This year (the last year of B) is getting hotter and hotter than usual. When it rains, the hot and humid environment is more likely to cause spleen and stomach weakness and qi stagnation, and it is easier to cheer up and spend the summer. Eating more than 8 kinds of vegetarian food is helpful for vegetarians:

red bean shrub

Red beans are sweet, enter the heart and small intestine, and have the effects of diuresis, dehumidification, blood discharge and pus discharge, swelling reduction and detoxification. Its heat-clearing effect is weaker than mung bean, but it has a strong diuretic and dampness-removing effect. It can not only treat common edema, but also treat "large ascites", that is, ascites due to liver cirrhosis. Red beans are generally used for porridge or stuffing.

mung bean

Mung beans are sweet, cool, enter the heart and stomach meridian, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and diuresis. Pay attention to the following questions when drinking mung bean soup. First, if you want to increase the heat-clearing effect, after cooking porridge or soup, eat it with the skin; Second, it is best not to add sugar, otherwise it will reduce the role of mung beans in clearing heat and promoting diuresis; Third, mung beans are cold, and people with weak spleen and stomach should not eat more.

The seed of Job's tears.

Coix seed is sweet, light and cool, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians. Has the effects of promoting diuresis, eliminating dampness, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi. In some areas in the south, there is more rain in the summer rainy season, so drinking barley porridge often can get rid of summer heat and dampness. It should be noted that people who are prone to constipation should not eat it often.

wax gourd

Wax gourd is sweet, light and cool, and enters the lung, large intestine and bladder meridian. Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving vexation. Wax gourd has a strong diuretic effect, and people who are prone to edema should eat it often. The effect of cooking soup is good, adding less salt and eating lightly is better.

cucumber

Cucumber is sweet and cold. Into the stomach and small intestine, it has the effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Cucumber can be eaten raw, cold, fried or soup. Eat raw, produce fluid to quench thirst. If you want to induce diuresis and reduce swelling, you'd better make soup. Note: cucumber is cold, and those with stomach cold should eat less.

watermelon

Watermelon is sweet in taste, cold in nature, enters the heart, stomach and bladder meridian, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis. It can take effect when eaten raw, which is not only suitable for health care in summer, but also used for adjuvant treatment of acute and chronic nephritis and hypertension. If you keep the watermelon skin, the soup will taste better.

lettuce

Lettuce is sweet, bitter and cool, and it has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis when entering the stomach and intestines. Suitable for mild edema and dysuria. Can be eaten cold or boiled soup, preferably with leaves. Lettuce is cold, and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat more.

Giant algae

Kelp is salty, cold in nature, enters the liver and spleen meridians, and has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. In addition, kelp also contains iodine, which has an auxiliary treatment effect on simple goiter caused by iodine deficiency. Kelp can be used for cold salad or soup.