Chinese medicine believes that bitter food is cold, and eating more can reduce fire. Therefore, bitter food in Xia Hou has become a common food on many family tables. Some people even change snacks into bitter snacks in order to clear away heat and fire.

As the saying goes, "it is better to make up for health care." Then, what kind of bitterness should "bear hardships" maintain?

1, bitter gourd

Bitter melons are cold in nature and belong to spleen, stomach, heart and liver meridians. Bitter gourd has the functions of clearing away heat and fire, detoxifying, improving eyesight, invigorating qi, replenishing essence, quenching thirst and relieving summer heat, and treating carbuncle. It can improve eyesight and detoxify, clear away heat and relieve summer heat, induce diuresis and cool blood, invigorate qi and strengthen yang, mainly treat heatstroke and summer heat, and can improve symptoms such as summer heat, polydipsia, summer furuncle, miliaria, conjunctival congestion, erysipelas, burns and oliguria.

2. Bitter chrysanthemum

Sophora alopecuroides is a kind of cool food, which has obvious effect of removing fire. Especially for some people who are more angry, it is very suitable to eat some Sophora alopecuroides to adjust. If you often have dry throat and tongue, or get angry, you might as well choose to soak some bitter chrysanthemums in water, which can improve these conditions very well. If you eat some bitter chrysanthemum reasonably at ordinary times, the effect will be ideal, gentle and without stimulation.

3. Ginkgo biloba

Ginkgo biloba leaves can increase blood flow, improve brain and peripheral blood circulation and lower blood pressure. Besides, Ginkgo biloba leaves can reduce cholesterol and blood lipid, resist free radicals, prevent lipid peroxidation and resist aging. Ginkgo biloba leaves can also resist platelet aggregation, prevent thrombosis, enhance the nerve information transmission of brain cells, increase the absorption of glucose by brain cells, and improve memory. At the same time, Ginkgo biloba leaves also have the functions of moistening lung, relieving asthma, dilating trachea and resisting allergy. Ginkgo biloba leaves can not only regulate blood lipids, soften blood vessels, lower blood pressure, but also protect the heart.

4. Lotus seeds

Eating more lotus seeds is of great help to human body, for example, it can make teeth stronger, and it can also regulate the balance of some protein sugars in the body. Moreover, the content of potassium in lotus seeds is particularly high, which can regulate the excitability of muscles in the body. It can also promote the metabolism of the body and make the body lighter and more transparent. There is also a lot of iron in the atom, which can effectively treat dizziness and even fatigue symptoms for some anemia people.