Luffa is not only nutritious, but also has high medicinal value. Has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer-heat, cooling blood, detoxicating, moistening intestine, relaxing bowels, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, caring skin, dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation, lowering blood pressure and promoting lactation. The whole plant of Luffa can be used as medicine. Cucurbita root, vine and leaf have the functions of relieving cough, resolving phlegm, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals and resisting bacteria. Fresh towel gourd leaves can be used to treat stubborn tinea. Luffa flower is slightly bitter, cold in nature, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can be used for treating cough due to lung heat and sore throat. Luffa seed has the functions of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, moistening dryness and detoxifying. Luffa is a commonly used Chinese medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, diuresis and detumescence.

2. bitter bamboo shoots

April and May of each year is the season when a large number of bamboo shoots appear on the market, among which bitter bamboo shoots are a godsend and a treasure in the mountains. Bitter bamboo shoots are also called sweet bamboo shoots and cool bamboo shoots. According to nutritional analysis, it contains bitter glycoside, which has the function of preventing cancer and detoxifying. The best partner of light, bitter and bitter bamboo shoots is all kinds of meat. The entrance of bitter bamboo shoots is fragrant and bitter, and the back is refreshing and sweet, which just complements the greasy meat.

3. purplish red

Amaranth can be divided into green amaranth, red amaranth and flower amaranth according to leaf color. The soup of green amaranth is clear after frying, and the soup of red amaranth and flower amaranth is purple. Amaranth has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, astringing and stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation and swelling, and treating dysentery, and has certain auxiliary therapeutic effects on red and white dysentery caused by damp heat and red eyes and sore throat caused by liver fire.

4. Spinach

Spinach is a very common vegetable. Eating spinach often is beneficial to human nutrition absorption and health promotion. Spinach is rich in nutrients, which can be used to make soup or stir-fry dishes. Each method is very nutritious, and people who eat spinach often feel healthier. Spinach can clear the heat toxin in human stomach, avoid constipation and keep the excretion unobstructed. Moreover, spinach is low in calories, so you don't have to worry about getting fat if you eat it often.

1, reed rhizome, a traditional Chinese medicine for clearing away heat and toxic materials.

Reed root is the underground stem of Gramineae reed, which contains coix seed, asparagine and so on. It is cold in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving annoyance, stopping vomiting and diuresis. It is suitable for treating fever, dysphoria, thirst, vomiting due to stomach heat, choking in diaphragm, nausea, cough due to lung heat, and lung carbuncle.

2. Peony bark

Cortex Moutan is the root bark of Paeonia suffruticosa of Ranunculaceae, and contains paeonol, paeonol glycoside, volatile oil and phytosterol. It is cool, bitter and pungent, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for blood stasis, rash, shock and pain, hematemesis, carbuncle and swelling, and traumatic injury.

3. Anemarrhena asphodeloides

Anemarrhena asphodeloides is the rhizome of Anemarrhena asphodeloides of Liliaceae, which contains many saponins and saponins, in addition to two flavonoids and mangiferin. Anemarrhena asphodeloides has obvious antipyretic effect. Cold in nature, sweet and bitter in taste, it has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is suitable for cough due to lung heat or yin deficiency, vexation and thirst quenching, bone steaming fatigue, dysuria, dry stool and other symptoms.

4. Gardenia

Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is the fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis of Rubiaceae, which contains many kinds of bitter glycosides, mannitol, ursolic acid and so on. Gardenia is beneficial to gallbladder function or increase bile secretion. At the same time, Gardenia has the functions of cooling, calming, analgesia and anticonvulsant. It is cold in nature and bitter in taste, and has the effects of purging fire, removing annoyance, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is suitable for fever, insomnia, jaundice, red eyes, epistaxis, toxic heat ulcer and other symptoms.

Qingrejiedu recipe 1, straw mushroom and lettuce soup

Efficacy: Lettuce is also called Qianjin dish and lettuce. Chinese medicine believes that lettuce is cool, bitter and sweet, and enters the gastrointestinal tract. Has diuretic, diaphragmatic, qi-regulating, heat-clearing and detoxicating effects.

Ingredients: 200g of fresh straw mushroom, 300g of lettuce, salt and ginger slices10g, 2 pickled peppers.

Practice: the straw mushroom is rooted, washed and cut into pieces for later use; Peel the lettuce, cut it into thin strips and wash it for later use. Heat oil in a pot, stir-fry lettuce strips and straw mushroom pieces together, and then add ginger slices, salt and pickled peppers; 3, add 750 grams of water, cook until the lettuce is cooked, remove the ginger slices and pickled peppers, and put the soup into the soup basin.

2. bitter bamboo shoots

Efficacy: Bitter bamboo shoots are sweet, cool but not cold, and have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, losing weight and keeping fit, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion. Bitter bamboo shoots are delicious food on the summer table.

Ingredients: 300g of fresh bitter bamboo shoots, 200g of duck meat and 50g of broccoli. 30g clay pot sauce, 5g salt, 5g chicken powder, 8g starch, 500g fresh soup, 5g coriander and 20g salad oil.

Practice: Peel the bitter bamboo shoots, wash them, cut them into thin slices 5cm long, 3cm wide and 0.2cm thick, simmer them in boiling water for 1 min, and then take them out of the shower; Blanch bamboo shoots in boiling water for 0.5 minutes, then take them out for a shower, blanch them for 0.5 minutes, and then take them out for a shower. Chop ducklings, weighing 10g, put them in boiling water for 5 minutes, and take them out for later use; Cut the broccoli into 5g pieces, simmer in boiling water for 2 minutes, and take it out for later use. Add salad oil into the pot, add clay pot sauce and stir-fry until 70% heat, add fresh soup and ducklings and stir-fry for 30 minutes until 80% cooked, add bitter bamboo shoots and broccoli and cook for 10 minute, then add salt and chicken powder to taste, thicken with wet starch, take out the pot and put it in the pot, and decorate with coriander.