In midsummer, three kinds of health porridge help you spend the summer.
Generally speaking, the etiology and pathogenesis of late summer are as follows.
● After entering the dog days in summer, the climate is hot, which is prone to upset, fatigue, loss of appetite, dizziness and other symptoms. At this time, we should pay attention to prevent heatstroke, diarrhea, dysentery and other common diseases in summer. In the last month of summer, when the weather is hot, you can properly eat cold products to relieve the evil of heat.
● In summer, the humidity is high, the weather is sultry, and the human body is prone to sweating. At this time, the evil of cold and dampness is easy to take the opportunity to invade the human body, and it is easy to add the syndrome of yin and heat to relieve summer heat.
● In the hot summer season, the days are long and the nights are short, and people's sleep is generally affected. Go to bed early and get up early at this time to ensure rest time. If possible, it is best to take a nap for half an hour at noon to give your brain a rest. In addition, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, facial paralysis, and summer-dampness colds are all high-risk diseases at this time.
Examples of choosing diet materials in the last month of summer
Cereals: wheat, fresh corn, mung beans, red beans, soybeans and japonica rice. Vegetables: rape, onion, radish, oil wheat, potato, cucumber and bitter gourd.
Fish: beef, ribs, eel, tilapia and mandarin fish.
Fruits: watermelon, litchi, longan, cantaloupe, pitaya and durian.
Seasoning: Chili sauce, pepper, sesame oil, cinnamon, fragrant leaves and star anise.
Bitter gourd: cold in nature, bitter in taste, and enters the heart and liver. It can clear away heat and summer heat, improve eyesight and detoxify, promote diuresis and cool blood. Helps stimulate appetite, relieve summer heat and reduce fever. Bitter gourd is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency are not suitable for eating.
Mung bean: cold in nature, sweet in taste, non-toxic and enters the heart and stomach. It can clear away heat and toxic materials, relieve summer heat, relieve vexation, quench thirst, strengthen stomach, induce diuresis and reduce swelling. Helps stimulate appetite, etc. Mung beans are cold, and people with deficiency and cold should not eat more or eat them for a long time. Use with caution for diarrhea due to deficiency of spleen and stomach.
Ophiopogon japonicus: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold, entering the lung, heart and stomach meridians. Function: nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, moistening lung and clearing heart. It is suitable for lung dryness, cough, thirst, poor sleep and constipation. In addition, Ophiopogon japonicus also has the effect of "beautiful color and pleasant skin".
Hawthorn: flat in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, entering the spleen, stomach and liver meridians. It has therapeutic effects on acid swallowing, diarrhea, lumbago, hernia, dyspepsia, postpartum abdominal pain, etc. Has the functions of regulating blood lipid, lowering blood pressure and promoting digestion.
This taste is sour. Eating too much will make people noisy, hungry and damage their teeth. Use with caution for people with weak spleen and stomach.
Bitter gourd chrysanthemum porridge (summer, clearing away heat and toxic materials)
Summer is also a high incidence period of digestive system diseases, but it is different from spring. In spring, because the weather is warm and cold, the climate is changeable, and there are more patients with stomach diseases, but in summer, most of them come to the hospital for treatment with intestinal diseases. Dysentery is a typical intestinal disease in summer. "Su Wen Taiyin Yangming Theory" has a cloud: "Diet is not suitable, daily life is from time to time ... diarrhea is the second, and long-term diarrhea is the intestine." The incidence of dysentery is mainly due to inattention to food hygiene or close contact with dysentery patients. The incidence of children is higher than that of adults, so parents are reminded to pay more attention to food hygiene in summer to ensure the freshness and cleanliness of food, and it is best not to eat food stored in the refrigerator for a long time.
Summer may wish to eat some bitter gourd chrysanthemum porridge, which has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, stopping dysentery and detoxifying, especially suitable for patients with heatstroke and dysentery. I also want to remind you that when you drink porridge, don't eat anything warm, dry, spicy and thick, such as garlic, pepper, pepper, fennel, wine, leek and so on.
The raw materials are bitter gourd 100g, chrysanthemum 50g, japonica rice 60g, and proper amount of rock sugar.
Practice Wash bitter gourd, remove pulp and cut into small pieces for later use. Wash japonica rice, wash chrysanthemum, put it in a pot, pour in appropriate amount of water, and cook with strong fire until the water boils. Put bitter gourd and rock sugar into the pot and continue to cook with slow fire until the rice is cooked.
Usage: Take 1 bowl of warm clothes in the morning and evening for 2 days.
Kelp and winter melon soup (summer, summer, water)
Some people will have symptoms of edema, lethargy and unresponsiveness in summer. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is more common in people with spleen deficiency and poor physique. The unhealthy spleen is caused by surgery, fatigue, old age, improper diet and other factors, which damage the qi of the spleen and stomach, leading to spleen weakness and abnormal function. The main function of the spleen is to transport delicate Shui Gu. When the spleen is unhealthy, people's digestion and absorption function will be weakened, and the nutrients in the blood circulation will be reduced, so there will be indigestion, lethargy, unresponsiveness and memory loss. When the body is in this malnutrition state for a long time, it will affect metabolism, slow down blood circulation and be prone to edema. Weakness of temper can be seen in all seasons, but it is more obvious in summer, especially in June and July of the lunar calendar. The climate is humid, the spleen likes dryness and hates dampness, and the performance of weakness of temper and poor health will be aggravated.
The treatment of this kind of patients should be based on invigorating spleen, benefiting qi and promoting diuresis, and some kelp, wax gourd and watercress soup can also be eaten appropriately. The ingredients of this soup are very simple, just soak kelp, peeled wax gourd, peeled broad bean petals and seasoning. This soup is delicious and has a good effect of relieving summer heat and benefiting water. Besides hypometabolic syndrome caused by hypothyroidism, it is also suitable for patients with hypertension and dyslipidemia, as well as patients with heatstroke, polydipsia, edema, hyperhidrosis, headache and dizziness. Wax gourd and kelp have good diuretic effect, and broad bean has good spleen-strengthening effect, so you can obviously feel more urination and edema after drinking for a few days.
60 grams of kelp soaked in raw materials, 250 grams of wax gourd, 5 grams of peeled broad bean petals, and proper amount of seasoning.
First, put the washed and sliced kelp and broad bean petals into a pot, stir-fry with sesame oil, then add 200ml of water, cover the pot and boil. When the broad beans are almost ripe, put the diced melon and salt into the pot and the melon will be ripe.
Usage: Take with meals, in moderation.
Note: people who are allergic to broad beans should not take them, or do not put them.
Perilla mint porridge (summer, clearing away heat and toxic materials)
Be careful of the wet and cold in summer. In summer, there is air conditioning indoors, which is cooler, while the outdoor temperature is high and the air humidity is relatively high. This kind of hot and cold room is easy to cause a cold. At the same time, the throat will feel very dry and there will be a dry cough. Therefore, in summer, we should pay attention to clearing away damp-heat in the body and beware of damp-heat colds. If it is a damp-heat cold, you can drink some perilla leaf mint porridge, which will help you recover faster. The porridge has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away throat and benefiting throat, and is suitable for treating common cold with wind-heat and summer-heat dampness. It is important to note that it should be eaten only in summer and should not be eaten in excess.
Folium Perillae has the effects of dispelling cold, regulating qi and nourishing, and can be used for treating common cold, aversion to cold, fever and cough and asthma. Mint is cool and pungent, and has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, clearing the head and penetrating rash. The combination of the two drugs has obvious effect on the treatment of damp-heat cold. The reason why it is not appropriate to eat more is because both of them are cold, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach.
Raw materials: fresh perilla leaf 15g, fresh mint 15g (dried product 10g), 90g japonica rice, and appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Practice: First, wash the perilla leaves and mint, put them in a casserole, add water to decoct until the juice is thick, stop fire, and filter to get the juice. Then put the washed japonica rice into the pot to cook porridge. When it's cooked, add perilla leaves, mint juice and rock sugar, and then cook for 3 minutes.
Usage: Take it twice a day and cool it after lunch and dinner.
(Excerpted from Keeping Twenty-four Solar Terms published by China Medical Science and Technology Publishing House, edited by Tang)