Efficacy of health-preserving recipes for the elderly: mung beans are sweet and cool, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, detoxifying and diuresis, and pumpkin is the best diet for heatstroke prevention in summer.

Ingredients: 50 grams of mung bean, 500 grams of old pumpkin, a little salt.

Practice: Wash mung beans with clear water, add a little salt (about 3 grams) when the steam is not dry, stir well, marinate for a few minutes, and then rinse with clear water. Peel the pumpkin, wash the pulp with clear water and cut it into 2 cm square pieces for later use. Add 500 ml of water to the pot, boil the mung beans for 2 minutes, pour in a little cold water, then boil, put the pumpkin in the pot, cover the pot, and cook for about 30 minutes with slow fire until the mung beans bloom, and add a little salt to taste.

Summer old people's health recipe 2: stewed pig's lungs with Chuanbei Sydney

Efficacy: Bufei Yang Qi, antitussive and expectorant.

Raw materials: 250g pig lung, Fritillaria cirrhosa 12g, Sydney 1, 5g crystal sugar.

Practice: the pig lungs are washed repeatedly and cut into medium pieces. Peel and core Sydney and cut it into 4 pieces. Wash Fritillaria cirrhosa. Put the ingredients in a saucepan, add appropriate amount of boiling water, cover the saucepan and stew in water. After the water in the pot is boiled, simmer for 60 minutes on medium fire and then simmer for 120 minutes. After stewing, remove the residue, season with oil, salt and monosodium glutamate, and eat meat in soup.

Summer health recipes for the elderly three: ginger spinach.

Efficacy: Spinach is sweet, cool, nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing liver and blood, clearing heat and purging fire, and used for yin deficiency.

High blood pressure. Eating by the elderly can increase appetite.

Ingredients: 500g tender spinach, 25g ginger, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil.

Practice: cut the spinach from the top, put it in boiling water, take it out and drain it, pour in sesame oil and mix well, and put it on a plate. Peel ginger, cut it into fine powder and put it in a bowl. Add salt, soy sauce, vinegar and monosodium glutamate to make ginger juice. Spinach and ginger juice are served on separate plates at the same time, and spinach is dipped in ginger juice when eating.