What are the vegetables for clearing fire in summer?
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that summer is the most prosperous season of yang in a year. "Summer belongs to fire, and it is the main heart", which means that the summer weather is hot, and the high temperature affects the balance of yin and yang in the human body, so people are angry and prone to emotional anxiety. Therefore, keeping in good health in summer mainly comes to the effect of "getting rid of fire and annoyance" by nourishing yin. There are many kinds of foods with the function of clearing away heat and reducing internal heat, which can be generally divided into the following categories according to different symptoms when getting angry: (1) heat-clearing and detoxicating categories: such as chrysanthemum, cucumber, isatis root, tomato, bamboo shoot, mung bean, tofu, celery, water chestnut, water chestnut, purslane, day lily, etc., which have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects and are suitable for all kinds. (2) Fire-fighting by bitter cold: such as bitter gourd, bitter vegetable, Juecai, loofah, snail, eggplant, millet, buckwheat, rabbit meat, frog, etc., which can turn heat into fire by cold nature and are mostly used for excess fire. (3) Dampness-promoting and fire-purging: such as wax gourd, watermelon, coix seed, lentils, barley, amaranth, melon, adzuki bean, snakehead, duck, carp, crucian carp, loach, lettuce, mung bean sprouts, chicken gizzard-membrane, etc., which are suitable for all kinds of fire symptoms. (4) attacking real fire: such as rhubarb, Anemarrhena rhizome, coptis root, scutellaria root, banana, celery, potato, sesame, peach kernel, jellyfish, white radish, etc., which are suitable for symptoms such as short yellow urine, dry stool, dry mouth and bitter taste, abdominal distension and poor appetite. (5) cooling blood and astringing blood: such as lotus root, pear, water chestnut, radix rehmanniae, auricularia, Monopterus albus, glutinous rice, lotus root powder, shepherd's purse, corn stigma, mango, eel, bamboo leaves, cogongrass rhizome, purslane, etc., which can be used for epistaxis, hematochezia, hematuria and so on. (6) Sweet-warm and heat-removing categories: such as Codonopsis pilosula, Atractylodes macrocephala, Chinese cabbage, litchi, chestnut, jujube, walnut kernel, lily, black sesame, bird's nest, bee milk, sorghum, fennel, sword bean, mustard, cherry, pomegranate, ebony, etc., which are suitable for the condition of qi deficiency and fire flourishing. (7) Nourishing yin and reducing fire: such as soft-shelled turtle, kelp, laver, sea cucumber, spinach, pig blood, pig liver, brown sugar, black-bone chicken, pumpkin, clam, tremella, etc., which are mostly used for yin deficiency, excessive fire, hot flushes, night sweats and insomnia at night. (8) Visceral-nourishing and flameout: such as black beans, yam, peanuts, milk, coix seed, white fungus, pigeon eggs, quail, sparrow meat, eel, mutton, dog meat, leek, mulberry, etc., which are suitable for various symptoms of deficiency fire caused by weakness of viscera and lack of yang. Many people think that drinking milk in summer will aggravate "getting angry" and cause irritability. In fact, drinking milk in summer not only won't "get angry", but also can relieve heat and poison and get rid of liver fire. Chinese medicine believes that milk is slightly cold, and it can play the role of "removing fire" by nourishing yin and clearing away heat and toxin. Moreover, milk contains about 70% water, which can also supplement the water lost by sweating in summer. It should be noted that milk should not be frozen into ice, otherwise many nutrients will be destroyed. Strawberry Strawberry is not only delicious, but also has medicinal value. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it has the effect of removing fire, clearing away summer heat, relieving fever and removing annoyance. Watermelon Watermelon is cool, it won't cause upset when eaten, and it is rich in potassium salt, which can make up for the lack of potassium salt in the body caused by a large number of people. But be careful not to put the watermelon in the refrigerator for more than 3 hours. ⊙ Soybeans can nourish yin and relieve inflammation, and at the same time, they can supplement the protein consumed by high temperature. ⊙ Bitter Melon The famous doctors of past dynasties regarded Bitter Melon as the best food to clear summer heat, remove internal fire and help improve irritability in summer. Although tomatoes can be seen all year round, they are the most abundant, sweetest and most nutritious in summer. It can also clear away heat and toxic materials, calm the liver and remove fire. It is difficult to go to bed before 23 o'clock, especially in summer. But professional doctors remind everyone that summer is precisely the season that needs to be guaranteed to sleep before 23 o'clock. Because, from 23: 00 to 1 o'clock in the morning is the time for qi and blood to return to the liver, if you don't sleep, it is equivalent to forcing the liver to continue working, coupled with external climate factors, so "whether to sleep or not" is particularly obvious in summer.