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What are the methods of health and diet therapy in dog days? The magic prescription is delicious and healthy.
The weather in dog days is the hottest in a year. During this period, people sweat a lot, consume a lot, and are prone to symptoms of excessive internal heat and yin deficiency, and feel tired and sleepy. In view of this situation, Chinese medicine has prescribed several prescriptions for health care and dietotherapy in dog days, which are said to have the effects of eliminating dampness and expelling toxin, clearing away heat and reducing fire. Now let's understand them.

1, brown sugar Jiang Shui

Ingredients:100g brown sugar, 20g ginger.

Practice: Wash and slice ginger; Boil a pot of boiling water, add ginger slices and brown sugar, and cook for 30 minutes.

Nutritional value: there has always been a folk saying that "radish is eaten in winter and ginger is eaten in summer". Eating it in summer will generate yang, dispel dampness and detoxify, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Drinking brown sugar and Jiang Shui in dog days conforms to the scientific way of combining yin and yang and keeping in good health.

2, three bean soup

Ingredients: mung bean, red bean, black bean and brown sugar.

Practice: Wash three beans and soak them in cold water for half an hour; Put three beans in the pot, add some water, and the boy will stew them; After about 40 minutes, the fragrance of the beans overflows, and after the beans become soft, add a proper amount of brown sugar.

Nutritional value: As early as ancient times, it was recorded in the "Outline" that soup was cooked every day and eaten with children. In case of pox, also use this soup to drink; Mash it and apply it, and its poison will disappear. Three bean soup has the effect of detoxification and reducing fire, and it is one of the best recipes in dog days.

3, bitter gourd scrambled eggs

Ingredients: one bitter gourd and one egg.

Practice: Wash bitter gourd, slice it, beat the eggs into a bowl and stir them into egg flowers; Stir-fry bitter gourd with proper amount of oil. When bitter gourd changes from dark green to light green and becomes soft, add egg flowers; Stir-fry for another two minutes, and add appropriate amount of salt and monosodium glutamate.

Nutritional value: Eating more bitter food in summer diet has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving fatigue, helping people spend the summer healthily.

4. Chinese yam ribs

Ingredients: 300g of yam, 350g of ribs and a little chopped green onion.

Practice: Wash all the ingredients, and wash the ribs with boiling water to remove the fishy smell and bloodshot; Put some water in the pot and stew the ribs. After the water boils, add the chopped yam. Stew for about 20 minutes, the soup turns white and the fragrance is scattered. Add the right amount of salt and chopped green onion.

Nutritional value: It is hot and humid in dog days, people sweat a lot, and trace elements such as potassium and calcium are seriously lost, which is easy to hurt yin and consume gas. At this time, you should eat foods that replenish blood and qi, nourish yin and strengthen the spleen. Chinese yam ribs are excellent nourishing yin ingredients and have the effect of supplementing calcium.