What fruits and vegetables should I eat to quench my thirst and clear away damp heat?

What to eat during the solar term: fruits and vegetables that promote fluid production and quench thirst, and food that clears away damp heat.

After the awning, the season has entered summer, and the vegetables and fruits on the market are more and more abundant. The summer temperature is high, and the human body loses a lot of water, so it must be replenished in time. The poison of summer-heat and dampness will affect human health. Eating some cool vegetables is conducive to promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, relieving summer heat, clearing away heat and purging fire, expelling toxin and relaxing bowels. Bitter gourd, cucumber, tomato, eggplant, celery, lettuce, asparagus, watercress and cold potato are all cold vegetables.

In addition, summer is a season of frequent diseases, especially intestinal diseases. Eating more "sterilized" vegetables such as garlic, onion, leek, green onion and chives can prevent diseases.

On the other hand, the solar-term diet of awn species mainly focuses on eliminating dampness, and should often eat foods with the functions of clearing away dampness and heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, such as japonica rice, adzuki bean, mung bean, wax gourd, towel gourd, cucumber, bitter gourd, day lily, water chestnut, black fungus, lotus root, carrot, tomato, watermelon, snake meat, crucian carp, grass carp and duck meat.

Chinese yam, white hyacinth bean, coix seed, Polygonatum odoratum, Euryale seed, lotus leaf, Smilax glabra and other medicinal materials. Solar terms should be selected.