In hot summer, eating some bitter vegetables can play a role in clearing away heat and purging fire, and the body will become more relaxed. Generally, bitter food refers to vegetables, but many people can't accept it because it is too bitter. A typical example is bitter gourd. People who like to suffer hardships have a special liking for it and never tire of eating it, while those who don't like it can't eat it at all. However, bitter food has a health-preserving effect. Chinese medicine believes that eating bitter food can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen and strengthen the spleen and stomach, and promote blood circulation, which is very beneficial to the body.
What are the benefits of suffering in summer?
Enhance appetite: when the weather is hot in summer, the taste will be reduced, and because of the heat, it is easy to have no appetite to eat. Eating bitter food at this time can stimulate taste buds and salivary glands and increase people's appetite. In addition, eating more bitter food can also help the stomach peristalsis and strengthen the absorption and digestion function of the stomach.
Clearing heat and reducing fire: people with strong heart fire are prone to sores, redness and pain, insomnia and decreased sleep quality. Such as kudingcha, lotus plumule, bitter gourd and so on. , can effectively reduce the heart fire.
Nourishing the heart: the five flavors we often say, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, actually correspond to our five internal organs. Bitter food can reduce fire and nourish the heart. People with insufficient heart-qi are prone to palpitations, always feel short of breath, short of breath and easy to sweat. Eating some bitter food properly can also play a role in nourishing the heart.
Refresh: Bitter foods, such as chocolate and coffee, contain theobromine and caffeine. In the afternoon, eating a little chocolate can refresh you.
What effect does eating bitter gourd have?
Bitter gourd contains enough water, which can reach more than 90%, so it is very suitable for summer to eat bitter gourd to replenish water. Bitter gourd is low in calories, higher in vitamin C than oranges, and rich in potassium, which helps to eliminate edema. But bitter gourd is cool and not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. Eating too much will cause diarrhea. When eating bitter gourd, be careful not to eat bitter gourd seeds. Some substances in bitter gourd seeds will reduce the number of sperm and lead to abortion. So it's best not to eat.
Who is not suitable for bitter food?
Menstrual women: when women come to menstruation, it is best to eat less bitter food. Bitter food is mostly cold food, and eating too much can easily cause dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea. Especially women who have been suffering from dysmenorrhea should eat less bitter food. Women who are not menstruating should also eat less bitter food. Some women blindly believe that online efforts to lose weight are to eat bitter gourd rice and drink bitter gourd juice every meal, but this way of losing weight will damage the spleen and stomach, and it is easy to get fat, which is not worth the candle.
People with poor constitution: Bitter food can clear away heat and purge fire. For some people with poor health, eating too much will lead to physical problems.
Deficiency of cold in spleen and stomach: Spleen deficiency is mainly manifested as shortness of breath, dizziness, stomachache, diarrhea and sallow complexion. And spleen-yang deficiency is mainly abdominal pain and diarrhea. If you eat a little cold food at ordinary times, you will have diarrhea, so it is not suitable for eating bitter food.
In short, eating bitter food in hot summer helps to keep healthy, but people who are not suitable for eating should eat less or not, and a reasonable diet can be healthy.