1, horseshoe

Horseshoe tastes sweet and cold. It is good to eat horseshoe when it is on fire. It can be used as both vegetables and fruits. It has the heat of clearing lung and stomach, and has a good effect of clearing heat and reducing fire, especially for clearing lung heat and stomach heat. It has curative effects on red eyes and excessive phlegm caused by lung fire, as well as hemorrhoids and bleeding in stool caused by stomach fire.

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. Mangosteen

Mangosteen, cool in nature, can effectively restrain the heat of durian. Mangosteen is also known as the "queen of fruit". Its pulp is rich in sugar, vitamins and magnesium, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other mineral elements. Chinese medicine believes that Mangosteen has the effects of clearing away heat, reducing fire, losing weight and moistening skin.

Second, the vegetables under fire

1 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.

2. Tomatoes

Tomatoes can be seen all year round and are rich in nutrition. It is also a good helper for clearing away heat and toxic materials. In the words of Chinese medicine, the role of tomatoes is to calm the liver and "remove fire".

3. Bitter gourd

Bitter gourd, often eaten a little, has a good effect of reducing fire. It is recorded in ancient books that bitter gourd is bitter and cold when it is clear, red when it is cooked, nourishing blood and nourishing liver. Literally, bitter gourd is not mature when it is cyan, but red when it is ripe, and its bitterness and coldness are reduced. Eating it has the benefit of nourishing the liver. Although bitter, bitter gourd is recognized for its ability to reduce fire. Therefore, people with strong liver fire can often eat bitter gourd to reduce fire.

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Drink for reducing fire:

1 herbal tea

Herbal tea can remove heat and reduce dryness. You can make it at home or go directly to the supermarket to buy herbal tea drinks, but herbal tea is not suitable for long-term drinking. Now it is beginning of autumn season, so don't drink these cold drinks for a long time.

2, mint tea

After the mint leaves are dried in the sun, you can make mint tea. In summer, you can brew a cup of mint tea yourself, which is not only particularly cool to drink, but also can play the role of getting rid of internal heat. At the same time, it is more whitening with some lemon peel.

3. Chrysanthemum tea

Chrysanthemum tea can be drunk in all seasons, and it is especially good for the liver and eyes. People who are prone to grow things on their faces can also drink it for a long time. Generally speaking, there is no big taboo and it belongs to wild tea.

4. Green tea

Compared with black tea, green tea has a good effect of removing internal heat and quenching thirst and promoting fluid production. Green tea is also one of the traditional tea drinks, so iced green tea might as well be tried in summer.

References:

Eating 15 kinds of food in summer can clear away heat and reduce fire-People's Daily Online