●Watermelon: Sweet in taste and cold in nature, it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and relieving irritability, appetizing, aiding digestion, and diuresis. It is mainly used for thirst and difficulty in urination due to summer heat. But patients with heart failure and edema cannot eat too much.
●Sugar cane: Sweet in taste and cold in nature, it has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting body fluids, lowering qi and moisturizing dryness. It is often used for fever-related injuries, upset and thirst, nausea and vomiting, dryness of the lungs and cough, and dry stools.
●Olive: sweet, astringent, sour, neutral in nature, has the functions of clearing the lungs, promoting fluid production, soothing the throat, and detoxifying. Mainly used for sore throat, polydipsia, lung-heat cough, hemoptysis, food stagnation, alcohol poisoning and damp-heat.
●Water chestnut: sweet in taste and cold in nature, it has the functions of clearing the heat of the lungs and stomach, resolving phlegm and eliminating accumulation. It can improve eyesight and reduce nebula, treat hemorrhoids and blood in the stool. Prevent meningitis and high blood pressure, and can assist in the treatment of chronic cough and thick phlegm.
●Apple: Sweet in taste and cool in nature, it has the effects of promoting body fluids and relieving troubles, appetizing and relieving the spleen, moistening the lungs and pleasing the heart, puckering the intestines and stopping diarrhea. It can lower cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis, and has anti-cancer effects. However, people with myocardial infarction and diabetes should not eat it because it contains too much nitric acid and can easily cause constipation.
●Pear: sweet in taste, cool in nature, slightly sour, has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm. It is often used for fever-related injuries, polydip and quenching thirst, hot and dry cough, asthma, aphonia, constipation, etc. However, those with cold stomach, spleen deficiency and diarrhea should not eat it.
●Orange: Sweet in taste and neutral in nature, it has the functions of soothing the liver, promoting qi and relieving pain. It is mainly used to relieve the stagnant cold qi of Jueyin, as well as women's poor milk discharge and red, swollen, hard and painful breasts.
●Citrus: cool in nature, sweet and sour in taste, appetizing and strengthening the spleen, promoting body fluids and quenching thirst, and has a laxative effect. Eat more to produce phlegm and reduce fire.
●Kiwi fruit: can reduce cataracts and prevent people from leukemia.
●Loquat: Benefits lung qi, resolves phlegm and relieves cough (hot cough), harmonizes the stomach and lowers qi, has the effect of cooling, promoting body fluids and quenching thirst. It should not be eaten by those with constipation, sore treatment, and bronchitis.
●Persimmon: sweet and astringent in nature, cold in nature, moistens the lungs and relieves coughs, clears away heat, promotes fluid production, resolves phlegm and softens hardness, strengthens the spleen, puckers the intestines, treats coughs, stops bleeding, and is effective in treating high blood pressure and hemorrhoidal bleeding. Eating too much will cause persimmon stones.
●Banana: Helps stabilize blood pressure and has a laxative effect. It has the effect of moistening the lungs, promoting body fluids, nourishing yin and eliminating dryness. It can treat skin diseases and fight cancer. However, eating it on an empty stomach has an inhibitory effect on cardiovascular disease, causing symptoms of numbness, drowsiness and fatigue. People with spleen and stomach deficiency, stomach pain and diarrhea should eat less. People with excessive gastric acidity, poor gastric function, and arthritis and muscle pain should avoid eating. It has serious side effects on kidney patients. It can slow down local blood circulation, accumulate metabolites, cause pain in joints and muscles, and aggravate chronic nephritis. Patients with edema symptoms should eat with caution. Because of the high sugar content, diabetic patients should eat less or no food at all.
●Peach: replenishes qi and blood, produces body fluid. It can cure fatigue, wheezing and cough. But eating too much will cause internal heat and make the abdomen full and distended.
●Lychee: It has the effects of promoting body fluids, stimulating the mind, strengthening qi, nourishing the skin, etc., and has the effect of lowering blood sugar. But eating too much will cause fever. People with Yang deficiency and fire hyperactivity should eat with caution.
●Pomegranate: It can clear away heat, moisturize the lungs, relieve cough, and treat insufficient body fluids, dry mouth and throat, and chronic dysentery.
●Grapes: Shengjin liquid replenishes qi and blood, nourishes the liver and kidneys, and facilitates urination. It is beneficial to those with hepatitis, anemia, dizziness and palpitation. But eating too much will damage the spleen and stomach.
●Plums: Clear away internal heat and promote blood circulation. However, eating too much can help dampness and produce phlegm, which can induce diarrhea, dysentery, etc. People with gastrointestinal dysfunction should not eat it.
●Hawthorn: sweet, sour and slightly warm, has the functions of dissipating blood stasis, eliminating accumulation, reducing phlegm, detoxifying, activating blood circulation, refreshing, clearing the stomach, refreshing the brain, increasing appetite, removing fat and lowering blood pressure.
●Strawberry: Sweet in taste and cool in nature, it can moisten the lungs and promote body fluids, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish blood and qi, cool blood and detoxify, relieve heat and diuresis, and can assist in the treatment of hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and scurvy. Colon cancer etc. It has the effect of preventing cancer and inhibiting the growth of malignant tumors. It has the effect of nourishing skin and preventing and treating skin diseases. However, those with weak gastrointestinal indigestion should not eat it.
●Pineapple: People with gastric ulcer, kidney disease and coagulation disorder should not eat more.
●Grapefruit: Sweet, sour and cold in nature, it can soothe the stomach and resolve stagnation, produce body fluids and quench thirst, aid digestion and detoxify alcohol.
● Muskmelon (cantaloupe, pear melon): sweet and cold in nature, has the effects of promoting body fluids and quenching thirst, preventing and treating constipation, diuresis, removing dampness and heat, and clearing triple energizer. However, patients with weak spleen and stomach, postpartum deficiency and cold, acute gastroenteritis, acute dysentery, and active ulcer disease should use it with caution or avoid using it.
● Luo Han Guo: sweet and cool in nature, clears the lungs, moistens the intestines, and relieves coughs.
Fruits can generally be divided into three categories: cold, warm, and sweet.
●Cold fruits include: citrus, water chestnuts, water chestnuts, bananas, pears, persimmons, white lilies, watermelons, etc. People with weak constitution should use these fruits with caution.
●Warming fruits include: dates, chestnuts, peaches, apricots, longans, lychees, grapes, cherries, pomegranates, pineapples, etc. People with hot and dry constitutions should eat these fruits appropriately.
●Sweet fruits include: plums, plums, coconuts, loquats, hawthorns, apples, etc. These fruits are suitable for people with various physiques.
●When the climate is dry in autumn, you should eat more nourishing fruits.
●You can eat more warm fruits in winter and spring.
●In summer, you should eat more fruits that have anti-inflammatory, antiasthmatic, and cough relieving effects.
Fire-reducing teas include:
Foods such as chrysanthemum, mint, lemon, kale, cabbage, etc. are rich in minerals, especially calcium and magnesium. They have a calming effect. , the magical effect of reducing fire and lowering blood pressure. Eating more and often eating these aromatic foods can calm the mind and reduce fire.
In addition, adding some fresh bitter foods to the diet, such as bitter melon, almonds, Kudingcha, celery, tartary buckwheat, kale, etc., can also quickly eliminate toxins from the body and clean up intestinal garbage.
Special dish recommendations: The best heat-clearing and bitter food is bitter melon. Wash the bitter melon, add some salt and sesame oil and eat it cold. This will not destroy the nutrients of the bitter melon itself. You can also cut the bitter melon into slices and make tea or squeeze the juice to drink. Drinking raw bitter melon juice can make the body quickly absorb a large amount of the active ingredients of bitter melon. You can also add water decoction to fresh celery leaves, or blanch fresh celery in boiling water and squeeze out the juice. It can also clear away heat and relieve summer heat after eating. Special porridge drink recommendation: Strawberry and mung bean porridge is not only bright in color, sweet and delicious, but also light and refreshing. Use an appropriate amount of mung beans, pick out impurities, wash them clean, and soak them in water for 4 hours; select an appropriate amount of strawberries, wash them thoroughly; wash the glutinous rice, put it into the pot together with the soaked mung beans, add an appropriate amount of water, and stir After the fire is boiling, turn to low heat and cook until the rice grains bloom and the mung beans are crispy. Add strawberries and sugar, stir well, and cook for a while.
To “reduce fire”, you need to distinguish between enemies and friends. 1. High-calorie foods: such as red meat, eggs, dairy products and sugar. These foods are high in calories and can easily increase cholesterol. In the hot summer, it is not conducive for the heart to breathe enough oxygen, so you should reduce the intake of nightshade plants: such as peppers, eggplants, and potatoes. These foods are also not conducive to the heart breathing enough oxygen, so you should eat as little as possible to "reduce heat." Two friends: 1. Yogurt: It is easy to get gastroenteritis in summer. Drink more yogurt to nourish your stomach. You can wash and cut a cucumber into small pieces, chop a small bunch of mint, and mix it well with the yogurt. Yogurt can also help. Treating solar dermatitis - applying iced yogurt or cheese to the affected area can help treat solar dermatitis and relieve pain. 2. Watermelon: Watermelon is undoubtedly the most popular "dinner treat" this season. Don't throw away the watermelon rind. Remove, leave to dry and then make lean meat soup to drink, which can clear the stomach, relieve heat and relieve qi, and moisturize the skin; use watermelon rind to wipe your face and hands, stay for 10 to 15 minutes, then rinse with water, 2 to 3 times a day , can beautify the skin and eliminate prickly heat.