Seven recipes for women's summer health care
1. Sweet potato brown sugar juice
500g of sweet potato, 0g of red dates10g, a proper amount of brown sugar, water in a pot, after boiling, add ingredients and cook until the sweet potato is soft and rotten.
Function: It is a very good diet to lose weight, which has a very good detoxification effect and can promote waste excretion in the body.
2. cold celery
Wash celery, cut into pieces, cook it in boiling water, take it out, pour it into the prepared plate, add chopped green onion, salt, thirteen spices, sesame oil, vinegar and other seasonings, and stir well.
Function: It has good effects of stimulating appetite, strengthening spleen, relieving summer heat and expelling toxin, lowering blood pressure and removing fat.
3. Black sesame porridge
25 grams of black sesame seeds and appropriate amount of rice. After washing the ingredients, cook them into porridge and season them.
Function: tonify liver and kidney, moisten five internal organs, smooth skin, moisten hair and improve constipation.
4. Mung bean pumpkin soup
50 grams of mung beans, 500 grams of old pumpkins, and mung beans are soaked for 5 hours in advance; Peel the pumpkin, wash the pulp with clear water and cut into pieces; Add water to the pot and cook the mung beans first. When half cooked, add pumpkin and cook until soft and rotten. Add salt or sugar to taste.
Function: mung bean can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, detoxify and diuretic; Pumpkin produces fluid, benefiting qi and nourishing blood.
5. Bitter gourd chrysanthemum porridge
Bitter gourd 100 g, chrysanthemum 50 g, japonica rice 60 g, and proper amount of rock sugar. Wash bitter gourd, remove pulp and cut into pieces; Wash japonica rice and chrysanthemum, put them in a pot, bring them to a boil, add bitter gourd and crystal sugar, and continue to cook them with slow fire until they are thick.
Function: clear away heat and summer heat, detoxify and remove fire.
6. Onion mixed with tofu
Wash shallots and cut them into chopped green onions; Cut tofu into small pieces, put it in a hot water pot to remove the beany smell, then put it in cold water, take it out and drain it, put it in a plate, add seasoning, sprinkle with chopped green onion and drizzle with sesame oil.
Function: Supplementing soybean protein and regulating female hormone level.
7. Lotus leaf litchi duck
1 duck, after processing, put it in the pot, take it out and wash it; Wash the lotus leaves and put them in water to take them out; Litchi is shelled and pitted; Shredding ginger and onion; Put the duck in a dish, marinate it with seasoning, add water, steam it in a cage until it is half cooked, add cooked lotus root and litchi meat, and steam it until it is fully cooked.
Functions: nourishing yin and blood, invigorating qi and spleen, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and can be used for treating fatigue, shortness of breath, emaciation, irritability and thirst caused by deficiency of yin and blood and deficiency of both qi and yin.
Healthy vegetables for women in summer
1, cucumber
Cucumber is the best food to replenish water in summer, and its water content is the highest among all foods. Cucumber contains picroside, which has certain anticancer effect. In addition, cucumber is cool and has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis and detoxification. Cucumber is very suitable for cold salad, such as cucumber mixed with fungus and garlic mixed with cucumber.
2. Eggplant
Eggplant, also known as Lagerstroemia indica and eggplant, belongs to Solanaceae and is an annual vegetable. Eggplant is native to India and widely cultivated in China. It is one of the main vegetables in summer. Chinese medicine believes that eggplant is a cold food, so eating eggplant in summer is very helpful to relieve summer heat. Eggplant is rich in vitamin E, which has antioxidant effect and can effectively resist aging.
3. water spinach
Water spinach, also known as earthenware, is a tenacious climbing plant, which can be easily planted in hydroponics or soil ploughing, and can be seen all year round, but it is rich in summer and has the best quality. Chinese medicine believes that spinach can clear away heat and detoxify, moisten the intestines and relieve constipation, just like a natural protective cover, which can prevent bacteria and viruses from invading the body in summer. From a nutritional point of view, water spinach can strengthen the stomach.
4. Zizania latifolia
Zizania latifolia is born twice a year, and it is fresh every May-June and10-1/kloc-0. As fresh and tender as bamboo shoots and as white as lotus root, Zizania latifolia has been a valuable aquatic plant since ancient times, and it is also known as the three famous dishes in the south of the Yangtze River with water shield and perch. Zizania latifolia is tender and soft to eat, because it is rich in organic nitrogen and tastes delicious. Nutritionally, Zizania latifolia is a vegetable with high fiber, low fat and high potassium.
5. purplish red
Amaranth is also worth recommending among many vegetables listed in summer. Amaranth has the effects of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Can provide protein for human body and improve human immunity. It can also promote detoxification and prevent constipation, and has a certain therapeutic effect on dysentery and paint allergy. It is worth mentioning that the content of vitamin C in amaranth ranks first among green vegetables, and the calcium and iron contained in amaranth can be absorbed and utilized soon after entering the human body; Amaranth can also promote the growth of children.
6.asparagus
Asparagus tastes delicious and fragrant, and dietary fiber is soft and delicious, which can stimulate appetite and help digestion. According to modern nutritional analysis, asparagus protein contains all kinds of amino acids necessary for human body, and the content ratio meets the needs of human body. Inorganic salts contain selenium, molybdenum, magnesium, manganese and other trace elements, as well as a large number of non-protein nitrogen-containing substances and aspartic acid with asparagine as the main body. Asparagus is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium and zinc. A cup of asparagus can provide 67% of folic acid needed every day.
7.cowpea
Cowpea usually bears fruit between June and September. The beans in the pod are shaped like human kidneys, which have the effect of tonifying the kidney. They are delicious and can be fried with tomatoes. People often eat cowpea in hot season, which not only tastes fragrant, but also promotes gastrointestinal peristalsis, invigorating stomach and qi, nourishing digestion, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst. Dark green cowpea is tender and crisp, and the cowpea with uniform thickness, bright color, transparency and luster, full seeds and no pests and diseases is the best; Touch with your hands, the pod is firm and elastic, then it is fresh and tender; Pods have a hollow feeling that cowpeas are old.
8.wax gourd
Wax gourd is the first dish to relieve summer heat, which can supplement water and electrolyte and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Moreover, wax gourd is not easy to get insects, which is relatively safer and cleaner. It's a pity not to eat. In the hot summer, wax gourd can play the role of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, but don't peel wax gourd when eating, and its dietotherapy effect is as good as that of wax gourd meat. Whether it is green skin or black skin melon, you should choose the one with symmetrical shape, no spots, less pulp and white pulp. Fresh pulp is tight and closely connected with melon meat; The pulp collapsed, but it was separated from the pulp for a long time.
9.bitter gourd
Bitter gourd is the most seasonal vegetable. Bitter gourd, also called cold melon, has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. The bitter gourd contained in it has the reputation of fat killer, has the effect of reducing fat and weight, and is a good product for both medicine and food. Bitter gourd is the coldest common fruit, so pregnant women and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should eat less.
Modern research shows that every 100g of bitter gourd contains 94% water, including protein 1g and carbohydrate 3.7g, which can provide 7 1.2kJ of heat. Bitter gourd contains an antioxidant, which can strengthen capillaries, promote blood circulation and prevent arteriosclerosis. Bitter gourd also has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, reducing swelling and detoxifying.
10, Luffa
Luffa is a seasonal vegetable in summer. Because it is rich in protein, crude fiber and various minerals, it has become a daily health care product. According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, Luffa has health care functions such as dredging meridians and promoting blood circulation.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, beautifying and resisting cancer, and can treat diseases such as excessive phlegm, asthma, cough, galactorrhea, fever, polydipsia, aching bones and muscles, bloody stool, etc. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm; Cooling blood and detoxifying. Luffa is green, tender, crisp and sweet, which is a good dish for clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying in summer.