At this time, it is even more necessary to supplement or supplement the diet. Food or dual-purpose products should be cool, nutritious, easy to digest and absorb, or varieties with the functions of relieving summer heat, invigorating spleen and removing dampness, clearing away heart fire and diuresis, benefiting qi and nourishing yin, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Such as Ophiopogon japonicus, Lycium barbarum, Chinese yam, lotus seed, Coix seed, black sesame, mung bean, fish, shrimp, duck, egg, bean products, milk, yogurt, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, watermelon, peach and loquat, are the best choices.
Today, I would like to introduce several summer health drinks with nourishing effects. Make up your body when you quench your thirst!
Jujube sour plum soup
Ingredients: ten ebony, some bayberry, red dates and medlar.
Exercise:
Wash the ingredients. Chop ebony, cut jujube into sections, put it in a pot with Myrica rubra and Lycium barbarum, and boil it in water. After boiling, turn to low heat and cook for about 30 minutes.
Efficacy: Mume is sour and warm, which can astringe the lung to stop cough, astringe the intestine to stop diarrhea, regulate the stomach to stop bleeding, and promote fluid production to quench thirst. Myrica rubra has the functions of promoting digestion, stimulating appetite, inhibiting bacteria, relieving diarrhea, diminishing inflammation, preventing cancer, losing weight, caring skin, resisting aging, lowering blood pressure, preventing apoplexy, tonifying kidney, promoting diuresis and removing dampness. Jujube has always been a good health care product for invigorating qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. Lycium barbarum, as a good tonic with the same origin of medicine and food, can improve physical fitness and is beneficial to sleep.
Five-flavor medlar beverage
Ingredients: vinegar-roasted Schisandra 5 g, Lycium barbarum 10 g, and proper amount of sugar.
Exercise:
Put Schisandra chinensis and Lycium barbarum together in a cup, soak in boiling water for a while, and then add appropriate amount of sugar.
Efficacy: It has the effect of invigorating qi and tonifying kidney, and is not only suitable for people who are weak or sickly, but also suitable for ordinary people. It is a health-preserving and nourishing drink in summer and summer.
Chrysanthemum honey beverage
Ingredients: 50 grams of chrysanthemum, 20 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and appropriate amount of honey.
Exercise:
Boil Flos Chrysanthemi and Radix Ophiopogonis with 2000 ml water, keep the temperature for 30 minutes after boiling, filter, add appropriate amount of honey, and stir to dissolve.
Efficacy: Chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling wind and heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. Ophiopogon japonicus has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, moistening lung and clearing heart. Together with honey, they have good effects of removing fire and toxic materials, lowering blood fat, improving eyesight, diminishing inflammation, relaxing bowels, improving sleep, enhancing resistance and delaying aging.
Winter melon longan tea
Ingredients: wax gourd1500g, dried longan100g, and brown sugar 500g.
Exercise:
Wash the wax gourd and cut into pieces (keep the skin and seeds). Then put the brown sugar into the wax gourd and marinate for half an hour until the wax gourd emerges from the water. Finally, add dried longan meat and cook. After boiling, simmer until the melon is brown and transparent, then turn off the heat. After cooling, filter to leave juice. Bottle melon longan juice and put it in the refrigerator. Every time you drink, take 3 spoonfuls of concentrated juice and dilute it with boiling water.
Efficacy: It has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer-heat, protecting kidney and diuresis, reducing blood fat and losing weight, invigorating heart and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves.
Lycium barbarum sweet glutinous dumplings
Ingredients: 5g of Lycium barbarum, 30g of fermented grains, glutinous rice balls 100g, eggs 1 piece, 500ml of clear water.
Practice: Boil clear water, add glutinous rice, glutinous rice balls and medlar to boil, and break up the eggs and pour them into the soup.
Efficacy: Supplementing protein and carbohydrates can be used as the first choice for summer meals, which is helpful to regulate the spleen and stomach, dispel summer heat and relieve fever, and has certain beauty effect.