1, summer solstice soup
(1) hawthorn soup
Boil 50 grams of hawthorn slices and 50 grams of sour plums in water, then add white chrysanthemums, take them out after boiling, then add appropriate amount of sugar, and drink after cooling. It can promote digestion, strengthen stomach, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
(2) Poria porridge with lotus leaves
1 lotus leaf (fresh or dried), 50g of Poria cocos, japonica rice or millet, and appropriate amount of sugar. First, the lotus leaves are boiled to remove residues. Poria cocos, washed japonica rice or millet are added to the medicinal soup, and they are cooked together into porridge. The white sugar is put into the pot and taken out. It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, calming the heart and calming the nerves.
(3) Coix seed and mung bean porridge
Coix seed strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness, and mung beans clear away heat and detoxify. Coix seed is difficult to cook, so it needs to be soaked in warm water for 2-3 hours before cooking, so that it can fully absorb water. It is best to soak mung beans for 12 hours, and then cook porridge in equal parts.
(4) iced watermelon dew
Dice the watermelon pulp, pour the juice into a basin and refrigerate. Then boil with appropriate amount of rock sugar and white sugar in water, skim off the floating foam and put it in the refrigerator for refrigeration. When eating, pour diced watermelon into crystal sugar water. It can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, disinfect and diuresis.
2. What vegetables do you eat around the summer solstice?
(1) Momordica charantia
Bitter food is the natural enemy of fire. Bitter food is bitter because it contains bitter substances such as alkaloids and urea. The best bitter food is bitter gourd. Whether it is cold salad, stir-fry or soup, as long as it can be cooked well without losing its "cyan", it can achieve the purpose of "removing fire"
(2) Celery
Sweet and sour in nature. Slightly cold. Has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, calming liver and cooling blood. Eat often. It has a good curative effect on cough with excessive phlegm, toothache and eye swelling. Celery also reduces gallbladder hardness and blood pressure.
(3) Loofah sponge
Sweet and sour in nature. Has the effects of dredging channels and collaterals, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, cooling blood and detoxicating. Luffa sponge is cold and slightly cold. The melon meat is fresh and tender. Make soup or stir-fry meat. Has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm.
(4) Lettuce
Lettuce has the functions of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, purging fire and detoxifying, benefiting qi and broadening chest. For young children, it can also help to change teeth.
3. What fruit do you eat on summer solstice?
(1) pear
Pear has the functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, eliminating phlegm and clearing fire, moistening lung and removing dryness, and is suitable for patients with lung heat cough, dry throat and sore throat, dry stool, hypertension, hepatitis and liver cirrhosis. The solstice in summer is hot and dry, which makes people thirsty and angry. Therefore, eating some foods that clear fire and clear heat, promote fluid production and invigorate qi in summer can alleviate the dryness and heat of the body and make the body comfortable and healthy.
(2) Watermelon
Summer treasures are cool, sweet and delicious. Watermelon has the effects of clearing away heat and vexation, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, relieving qi stagnation in middle age, treating laryngitis, diuresis, treating bloody dysentery and hangover. But don't eat too many watermelons at a time, otherwise it will cause indigestion or diarrhea.
(3) bananas
Bananas are sweet, cold and slightly astringent. Has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, clearing stomach, cooling blood, moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, lowering blood pressure and inducing diuresis. It is a very healthy food for people with thirst, constipation and other diseases such as yin deficiency, intestinal dryness, blood heat and qi stagnation. But bananas are not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach and yang deficiency, otherwise it will lead to more virtual fire.
(4) Kiwifruit
Kiwifruit has the function of relieving fever and quenching thirst. It is rich in nutrients such as sugar and vitamin C, especially the content of vitamin C is much higher than that of pears and apples. However, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat more.
4, summer solstice health exercise
1, it is advisable to take a walk from summer to the future.
After the summer solstice, it is best to take a walk in the morning or in the evening when the weather is cool. The venue should be selected in rivers and lakes, parks, courtyards and other places with fresh air. People with conditions can go to forests and coastal areas for recuperation and vacation.
2. Appropriate exercise in midsummer
Swimming, walking, jogging, Tai Ji Chuan and radio exercises are the best sports, and it is not advisable to do excessive and strenuous activities. If you exercise too much, you may sweat and sweat too much, which will not only hurt Yin Qi, but also Yang Qi.