In hot summer, cool drinks are a good choice to cool off the heat. Home-made summer drinks are more comfortable, and many people like to buy Chinese herbal medicine home-made drinks with the function of clearing away heat and fire. However, Yin Zhichao, the chief physician of Chinese medicine department, reminded that it is a three-point poison, and the homemade Chinese medicine beverage depends on personal physique.
Herbal tea: not suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
Raw materials: honeysuckle, selfheal, chrysanthemum, Sophora japonica, dandelion, mulberry leaf, licorice, lotus leaf, etc.
Herbal tea is generally made of Chinese herbal medicines for clearing away heat and toxic materials. Experts pointed out that these Chinese herbal medicines are cold, not everyone can drink them, especially the elderly, children, pregnant women and lactating women with spleen and stomach deficiency. Even for healthy people, excessive consumption of herbal tea will cause gastrointestinal discomfort, and in severe cases, it will induce gastrointestinal diseases.
Mung bean soup: boiling mung beans can cool off.
Raw material: mung bean
Mung bean is also a kind of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that mung beans have the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and vexation, quenching thirst and strengthening stomach. However, people with cold constitution, the elderly, children, people with weak constitution and people taking various drugs are not suitable for drinking mung bean soup.
In order to avoid eating mung beans that are too cold, you must cook them. In addition, mung bean soup should not be chilled, otherwise it will affect the spleen and stomach, leading to spleen and stomach imbalance and diarrhea.
Sour plum soup: children need to drink less.
Raw materials: ebony, hawthorn, licorice.
Plum is rich in organic acids and vitamins, especially vitamin B2. Although sour plum tastes sour, it belongs to alkaline food. Eating too much acidic food such as meat and drinking sour plum soup is more helpful to the acid-base balance in the body. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people with liver fire should eat more sour plums, which can not only calm the liver fire, but also help the spleen and stomach digest. In addition, sour plum can also moisten the inflamed parts of the throat and relieve pain.