honeysuckle
Honeysuckle can clear away heat and toxic materials, and treat exogenous fever and cough. Made into herbal tea, it can prevent heatstroke and catch cold. "Anyone who has a cold, fever and sore throat in summer should make tea with honeysuckle and drink it often, which has the effect of clearing away heat.
lotus leaf
"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" said: "Lotus leaves are the first to be cool and hot." "Continuation of Materia Medica" also said: "Cool and relieve summer heat, quench thirst and produce fluid, relieve summer heat." Therefore, in the hot summer, it is most appropriate to use lotus leaves instead of tea to decoct water and drink it often.
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It is cool in nature and pungent in taste, and it has the functions of dispelling wind and dissipating heat and relieving sore throat. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Mint, which is pungent and can disperse, is cool and clear, and specializes in expelling wind and heat." It is suitable for people with wind-heat cold, headache, red eyes and sore throat to make tea. feverfew
It is especially suitable for drinking in hot summer, and has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing away heat, improving eyesight, detoxicating and dispelling summer heat. If you have a cold in summer, brew 5 grams of white chrysanthemum with boiling water instead of drinking tea.
Chinese olive
It has the effects of clearing away lung heat, relieving sore throat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for patients with sore throat caused by common cold. Folklore uses 3~5 fresh olives, split, fresh radish half to 1 piece (red and white), boiled water instead of tea. The ancients praised it as "Qinglong Baihu Decoction", which has a therapeutic effect on sore throat caused by wind and fire.
sweet potato
Can promote fluid production to quench thirst, and can be used for cooking or spitting. "Luchuan Materia Medica" records: "Produce body fluid to quench thirst, and cure fever and thirst." Suitable for wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, headache and polydipsia.
pear
Cool and sweet, it can produce fluid, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. Suitable for wind-heat cold, fever, thirst, cough and Huangshi, and can be eaten at will. People who are used to wind-heat, cold and cough should use 1 raw pears, wash and chop them up, and then stew them with rock sugar.
Small carrot
It has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for patients with cough and excessive phlegm caused by wind-heat cold. Folk radish (preferably carrot) is washed, peeled, sliced, put into a bowl, put 2~3 spoonfuls of maltose, and left overnight, which has a good effect of relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
mung bean
People who have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat have a wind-heat cold in hot summer, which is the best. "Herbal Yan Hui" said: "Mung beans can clear away heat and summer heat, moisten dryness, clear away heat and detoxify." Folk also often use mung bean soup to treat colds on hot days. Panghaizi
It tastes cool, sweet and light, and can clear away heat and relieve sore throat. Zhang Shouyi, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, said: "Boat-fruited Sterculia is good at spreading lung qi, can shed fur, and wind and evil are shut out, regardless of cold and heat." Take two tablets and boil water instead of tea.
garlic
Warm in nature and pungent in taste, "Herbal Supplement" pointed out: "Garlic is good in heat and is mostly used in summer months." Compendium of Materia Medica also says: "Summer food can relieve summer heat". "Convenient prescription for eating traditional Chinese medicine" introduces: "Cold, headache and stuffy nose, aversion to cold and fever: garlic, onion, ginger, etc., warm soup and sweat."
kidney bean
It is flat in nature, sweet in taste, and has the function of clearing heat and drying dampness. Chinese medicine believes that summer heat and dampness, especially the long rainy season in summer, are the most likely to cause summer heat and dampness, fever, lethargy, vomiting and diarrhea. It is advisable to cook with lentils or flat tofu pudding. Mung bean soup, mung bean is the most suitable drink for clearing away heat and toxic materials in summer. Many families like to cook some mung bean soup at home in summer. Mung beans are cool and sweet. Drinking at ordinary times can relieve summer heat and quench thirst. Because of its diuretic effect, drinking food or medicine after poisoning can also eliminate toxins in the body, and it also has certain curative effect on heat swelling, heat thirst, heat dysentery, carbuncle, pox poison, macula and so on. The study also found that mung beans contain a lot of lysine, threonine, calcium, iron and phosphorus, which can supplement the nutrients consumed in metabolism. Tomato and egg soup, boiled with eggs and tomatoes in summer, is yellow and red, beautiful and delicious, and is the most ideal tonic. To make tomato and egg soup in summer, it is best to fry tomatoes in oil first, which is more conducive to the dissolution and absorption of fat-soluble nutrients in tomatoes, such as lycopene. Lycopene has miraculous effects on the prevention and treatment of prostate diseases and prostate cancer, and also has the functions of protecting cardiovascular system, delaying skin aging and enhancing immunity. Old duck soup, drinking duck soup in summer, can not only supplement excessive consumption of nutrition, but also eliminate the discomfort caused by summer heat. Chinese medicine believes that old ducks are flat in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and can nourish yin and stomach. "Records of Famous Doctors" said that "tonifying deficiency and removing heat, harmonizing viscera and benefiting waterways"; According to the "Resting Diet Spectrum", it "nourishes the yin of the five internal organs, clears away the heat of deficiency and fatigue, enriches the blood and promotes diuresis, nourishes the stomach and produces fluid, and stops coughing and spasms". Boiled old duck with radish is moist and delicious, nourishing yin and stomach, resolving food stagnation, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, which is a delicious soup for family health care in summer.
Ingredients: radish 1 000g, dried Yaozhu 4, candied dates 2, dried tangerine peel10g, old duck1each, lean pork100g, and ginger 4.
Practice: Wash the above things. All the radishes are peeled and cut into pieces, soaked in scallops, the candied dates are pitted, the pulp of dried tangerine peel is removed, the dirty tail of the old duck is removed, cut into pieces, scalded in boiling water for a while, and washed (that is, "flying water"). Add lean meat and ginger to the pot, add 3000 ml of water, cook for 2 hours with strong fire, and season with salt. Winter melon soup, which is hot every day in summer, is not fragrant to many people. At this time, light winter melon soup is often the first choice for housewives. Wax gourd is one of the important vegetables in summer and autumn in China, which plays an important role in summer off-season, and is cultivated all over the country. When eating, peel it first, remove the pulp and then wash it. Wax gourd has low sugar content and high water content, which can promote diuresis and detumescence, remove excess accumulated fat in the body, and has a good therapeutic auxiliary effect on patients with diabetes, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and obesity. Wax gourd with low sodium content is also an ideal vegetable for patients with nephropathy and edema. Mushroom soup, mushroom soup is especially suitable for eating in summer with poor appetite. It can not only supplement the nutrients needed by the human body in summer, but also eliminate phlegm and stimulate appetite, and improve the digestion and absorption capacity of the body. Mushrooms, Volvariella volvacea and Pleurotus ostreatus are called the "three edible fungi" that are most beneficial to human body. These lovely mushrooms are not only nutritious, but also help to lose weight and burn fat. Carp soup, at present, many places are Huangmeitian or sauna days. Experts suggest that drinking carp soup in hot weather in summer may help strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. Carp has a unique dietotherapy function and is suitable for patients with cough, nephritis and edema. When eating carp, you can add some dehumidified ingredients to make soup together, such as dried tangerine peel, wax gourd and scallion. When coughing, you can cook soup with carp and a little Fritillaria to relieve cough and asthma. Red bean carp soup is a classic dietotherapy prescription to relieve nephritis edema. Eating them together can enhance the effect of diuresis and detumescence. Luffa soup, I suggest you drink more Luffa soup in summer, because it is easy to get angry in summer. Heart fire burns from the kidney. Luffa soup tonifies the kidney. Drinking Luffa soup can dispel heart fire. In addition, loofah is a cool food, which has the effects of dredging meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, cooling blood and detoxifying. Women should eat more loofah, because loofah has a powerful beauty and skin care function, and it can also prevent and treat some gynecological diseases. The melon meat of loofah can clear kidney and reduce fire. Therefore, it is very suitable for people with yin deficiency and fire, that is, people with fire in the lower energizer to eat loofah. There are people with constipation, eating loofah is good for relaxing bowels and preventing hemorrhoids. Luffa is cold, so it is important to eat it. How to eat? You can drink loofah and egg soup. Because eggs are warm, they can also replenish qi. If you fry loofah, you'd better put some garlic. Use the heat of garlic to neutralize the cold of loofah.