From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, winter melon seaweed soup has the effects of softening and resolving hard mass, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, which is very suitable for eating in summer. It can not only clear away heat and relieve summer heat, but also remove dampness and resolve phlegm, which is very suitable for people with phlegm-dampness constitution in damp heat constitution. In addition, winter melon seaweed soup also has the functions of reducing blood fat and weight, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, protecting kidney and promoting diuresis, which is very suitable for people suffering from chronic diseases such as three highs, obesity and fatty liver.
When drinking winter melon and seaweed soup, it's best to be light. If you think winter melon seaweed soup is weak, you can add some food such as shrimp and clams, which will have better nutritional value and taste. However, for people with heavy moisture, it is not recommended to add too much polysaccharide, salt and oil to winter melon and seaweed soup, and do not increase fish and meat, which will hinder the spleen and stomach and breed moisture.
When drinking Qushi decoction in summer, it is best to adjust it according to your own physique. For example, people in damp heat constitution are suitable for drinking slightly cold soups such as winter melon seaweed soup, lily mung bean soup, cucumber fungus tomato soup, etc., which can clear away heat and promote diuresis. However, if you are a person with cold and wet constitution, it is more suitable to drink cold and wet soup, such as ginger and barley water, yam and poria ribs soup and so on.
In addition, we should not only pay attention to the humidity of the external environment, but also pay attention to the humidity inside. Internal dampness is caused by the disorder of water-liquid metabolism in the body, which depends on the simultaneous completion of spleen, kidney, lung and other viscera. Therefore, heavy moisture is often related to spleen deficiency, kidney yang deficiency and lung qi deficiency.
If it is spleen deficiency and dampness, it is necessary to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and eat more foods such as yam, poria cocos, Gordon Euryale seed, coix seed and red beans; If it is wet weight caused by kidney-yang deficiency, it is necessary to tonify kidney-yang while eliminating dampness, and eat some foods such as ginger, cinnamon, walnuts, leeks, yams and black sesame seeds. If the humidity caused by lung failure is heavy, it is necessary to spread the lungs and eliminate dampness. You can eat more foods such as melon, pear, loquat, orange, tremella, yam, lily and dried tangerine peel.