Vegetables that can reduce fire
1, bean sprouts
Bean sprouts have the function of clearing heat, which is beneficial to soothing the liver and regulating qi, strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach. Mung bean sprouts have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diuresis and dehumidification, and are suitable for people with dry mouth and thirst, red urine, constipation and red eyes. Soybean sprouts strengthen the spleen and nourish the liver, which helps to prevent oral inflammation.
2. Cucumber
Cucumber was first used as medicine in Notes on Materia Medica. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is cool, sweet and non-toxic, and it enters the spleen, stomach and large intestine. Promote fluid production to quench thirst, relieve summer heat, reduce swelling and diuresis, and treat sore throat, edema of limbs, heat dysentery and bloody stool. The skin of cucumber is also rich in nutrients, so you should keep it when eating cucumber. Remember not to cut the head and roots when soaking cucumbers, which will make cucumbers lose nutrition.
3. Chinese kale
Chinese medicine believes that kale is sweet, pungent and cool, and it has the effects of detoxification, relieving sore throat, resolving phlegm and relieving asthma when it enters the lung meridian. Friends with wind-heat cold, sore throat or asthma can eat kale for conditioning. When cooking kale, it is best to use frying and frying methods, and don't overcook it, so as to keep it crisp, beautiful in color and strong in flavor.
4. shepherd's purse
Shepherd's purse, also known as the local dish, is sweet and light in taste and slightly cold in nature. Has the effects of improving eyesight, cooling, relieving fever, inducing diuresis, and treating dysentery. It can be used for treating dysentery, edema, gonorrhea, chyluria, hematemesis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, menorrhagia, and conjunctival congestion. The book A Bie Lu, a famous doctor, contains the principle of benefiting liver qi and harmonizing middle energizer.
5. Malantou
Although Malantou has a special smell, it is non-toxic, unlike some wild vegetables in spring. The taste is pungent and cool, slightly cold, and like shepherd's purse, it has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. When you have acute hepatitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, mumps, mastitis and other purulent inflammation, you can turn to it for help.
6. Chrysanthemum brain
There is a saying in Chinese medicine: "Chrysanthemum brain is sweet, cool and nontoxic. It has the effects of clearing away heat, cooling blood, regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, lowering blood pressure, cooling and detoxifying, and is suitable for stomach heat, constipation, bitter taste, headache, red eyes and other symptoms. " Symptoms such as headache, red eye, upset and bitter taste usually appear. And fresh seedlings can also be used for cooking, or you can use whole grass and whole flowers to cook soup, and the dosage is not limited.
7.bamboo shoots
Since ancient times, bamboo shoots have been regarded as treasures in dishes. Bamboo shoots are slightly cold and can clear heat. Among them, bamboo shoot stew has a good effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and it is very suitable for people who are prone to get angry in spring. The way to eat bamboo shoots is very particular. Blanch it with hot water before cooking, that is, blanch it with hot water before cooking. In addition, bamboo shoots must be cooked and eaten. Eating raw will harm your health, and dried bamboo shoots should also be steamed.
8.purslane
Rising temperature in spring is easy to cause symptoms such as getting angry. Therefore, in the daily diet, we should pay attention to eating more ingredients that reduce fire, and purslane is one of the good choices. Portulaca oleracea can clear away heat and toxic materials, promote diuresis, remove dampness, promote blood circulation and reduce swelling. If this ingredient is eaten with garlic juice, the effect of reducing fire will be better.
9. water bamboo
It is recorded in Dietotherapy Materia Medica that Zizania latifolia has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, sobering up, reducing fire and resolving food stagnation, and can treat diseases caused by excessive internal heat such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia. At the same time, Zizania latifolia also contains more cellulose, which is beneficial to laxative. In order to maintain the flavor and nutrition of Zizania latifolia, it is best to cook or roast the whole root, then peel it and eat it directly, or dip it in soy sauce and salad dressing.
10, water spinach
According to Chinese medical classics, water spinach is cool, which can relieve food poisoning after being mashed into juice, and can also play a role in reducing swelling and removing fire for external use. Modern medicine believes that the vegetable juice of water spinach has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus. , can prevent infection. Eating regularly in summer can prevent heatstroke, cool blood and detoxify, and prevent dysentery.
1 1, tomato
Tomatoes are good food for reducing pathogenic fire, which can nourish yin, promote fluid production, strengthen spleen and stomach, calm liver and clear heat, and are suitable for anorexia, stomach heat and thirst caused by fever and yin injury. For example, some symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, loss of appetite, irritability and thirst caused by insufficient stomach yin or head and neck radiotherapy can be eaten.
12, celery
Celery has the function of reducing fire and relieving summer heat. The apigenin contained in it can protect cardiovascular function. Eat celery with leaves, because leaves are the essence of nutrition. Vitamin C in leaves is higher than that in stems, and it is rich in plant nutrients with high nutritional value.
13, spinach
Spinach has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, soothing liver and nourishing blood, and is the most suitable vegetable for nourishing liver in spring. Spinach is good for the stomach, detoxification, metabolism and health. Sexual temperature can better relieve the symptoms of bad breath and dry stool.
14, Houttuynia cordata Thunb
Houttuynia cordata Thunb belongs to a kind of traditional Chinese medicine with the same origin of medicine and food, which is relatively safe, especially in clearing away lung-heat, resolving phlegm and eliminating dampness. Chinese medicine believes that Houttuynia cordata Thunb. is pungent and cool, and belongs to the liver and lung meridians, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, expelling pus and eliminating carbuncle, and inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria.
Home cooking recipes to reduce internal heat
1, cold Flammulina velutipes
Ingredients: Flammulina velutipes, cucumber, green pepper, garlic juice, sesame oil, salt, vinegar, sugar and a little Chili oil.
Practice: wash the old roots of Flammulina velutipes, blanch the cucumber, shred the green pepper, add garlic juice, sesame oil, salt, vinegar, a little sugar and even a little Chili oil, and mix well. It is better to eat after refrigeration.
2. lettuce in oyster sauce
Ingredients: lettuce, oyster sauce, onion, garlic cloves, chicken essence, salt.
Practice: Wash lettuce and tear it into large pieces by hand; Chop onion and ginger for later use. Boil half a pot of water. After the water boils, add the lettuce and blanch it for about 40 seconds. Take out the lettuce and drain the excess water. Set the wok on fire, pour the oil and stir-fry the chopped green onion slightly. Then pour in minced garlic and oyster sauce, stir-fry over low heat, add a little chicken essence, stir well and pour it on the scalded lettuce. If there is broth, you can add some broth after adding oyster sauce, and then thicken it better.
3, banana lily tremella soup
Ingredients: dried lily, Tremella, Banana, Lycium barbarum, rock sugar.
Practice: Wash and soak dried lily; Tear the tremella into small flowers, remove the pedicels and wash them; Peel bananas and cut into small slices; Wash medlar. Put the tremella into a bowl and steam in a water pot for 30 minutes. Then put lily and banana slices into a tremella bowl, add rock sugar, steam in a pot for 30 minutes, then add Lycium barbarum and stew for a while.
4, appetizing yam
Raw materials: Chinese yam 200g, hawthorn cake 100g, honey 10- 15g, and dried osmanthus 5g.
Practice: Mix honey and dried osmanthus in a small bowl for use. Peel the yam, cut it into large pieces, steam it in a pot, cut it into 0.5cm thick pieces, and let it cool. Cut the hawthorn cake into pieces with the same thickness. Alternately code the cut yam slices and hawthorn cake slices, and pour sweet-scented osmanthus honey.
5, corn fish belly soup
Ingredients: canned corn soup * * * corn soup * * 1/2 cans, fish maw * * * swim bladder * * 1 650g,1egg, coriander * * * coriander * * * 650.
Practice: Wash green onions and coriander and cut into powder. Boil the fish belly with water and cut it into 4 cm long strips. Add a tablespoon of ginger wine and a proper amount of boiling water to the boiling pot, cook the fish belly slightly, then put it on and drain it for later use. Put corn soup in the pot, pour broth or clear water to boil, then add fish belly and cook for about 5 minutes. Add salt, sugar, pepper, sesame oil and other seasonings, add appropriate amount of water to the white powder and mix well, and pour into the pot to thicken. Beat the eggs well, add them to the soup and stir gently. Sprinkle chopped green onion and coriander, and serve.
6. Chicken soup with white fungus and mushrooms
Ingredients: 2 pairs of chicken wings, tremella, dried mushrooms, and a little medlar.
Practice: wash the chicken wings first, then blanch them, put a little oil in the pot, and slightly oil the blanched chicken wings. If you want to make the chicken wings look good, you can add some soy sauce and marinate them for a few minutes before oiling them to make them brown. Soak the oiled chicken wings in warm water and wash them off. After soaking tremella and shiitake mushrooms in warm water, put them at the bottom of the bowl, add chicken wings, add enough soup, simmer on low heat, and finally add salt and rock sugar to stew until they taste good, so it is even better to make soup.
7. scrambled eggs with leeks
Ingredients: 300g leek, 3 eggs, salt, cooking wine and a little salad oil.
Practice: Wash the leek, control the moisture, and cut it into 3 cm long sections for later use. Beat the eggs into a bowl, add cooking wine, salt and monosodium glutamate and mix well. Negado, put some base oil in the pan, cook until it is 50-60% cooked, add leek and stir fry quickly with egg liquid, stir fry all the leeks and pour a little oil, and serve after the egg liquid is solidified until it is cooked.
Fruit for clearing away heat and fire
1 mango
Mango is also one of the cool fruits, and proper consumption can promote the reduction of excessive internal heat.
2. Coconut
Coconut is one of the cool fruits, and the coconut in Hainan is the most famous. If it gets angry in summer, drinking some coconut juice will help reduce the fire.
3.persimmons
Persimmon is one of the cold fruits, and eating persimmon in summer helps to reduce fire. But not everyone is suitable for eating persimmons to reduce fire, especially those with cold body.
4, grapefruit
Grapefruit has the function of clearing away heat and reducing fire, especially when the weather is dry in the north. Proper consumption of grapefruit can reduce the problem of panel dryness, and has many health-preserving effects such as clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing fire, helping defecation and beauty beauty.
5.strawberries
Strawberries also have the effect of removing fire, so you can eat more in summer. In addition, because strawberries are very difficult to clean, it is best to remind women who love strawberries to do a thorough cleaning before eating them. It can be properly washed with salt water, which is helpful to eliminate pesticide residues on strawberries.
6.watermelon
Chinese medicine believes that watermelon is cool and has the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire. In hot summer, eating watermelon is the most comfortable thing. Because it is iced watermelon, it can bring a little coolness to summer. At the same time, watermelon is also rich in potassium, which is of great help to promote the balance of water and electrolyte.
7. tomatoes
Some people say that tomatoes are vegetables, but in fact tomatoes are also a kind of fruit. Tomatoes are not only recognized as one of the most nutritious fruits and vegetables, but also have the effects of beautifying, enriching blood and calming the liver. Eating tomatoes in summer can also play a role in removing fire. It can be eaten raw, cold and made into soup, and the effect is very good.
8.pierce
At present, there are all kinds of pears on the market, and pears are recognized as one of the fruits with the functions of clearing heat, reducing fire, nourishing yin, moistening lung and clearing heart. Moreover, it is sweet, sour and juicy, and eating more can replenish water. Furthermore, pears are rich in crude fiber, which can promote defecation. Therefore, for those patients with dry mouth and sore throat caused by excessive internal heat, eating pears can play a more relaxing role.