In summer, when the weather is hot and dry, you should drink some heat-clearing and detoxifying soups. There are a variety of nutritious and delicious soups that you can choose according to your own taste.

Several soups to clear away heat and detoxify: 1. Meat soup ■Pork trotters and soybean soup Ingredients: 4 liang of pork trotters, 4 liang of soybeans, appropriate amounts of oil and salt.

Preparation: ① Soak the soybeans in water for three hours and wash the pork trotters.

②Put the ingredients into a saucepan filled with water, simmer until the soybeans are cooked, add oil and salt to taste.

Efficacy: This soup nourishes blood, clears away heat and diuresis, detoxifies and treats sores. It is suitable for flat breasts caused by insufficient qi and blood, insufficient postpartum milk, or breast inflammation and breast pain due to blocked mammary glands.

■Winter Melon, Jiang Yaozhu and Old Duck Soup Ingredients: One pound of winter melon, one tael of Jiang Yaozhu, one old duck, three liang of lean pork, one piece of tangerine peel, and a little salt.

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Cut the winter melon into thick slices, including the skin and kernels.

Kill and wash the old duck, remove the feathers and internal organs, cut off the head and tail, cut the sides, cut into four large pieces, boil in boiling water for five minutes.

Wash the lean pork and tangerine peel.

② Add water to the clay pot, simmer over high heat until the water boils, then add the ingredients, switch to medium heat and continue to simmer for three hours, add a little salt to taste, and drink.

Efficacy: This soup clears away heat, promotes fluid production, nourishes and nourishes the skin.

If you have physical weakness, lack of replenishment, insufficient body fluids, or dry skin, you can use this soup as a dietary therapy.

■Luffa and Lotus Snail Soup Ingredients: One pound of loofah, three fresh lotus flowers, one or two snail slices (dried), one piece of ginger, two red dates, and a little salt.

Preparation: ① Soak the dry clam slices and wash them clean.

Wash the loofah, peel the sides, cut in half and cut into pieces.

Wash lotus, ginger and red dates.

Take petals from lotus flowers; peel ginger and cut into slices; remove cores from red dates.

② Add water to the clay pot, simmer over high heat until the water boils, add loofah, snail slices, ginger and red dates; continue to simmer over medium heat for three hours, add lotus petals, bring to a boil, add a little salt to taste, and drink.

Efficacy: This product nourishes yin, clears away heat, beautifies and removes freckles.

If there is accumulation of dampness and heat, lack of urination, fatigue, loss of appetite, itchy skin, feeling of summer heat, dry mouth and thirst, this product can be used as dietary therapy.

■Pearl Bamboo Shoot, Apple and Duck Heart Soup Ingredients: One can of pearl bamboo shoot, two apples, six duck hearts, one piece of ginger, and a little salt.

Preparation: 1. Cut pearl bamboo shoots diagonally into sections.

Wash apples, duck hearts and ginger.

Remove the stems and cores of the apples and cut them into pieces; cut the sides of the duck heart; peel the ginger and cut it into slices.

2. Add water to the clay pot, simmer over high heat until the water boils, then add the ingredients, switch to medium heat and continue to simmer for an hour, add salt to taste, and drink.

Efficacy: This soup clears away heat and moisturizes dryness, calms the mind, nourishes the skin, eliminates stagnation, and reduces fat accumulation.

If you have dry skin, constipation, or excess fat, you can use this soup as a dietary therapy.

■Qingbu Liang Tang Ingredients: 6 liang of pork, 3 qian of yam, 3 qian of barley, 2 qian of polygonatum polygonatum, 3 qian of gordon seed, 2 qian of lily, 3 qian of lotus seed. Preparation method: 1. Wash the ingredients and cut the pork into fine pieces.

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2. Use 6 bowls of water and put the ingredients into the pot together, cook for about 2 hours, and add a little salt to taste.

Efficacy: This soup has cooling, heat dissipating and nourishing effects. It is suitable for all ages and is suitable for the whole family to drink.

■Snow Pear Lean Meat Soup Ingredients: 2 Sydney pears, 4 taels of lean meat, 3 qian of northern and southern apricots, 1 and a half qian of ephedra, 3 candied dates, and some rock sugar.

Preparation method: 1. Cut the pear into 4 pieces, remove only the heart and core, no need to peel.

2. Pour an appropriate amount of water, put the ingredients into the pot together, cook for about 3 hours, add rock sugar, cook for another 5 minutes and then drink.

Efficacy: Snow pear can clear away heat and reduce fire. This soup can cure chronic cough and heat-induced asthma.

■Coconut Chicken Soup Ingredients: 1 coconut meat, 1 tael of shiitake mushrooms, half chicken, 3 taels of lean meat, a little ham and bird's nest.

Preparation method: 1. Soak the bird's nest in water to remove the fine hair and make the mushrooms wet.

2. Put the bird's nest, coconut meat, shiitake mushrooms, chicken, lean meat, ham and mushroom soaking water into the pot, then add an appropriate amount of water and cook for 3 hours before eating. You can add a little wine when eating to make the taste sweeter.

Efficacy: relieve summer heat and relieve fever ■Lean seaweed soup Ingredients: 5 qian of seaweed, 4 taels of lean meat, appropriate amount of oil and salt. Preparation method: 1. Soak and wash the seaweed in water, wash and slice the lean meat.

2. Use an appropriate amount of water, seaweed, and lean meat in a pot and bring to a boil, season with seasoning, and simmer for a while before drinking.

Efficacy: Seaweed is sweet, salty and cold in nature. It can clear away heat and diuresis, soften hardness and resolve phlegm. It can also treat diseases such as edema and athlete's foot.

■Mung bean and old duck soup Ingredients: 4 taels of mung beans, 1 old duck, 8 qian of smilax, some oil and salt. Preparation method: 1. Wash the old duck and remove the internal organs.

2. Soak and wash the mung beans, put them into the pot together with the duck and smilax, add 5 bowls of water, cook for about 4 hours, and season.

Efficacy: This soup can clear away heat and detoxify, and is also effective for facial scars and chickenpox.

2. Vegetarian Soup ■Red Dates and Celery Soup Ingredients: Five red dates, eight liang of parsley.

Preparation: Wash the red dates, remove the roots, leaves and stems of parsley and wash them.

Add the two kinds of food to the pot, add water and cook for 20 minutes, then season.

Efficacy: This soup replenishes the spleen and stomach, nourishes blood and calms the nerves, calms the liver and clears away heat, dispels wind and removes dampness.

It is suitable for obesity, constipation, increased blood pressure, maternal fatigue and weakness, blood deficiency, food pressure, and uneasiness.

■Lotus seed soup Ingredients: 20 grams of lotus seeds, 10 grams each of barley and gorgon seeds, 1 white fungus (soaked with water).

Method: First stir-fry lotus seeds, gorgon seeds, and barley in an oil pan, then add water and white fungus and simmer.

Efficacy: It can nourish yin and nourish the mind, clear away heat and relieve heat.

It has a very good effect on summer heat and insomnia.