What is the best way to relieve the heat?

It is particularly important to cool down the body in the summer, especially for those who work outdoors, who should learn more about this. To relieve the heat in your body, you can drink mung bean soup, sour food, chrysanthemum flower porridge, etc. These foods have very obvious effects in relieving heat.

1. Mung bean soup.

Drinking more mung bean soup is a good way to relieve heat and detoxify. Mung beans contain a large amount of lysine, threonine, calcium, iron, phosphorus, etc., which can replenish the nutrients consumed in metabolism. Mung bean soup is suitable for daily drinking, but you should pay attention to boiling the mung beans until they bloom, so that the mung bean soup will be more nutritious and sufficient. It should be noted that the elderly, children, people with weak constitution, people with cold constitution, and people who are taking various medications should not drink too much mung bean soup.

2. Sour food

Eating some sour food properly can reduce sweating, stop diarrhea and eliminate dampness, prevent excessive sweating from consuming qi and damaging yin, and can also produce body fluids, quench thirst, and strengthen the stomach and aid food. Such as tomatoes, lemons, strawberries, grapes, hawthorns, mangoes, kiwis, etc., if you add a little vinegar to the dishes, it can also kill bacteria and disinfect and prevent gastrointestinal diseases.

3. Carp

Carp in early summer are in the spawning season. The body is plump and strong, so the meat tastes the most delicious and has a sweet taste. The climate in summer is warm and humid. Drinking some carp soup can help remove dampness, stimulate appetite, promote diuresis and reduce swelling. Carp is rich in high-quality protein, minerals and vitamins, and is easily digested and absorbed. It is suitable for all kinds of people.

4. Chrysanthemum flower porridge

Ingredients: 100 grams of bitter gourd, 50 grams of chrysanthemum, 60 grams of polished rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Method: Wash the bitter gourd, remove the pulp and cut into small pieces. Wash the japonica rice and chrysanthemum, put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, boil the water over high heat, then add the bitter melon pieces and rock sugar into the pot, and cook over low heat until the rice is rotten and the porridge is thick. Efficacy: This porridge can clear away summer heat, stop diarrhea and detoxify. It is suitable for auxiliary diet therapy for heatstroke, thirst, diarrhea and other symptoms. Avoid consuming damp, spicy, and greasy foods at the same time.