. However, the climate in long summer is humid, and humidity has the greatest relationship with human spleen. Therefore, the long summer is a good time to strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.
But it is also because of the long summer time and much rain that it is humid in the heat. If we don't pay attention to it in daily life, it is difficult to get rid of moisture and summer heat, which will easily lead to spleen and stomach being trapped, thus causing many discomforts such as listlessness, loss of appetite, chest tightness and abdominal distension. In order to avoid the above situation, it is suggested to use more sweetness in the diet to replenish the spleen. At the same time, it is a good dietotherapy choice to choose foods that strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, such as the following five ingredients, such as mung bean, coix seed, cucumber and yam:
Five ingredients for eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat
Ingredients 1/ Coicis Semen:
Coix seed is sweet in taste and slightly cold in nature, and belongs to spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Proper consumption has the effects of invigorating spleen and stomach, promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness.