You can drink ginger mutton soup, red jujube ginger tea and so on. In order to drive away the cold in summer.

Summer heat is the hottest time in a year, and it is also the time when the yang of traditional Chinese medicine is at its peak. People with deficiency and cold constitution can eat a small amount of warm food, such as ginger and mutton, to help dispel the cold in the body. Summer is the best season to eat mutton for tonic. Mutton is warm and sweet, and has the effects of tonifying deficiency and dispelling cold, warming qi and blood, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, promoting granulation and strengthening strength, keeping out cold and strengthening the body. Ginger is pungent and warm, which can dispel cold evil. It can be made into ginger mutton soup, which is beneficial to aphrodisiac and promotes the discharge of cold in the body. People with deficiency of both qi and blood can also add Angelica sinensis to enhance the effect of enriching blood.

Red jujube ginger tea has the effects of invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, dispelling cold and benefiting qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. It can effectively relieve qi and blood deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, anorexia, neurasthenia, insomnia and other diseases, and also has the effect of dispelling cold.

This content was reviewed by Fan Maorong, chief physician of respiratory department of Xiyuan Hospital of Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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