Eat more melons. Wax gourd diuresis anti-inflammatory, heat and detoxification, but also sober up and lose weight. Winter melon skin soup can treat mild edema, and it is a cool drink in hot summer with winter melon lotus leaf and coix seed soup. Luffa can relieve summer heat, dispel wind and resolve phlegm, cool blood and detoxify. If the stool is dry, peel and slice the fresh towel gourd and fry it into soup. Bitter gourd contains unique momordicin, which can dispel summer heat and clear the heart in summer, and has a good effect on stomach heat, damp-heat dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea, hematuria and so on. The fine cellulose of cucumber has a certain effect on the excretion of rotten food in intestine and lowering cholesterol. Papaya is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food. Pumpkin has the functions of tonifying middle energizer, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, detoxicating and killing insects. Pumpkin juice can be used externally to treat burns and scalds, and can be used orally to drive ascaris. In addition, pumpkin can promote insulin secretion in the body and effectively reduce blood sugar, which is a healthy food for diabetic patients.

Eat more cold vegetables.

In summer, besides pumpkin and cucumber, bitter gourd, towel gourd, cucumber, cauliflower, watermelon, melon, tomato, eggplant, celery, sunflower (purple leaf), lettuce, asparagus, watercress and cold potato are all cold vegetables.

Eat more bitter food.

Eat more bitter food.

In summer, heart fire is strong, and bitter taste can relieve summer heat and dryness. Eating some bitter food properly can restore the function of spleen and stomach and increase appetite. Bitter gourd, bitter herbs, kudingcha, bitter buckwheat, beer and bitter bamboo shoots are all excellent foods for heatstroke prevention in summer. In addition, bitter foods such as coffee can also be selected as appropriate.