Mint is a kind of lip-shaped plant, Chinese medicine uses mint as a sweating antipyretic. Eating some mint porridge for the middle-aged and elderly can clear the mind, remove wind and heat, improve appetite and help digestion. In summer, at home, mint to do their own share of "cool soup" to drink, both thirst, but also can quench the heat, may wish to try.

Mint soup:

The mint leaves clean, chopped, blanched with boiling water, put a little salt, sesame oil, have a refreshing, detoxifying effect.

Mint herbal tea:

Fresh mint clean, boiling water, put the right amount of sugar, natural cooling, daily service 3-5 cups. Naturally cool and relieve the summer heat, the body is comfortable, and the energy is multiplied.

Peppermint porridge:

Peppermint 15 grams of decoction, put 60 grams of polished round-grained rice porridge, to be porridge will be into the right amount of rock sugar, and then boiled can be used for breakfast and dinner served warm.

Mint ice:

4 bowls of water to boiling, add mint boil for 5 minutes, the mint water into the ice grid, made of ice, sore throat or dry mouth when the ice particles put in the mouth to chew. Summer temperatures are high, people often go in and out of the cold place, it is easy to suffer from colds. To prevent and control colds, but also want to benefit the throat to produce fluids, it is best to consume mint ice.

Peppermint tea:

Peppermint tea to drink, brewing method with the same ordinary tea, you can use the mint in menthol, menthyl ketone of the wind clearing effect, and make tea to drink with a sense of coolness, it is a good medicine for clearing away heat and diuretic.

Peppermint wine:

Prepare 10 grams of peppermint oil, 50 milliliters of rice wine, 0.05 liters of yellow wine, peppermint oil and rice wine, yellow wine together, morning and evening on an empty stomach to drink can be, there is a heat, detoxification, stomach, clearing the pharynx of the efficacy.

Gold and silver mint tea:

The mint, honeysuckle with boiling water, cover and smother for 5 minutes, add honey can be.

Application: prickly heat

Reminder: mint flavor is cool, not to be taken for a long time.

Anti-fatigue drink: Fresh combination of cucumber-soybean

Time required: 5 minutes

Ingredients (for four persons): one cucumber, 1/2 liter of soybean milk, 3 sprigs of mint

Preparation:

1. Peel the cucumber. Put it in a chopper and grate it.

2. Add soy milk, selected mint leaves. Stir.

3, even if serving.

Therapeutic methods

Mint has medical and edible dual function, the main edible parts of the stem and leaves, but also can be squeezed juice service. In food, mint can be used as a flavoring agent, but also as a spice, but also with wine, tea and so on.

Peppermint porridge

30 grams of fresh peppermint or 15 grams of dried, 1 liter of water, decocted into about 0.5 liters over medium heat, cooled and fished out of the peppermint to stay juice. Use 150 grams of stalked rice to cook porridge, when the porridge will be ready, add mint soup and a little rock sugar, boiling can be.

Effects: Refreshing, wind dispersal, improve appetite, help digestion.