"Summer heat" in the north, eat more fruits.

If you use diet to regulate your body, both the north and the south need to get rid of summer heat, but the nuances are different. In the relatively dry northern region, Chinese medicine believes that "summer heat" will hurt "body fluid", causing fatigue, dry mouth, dry skin and other symptoms.

Therefore, northerners should cope with the "summer heat", add more water, and the diet should be based on nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. You can eat more fruits that nourish yin and promote fluid production, such as watermelon, pear and raisin. In addition, northern families can cook porridge with chrysanthemum, mung bean, lily and reed root, which can also play the role of clearing heat and nourishing yin.

In the south, dried tangerine peel and coix seed remove "summer dampness"

In the south, the phenomenon of "summer heat and dampness" is more serious. Hot and humid weather is easy to cause physical dysfunction, which usually interferes with the normal work of the stomach and spleen. At this time, it is best to strengthen the spleen, clear away heat and eliminate dampness. You can eat more melon and lentils, or you can cook porridge with lotus leaves, coix seed and dried tangerine peel.

Some tropical fruits, such as litchi, longan, mango, durian, etc., are the most typical fruits that cause damp heat and should not be eaten more. Southerners try not to eat violent food in summer, which is easy to hurt their spleen. Southerners like to drink herbal tea made of various Chinese herbal medicines in summer, which has the effect of clearing away heat, but drinking too much is easy to hurt the spleen, so people with spleen deficiency try to drink less herbal tea in summer.

American ginseng can eat some.

Some foods are not much different, and both north and south can clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Such as watermelon, wax gourd, bitter gourd, dandelion, mung bean porridge and so on. However, it is best to add some japonica rice when cooking mung bean porridge, which has better health care effect and protects the spleen and stomach. Portulaca oleracea, which northerners often like to eat, also has the functions of clearing away heat and swelling, detoxifying and eliminating dampness. Portulaca oleracea as a wild vegetable has been eaten by people in China for a long time. It not only has unique flavor, but also has health care function. In summer and autumn, remove the roots of Portulaca oleracea, wash it, blanch it, gently squeeze out the juice, mix it with seasoning and eat it as a cold dish. It's delicious, smooth and delicious. It can also be made into stuffing, pancakes and the like.

In addition, regardless of the north and south, Chinese medicine believes that high temperature in summer will consume gas, so for people with qi deficiency, it is recommended to eat a little American ginseng. Moreover, try to eat less greasy fried food in summer. Some nuts with shells, such as melon seeds and pistachios, should also be in moderation.