Suitable for people with wind-heat cold, cough, yellow phlegm, sore throat, dry mouth and thirst. Has the effects of clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and quenching thirst, and can be eaten raw, cooked or juiced for drinking. If you use jellyfish skin to decoct, the effect of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough is better.

2. Mung beans

Mung bean itself is a traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. If it is a heat disease such as exogenous wind-heat, erysipelas and heat invasion, you may wish to take mung beans when taking Chinese medicine, which has a good therapeutic effect. Avoid eating mung beans too cold and don't drink mung bean soup. You can choose another way to eat mung bean porridge.

3. Bitter gourd

Bitter gourd is bitter, nontoxic and cold, and enters the heart, liver, spleen and lung meridians. Has the effects of clearing away heat and summer-heat, clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving fatigue, invigorating qi and relieving fatigue, and invigorating kidney and diuresis. If you feel hot and thirsty and have prickly heat, you can try adding bitter gourd to the summer menu.

4. Tofu

Choosing high-quality protein when catching a cold can increase the body's repair ability. High-quality protein includes tofu. Tofu is rich in nutrition and is known as "plant meat". Tofu is sweet and slightly cold, which can nourish the spleen and stomach, clear away heat and moisten dryness, induce diuresis, and clear away heat and toxic materials. Tofu can be used as a dish alone, or as a main ingredient or auxiliary material; Soup, stir-fry and stew are indispensable.

5.wax gourd

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that winter melon is cool and sweet, enters the lungs, large intestine and bladder meridian, and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, which is a good product for patients with wind-heat cold. When cooking winter melon soup, it is best to wash the skin of winter melon, and even put the seeds into the pot to cook the soup, which has a better diuretic effect.

6. Lotus root

Lotus root is cold, has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood, and can be used to treat heatstroke; Lotus root is sweet and light, which is especially beneficial to people with fever, thirst, epistaxis and hemoptysis. Lotus root should be eaten with yellow-brown skin, thick meat and white meat. If it is black and stinks, it is not suitable for eating.

7.loofah

Luffa can be regarded as a "good helper" for clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying in summer. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loofah is cold and sweet, enters the liver and stomach meridians, and has the effects of relieving summer heat, benefiting intestines, clearing heat, expelling wind and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying. In addition, if you have phlegm, asthma, cough, milk obstruction, fever, polydipsia and other symptoms, you may wish to try to eat loofah as an adjuvant treatment.

8. Little carrots

Radish contains carotene, which plays a unique role in preventing and treating colds. Radish has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is most suitable for patients with cough and phlegm caused by wind-heat cold.

9.chrysanthemum

White chrysanthemum has the effects of dispelling pathogenic wind, clearing away heat, clearing away liver-fire, improving eyesight and detoxifying, and can be used for preventing and treating wind-heat common cold, headache, dizziness, red eyes and swelling and pain. Flavonoids contained in it can dilate blood vessels and lower blood pressure, so it is more suitable for patients with hypertension.

10, pear

Pears are cool and sweet, and can produce fluid, clear away heat and resolve phlegm. It can obviously relieve wind-heat cold, fever, dry mouth, cough, expectoration and other symptoms. For patients with wind-heat cold, you can use a raw pear, wash it and cut it into pieces, and add rock sugar to stew water for oral administration, which will have a good effect.

1 1, chrysanthemum brain

It is often used as a summer resort in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is cool in nature and sweet in taste, and has the functions of clearing heat and cooling blood, dispelling summer heat and reducing fire, and clearing the head. It is most suitable for people who have a cold, fever, dry mouth, sore throat and red eyes in summer.

12, olive

Also known as olives. It has the effects of clearing away lung heat, relieving sore throat and resolving phlegm, and is especially suitable for patients with wind-heat cold accompanied by sore throat. Folk use 2 ~ 5 olives, split, half to 1 fresh radish (both red and white), boil water without drinking tea.

13, honeysuckle

It has the function of clearing away heat, and Chinese medicine is often used to treat wind-heat cold. Handbook of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines: "Honeysuckle can clear away heat and toxic materials, and treat exogenous fever and cough. Make herbal tea or prevent heatstroke and colds. " In summer, those who have wind-heat cold, fever and sore throat should make tea with honeysuckle and drink it often.

14, mulberry leaves

Mulberry leaves are good at expelling wind-heat and lung-heat, and are often used with chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, mint, peucedanum and platycodon grandiflorum. Mulberry leaves can be used to treat blushing and shame caused by wind and heat, and also to clear liver and purge fire, and can be used in combination with chrysanthemum, cassia seed and plantain seed.

15, lemon

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which has many functions, such as anti-bacteria, immunity, assisting the formation of bone collagen and so on. At ordinary times, you can drink more hot lemonade to maintain your health and supplement vitamin C. Drinking 500 to 1000cc every day can reduce runny nose when you have a cold, and the cold will spread quickly, especially when you have just caught a cold, and you can even recover without taking medicine. In addition to resisting bacteria and enhancing immunity, it also has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting fluid production to quench thirst and relieving summer heat, so it is more suitable for wind-heat or summer heat colds.

16, watermelon

Watermelon is cold and sweet, and has the function of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. When you catch a cold due to wind and heat in summer, eating watermelon can quench your thirst and dispel summer heat. Herbs in southern Yunnan say that watermelon can cure all kinds of fever.

17, sugarcane

Sugarcane is cold and sweet, which can clear away heat and produce fluid. According to the diet spectrum of interesting life, sugarcane has the function of "benefiting the throat". When you have a cold, sore throat, dry mouth and cough due to wind and heat, eating sugar cane can clear fire and relieve symptoms.

18, lotus leaf

It is suitable for people with wind-heat cold in summer and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: "Wind and heat of lotus leaves on the head." "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 regularly to prevent and treat summer colds.

Mint 19

Mint is cool and pungent, and has the effect of dispelling wind 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.