From July 22, it will enter the "Great Summer" solar term. As the saying goes, "Little summer is big summer, steaming on it and cooking on it". Sun exposure, heat, water and humidity are intertwined. How should we regulate our body? Kang, director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach in the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangzhou Medical University, said that in hot and humid weather, people are more likely to feel tired, thirsty, bitter and lose appetite. Chinese medicine believes that by strengthening the spleen and benefiting qi, the body's immunity can be improved; The symptoms of damp-heat can also be alleviated by removing dampness and transporting spleen. Kang recommended several soups. Interested neighbors might as well try them.
1. Stewed bone soup with lentils and barley
Ingredients: 20g of lentils, 20g of gordon euryales, 0/5 g of coix seed/kloc-,500g of big bones and 3 candied dates.
Practice: wash and chop the big bones, blanch and remove them; Put the ingredients together in a pot, add 10 bowl of water, and cook for 1.5~2 hours, and season after cooking.
Efficacy: Lentil, Euryale ferox and Coix seed have the same medicine and food, and can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness.
Applicable people: people with thick tongue coating and heavy humidity.
2. Mianyinchen Red Bean Crucian Carp Soup
Ingredients: crucian carp 1, wormwood 50 g, adzuki bean 100 g, old tangerine peel 5 g, 3 candied dates and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: slaughter and wash crucian carp, put a little oil in the pot, fry until both sides are brown, and wrap wormwood in a cloth bag; Add 10 bowl of water to the soup pot, put all other materials into the pot together, boil with strong fire for 15 minutes, and simmer with low fire for 1.5~2 hours. Remember to add Artemisia gossypii in the last half hour, and add salt to taste after cooking.
Efficacy: Herba Artemisiae Scopariae and Semen Phaseoli can clear away heat and promote diuresis; Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae is vaporized and wet; Herba Artemisiae Scopariae has a special aroma, and the boiled soup has a unique aroma.
Applicable people: people with yellow and thick tongue coating and heavy damp heat.
3. Finger Peach Chicken Soup
Ingredients: 50g of Finger Peach, 20g of Poria cocos, 20g of Chinese yam, 3 candied dates and 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: first soak the five-finger peach, poria cocos and mountain spring water for 20 minutes, and remove impurities for later use; Blanch the chicken pieces in water and then rinse them clean; Put all the ingredients in a soup pot, add 10 bowl of water, and cook with high fire 1.5~2 hours. Add salt to taste after cooking.
Efficacy: Wuzhitao, also known as Nanqi, has the effect of strengthening the spleen and tonifying the lungs of Astragalus, but it is not dry; Poria cocos and yam can strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness.
Applicable people: people with fat tongue, tooth marks, no appetite, general weakness, drowsiness and other symptoms.
4. Sanxian Chenpi Drink
Ingredients: medicinal leaves10g, hawthorn10g, malt15g, dried tangerine peel10g.
Practice: decoct Massa Medicata Fermentata, Fructus Crataegi, Fructus Hordei Germinatus and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae in water for 20 minutes and filter.
Efficacy: Chenpi can be gasified and wet; Massa Medicata Fermentata, hawthorn and malt can be digested and accumulated.