Summer is suitable for soup and soup diet.

There are changes in spring temperature, hot summer, cool autumn and cold winter all year round. Everything in spring, summer, autumn and winter has changed, and the operation of human qi and blood will be adjusted accordingly. Summer in March is dominated by summer heat. At this time, the climate is hot, the sun be the spirit transpiration floats, and the human body should also conform to the trend of the sun be the spirit floating. Yang floats outside, Yin hides inside, and the spleen and stomach like warm and hate cold. If the spleen and stomach are weak, the digestive ability will also be weakened. Diet is the most difficult to adjust at this time. Because greed hurts yang, dryness and heat hurts yin, while cold, sticky and greasy things easily hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, the ancients thought that the diet should be gentle and soup was appropriate.

In summer, the yang is released, and the human body function should also keep up with the rhythm of the yang. Qi and blood activities tend to be outward, and people's yang is also floating outward. Phlegm (sweat hole) is easy to open and sweat, so sweating in summer will lead to diarrhea. Ancient doctors believed that people would sweat because they ate Shui Gu. Shui Gu can nourish and help sweating, just like drinking hot water to sweat after taking medicine for a cold. Therefore, due to various reasons leading to poor sweating, you can drink hot drinks, and the warmth of hot drinks will help you sweat.

According to experts, Cantonese and Koreans are most famous for cooking soup in summer. Summer heat is easy to consume gas and hurt yin, and the land in Lingnan area is hot and humid, and it is inevitable that heat, poison and moisture will invade the body for a long time. Therefore, Cantonese people cook soup for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and detoxicating, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production. The climate in the north is cold, dry and seldom rains. People who eat more flour and milk are generally physically strong and have strong spleen and stomach functions. In contrast, the climate in the south is warm, humid and rainy, and people eat more rice, fish and shrimp, so their physique is generally weak, and the functions of the spleen and stomach in receiving, transporting and defending Taoism are relatively weak. Therefore, southerners are more keen on digestible soup diet than northerners, and southerners are more sloppy than northerners, and sweat is easy to drain. The effect of drinking hot drinks to relieve summer heat is very remarkable.

Similarly, Koreans usually need to take supplements in the first, middle and last three days of the year, the most representative of which is ginseng chicken soup, which contains fresh Korean ginseng, glutinous rice, red dates, garlic, ginger and chestnuts. They think that ginseng chicken soup is rich in nutrition and high in calories, which helps to restore physical strength consumed in hot weather. Therefore, the ancients had the principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer", that is, for patients with yang deficiency and yin excess who can "summer but not winter", warm products were used to nourish their yang in summer so that they would not get sick in winter. Compared with fresh ginseng, glutinous rice, red dates, garlic, ginger and chestnuts, ginseng chicken soup is suitable for people with yang deficiency, but it is not beneficial to everyone.

Summer health is suitable for hot drinks.

Experts pointed out that the way of keeping in good health that people live in harmony with nature requires people to master the changing law of nature and take care of it in time according to the movement and changes of nature. The sunshine is strong in summer, so everything in nature flourishes. In summer, the essence of the sun is abundant in nature, so the essence of the sun in the human body will be properly leaked. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing mentioned in the principle of keeping in good health in four seasons that "qi must be vented", and when you sweat, you have to sweat. If you violate this rule, when the yang is strong but not strong, you will be "sad" because your heart is connected with summer. Moreover, if the yang-heat qi can't be dispersed outside, but stagnates inside, and the autumn-cool qi is bound outside, it is easy to have diseases of cold-heat exchange. In other words, the sun's spirit is floating outside in summer, so it should be scattered outside in summer and sweat normally. Now in summer, everyone is using air conditioning, and the indoor temperature is lower than that outside. Because of the self-protection function of the human body, as soon as it enters the air-conditioned room, it will be closed to prevent cold air from invading the body too much. If you walk outside from the air-conditioned room, it is very hot outside and the toilet will open again. This affects the opening and closing function of acupoints, thus disturbing the yin and yang of the human body. Therefore, in an air-conditioned house, you should drink some hot drinks properly, and be careful not to blow air conditioning air to cool down when sweating.

Experts added that in summer, nature is full of yang, and human qi and blood tend to be exterior and interior. When Yang floats outside and Yin and Yang are in balance, Yin hides inside. Moreover, people often indulge in rich and heavy products in their daily lives, and don't like light and transparent things, so spleen yang is repeatedly injured, and dampness is the easiest to attack. In summer, the humidity is diffuse, there are many cold drinks, melons and fruits are eaten raw, and they are cold all the time. Eating wine and meat that hinder the spleen every night makes the internal organs of the body form a cold and wet "pattern". Therefore, people need to take some spicy and fragrant products in summer, such as ginger soup.

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According to the physical characteristics of northerners and the climate characteristics in summer, the diet should be sweet, cold and light at this time, and eat less greasy, spicy, dry and hot products that help yang get angry, and dry and wet products that generate heat. Duck, fish, pork, soybeans, corn, peas or mung beans, adzuki beans, coix seed, watermelon, cucumber, wax gourd, loofah, radish, tomato, seaweed and kelp can all be eaten to strengthen the spleen. Drinking soup in moderation can not only preserve health, but also help relieve summer heat. Experts recommend the following two soups to northern friends:

Lotus leaf and winter melon old duck soup

1 Fresh lotus leaf (shredded), 750g wax gourd, 250g old duck, and proper amount of salt. (1) Peel wax gourd, wash and cut into pieces; Wash and dry fresh lotus leaves; Wash the old duck and cut it into large pieces. ② Put the wax gourd, fresh lotus leaf and old duck into a casserole, inject appropriate amount of water to boil, and change it to a medium-low fire for about 1 hour. ③ Add proper amount of salt to taste and serve. It can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, dispel dampness, benefit the stomach, promote fluid production and quench thirst.

Coix seed and winter melon soup

60g of coix seed, 300g of wax gourd, fresh lotus leaf 1 slice (shredded) and 60g of japonica rice. Wash wax gourd, peel and remove pulp, cut into small pieces and juice; Put Coicis Semen, fresh lotus leaves, japonica rice and wax gourd juice into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, put it on strong fire, and cook it with slow fire for 2 hours. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote diuresis and eliminate dampness.