Watermelon: Eliminating troubles and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. It is suitable for diseases such as excessive heat hurting body fluids, polydipsia due to summer heat, dysuria, laryngitis and aphtha. Cucumber: The skin green juice is crisp, tender and delicious, with a water content of about 97%, which is a good product for promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Fresh cucumber has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and also has obvious effects on dehumidification, intestinal smoothing and analgesia. People with constipation in summer should eat more. Peach: promoting fluid production, moistening intestines, promoting blood circulation and resolving food stagnation. Suitable for polydipsia, blood stasis, poor stool, unfavorable urination, fullness and other symptoms. Take two after lunch and dinner every day.
Eat more cool vegetables: Eat some cool vegetables, which is conducive to promoting fluid production and quenching 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, towel gourd, cucumber, cabbage melon, watermelon and melon, are cool vegetables. Tomatoes, celery and lettuce are all cool vegetables.
Mung bean soup: Mung bean soup has a unique effect of relieving summer heat. Chinese medicine believes that mung bean has the effects of relieving summer heat and benefiting qi, clearing away heat and toxic materials, moistening throat and quenching thirst, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling, and can prevent heatstroke. Relevant experiments show that mung bean has obvious effects on treating atherosclerosis, reducing cholesterol in blood and protecting liver. The only drawback is that mung beans are too cold to be eaten by the weak.
Bitter gourd: Chinese medicine believes that bitter gourd is bitter in taste and cold in nature, and can clear away heat and purge fire. The bitter taste of bitter gourd can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, increase appetite, clear away heat and prevent heatstroke, so it is appropriate to eat bitter gourd in summer. Pouring fresh bitter gourd juice or decocting soup is a good supplementary food therapy for liver fire, red eyes, stomach heat, polydipsia, epigastric pain and damp-heat dysentery. Herbal tea brewed with bitter gourd can relieve summer heat and refresh the mind after drinking, and there is no thirst.
Tea: Scientific analysis shows that tea contains more potassium, accounting for about1.5% of its proportion. Potassium is an important trace element in human body, which can maintain the normal function of nerves and muscles, especially the normal movement of myocardium. If potassium is lacking, people will feel tired and weak, and their heat resistance will be reduced. When potassium deficiency is serious, it will lead to arrhythmia and myasthenia. Potassium is easily excreted with sweat, and tea with suitable temperature should be the first choice in summer.
Salted boiled water: It is hot in summer, sweating too much, and the salt in the body is reduced, so the osmotic pressure in the body will lose its stability, resulting in heatstroke. Drinking more salted boiled water or salty tea can replenish the salt lost in the body, thus achieving the effect of heatstroke prevention.
Heyeyin
Formula: lotus leaf 5g, raw hawthorn 5g and rice kernel 3g.
Usage: directly brew with boiling water until it is light, and drink it when it is slightly cold.
Efficacy: Lotus leaf has the effect of clearing away summer heat and promoting diuresis, hawthorn has the effect of promoting digestion and strengthening stomach, and rice kernel is beneficial to water swelling, strengthening spleen and clearing heat. These three ingredients are put together, fragrant and appetizing, and a pot can be soaked in hot weather, which can not only relieve summer heat, but also strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite.
Hawthorn, honeysuckle and chrysanthemum tea
Formula: 5g of raw hawthorn, 2g of honeysuckle and 3g of chrysanthemum.
Usage: brew in boiling water until it is light.
Efficacy: Honeysuckle has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling away wind and heat, and chrysanthemum has the functions of clearing away wind and heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight. It can be used for wind-heat colds, headaches and dizziness, etc. This formula can not only clear away heat and toxic materials, but also remove blood stasis and fat, and strengthen the brain and improve eyesight. It will be very effective to drink a cup when you are dizzy in summer.
Supplement: Ophiopogon japonicus tea
Formula: Ophiopogon japonicus 20 capsules, Anemarrhena asphodeloides 3g and Cortex Phellodendri 3g.
Usage: directly brew with boiling water.
Efficacy: Ophiopogon japonicus is a tonic medicine. The effect of nourishing yin will be slower than that of Angelica sinensis, but it will not get angry. Anemarrhena asphodeloides and Phellodendron amurense not only have the function of nourishing yin, but also have the function of clearing away deficiency and heat. Together, these three herbs can play a good role in nourishing yin and improve the constitution of deficiency and heat. Scented scented tea for quenching thirst, relieving summer heat (diminishing inflammation and detoxifying), cooling and moistening lungs and throat.
1, Jade Butterfly: Clearing Lung and Relieving Throat
2, Trollius chinensis: anti-inflammatory, relieving cough, regulating the stomach and helping digestion.
3, lily: to soothe the nerves, cool and moisten the lungs.
The above three combinations have better effect.
4, Magnolia: beauty and whitening, improve sleep
5, wild chrysanthemum: summer heat, clear heart and improve eyesight