Diet and health plan during the Slight Summer Season:

1. After eating mung bean sprouts, you will not be afraid of the heat no matter how hot

Eating mung bean sprouts regularly can clear the stomach and relieve heat and toxins. , relieve dampness and heat, clean teeth, and have good health care effects. Mung bean sprout decoction is used clinically to treat traumatic infections such as boils and burns. The riboflavin contained in mung bean sprouts can be used to treat oral ulcers, regulate the five internal organs, unblock the meridians, and detoxify. It can be used to treat excessive drinking, stagnation of dampness and heat, and fatigue due to lack of food.

2. Slight Heat Eel and Ginseng

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eel is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It has the functions of replenishing qi, liver and spleen, removing rheumatism, and strengthening muscles and bones. It is best during the Slight Heat Season. Eating eel can prevent diarrhea caused by indigestion of food in summer, and can also protect cardiovascular disease.

3. Eating lotus root during Xiaoshu will make you energetic

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eating raw lotus root has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs, dissipating blood stasis, reducing swelling, and stopping bleeding. It can be used to treat fever, polydipsia, and Vomiting blood, gonorrhea and other symptoms. Cooked food has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, digesting food, stopping diarrhea, and solidifying essence.

4. Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer

After the mild summer heat, many people will lose their appetite when midsummer comes. Ginger is beneficial to the digestion and absorption of food, and is useful for preventing heatstroke during the summer. Certain benefits. In summer, people like to stay cool and like fans and air conditioners, which can easily cause colds. At this time, drinking some ginger syrup in time can help expel wind and cold from the body.

5. Eat millet during the minor summer heat and eat rice during the major summer heat.

In the past, there was a folk custom of "eating new rice" during the minor summer heat, that is, after the minor summer heat, farmers would grind the newly cut rice into rice. Afterwards, meals are cooked to offer sacrifices to the Grain God and ancestors, and then everyone eats and tastes new wine and so on. It is said that "eating new" means "eating Xin", which is the first Xin day after Xiaoshu Festival.