As the saying goes, "suffer more and prevent heatstroke." Bitter vegetables are the best choice to deal with "fever". Might as well eat more bitter vegetables, bitter gourd, bitter bamboo shoots, wolfberry seedlings, cactus and so on.
Bitter vegetables-clearing heat and cooling blood: Bitter vegetables, also known as tea, herbal tea and bitter horse vegetables, mainly contain carbohydrates, B vitamins, vitamin C, minerals and other nutrients.
Bitter chrysanthemum is a delicious summer meal, which has the functions of refreshing, appetizing, relieving summer heat, clearing heart and removing annoyance.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Kuju is bitter and cold, and has the function of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. It is especially suitable for patients with acute and chronic infectious diseases such as acute pharyngitis, chronic pharyngitis, sore throat, enteritis, dysentery, jaundice, urinary tract infection, pelvic inflammatory disease and carbuncle.
How to eat: Cook bitter vegetables, cool them and mix them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste, which will greatly increase people's appetite. In addition, the bitter vegetables are boiled in boiling water and squeezed out to make soup, stuffing, stir-frying and cooking noodles, which has a special flavor.
Bitter gourd-clearing away heat and improving eyesight: Bitter gourd is a good food in summer, with rich nutrition, mainly containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients.
Bitter gourd has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and pathogenic factors, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Besides bitter quinine, it also contains protein. It is found that protein can stimulate immune cells and has anti-cancer effect.
How to eat: it can be cold salad, fried meat or grilled fish, which is crisp and refreshing and has a unique flavor. Before frying bitter gourd, you can blanch bitter gourd with boiling water to remove oxalic acid from bitter gourd, which will help calcium to be absorbed better.
Bitter bamboo shoots-refreshing and appetizing: Bitter bamboo shoots, also known as sweet bamboo shoots and cool bamboo shoots, are delicious dishes on the table in summer, which have the effects of relieving summer heat and detoxifying, losing weight and fitness, strengthening stomach and promoting digestion.
Chinese medicine believes that bitter bamboo shoots are sweet, but cool and not cold. Eating some bitter bamboo shoots properly can increase appetite and refresh the mind. In addition, bitter bamboo shoots contain alkaloids, which can eliminate physical fatigue.
How to eat: Bitter bamboo shoots, ribs and pickles are usually used to make a pot of bitter bamboo shoots. Bitter with sweet, memorable after eating.
Lycium barbarum seedlings-nourishing yin and improving eyesight: Lycium barbarum seedlings are also called beets and Lycium barbarum tips. The whole grass is cool and bitter, and has the functions of clearing heat, nourishing yin and improving eyesight.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is suitable for treating fever due to yin deficiency, thirst, hand and foot heart fever, liver and kidney deficiency, dry eyes, toothache due to deficiency of fire, etc.
How to eat: Pick the tender seedlings of Lycium barbarum and put them into vegetarian soup to cook or cook soup, which will make them feel refreshed and relieve summer heat. Or you can fry eggs with medlar seedlings, which is also a must.