Mainly eat a light diet, including rice porridge, mung bean porridge, white fungus and lotus seed soup and other desserts, soups and cold drinks. The staple food is mainly grain products. Eat more fruits and vegetables, such as bitter melon, loofah, wax gourd and tofu. Dried tofu, water spinach, cauliflower, purple cabbage, cucumber, pumpkin, dragon fruit, watermelon, etc.

1. Watermelon

Not only can it clear away heat and detoxify, relieve restlessness and quench thirst, it can also be a diuretic and help digestion. Watermelon juice also contains rich nutrients needed by the human body, as well as carotene, Vitamin C, etc.

2. Mung beans

After work and labor, drinking a bowl of mung bean soup will make you feel refreshed, get rid of excessive thirst, eliminate summer heat, and feel relaxed and happy. This is because mung beans have the effects of clearing away heat, relieving heat, quenching thirst and diuresis.

3. Cucumber

The water content of cucumber is 96%~98%, which is the highest water content among vegetables. The fiber it contains is very delicate, which has a certain effect on promoting the excretion of corrupted food in the intestines and lowering cholesterol.

4. Winter melon

Quenches thirst, relieves heat, and is a diuretic. Because it is a diuretic and contains very little sodium, it is a good product for reducing swelling in chronic nephritis edema, dystrophic edema, and edema in pregnant women.

5. Eggplant

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eggplant is a cold food. Therefore, eating it in summer can help clear away heat and relieve summer heat. It is especially suitable for people who are prone to prickly heat and sores. People with indigestion and prone to diarrhea should not eat more.

6. Lettuce

Lettuce is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and refreshing the mind, clearing the liver, promoting gallbladder, and nourishing the stomach.

7. Bitter chrysanthemum

Bitter chrysanthemum is rich in carotene, vitamin C, potassium salts, calcium salts, etc., which maintain normal physiological activities of the human body, promote growth and development, and relieve summer heat. Have better effect.

In addition to the ones introduced above, you can also eat more of these vegetables in summer, such as tomatoes, celery, sunflower (purple horn leaves), asparagus, watercress, sweet potato, bitter melon, zucchini, etc.

1. Vegetarian fried bean curd

Ingredients: two bean curds, appropriate amounts of vegetable oil, salt, green onions and MSG.

Method: Cut the bean skin into shreds, wash and shred the green onions. Heat the oil pan until it is 60% hot. Add the shredded green onion to the pan and cook until fragrant. Add the shredded tofu skin to the pan and stir-fry. Then add salt. After frying for a few minutes, add MSG, drizzle with sesame oil and stir evenly.

Efficacy: Tonic, antiperspirant. Suitable for people with excessive sweating, spontaneous sweating and night sweats.

2. Watermelon and tomato juice

Ingredients: half a watermelon and 3 tomatoes of medium size.

Method: Peel and remove the seeds from the watermelon, blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, peel and remove the seeds. Grind the juice of both at the same time, combine the two liquids, and drink according to the amount.

Effects: clearing heat, promoting body fluids and quenching thirst. It is especially suitable for people with summer colds, thirst, irritability, loss of appetite, indigestion, and red and hot urine.

3. Vegetarian braised gluten

Ingredients: 500 grams of water gluten, appropriate amounts of onions, ginger, salt, starch, vegetable oil and MSG.

Method: Cut the water gluten into thin slices, wash the green onion and ginger and cut into shreds and set aside. Heat the oil pan, put the water gluten into the pan, stir-fry until brown, add onions and ginger and stir-fry for a few minutes, add a bowl of water, add salt, after the gluten is cooked, add MSG, then thicken with starch, and the soup Just be transparent.

Efficacy: relieve fever, relieve restlessness and quench thirst.

4. Broad bean beef stew

Ingredients: 120 grams of fresh broad beans or water-cooked broad beans, 250 grams of lean beef, a little salt, appropriate amount of MSG and sesame oil.

Method: Cut the beef into small pieces, simmer it in a water pot first, take it out and pour water, put an appropriate amount of water into the casserole, when the water temperature is high, put the beef into the pot, stew until it is six times cooked, and then Put the broad beans into the pot, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer, add salt and simmer until the meat and beans are cooked, add MSG and sesame oil, and take it out of the pot.

Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen and removes dampness, replenishes deficiency and strengthens the body.

5. Ginger, winter melon and shrimp soup

Ingredients: ginger, winter melon, shrimp, salt, sesame oil

Method: Peel and slice the ginger and winter melon. Put it in the pot with the fresh shrimps and stew until cooked. You can also wrap the winter melon skin with gauze and put it in together. Take it out and discard it after it is cooked. Just add a little salt and sesame oil to make ginger, winter melon and shrimp soup.

Efficacy: Promote appetite, induce sweating, expel cold and diuresis.