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What to drink in summer solar terms?

After a little heat, the hottest heat came again. There is a very close rumor about the great summer heat among the people, which says that "the small summer heat is not hot, and the great summer heat is in the dog days." If the summer heat is very hot, then the summer heat can be described as hotter. At this time, crops grow fast, but the humidity is high, the temperature is high, and there are strong winds from time to time, which is easy to cause natural disasters in many areas.

Judging from the weather in the coming week, it is almost always in a high temperature state. In such hot weather, teach everyone how to keep fit. Drink two kinds of tea, peel and vegetable, to clear away heat and summer heat, eliminate dampness and strengthen the spleen.

Many old people like to keep healthy with tea, and usually make their own health tea. For example, put Lycium barbarum, Astragalus membranaceus, American ginseng, etc. into your own thermos cup. In the summer solar term, you can also mix tangerine peel and mint together to make very fragrant tea. In traditional Chinese medicine, dried tangerine peel is considered as a good Chinese herbal medicine and a kind of food in life. As a homologous medicine and food, dried tangerine peel has the effects of eliminating dampness, strengthening spleen, stimulating appetite, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.

Especially for people with high humidity, the humidity is high in summer, and the air conditioner is often turned on indoors and ventilated irregularly, so the humidity will be stronger. After the invasion of moisture, people always feel bored and wet. At this time, in addition to the familiar dampness porridge, it is the combination of red beans and barley.

Here, you can also drink orange peel water and add mint, so that there is a combination of vegetables and fruit peels. Mint has the effects of soothing the liver and regulating qi, sweating and dissipating heat, clearing the liver and reducing fire. Both tastes are still very fragrant. For people who take the bus in summer, carsick can also drink it like this, which can also help you relieve discomfort.

There is also a kind of tea, namely grapefruit peel and mint. This kind of fruit skin and vegetables are also good for health in summer. We already know the benefits of mint from above. Besides drinking tea, we can also eat it cold or make soup with mint. Pomelo peel is also a kind of food that people often use as tea in their daily life.

Honey grapefruit tea, which many people like to drink, is made of grapefruit skin. This kind of fruit skin tastes bitter. This kind of food is rich in naringin and limonin, and it has been found in related animal studies that it has the effects of clearing away heat and reducing fire and beauty beauty. Therefore, if you need to work outdoors, you can boil water with grapefruit peel and add mint, which will also have a good health care effect.

In addition, remind everyone to go out and don't forget to add a lot of water to your body. According to the dietary standard of Chinese residents, the minimum drinking water standard for people on this day is1.7L. If you are not in this range, please supplement it quickly to help you cool down.