During the Great Summer, the weather is hot, with constant high temperatures and high humidity. People who are troubled by the heat often feel inexplicably loss of appetite, physical fatigue, and listlessness at this time. So how should they adjust?

Today, the editor will sort out a delicacy for you to reduce heat and increase appetite during the hot summer - mung bean, barley, kelp porridge.

Ingredients for mung bean, barley and kelp porridge: 30 grams each of mung beans and barley, 20 grams of dried kelp, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Method: 1. Remove impurities from mung beans and barley and wash them; 2. Soak kelp in water to remove sediment and cut into strips; 3. Put mung beans, barley and kelp into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and bring to a boil over high heat.

, then change to low heat and simmer for about two hours; 4. Add rock sugar and cook for about 5 minutes before eating.

Mung beans: Mung beans contain protein, fat, sugar, carotene, folic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B, C and other ingredients.

Mung beans are rich in lysine, protein and minerals, which can prevent and treat heat stroke, red eyes, sore throat, constipation, polydipsia and other diseases.

Modern medicine has proven that mung beans also have the effects of anti-aging and beautifying the skin. The proteins and phospholipids contained in them can stimulate nerves and increase appetite. People who are often depressed and have a loss of appetite may wish to eat more.

Barley: Barley is sweet, light and slightly cold in nature; it returns to the spleen, stomach and lung meridians.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that barley can treat dampness and heat, spleen deficiency, diarrhea, muscle aches, joint pain, etc. It has the effects of strengthening bones and muscles, strengthening the spleen and stomach, removing edema, dispelling rheumatism, clearing lung heat, etc., and can also enhance the regulation of human hormones.

Kelp: Kelp is salty in taste and cold in nature; it returns to the liver, stomach, and kidney meridians.

Kelp belongs to the family Phaeophyta Buccaceae and is the leaves of large marine brown algae plants that grow in low-temperature seawater.

Kelp contains alginic acid, laminarin, kelp acid, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, proline, vitamins B, P, carotene, iodine, potassium, calcium and other ingredients.

Modern medicine shows that kelp has the effects of eliminating phlegm and softening hardness, releasing heat and diuresis, relieving cough and asthma, removing fat and lowering blood pressure, dispersing knots and fighting cancer.

At the same time, kelp contains a large amount of iodine, which is very effective in treating hypothyroidism; the colloid in kelp can discharge radioactive substances from the human body, thus preventing the occurrence of radiation diseases.