If you eat a few slices of grapefruit after eating greasy and spicy hot pot, it can help nourish yin and eliminate fire, strengthen the spleen and promote digestion.
Autumn eating grapefruit is just the time.
Among many autumn fruits, grapefruit is the largest, generally weighing more than one kilogram. It matures around August 15th of the lunar calendar every year, and its skin is thick and resistant to storage, so it is called "canned natural fruit".
Pomelo has a high nutritional value, and it is rich in protein, organic acids, vitamins and essential elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and sodium, which is incomparable to other fruits.
First of all, as far as food is concerned, "bitter" food is the natural enemy of "fire". Bitter food is bitter because it contains alkaloids, urea and other bitter substances. Chinese medicine research has found that these bitter substances have the functions of relieving fever, dispelling summer heat and eliminating fatigue. The best bitter food is bitter gourd, whether it is cold salad, stir-frying or soup, as long as it can be cooked well without losing its "blue color", it can achieve the purpose of "removing fire" In addition to bitter gourd, there are other bitter foods that also have a good "fire-removing" effect, such as almonds, bitter vegetables, kudingcha, celery, kale, etc., which can also clear away heat and relieve summer heat.
In addition to eating bitter food, there are many fruits and vegetables in this season, and we should eat more sweet and refreshing fresh fruits and fresh vegetables. Experts pointed out that cabbage, cauliflower, watermelon, hawthorn, apples and grapes are rich in minerals, especially calcium, magnesium and silicon, which have magical effects of calming the mind and reducing fire. Therefore, we should eat more and often these foods.
"Fire-removing" food: ⊙ Milk Milk Many people think that drinking milk in summer will aggravate "getting angry" and cause irritability. In fact, drinking milk in summer will not only "get angry", but also relieve heat and toxic substances and remove liver fire. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that milk is slightly cold, which can play the role of "removing fire" by nourishing yin and clearing away heat and toxin, and milk contains as much as 70% water, which can also supplement the water lost by human body due to a lot of 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", which can clear away summer heat, relieve fever and relieve annoyance.
Watermelon Watermelon is cool, it won't cause "getting angry" and upset after eating, 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 "remove fire", and at the same time, they can supplement protein, which is greatly consumed by high temperature.
Tomatoes Although tomatoes can be seen all year round, tomatoes 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".
Food that gets angry easily.
Chicken, bacon, pepper, orange, litchi, etc. are the most irritated.
Eat more vegetables, light soup, apples, pears, etc. and get enough sleep.
Attention should also be paid to eating fruits. Some fruits are hot fruits, such as litchi, orange, pineapple, longan and pomegranate.
Onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, wine, pepper, pepper, pepper, fumigated food, Sichuan mala Tang and so on are easy to get angry.
Food recommendation for reducing fire
1, the most effective food for reducing fire: green tea, beer, coffee, chrysanthemum tea, crab, honey, mung bean cake and cold rice noodles.
2. Among vegetables, bitter gourd, Chinese kale, spinach and rape, celery, white gourd, raw radish, cucumber, raw lotus root, lettuce, eggplant, loofah, water bamboo, arrowhead, laver, day lily (dried), kelp, bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, chrysanthemum, potatoes, and mung bean sprouts can remove fire.
3. In fruits, there are: watermelon, pear, banana, grapefruit, pear, lotus root, persimmon cream, banana, watermelon, pear, orange, persimmon, fresh lily, sugarcane, hawthorn, mango, kiwi, kumquat and hawthorn, which are neutral and can also be eaten: apple, grape, lemon, ebony and loquat.