Summer is the season with the highest yang, and the climate is hot and full of vitality. At this time, it is a period of metabolism, with yang as the outside and yin as the inside, and the blood circulation is correspondingly vigorous and active on the body surface. Summer health care focuses on mental adjustment, maintaining a happy and stable mood, and avoiding great sadness and joy, so as not to add fuel to the fire.

(1) Eat more melons. The water content of melons and vegetables is above 90%. All melons and vegetables have the function of lowering blood pressure and protecting blood vessels. For example: pumpkin, cucumber, etc. . .

2) Eat more cool vegetables: Eating some cool vegetables is conducive to promoting fluid production to quench thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, and detoxifying and relaxing bowels. Cucumber vegetables, except pumpkin, are warm, and others, such as bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, cabbage melon, watermelon and wax gourd, belong to cool summer health recipes.

Vegetables tomatoes, celery and lettuce are all cold vegetables. . . .

3) Eat more garlic, onions, leeks and green onions. Summer is a season of frequent human diseases, especially intestinal infectious diseases. These onion and garlic vegetables are rich in broad-spectrum fungicides, which can kill and inhibit various cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses.

4) Summer diet should be low in fat, salt, multivitamins and light. Eating porridge for breakfast and dinner and soup for lunch can not only quench thirst, relieve summer heat, but also nourish the body. Add some lotus leaves (called lotus leaf porridge) when cooking porridge, which tastes fragrant and slightly bitter in porridge. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and appetizing, dispelling summer heat, nourishing stomach and clearing intestines, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.

Add some mung beans when cooking porridge or soup with mung beans alone, which has the functions of relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting fluid production and diuresis. Dried lentils soaked in rice and cooked into porridge can clear away heat and summer heat, eliminate dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. In addition, red bean porridge, mint porridge, black fungus porridge, kudzu root porridge and bitter melon porridge are all good foods in summer.

5) Provide some dishes that I like to cook in summer: shredded pumpkin with garlic. Steamed eggplant (dipping sauce). Bitter gourd and roasted chicken eggs.

Mung bean sparerib soup (cooked over old fire). Vegetarian towel gourd.