1, Bitter Melon: According to traditional medicine, Bitter Melon is bitter, cold when it is born, and warm when it is cooked. Raw food clears summer heat and purges fire, and relieves fever and annoyance; Cooked food nourishes the blood and nourishes the liver, moistens the spleen and tonifies the kidney, and can eliminate pathogenic heat, relieve fatigue, clear the heart and improve eyesight, invigorate qi and strengthen yang. Can relieve fever, polydipsia, heatstroke, fever, dysentery, miliaria, etc. People often use bitter gourd to make bitter gourd juice or balsam pear tea in summer to clear away heat and summer heat, improve eyesight and detoxify.
2, water spinach: Chinese medicine classics record that water spinach is cool, and it can solve food poisoning after being taken into juice. External use can also play a role in detumescence and detoxification. Eating it often in summer can prevent heatstroke and fever, cool blood and detoxify, and prevent dysentery.
3, cucumber: it has the effect of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxifying and reducing swelling, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Can be used for adjuvant treatment of body heat, polydipsia, sore throat, wind-heat eye diseases, damp-heat jaundice, and dysuria.
4, loofah: it has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Ancient medical classics and Compendium of Materia Medica all say that loofah can "clear away heat and benefit intestines". Eating some loofah soup in summer can relieve the heat. When making soup, the cooking time should not be long, and it is best to keep the bright green color of loofah. Loofah skin and loofah flowers boil water together to replace tea, which also has the effect of heatstroke prevention and antipyretic.
5, lotus root: lotus root can be used as both a fruit and a delicacy, and it is suitable for both raw and cooked food. Lotus root, whether raw or cooked, has good medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that raw lotus root is cold, sweet and cool into the stomach, which can remove blood stasis, cool blood, clear away heat and stop vomiting and thirst. It is suitable for polydipsia, drunkenness, hemoptysis and vomiting blood.
6. Eggplant: Eating eggplant in summer is the best way to get rid of fire. Eggplant is not only a cheap and good mass vegetable, but also a good food therapy. Chinese medicine believes that eggplant is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain, expelling wind and dredging collaterals, and relaxing bowels and benefiting qi, so eating eggplant in this season can reduce "internal heat".
7, asparagus: asparagus is sweet and cold, has the effect of clearing heat and diuresis, and can relieve symptoms such as dry mouth and annoyance. Asparagus contains asparagine, which has diuretic effect, can eliminate excess water in the body and is beneficial to detoxification. In addition, regular consumption can eliminate fatigue, lower blood pressure, improve cardiovascular function, stimulate appetite, improve metabolism and improve immunity.
8, tomatoes: Chinese medicine believes that it tastes sour and sweet, flat, has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and calming the liver, relieving summer heat and removing fire, and is suitable for heatstroke, high blood pressure, gingival bleeding, stomach heat and bitter taste, fever and polydipsia. Its vitamin C content is much higher than other fruits and vegetables.
Others, such as asparagus, celery, bean sprouts, lily, cabbage, bitter chrysanthemum, water bamboo, etc., can also reduce fire.