Hot weather, noisy cicadas, juicy watermelons and refreshing mung bean soup. ...
However, in June, the humid and sultry weather will make you feel irritable. Coupled with the heavy humidity, the whole person is depressed and has a bad appetite. Below Xiaolan recommends "two flowers and one leaf" for everyone, which can be eaten in summer to relieve heat and dampness and strengthen the spleen and stomach!
First, the lotus leaf
Lotus leaf tastes bitter, astringent and flat, and has the functions of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, drying dampness and rising yang. It is one of the most suitable seasonal foods in summer.
1, increase appetite
It's hot in summer, people's appetite is poor, and lotus leaves smell very fragrant. Cooking with the ingredients wrapped in it can achieve the effect of improving taste and relieving boredom. Guangdong glutinous rice chicken and lotus leaf rice are all made of rice and meat wrapped in lotus leaves. With the fragrance of lotus leaves, it smells appetizing.
2. Relieve summer heat syndrome and diarrhea due to spleen deficiency.
Summer cold: When you feel dizzy, sleepy and sometimes have a low fever, you can use fresh lotus leaf 15g, flat bean flower 15g, honeysuckle 10g instead of tea, and take a small amount frequently.
Prevention of heatstroke: fresh lotus leaf 15g, watermelon skin 30g, taken with boiling water. If you suffer from heatstroke temporarily, you can directly use 3~4 fresh lotus leaves and slowly swallow the juice. Yellow urine in summer: take it with fresh lotus leaf 15g and fresh bamboo leaf 15g with boiling water instead of tea.
Tips: Fresh lotus leaves, especially those with large leaves, neat leaves and green color, can be bought in the general vegetable market, with a fragrant taste. If you can't find it, you can also go to the drugstore to buy dried lotus leaves with the same effect.
Second, gardenia
You may be surprised to see this. Is gardenia edible? Yes, gardenia is not only beautiful and fragrant, but also has high medicinal and edible value.
1, protecting liver and clearing heat
After entering June, the weather will get hotter and hotter, and many people always feel that they will get angry inexplicably, and problems such as dry mouth, irritability, yellow cough and short urine will follow.
Chinese medicine believes that these are all symptoms of damp-heat triple energizer, especially in the south.
Gardenia, which blooms in season, is cold and bitter, and belongs to lung and liver meridians. It is the best health food for nourishing liver and relieving summer heat in summer.
Proper consumption of Gardenia at this time will help to clear the liver, remove lung heat, dredge the accumulated heat lurking in the body due to dry weather, and make the mood less irritable.
It should be reminded that gardenia is bitter and cold, and people with spleen deficiency and diarrhea and kidney yang deficiency should eat carefully.
2. Stop cough and stop bleeding
When the temperature is high in summer, it is easy for people to feel dry, dry throat, cough and other discomforts without paying attention.
At this time, you can have a handful of gardenia, because gardenia can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also relieve phlegm and cough.
So, how should gardenia be eaten?
1, make tea
Health recommendation: Gardenia green tea
Ingredients: 2 gardenias and 3 grams of green tea.
Practice: Wash Gardenia, put it in a teacup filled with green tea and brew it with boiling water, once a day 1 time.
Nutrition comments: scented tea is fragrant, which can clear away heat and calm the liver. It is suitable for liver fire, dizziness, summer heat and short urine.
If green tea is changed to black tea, the coldness will be alleviated, and it is suitable for the general population as a cool drink in summer.
Step 2 make a cold salad
Health recommendation: cold gardenia
Ingredients: 500g of Gardenia, chopped green onion and shredded ginger.
Practice: Wash Gardenia, break off the petals, blanch with boiling water, remove and drain, put it on a plate, sprinkle with chopped green onion and shredded ginger, pour in sesame oil and mature vinegar, add appropriate amount of salt and stir well.
Nutrition Comments: This cold salad has the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood, detoxicating and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for cough due to lung heat, carbuncle, toxic sore and hematochezia.
Step 3 stir-fry and eat
Health recommendation: stir-fried small bamboo shoots with gardenia
Ingredients: Gardenia 200g, bamboo shoots with shells150g, bacon100g, chopped green onion and shredded ginger.
Practice: Wash the gardenia and simmer in boiling water for a while. Small bamboo shoots are sliced obliquely; Dice the bacon; After the oil in the pot is heated, pour the above ingredients into the pot and stir-fry until cooked, and season with salt.
Nutrition Comments: This gardenia diet prescription can strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, clear away heat and relieve constipation, and is suitable for anorexia, diet reduction, abdominal distension and constipation. Gardenia and bacon are delicious.
Third, chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum not only has ornamental value and beautification of the environment, but also has important medicinal value.
1. Clearing heat and reducing fire
This should be the most widely known effect of chrysanthemum.
According to Pharmacopoeia (20 15 edition), chrysanthemum tastes bitter, pungent and slightly cold. It can "clear away heat and toxic materials, purge fire and calm the liver".
Small coup: Chrysanthemum indicum has the best effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Friends who get angry can look for Chrysanthemum indicum ~
Improve eyesight
Chrysanthemum tea can also improve eyesight, and adding medlar, honeysuckle or licorice when making tea is more helpful to improve eyesight.
People who usually use mobile phones and computers can often drink medlar chrysanthemum tea.
3. Nourish liver and kidney
Chrysanthemum tea also has the function of nourishing liver and tonifying kidney, which is suitable for people who often stay up late.
Health recommendation: chrysanthemum pig liver soup
Practice: wash 60 grams of chrysanthemum, put it in a medicine bag, add 1000 ml of water and boil 15 minutes; After taking out the medicine bag, keep chrysanthemum water; 300 grams of fresh pork liver, sliced into hot oil pan and slightly fried; Pour chrysanthemum water, add Lycium barbarum 15g, cook over high fire for 15min again, and then simmer over low fire until pork liver is cooked; Add salt to the pot.
This soup has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving eyesight and reducing fire.
Step 4 help lower blood pressure
Chrysanthemum can also lower blood pressure and can be used as an auxiliary diet for patients with hypertension.
It should be noted that chrysanthemum is only used as an auxiliary diet therapy, and patients with hypertension still need to take antihypertensive drugs under the guidance of doctors to avoid delaying treatment.
However, there are some precautions for such a powerful chrysanthemum tea, so you must be sure before drinking it.
These three types of people are not suitable for drinking chrysanthemum tea.
Although chrysanthemum tea is good, there are three types of people who are not suitable for drinking-
2. Don't drink chrysanthemum tea for a long time.
Many people leave chrysanthemums for a long time and take them out to drink when they think of it.
In fact, chrysanthemum will also deteriorate and expire, and eating it by mistake will easily cause unnecessary damage to gastrointestinal tract, liver and kidney.
The way to judge whether chrysanthemums have expired—
Look: Look at the calyx first. Fresh chrysanthemums have calyx, and the color of calyx is green; The old chrysanthemum withered in color and the calyx turned yellow.
Second taste: fresh chrysanthemum has a faint smell of Chinese herbal medicine, while stale chrysanthemum has no medicinal taste, and even has an old and corrupt taste.
Three bubbles: the soup base soaked with fresh chrysanthemum is clear, light and bright; If the soup is turbid and dark, it may be an old chrysanthemum, which is likely to have mold. Don't choose it.
Not all chrysanthemums can be used as medicine.
Many chrysanthemums are only cultivated as ornamental plants, which may be harmful to health if they are used wrongly to make tea.
A small coup to judge whether chrysanthemum can be used as medicine-
Eat the "two flowers and one leaf" on it in summer,
Eliminating summer heat and clearing fire, eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen and stomach!
You might as well try ~