What can you eat to clear away heat and detoxify?
What kind of fruit to eat? Fruits that clear away fire and detoxify. Fruits are very common in our life. For example, in such a hot summer, friends often eat watermelons, apples, pears, bananas, peaches, grapes, pomegranates and other foods. But do you know what effects and functions these fruits have? In hot summer, friends often get angry, which shows that there is a fire in your heart and you need to relieve the heat and cool down. At this time, you might as well eat some fruits, which will not only relieve the symptoms of heatstroke, but also effectively remove the fire for your friends. Please come with Xiaobian to understand: what fruit to eat to remove fire and clear away heat and detoxification. ● Watermelon: sweet and cold, it has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, purging fire and relieving annoyance, appetizing, helping digestion and diuresis. It is mainly used for summer heat and polydipsia, and urination is unfavorable. But patients with heart failure and edema should not eat more. ● Sugarcane: it tastes sweet and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, lowering qi and moistening dryness. It is often used for fever and body fluid injury, upset and thirsty, nausea and vomiting, lung dryness and cough, and dry stool. ● Olive: sweet and sour, flat in nature, with the functions of clearing away lung heat, promoting fluid production, relieving sore throat and detoxifying. Mainly used for sore throat, polydipsia, cough due to lung heat, hemoptysis, food stagnation, alcoholic dampness and heat. Water chestnut: it tastes sweet and cold, has the functions of clearing away the heat of lung and stomach, resolving phlegm and resolving food stagnation, and can improve eyesight, treat hemorrhoids and bleeding in stool. Prevent meningitis and hypertension, and can help treat chronic cough and thick phlegm. ● Apple: sweet and cool, with the effects of promoting fluid production, relieving annoyance, stimulating appetite and spleen, moistening lung and pleasing heart, astringing intestine and stopping diarrhea. Can lower cholesterol, prevent arteriosclerosis and have anticancer effect. However, people with myocardial infarction and diabetes should not eat it, because it is easy to cause constipation because it contains more acid. ● Pear: sweet and cool, slightly sour, with the functions of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and resolving phlegm. It is often used for fever and body fluid injury, polydipsia and thirst quenching, hot cough and dry cough, dyspnea and aphonia, constipation and so on. However, those who have diarrhea due to stomach cold and spleen deficiency are forbidden to eat. ● Oranges: sweet and flat, with the functions of soothing the liver, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain. It is mainly used for activating qi of Jue Yin and stagnation of cold, as well as women's poor milk discharge, breast swelling, hardness and pain. ● Citrus: cool and sweet, appetizing and invigorating the spleen, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and having a laxative effect. Eating more produces phlegm and turns fire into fire. ● Kiwifruit: It can reduce cataracts and prevent people from leukemia. ● Loquat: beneficial to lung qi, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough (hot cough), harmonizing stomach and reducing qi, and having the effect of cooling and promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Constipation, treatment of sores and bronchitis are forbidden. ● Persimmon: sweet and astringent, cold, moistening lung and relieving cough, clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm and softening hardness, strengthening spleen, astringing intestines, treating cough, stopping bleeding, and having curative effect on hypertension and hemorrhoid bleeding. Eating too much will produce persimmon stones. ● Banana: It helps to stabilize blood pressure and relieve constipation, and has the effect of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, nourishing yin and eliminating dryness. It can treat skin diseases and resist cancer. However, eating on an empty stomach has an inhibitory effect on cardiovascular system, causing symptoms of numbness and drowsiness fatigue. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, stomachache and diarrhea should eat less, and those with hyperacidity, poor stomach function and arthritis and muscle pain should not eat. It has serious side effects on kidney patients, which can slow down local blood circulation, accumulate metabolites, cause joint and muscle pain and aggravate chronic nephritis. Patients with edema symptoms should eat carefully. Because of the high sugar content, diabetics should eat less or not. ● Peaches: benefit qi and blood, and produce body fluid. It can treat fatigue, asthma and cough. But if you eat more heat and get angry, your stomach will be full. ● Litchi: It has the effects of promoting fluid production, calming the mind, invigorating qi, caring skin, and lowering blood sugar. But eating more will cause fever. People with yang deficiency and excessive fire should eat carefully. ● Pomegranate: It can clear away heat, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and treat body fluid deficiency, dry mouth, dry throat and chronic dysentery. ● Grape: Body fluid can replenish qi and blood, liver and kidney, and facilitate urination. It is beneficial for hepatitis, anemia, dizziness and palpitation. But eating more hurts the spleen and stomach. ● Plum: Clear internal heat and promote blood circulation. However, eating more helps damp and produce phlegm, which can induce diarrhea and dysentery. People with gastrointestinal dysfunction should not eat. ● Hawthorn: sweet and slightly warm, it has the functions of removing blood stasis, resolving food stagnation, resolving phlegm, detoxifying, promoting blood circulation, refreshing, clearing stomach, refreshing, stimulating appetite, removing fat and lowering blood pressure. ● Strawberry: sweet and cool, it has the functions of moistening lung, promoting fluid production, invigorating spleen and stomach, enriching blood and benefiting qi, cooling blood and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and diuresis, and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, scurvy and colon cancer. Has effect in preventing canc and inhibiting that growth of malignant tumor. Has effect in caring skin and prevent and treating dermatoses. However, people with gastrointestinal indigestion due to physical weakness should not eat. ● Pineapple: People with gastric ulcer, kidney disease and blood coagulation disorder should not eat more. ● Grapefruit: sweet and sour, it can regulate stomach stagnation, promote fluid production to quench thirst, help digestion and relieve alcoholism. ● Melon (cantaloupe, pear melon): sweet and cold in nature, producing body fluid to quench thirst, preventing constipation, diuresis, removing damp heat and dredging triple energizer. However, patients with spleen and stomach weakness, postpartum deficiency cold, acute gastroenteritis, acute dysentery and peptic ulcer should be used with caution or contraindication. ● Siraitia grosvenorii: sweet and cool in nature, clearing lung, moistening intestine and relieving cough. Fruits can generally be divided into three categories: cold, warm and sweet. Cold fruits include: citrus, water chestnut, water chestnut, banana, Sydney, persimmon, Baihe, watermelon, etc. People with weak constitution should use these fruits with caution. ● Warm fruits include: dates, chestnuts, peaches, apricots, longan, lychee, grapes, cherries, pomegranates, pineapples, etc. People with hot constitution should eat these fruits properly. ● Ganping fruits include plum, plum, coconut, loquat, hawthorn, apple, etc. These fruits are suitable for people of various constitutions. ● When the climate is dry in autumn, you should eat more fruits with moisturizing effect. ● Eat more warm fruits in winter and spring. ● Eat more fruits with anti-inflammatory, antiasthmatic and antitussive effects in summer.