Bitter vegetables:

Bitter vegetables have the effects of relieving fever, dispelling summer heat and relieving fatigue. The summer solstice heat is hard to stop, just need to eat spleen and dry food, bitter gourd is the most suitable choice.

Pumpkin:

Pumpkin contains nutrients such as protein and amino acid, and is also rich in carotene, which can protect eyesight, improve blood sugar, strengthen heart and strengthen kidney qi.

Celery:

Celery tastes bitter and slightly cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, calming the liver and cooling the blood. Eat it often. It has good curative effect on cough with excessive phlegm, toothache and eye swelling. Celery also has the function of reducing gallbladder solidity and blood pressure.

2, the summer solstice should eat the most food.

Mung beans:

Health-preserving efficacy: Mung beans, known as the "good valley for helping the world", are the most important food to eat during the summer solstice, and have the effects of relieving summer heat, diuresis and supplementing water and minerals.

Criterion of picky eaters: the first-class mung beans are generally full of particles, with less impurities and bright colors.

There is a way to eat: it is not appropriate to cook mung beans with iron cookers. Don't overcook mung beans, which will cause the loss of their nutrients, thus affecting their heat-clearing and detoxification effects.

Attention should be paid to not eating mung bean food during taking medicine, especially when taking warm tonic medicine.

Enough is enough: 40 grams/time.

3. How to maintain health in the summer solstice solar terms?

Mental health:

Ji Kang's "Theory of Health Preservation" has its unique view on the scorching summer, and thinks that summer is hot. "It is more appropriate to adjust your breath and calm down, often like ice and snow in your heart, and the heat will be reduced in my heart. You can't turn heat into heat and get hotter again." That is, "the mind is calm and naturally cool", and what I am talking about here is the spiritual recuperation in the summer regimen.

Living health:

In order to adapt to the changes in the nature, it is advisable to stay up late and get up early. Reasonable arrangement of lunch break and daily warm bath are also fitness measures worth promoting. In addition, summer is hot, and it is easy to be attacked by wind, cold and dampness. It is not suitable for fan-type air supply during sleep. In air-conditioned rooms, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor should not be too large, and it is not suitable for camping at night.

Exercise health:

Exercise recuperation is also one of the indispensable factors in health preservation. It is best to do summer sports in the early morning or evening when the weather is cool. The venue should be chosen in places with fresh air, such as rivers and lakes, parks and courtyards, and it is not appropriate to do excessive strenuous activities. If the exercise is excessive, it can lead to sweating and excessive sweating, which not only hurts yin qi, but also damages yang qi.

What diet should be light for summer solstice health? Eat more miscellaneous grains, eat more fresh vegetables, summer hot fruits and some foods that can relieve summer heat, invigorate qi, promote fluid production and quench thirst, such as tomatoes, watermelons, bayberry, melons, strawberries, peaches, plums, noodles, mung beans, adzuki beans, Chinese cabbage, celery, loofah, mung bean sprouts, wax gourd, carrots, bitter gourd, pork, chicken and duck.

Eat a small amount of food, chew slowly, and don't be too full. Because the summer climate is hot, people's digestive function is relatively weak, so it is necessary to adapt to the time.

Because with the advent of this high temperature season, the metabolism of the human body is more vigorous, and it will consume a lot of sweat and hurt the body fluid, and it is easy to get heatstroke. Therefore, lotus leaf, coix seed, lentil, lotus seed, lily, Polygonatum odoratum, Adenophora adenophora, Dioscorea opposita, Ophiopogon japonicus and asparagus can be used more in Chinese herbal medicines.

Remember the "three-character formula" in the summer solstice diet and do a good job in the "three-character formula"

On the occasion of midsummer, besides paying attention to hygiene and preventing intestinal infectious diseases, we must also read the three-character formula of "average, alkali and water".

Both: Summer is hot, people sweat a lot, water and minerals are lost, and human activities increase, and the demand for energy is more than that in winter. Therefore, we should pay attention to a balanced intake of nutrients in the diet, so as not to be partial to food and picky eaters, and pay attention to the collocation of meat and coarse essence in the diet.

Alkali: In summer, you should eat more alkaline foods such as various vegetables, fruits and bean products, while carbonated drinks, alcohol, all kinds of milk-made foods, sugary desserts, etc. are mostly acidic foods and should not be eaten too much.

Water: In summer, when the temperature is high, human sweat is exuberant, and water will naturally be lost. Therefore, water must be replenished in time. Mineral water that meets the hygienic standards is an ideal source of water replenishment in summer.