From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, winter melon seaweed soup has the effects of softening and resolving hard mass, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, which is very suitable for eating in summer, not only clearing away summer heat, but also expelling phlegm-dampness, and is very suitable for people with phlegm-dampness constitution in damp heat constitution. In addition, winter melon seaweed soup also has the functions of reducing blood fat and weight, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, protecting kidney and diuresis, which is very suitable for people with chronic diseases such as three highs, obesity and fatty liver.
When drinking winter melon and seaweed soup, it is best to cook lightly. If you think winter melon seaweed soup is weak, you can add some food such as shrimp and clams, which will have better nutritional value and taste. However, for people with heavy moisture, it is not recommended to add too much sugar, salt and oil to winter melon seaweed soup, nor to add big fish and big meat, which will hinder the spleen and stomach and breed moisture.
When drinking dampness-removing soup in summer, it is best to adjust it according to your own physique. For example, it is appropriate for people in damp heat constitution to drink slightly cold soup such as winter melon and seaweed soup, lily and mung bean soup, cucumber, fungus and tomato soup, which can clear heat and promote diuresis. However, if it is a person with cold and wet constitution, it is more suitable for soup to dispel cold and dampness, such as ginger and barley water, yam and poria ribs soup and so on.
In addition, we should not only pay attention to the humidity in the external environment, but also pay attention to the internal humidity. Internal dampness is caused by water-liquid metabolism disorder in the body, and water-liquid metabolism depends on the simultaneous completion of spleen, kidney, lung and other viscera. Therefore, heavy moisture is often related to spleen deficiency, kidney yang deficiency and lung qi failure.
If it is spleen deficiency and dampness, it is necessary to strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and eat more foods such as yam, poria cocos, Euryale ferox, coix seed and red beans; If it is wet weight caused by kidney-yang deficiency, it is necessary to tonify kidney-yang while eliminating dampness, and eat some foods such as ginger, cinnamon, walnuts, leeks, yam and black sesame seeds. If the humidity caused by lung failure is heavy, it is necessary to spread the lung and eliminate dampness, and you can eat more foods such as melon, pear, loquat, orange, tremella, yam, lily and dried tangerine peel.