In summer, we should eat more bitter food, more fruits and vegetables, and more sweet and refreshing fresh fruits and vegetables. Experts point out that Chinese cabbage, cauliflower, watermelon, hawthorn, apple and grape are rich in minerals, especially calcium, magnesium and silicon, which have the magical effect of calming the nerves and reducing fire. Therefore, eat more in summer and eat these foods often.
In addition, let's take a look at the "fire-removing" food recommended by experts:
Many people think that drinking milk in summer will aggravate "getting angry" and cause irritability. In fact, drinking milk in summer will not only "get angry", but also clear away heat and toxic materials, calm the liver and purge fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that milk is slightly cold, which can nourish yin, clear away heat and detoxify, and play the role of "removing fire". Moreover, milk contains as much as 70% water, which can also supplement the water lost by the human body due to sweating in summer. It should be noted that milk cannot be frozen into ice, otherwise it will destroy many nutrients.
Strawberry Strawberry is not only delicious, but also has medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of "removing fire", which can clear away heat and relieve summer heat and relieve boredom.
Watermelon Watermelon is cool, which will not cause "getting angry" and upset when eaten, and it is rich in potassium salt, which can make up for the shortage of potassium salt in the body caused by many people. But be careful not to put the watermelon in the refrigerator for more than 3 hours.
⊙ Soybean can nourish yin and "remove fire", at the same time, it can supplement protein, and it consumes a lot of high temperature.
Although tomatoes can be seen all year round, tomatoes in summer are the richest, sweetest and most nutritious. It can also clear away heat and toxic materials and calm the liver.
Soup porridge can strengthen the body and replenish water.
In summer, the temperature is high, it is easy to sweat, and the body loses water quickly. You should eat more juicy and water-rich foods, such as soup, porridge and fruit. Drink a proper amount of water before and after bathing in the morning, and drink salt water after a lot of physical exertion. Every meal has porridge or soup, and if you increase the intake of fruit appropriately, the effect of reducing fat and slimming, beauty and skin care will be immediate. Fish, duck, lotus seeds, loofah and tofu are the first choice for soup making in summer. "Summer medicine porridge" such as mung bean porridge, bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge and mint porridge is the protagonist of summer porridge, and it is better to match soup with porridge. Fruits such as strawberries, apricots, lychees, peaches, plums and watermelons can be eaten in moderation.
Vegetables stimulate appetite and help digestion.
Some vegetables, such as tomatoes, eggplant, celery, asparagus, bamboo shoots, lotus roots and so on. It can be used in cold salads and salads instead of frying, which is more refreshing and convenient to eat. In addition, vinegar can be used for seasoning, and also has the benefits of appetizing and digestion.
Fresh mixed juice is good.
If you want to quench your thirst, you can squeeze some fresh fruit and vegetable juice to drink, which can not only cool your blood and detoxify, but also supplement vitamin C and whiten your skin. Kiwi, grapefruit, apples and grapes are all good sources of natural vitamin C. When squeezing fruit juice, you can squeeze several fruits together, which will be more nutritious.
Melon cooling and anti-inflammatory
Watermelon, wax gourd, bitter gourd, wax gourd, cucumber, loofah and fingered citron are some natural melon foods with calming, cooling and anti-inflammatory effects, which have the wonderful functions of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, clearing away heat and purging fire, detoxifying and relaxing bowels. So in hot summer, you can usually cook some winter melon tea, bitter melon soup, loofah noodles or cucumber porridge, and then have a cup of watermelon juice after dinner, which will definitely dispel the summer heat. But in moderation, eating too much may cause discomfort such as bloating and diarrhea.
Mushroom meat is light and beneficial to the spleen and stomach.
Loss of appetite in summer, dull spleen and stomach function. Eating light products at this time will help stimulate appetite, strengthen the spleen and help transport. Watermelon, litchi, lotus seeds, silkworm excrement, buckwheat, jujube, pork tripe, beef, tripe, chicken, pigeon meat, quail meat, crucian carp, soft-shelled turtle, royal jelly, honey, duck meat, milk, goose meat, soybean milk, sugar cane, etc. should all be selected.
Tea, water, thirst quenching.
Chrysanthemum tea, medlar tea, cassia seed tea tea and honey tea can be mixed with boiled herbal tea for drinking, which can relieve the discomfort symptoms of dry mouth, constipation and irritability. Sour plum soup, hawthorn, dark plum, licorice, Luoshen flower and so on have the effect of promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
Qingre food
Heat-clearing food has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying, and is suitable for treating diseases.
Banana: sweet in taste, cold in nature, capable of clearing away heat and toxic materials and moistening intestines. It is suitable for constipation due to intestinal dryness.
Watermelon: sweet taste, cold nature, heart meridian, stomach meridian and bladder meridian. It can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, relieve vexation, quench thirst and induce diuresis. Celery: sweet, bitter, cool, liver and stomach meridians entered. It can calm the liver, clear away heat, dispel wind and promote diuresis.
Cabbage: sweet, flat in nature, enters the gastrointestinal tract. It can clear away heat, relieve annoyance and dredge the stomach.
Amaranth: Sweet and cool. It can clear away heat and toxic materials and promote defecation.
Zizania latifolia: sweet taste, cold nature, lung and spleen meridians entered. It can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve vexation and thirst, and promote diuresis and defecation.
Bitter gourd: bitter taste, cold nature, heart, spleen and stomach meridians. It can clear away heat and promote diuresis, detoxify and improve eyesight.
Cucumber: sweet, cool, spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians entered. It can clear away heat and toxic materials and induce diuresis. Loquat: sweet and sour, cool. It can moisten lung, relieve cough, promote fluid production, quench thirst, and stop vomiting.
Pear: sweet and sour, cool in nature, entering the lungs and stomach. It can promote fluid production, moisten dryness, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. Millet: sweet and salty, cool in nature, entering the kidney, spleen and stomach. This product has the functions of clearing heat, harmonizing middle warmer, promoting diuresis and treating stranguria. Mung beans: sweet and cool.
Heart meridian and stomach meridian. It can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve summer heat and promote diuresis. Mung bean sprouts: just like mung beans. Tofu: sweet in taste, cold in nature, and belongs to spleen, stomach and large intestine meridian. It can clear away heat, harmonize middle energizer, promote fluid production and quench thirst.
Soybean is sweet and flat. Function, should avoid the same as tofu.
Wheat is sweet and cool, and enters the heart, spleen and kidney meridians. Function: Nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, clear away heat and quench thirst. Suitable for stomach heat, swelling and pain, damp-heat diarrhea.
Pueraria lobata (pueraria lobata) is sweet, pungent and flat in nature, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. Functions: clearing away heat and resolving muscle, strengthening yang and stopping diarrhea, dispersing rash, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It is suitable for persistent diarrhea and is used for gastroptosis in modern times.