Celery has the function of lowering blood pressure and blood lipid. In hot summer, people often feel thirsty, irritable, and unwell. Eating celery often helps to clear away heat and detoxify, prevent diseases and strengthen the body. People with excessive liver fire, rough skin and frequent insomnia and headaches can eat more appropriately.

2. Sugarcane

Sugarcane tastes sweet and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, lowering qi and moistening dryness. Friends with symptoms of excessive internal heat should not miss it. It is very effective for symptoms of excessive internal heat, such as fever, body fluid injury, anxiety and thirst, lung dryness and cough, and dry stool.

3. Lotus root

Lotus root can ventilate, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish the heart and soothe the nerves, and it is also a good product for qi. Boiling lotus root with water or porridge has the best effect. In addition, raw lotus root has the functions of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. If you feel that the breathing in your nose and mouth is particularly hot and you feel that you are going to get angry, you can eat cold lotus root or squeeze it into lotus root juice.

4. Watermelon

Watermelon is cool and contains a lot of water, which can promote fluid production to quench thirst, clear away heat and reduce fire. It is suitable for friends with internal heat and strong heart fire, and it is rich in potassium salt, which can make up for the lack of potassium salt in the body caused by a lot of sweating.

5. Water spinach

Water spinach plays a unique role in promoting intestinal peristalsis, relaxing bowels and detoxifying. According to Chinese medical classics, water spinach is cool, which can solve food poisoning after being mashed into juice, and can also play a role in reducing swelling and removing toxic fire for external use. Modern medicine believes that the vegetable juice of water spinach has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, etc., which can prevent infection. Eating it often in summer can prevent heatstroke, cool blood and detoxify, and prevent dysentery.

6. Cucumber

Eating cucumber in summer is not only refreshing, clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, but also stimulating appetite. Because the glucoside and fructose contained in it do not participate in the usual sugar metabolism, the blood sugar of diabetic people will not increase or even decrease if they eat cucumber.

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