In summer, you should eat more foods that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness. You can also add some traditional Chinese medicine to cook and make some health food. Here are four summer recipes of Chinese medicine. You can also try.

Summer TCM health recipes 1, bean paste syrup

Suitable for people: people with poor appetite caused by high temperature in summer.

Preparation materials: 50g mung beans, 50g red beans, 50g white lentils, half dried tangerine peel, and appropriate amount of brown sugar/rock sugar.

Mung beans are sweet and cool, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat; Adzuki bean tastes sweet and slightly cold, clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and detoxifying; White lentils are sweet in taste, flat in nature, invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness and relieving summer heat. The combination of three kinds of beans makes the syrup have obvious effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Adding tangerine peel with the functions of eliminating dampness, resolving phlegm and strengthening spleen neutralizes the cold taste of mung beans and red beans, and the tangerine peel is fragrant and spleen-strengthening, and can also stimulate appetite.

When the temperature is high in summer, people feel uncomfortable and have poor appetite, and the amount of food per meal is not more suitable than the temperature, this sweet bean paste syrup is suitable for summer and summer. If the sugar water is frozen in the refrigerator, the effect of cooling off summer heat will be more obvious. While clearing away heat, removing dampness and relieving summer heat, several kinds of beans are used in the recipe, which are rich in starch, minerals and vitamins, and at the same time enhance satiety and replenish body minerals lost due to excessive sweating.

Summer TCM health recipes 2, spiced tea

Suitable for people: people with colds and heatstroke in summer.

Preparation materials: honeysuckle, chrysanthemum morifolium, bean curd, egg flower, kapok 15g, fresh Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae and Coicis Semen 50g.

Honeysuckle in the prescription is sweet and cold, clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispelling wind and dissipating heat; Chrysanthemum morifolium tastes bitter and slightly cold, dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight; Flat bean curd brain is slightly warm, clearing heat and relieving summer heat and dampness; Plumeria is sweet, moistening lung and detoxifying, clearing heat and promoting diuresis; Kapok is dull, clearing heat, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness; Smilax glabra promotes diuresis, detoxifies and facilitates joints; Coix seed can strengthen the spleen, induce diuresis and clear heat.

Can be used for preventing dizziness, headache, stuffy nose and runny nose, heavy limbs, sore throat and loss of appetite caused by pathogenic factors invading human body in hot summer, and preventing heatstroke in summer.

Summer TCM health recipes 3, kapok bean porridge

Suitable for people: people with heavy humidity and poor appetite.

Preparation materials: kapok 8- 10, lentils 50g, japonica rice 50g, for 2-3 people.

Kapok has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and lentils strengthen the spleen and promote diuresis. The combination of the two can make the effect of eliminating summer heat and promoting diuresis obvious. Boiling porridge also takes care of people's loss of appetite in bitter summer, and they prefer to eat porridge that is easy to digest and absorb. Porridge also has the function of strengthening the spleen and stomach, which is beneficial to those with weak spleen and stomach.

Summer TCM health recipes 4, Pogostemon kudzu porridge

Suitable for people: people with damp-heat cold, vomiting and diarrhea.

Preparation materials: Pogostemon rugosa10g, Radix Puerariae10g, fresh Radix Puerariae10g, Poria10g, and 50g of japonica rice.

Pueraria lobata is one of Guangzhou people's favorite ingredients, which is often used in soup and cooking. Pueraria lobata has the functions of relieving muscle, relieving fever, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea; Huoxiang has the functions of eliminating dampness, harmonizing stomach, stopping vomiting, dispelling summer heat and relieving exterior syndrome; Poria cocos and poria cocos have the functions of eliminating dampness, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach. The combination of the three drugs makes this porridge have the effects of relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst and stopping diarrhea.

It is suitable for people with gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea due to damp-heat cold in summer.