Eating summer foods is very beneficial to health. This paper introduces several summer foods for your reference. ▲ cucumber. It contains vitamins A and C, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients, especially potassium, which has the effect of relieving summer heat and clearing away heat. "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica" points out: "Cucumber smells sweet and cold, so it can benefit heat and water." Cucumber can be eaten raw and cooked, or peeled and sliced, and mixed with a little sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, monosodium glutamate and mashed garlic. ▲ Watermelon. Cold nature, folk also called cold melon. Eating a few watermelons in hot summer days is sweet and delicious, and it is cool and thirst-quenching. Watermelon can not only relieve summer heat and quench thirst, but also is rich in nutrition, containing various nutrients needed by human body. When heatstroke, fever, upset, thirst, oliguria or other acute fever occurs in summer, watermelon should be used for adjuvant treatment. In addition to eating the pulp of watermelon, the peel of watermelon can also be decocted in water. ▲ Luffa. 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. ▲ winter melon. Winter melon is cold, and has the effects of clearing heat, benefiting spleen, diuresis and dehumidification. Can be sliced to cook soup or stir-fry, or boiled and dipped in seasoning. ▲ Bitter gourd. It is cold in nature and has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan says that bitter gourd can "eliminate pathogenic heat, relieve fatigue, clear heart and improve eyesight", and has certain therapeutic effects on heatstroke, dysentery, malignant sores, thirst and other diseases. Bitter gourd is rich in nutrition, containing a variety of amino acids, vitamins and minerals. As long as the bitter gourd is cooked properly, it has a faint fragrance in the bitter taste and has a unique flavor. ▲ Mung beans. It has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat, detoxicating and diuresis. The effect of mung bean porridge on summer heat is weak, and the effect of boiling soup with mung bean alone is strong.

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