Great Heat, one of the twenty-four solar terms, is the last solar term in summer. At the end of the Dou Zhi period, the sun's yellow longitude is 120°, and the festival takes place on July 22-24 of the Gregorian calendar. "Shu" means hot, and "Great Heat" means extremely hot. Below is my list of soups to drink for health during the hot summer. You are welcome to share them.

What kind of soup should you drink during the hot summer?

1. Mung bean soup

In the hot summer, mung bean soup is very popular, but this soup should not be drunk too much, let alone taken as a snack. Drink water. If you want to cool down, wash out the mung beans when making soup, boil it over high heat, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar, and leave for about 10 minutes. The soup will be green in color and relatively clear. According to personal preference, lilies, lotus seeds, red dates, etc. can also be added. For the purpose of clearing away heat and detoxifying, it is best to boil the beans. Such soup will be turbid and less effective in relieving heat, but it will have a stronger effect in clearing away heat and detoxifying.

However, it should be noted that people with weak spleen and stomach do not necessarily need to drink mung bean soup. They can eat mung bean porridge. Cook rice or millet and mung beans in the same pot to nourish the spleen and stomach.

Recommended recipe for mint and mung bean soup: 5 grams of mint, 30 grams of barley, 60 grams of mung beans, 1 to 2 tablespoons of rock sugar. Wash barley and mung beans, soak in water for 3 hours and set aside. Pour 800 ml of water into the pot, add barley and mung beans and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for half an hour. Add mint and sugar and continue to cook for 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and serve. This soup can clear away heat and detoxify, and improve acne.

2. Chicken soup

There is a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat chicken soup in hot weather. Broilers refer to young roosters that are not yet able to crow and have just matured but have not been bred; or young roosters that weigh one to one and a half kilograms within three months of the breeding period and have not been bred. Later, there are also specialized The breed is called broiler.

The reason why we choose broiler chicken is because broiler chicken contains a certain amount of growth hormone, which has a very good tonic effect on children in the growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people whose hormone levels have declined, even for young people. , even those with weak constitutions may want to give it a try.

Choose a whole chicken of about 2-3 kilograms (preferably no more than three kilograms), chop it up, add black fungus, mushrooms, bamboo shoot tips, etc. and cook it together. In addition, it can also be cooked with Chinese medicinal materials such as yam, Codonopsis pilosula, and angelica root. It can be eaten by people with weak Qi and blood, and the therapeutic effect will be better.

3. Winter Melon and Lotus Leaf Soup

In Guangdong, people like to make soup with winter melon and lotus leaves during the summer and summer. Winter melon is one of the most commonly used melons and vegetables in midsummer. It is sweet, thick-fleshed and rich in water. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the functions of relieving heat and dampness, nourishing gastric juice, cleansing filth, eliminating carbuncles, promoting water circulation, and reducing swelling; while lotus leaves are the leaves of the lotus root that grow on the water. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has a cool nature, a sweet and light taste, and has the effect of clearing away heat. , cooling blood and dispersing blood stasis, dried lotus leaves are used medicinally, while fresh lotus leaves are mostly used in soups and delicacies. Because it is filled with a fresh scent of lotus, it has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving heat and eliminating stagnation.

It is recommended to use old winter melons with the skin and seeds. When selecting, the melons with particularly large seeds when viewed in cross-section are considered "old". Winter melon should be eaten with the skin on to enhance its diuretic effect. It is recommended to make a sweet soup with barley rice. On hot days, the light sweet soup can best moisten the heart and clear the lungs, promote body fluids and quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve summer heat.

Prepare 1,000 grams of old winter melon, 12 pieces of fresh lotus leaves, 80 grams of barley, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Wash everything separately. Cut the winter melon into pieces; cut the lotus leaves into 2 to 3 pieces; soak the barley rice briefly. Put the pot into a pot together, add 2000 ml of water (about 8 bowls), bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce to medium to low heat and boil for about 40 minutes, then add sugar.

4. Mutton Soup

In the dog days of summer, heat accumulates in the human body. Drink mutton soup at this time, and drink chili oil, vinegar, and garlic into your stomach at the same time. You will definitely sweat profusely all over your body. , this sweat can take away the heat accumulated in the five internal organs, and at the same time discharge toxins from the body, which is beneficial to health. The mutton soup made before summer is because the grass on the mountain has just turned green. When the sheep eat the green grass, a lot of toxins remain in the body.

Mutton is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins Bl, B2, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

It is warm in nature, dispels cold, resolves stagnation, strengthens glands and replenishes qi, and warms and nourishes kidney yang. Mutton soup is not as hot as chicken soup. Mutton soup is warm and tonic, so it is very good for people who are physically weak to drink mutton soup.

Putian people eat mutton in warm soup during the hot summer. After slaughtering the sheep, remove the hair and remove the dirt, put the whole animal into boiling soup and blanch it. Then pick it up and put it into a large clay pot, pour the boiling soup in the pot, soak it for a certain period of time and then take it out. When eating, cut the mutton into slices. The meat will be fat, crispy, tender, and delicious.

5. Duck soup

On this day of great heat, it is popular among old Nanjing people to make duck soup. Duck meat is sweet and cold in nature, enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridian, and has the functions of nourishing, nourishing the stomach, tonifying the kidneys, removing tuberculosis and bone steaming, eliminating edema, relieving heat and dysentery, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. Duck meat is suitable for people with heat in the body. It is more beneficial for people with weak constitution, loss of appetite, fever, dry stool and edema.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, duck meat has the effects of nourishing yin and replenishing deficiency, nourishing the stomach and diluting water. There are many ways to eat duck meat. In summer, the best way to eat duck meat is to make it into duck soup, which can not only replenish excessive consumption of nutrients, but also eliminate the discomfort caused by the heat. Here are two recommended duck meat soups to relieve heat and dampness in hot summer days.

Recommended recipe for honeysuckle and teal soup: 25 grams of honeysuckle, 1 teal, 2 figs, 14 slices of tangerine peel, 2 slices of fresh ginger, 1000 ml of water, and a little salt. Wash the honeysuckle, wash the teal, put it in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes, take it out; wash the tangerine peel, soak it until soft and scrape off the capsule; boil 1000 ml of water, add the honeysuckle, teal, fig, tangerine peel and ginger to the pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for two hours and season with salt.

There are many food customs during the Great Heat: many places in Guangdong have the custom of "eating fairy grass" during the Great Heat; Taiwan, my country, has the custom of eating pineapples. Folks believe that pineapples in this season are the most delicious.

Common knowledge about health care during summer heat

1. Eat more bitter foods

Bitter foods not only clear away heat, but also relieve heat and eliminate fatigue. Therefore, during the hot season, eating some bitter foods such as bitter melon, bitter vegetables, and bitter buckwheat can strengthen the spleen and stimulate the appetite and increase appetite. It will not only keep the evil of dampness and heat away from you, but also prevent heat stroke. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone. In addition, bitter food can also make people feel refreshed and relaxed, which is helpful for people to restore their energy and physical strength in the hot summer, and reduce or eliminate uncomfortable symptoms such as general weakness and listlessness.

2. Increase the intake of foods that can clear away heat, relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and remove dampness.

Mung bean soup is a traditional Chinese folk food that relieves summer heat. It can be used by anyone except those with spleen and stomach deficiency and weak constitution. edible. In addition, lotus leaves, watermelon, lotus seeds, winter melon, etc. also have a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Lentils and coix seeds have the effect of strengthening the spleen and are good summer dietary treatments for patients with spleen deficiency.

3. Foods that replenish qi and nourish yin are essential

During the summer, the weather is very hot and you sweat more, which easily consumes qi and damages yin. At this time, people often have three parts of deficiency when they are not sick. . Therefore, in addition to replenishing water in time, you should also eat some light foods that nourish qi and yin to strengthen your body, such as yam, jujube, sea cucumber, eggs, milk, honey, lotus root, fungus, soy milk, lily porridge, chrysanthemum porridge, etc.

4. Protein supply needs to be sufficient

In the summer, the temperature is higher, the body's metabolism speeds up, and energy consumption is large. Therefore, the protein supply must be increased appropriately, and the daily intake should be 100 Gram - 120 grams. Plant protein can be obtained from soy products. In addition to dairy products, animal protein should also be eaten appropriately, such as chicken, duck, lean pork, pigeon meat and other flat or cool meat products. Among them, duck meat is rich in protein, which can not only replenish the excessive physical energy caused by the high temperature in summer, but also duck is a water bird and has a cool nature. It has the effect of nourishing yin, nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying deficiency and removing dampness, which is especially suitable for the bitter summer. Eat it if there is heat in the fire body. In addition, when stewing duck meat, you can also add lotus root, winter melon and other vegetables to make soup. This can not only complement the nutritional value of meat and vegetables, but also strengthen the spleen, replenish qi and nourish yin.