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What is healthy to eat in summer? What is the best healthy food in the long summer?
The summer solstice is the 10 solar term among the 24 solar terms, which is around June 22nd of the lunar calendar every year. Cui Lingen's "Three Rites and Righteousness" collected by Huang Shuang in Han Xuetang Classic Interpretation in the Qing Dynasty records: "The summer solstice is a middle school with three meanings: one is to show the extreme yang, the other is to help the yin start, and the third is to travel north tomorrow, so it is called three." On this day, the sun shines almost directly to the northern hemisphere of the Tropic of Cancer. This day is the longest day and the shortest night in the northern hemisphere. The solstice in summer is very hot. The human body has poor spleen and stomach function and poor appetite. Chinese medicine believes that bitterness can purge heat and not only regulate the balance of yin and yang. It can also prevent and cure diseases, so there is a saying that "ten hardships and nine supplements". Scientific research has found that bitter food contains amino acids, vitamins, alkaloids, alkaloids and trace elements. It has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, vasodilating, cancer prevention and other effects, and can promote gastric acid secretion and increase gastric acid concentration, thus increasing appetite. In addition, bitter food contains a certain amount of theobromine and caffeine, which can produce a refreshing and comfortable feeling after eating, which is conducive to people relaxing from the hot and boring psychological state in summer, thus restoring energy. Usually we can eat the following bitter foods. Bitter gourd: Bitter gourd has the functions of stimulating appetite, helping digestion, dispelling pathogenic heat, relieving fatigue, clearing heart and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. It also contains substances similar to insulin, which has a significant effect on lowering blood sugar and has a good effect on urinary incontinence. Bitter vegetables: Bitter vegetables are reassuring, invigorating, powerful and eye-pleasing, and have the functions of refreshing, appetizing, eliminating fatigue and clearing the heart. Sowthistle is a vegetable with the same origin of medicine and food. It also has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, disinfecting and expelling pus, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, and has a strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. Dandelion: Dandelion can be used as a vegetable and medicine to treat diseases. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving diarrhea, protecting liver, invigorating stomach, lowering blood pressure, promoting diuresis, relieving diarrhea, eliminating jaundice, removing gangrene, promoting gallbladder function, inhibiting bacteria and resisting cancer. Kuding tea: Kuding tea is fragrant and bitter, sweet and cool after drinking. It has the functions of clearing away heat, improving eyesight, improving intelligence, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, promoting diuresis, strengthening heart, moistening throat and relieving cough, lowering blood pressure and losing weight, inhibiting and preventing cancer, resisting aging and promoting blood circulation. It has obvious curative effect on pharyngolaryngitis, stomatitis, hypertension, obesity and acute gastroenteritis. Bitter almond: Bitter almond is an important medicinal material. It has three functions: moistening lung, promoting digestion and dispersing depressed qi. Bitter almond is rich in nutrients, including fatty acids, protein and various amino acids, and its mineral content is also high. However, bitter almond contains about 3% toxic components, and it must be detoxified by boiling before eating. And you shouldn't eat too much at a time. Tartary buckwheat: Tartary buckwheat contains a lot of nutrients such as protein, fat, vitamin B2, rutin, vitamin P and chlorophyll. Can reduce capillary permeability and maintain microvascular circulation. Lowering cholesterol has the function of enriching blood and strengthening brain.