Has the effects of clearing away summer heat, promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen, regulating stomach, tonifying lung and clearing heat. It is a good tonic to cook porridge with coix seed in summer. Medical research shows that coix seed has the ability to absorb ultraviolet rays, and its extract can also achieve sun protection and ultraviolet protection when added to cosmetics.

2. Mung beans

Mung bean soup often becomes a good drink for people to relieve summer heat. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, replenish qi to quench thirst, and induce diuresis to relieve stranguria. It is most suitable for summer consumption. If the ratio of mung beans to water exceeds 1: 10, the boiled mung bean soup has the best heat-clearing effect, especially when mung beans just bloom. However, mung beans also have the function of antidote. Whether taking traditional Chinese medicine or western medicine, it should be more than half an hour apart from taking medicine.

3. water spinach

Heatstroke prevention, antipyretic, blood cooling and detoxification. Water spinach is rich in cellulose, which can accelerate intestinal peristalsis and promote the excretion of toxins and toxic substances in the body. Among them, carotene ranks among the best in summer vegetables, and vitamin C is comparable to tomato. For skin diseases such as furuncle or poisonous insect bite, prickly heat and eczema that often appear in summer, it is recommended to eat more water spinach. Or mashed and externally applied to the affected area.