"Summer is summer, rice is too lazy to cook!"

This year coincides with the hot summer.

Thunderstorms and scorching sun take turns to "attend"

"Hot, wet and empty" became

A portrayal of many Nanhai neighborhoods.

How to solve the problems of high temperature, high humidity and "steaming above and cooking below"

Restlessness, thirst, loss of appetite,

What about symptoms such as drowsiness of limbs?

One spicy, two bitter and three sour will help you get rid of dampness and appetite ~

According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, ginger is pungent and warm, which can dispel cold and warm the stomach, relieve cough and stop vomiting. It belongs to pungent and cool things and can dispel cold and tonify yang. Red dates replenish qi and blood, and ginger can dispel this damp heat; Red dates can inhibit the germinal effect of ginger, and the unique taste of ginger also has an appetizing effect.

Therefore, in addition to mung bean soup, ginger jujube tea is also a kind of tea that "matches" with summer.

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Ginger jujube tea is sweet and pungent, which can sweat and cool down, prevent heatstroke and cool down, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and eliminate cold pathogens.

Practice: Boil three pieces of ginger with skin and six pieces of red dates with about 1000ml of water for about a quarter of an hour. Or smash red dates and ginger, soak in boiling water, and cover. You can add some brown sugar ~

As the saying goes, "it's better to take tonic than to eat bitter food in hot weather." Bitter food that can clear away heat and reduce fire is a health food that must be eaten in summer.

? bitter gourd

Bitter gourd tastes bitter and cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat and lowering blood sugar; Contains momordicin and picroside, which can stimulate appetite and promote digestion. More lipoprotein and rich vitamin C can enhance immunity and protect cardiovascular system.

Bitter gourd, mussel and soybean sparerib soup

Mytilus is salty and warm, which is beneficial to essence and blood, and can dispel deficiency fire. Soybean has the effects of invigorating spleen and qi, and clearing away heat and toxic materials. At present, the wind and rain are approaching, but the summer heat has not disappeared, making people feel sultry and uncomfortable, troubled by summer heat and dampness, and the virtual fire is floating up. At this time, a soup that can reduce fire and relieve summer heat, strengthen spleen and promote diuresis is the most suitable.

Materials:

Bitter gourd 1 piece, mussel 10, 50 grams of soybeans, 350 grams of ribs, 50 grams of ginger, and a proper amount of salt.

Exercise:

(1) Wash the materials, cut bitter gourd and ribs and blanch them, and soak mussels and soybeans in clear water for later use.

(2) Add a proper amount of water to the pot to boil, add the above materials, simmer 1.5 hours and season.

? lotus seed

Lotus seeds can tonify spleen, kidney and heart, and can be used in soup and porridge. The method is simple, but the usage is particular. Lotus seeds have lotus plumule, which is "cold". When eating lotus seeds, you can't worry. This scores the crowd:

Mung bean, lotus seed and wax gourd dessert store

Mung beans are sweet and cool, and have the functions of clearing heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying. Lotus seeds are sweet and astringent, and can strengthen the spleen, stop diarrhea, tonify the kidney, solidify essence, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves. Wax gourd is sweet and light in taste, slightly cold in nature, and can clear away heat and benefit water, remove annoyance and quench thirst. The three are combined with damp heat, and then with dried tangerine peel to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, spend the hot summer with a bowl of delicious sugar water.

Materials:

150g mung bean (with shell), 150g fresh lotus seed, 200g wax gourd (with skin), 1 petal dried tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of crystal sugar.

Exercise:

(1) Wash the materials. First, soak peeled mung beans and fresh lotus seeds in water for half an hour, and then cook them into sand.

(2) After the skin of winter melon is boiled to be soft, peel it to take meat, grind it into mud, put it into the cooked mung bean lotus seed soup, stir it evenly, and finally add rock sugar to taste.

? Sweet-scented osmanthus sour plum soup

Sour plum soup (smoked with dark plum) can not only relieve physical fatigue in summer, but also produce fluid to quench thirst; Osmanthus fragrans can strengthen the stomach and spleen, and hawthorn can help digestion and strengthen the stomach. A bowl of sour plum soup, sweet and sour, stimulates appetite and relieves summer heat.

? Radish soaked in vinegar

Slice the radish, dry it for a while to remove water, then soak it in vinegar to taste, and then put it in the refrigerator for a while to eat. Pickled radish is great as an appetizer when you can't eat it in summer.

? Sweet and sour pork chop

Vinegar can relieve boredom and stimulate appetite. In summer, the body consumes a lot of energy, so it is necessary to eat some meat. So make a small row of sweet and sour, both meat and vegetables, and solve the problem of no appetite in summer.

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Source | Family doctor of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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