How to eat solar terms in summer?

The diet of summer solar terms should be: drink more soup to clear heat and relieve summer heat, eat more porridge to nourish yin and strengthen spleen and stomach, eat more fruits and vegetables to quench thirst, and eat more vegetables to help digestion and defecation.

During the summer solar term, people sweat more and lose more body fluids. Drinking more soup can not only replenish water in time, but also help digestion and absorption. It is best to drink mung bean soup, which is cool and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Mung beans with some food or medicine can be made into delicious soup for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, such as mung bean mint soup, mung bean pumpkin soup, mung bean coix seed soup, mung bean honeysuckle soup and so on.

Eating more porridge is a traditional health care method in China, which is of great benefit to the body. The porridge used for heatstroke prevention includes mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, fresh lotus root porridge and raw reed root porridge. You can also use cassia seed, white chrysanthemum each15g, japonica rice 60g, and rock sugar to cook porridge as a cool drink in summer. In addition, adding sweet potatoes and mustard to boiled porridge in japonica rice has the effect of relieving summer heat and sweating.

Sweet melon juice can not only quench thirst, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Watermelon is sweet, juicy and cool, and it is the first melon to clear away heat and relieve summer heat and quench thirst. In addition, melons and cucumbers are eaten raw after washing, or drunk after juicing, which has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Kiwi contains a lot of vitamin C, which has a very good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. It is a fruit and drink often selected by high temperature and field workers.

It is hot and humid in a small summer day, and people generally like to eat light, delicious and non-greasy food. Vegetables have this characteristic and are rich in vitamins and protein. Therefore, we should try to eat more green vegetables, such as beans, melons, Chinese cabbage, coriander, fennel and so on. It can not only supplement nutrition, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat.