Summer solstice solar terms, extreme yang, yin and yang changes, are important solar terms for TCM health preservation. The health care in the summer solstice season is very particular, and the health care plan should be made according to everyone's five elements. So now let's learn about how people with five different constitutions, namely gold, wood, water, fire and earth, should keep in good health.

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People with wood constitution: benefiting qi and protecting body fluid, you can drink five kinds of ginseng tea.

People with wooden physique are characterized by pale face, small head, long face, wide shoulders, straight back, weak body and flexible hands and feet. Their diet should be based on nourishing liver and kidney, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, and they can eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as mustard, amaranth, tomato, watermelon, wax gourd, loofah, litchi, longan, yam, pseudostellaria heterophylla, lily, American ginseng and Schisandra chinensis.

Suggested medicinal diet-"five flavors of longan ginseng tea";

5 grams of Schisandra chinensis, 5 grams of American ginseng, 5 grams of longan pulp and 20 grams of rock sugar. Washing Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis to remove impurities; Soaking and slicing American ginseng; Wash longan meat and remove impurities; The rock sugar broke into pieces. Put Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis, Radix Panacis Quinquefolii, Arillus Longan, and crystal sugar crumbs into a stew, add 250 ml of clear water, put the stew on strong fire, and simmer for 25 minutes. Has the effects of invigorating qi, promoting fluid production, nourishing heart, calming nerves, and tonifying liver and kidney.

People with fire constitution: clear away heat and nourish yin, eat more amaranth and wax gourd.

People with fire constitution are characterized by red skin, wide back muscles, thin and sharp face, small head, symmetrical shoulders, small hands and feet, steady steps and impatience. Their diet should be nursed back to normal. They should eat more foods that clear away heat, nourish yin and relieve summer heat, drink more mung bean soup, and eat more amaranth, tomatoes, zucchini, wax gourd, watermelon, American ginseng, coix seed and scented tea.

Medicinal diet-"purslane lean broth";

50 grams of purslane, 30 grams of Euryale ferox, 200 grams of lean pork, salt and monosodium glutamate. Impurity removal, cleaning and cutting of purslane. Wash lean pork and Euryale ferox, put Portulaca oleracea, lean pork and Euryale ferox into a pot, add clear water, boil over high fire, turn to low heat for about 2 hours, add refined salt and monosodium glutamate to taste, and then boil. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials and inducing diuresis.