1, pigeon, pigeon meat flat, with nourishing liver and kidney, invigorating qi and blood, expelling wind and removing toxic substances, nourishing qi and blood, calming the nerves and calming the mind, especially suitable for mental workers and neurasthenia. Medicine and food are of the same origin, which can replenish qi and relieve summer heat like porridge. The weather is particularly hot in the solar terms, and people can completely nourish with porridge. Cooking porridge at a relatively low temperature for a long time can reduce the decomposition and damage to protein and fat and the loss of vitamins, and make some minerals dissolve in soup, thus making porridge more nutritious. In the summer solar term, typical "summer porridge" can choose mung bean lily porridge, watermelon Cui Yi porridge and coix seed bean porridge, all of which have the effects of invigorating qi, clearing away heat, invigorating spleen and nourishing stomach. Cao Xian, also known as Xiancao and Cao Xian, is a herb belonging to the genus Cao Xian in Labiatae. It is an important medicinal and edible plant resource. It is known as "Cao Xian" because of its magical effect of relieving summer heat. After the stems and leaves are dried in the sun, they can be made into fairy grass, which is called bean jelly in Guangdong and is a summer dessert. It can also be used as medicine. Folk proverb: if you eat fairy grass in the midsummer of June, you will live like a fairy and never get old. Chiffodil is one of the famous snacks in Taiwan Province Province. You can eat it cold or hot. The appearance and taste of Xiancao is similar to another popular snack in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and it also has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. But this kind of food is taboo for pregnant women.
2. Broilers, there is a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat broilers in summer. Broiler refers to a cockerel that weighs one kilogram to one and a half kilograms within three months and has never been bred. Broilers contain certain growth hormone, which is beneficial to children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level. Old duck is a tonic, and duck meat is rich in protein, which can timely supplement the excessive consumption caused by high temperature in summer. Moreover, ducks are waterfowl, cool in nature, and have the functions of nourishing yin and stomach, invigorating spleen and tonifying deficiency, and promoting diuresis. When eating duck meat, it is best to stew it, or you can add lotus root, wax gourd and other vegetables to make soup, which can supplement nutrition with meat and vegetables, and also strengthen the spleen and nourish yin.