What food is good to eat when the rainy season is wet and heavy?

June and July are rainy seasons every year, and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China are generally rainy and rainy. In this environment, the external humidity is extremely heavy, and it is easy to be attacked by damp evil. Therefore, it is best to eat some dampness-removing foods in rainy season, such as coarse grains such as barley, red beans, sorghum, corn, mung beans, lentils, gordon euryales, and fresh vegetables such as white gourd, cucumber, loofah, bitter gourd, kelp, fungus, celery, tomato and yam.

It's best to take good care of your physique while eliminating dampness, because different constitutions have different ways to eliminate dampness. For example, damp heat constitution should eat melon, bitter gourd, mung bean, tomato and other foods. The cold and wet constitution should be accompanied by ginger, wormwood leaf, pepper, cinnamon and other ingredients to warm the yang and drive away the cold. In addition, people with spleen deficiency and dampness are suitable for eating yam, Euryale ferox, Poria cocos, Coix seed and other foods. However, kidney deficiency and heavy dampness should warm and tonify kidney yang while eliminating dampness.

The rainy season is not only humid, but also the summer heat gradually rises, which is easy to breed microorganisms such as mold and bacteria in the hot and humid external environment. In addition, the lack of sunlight, vitamin D and calcium will inevitably lead to decreased immunity, so it is easy to be infected, such as colds and skin diseases. At this time, we should eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, supplement vitamins and trace elements, improve immunity and prevent diseases.

In the hot and humid rainy season, the spleen and stomach of the human body are also easily trapped by hot and humid pathogens, resulting in fatigue, loss of appetite and poor sleep. At this time, you can eat some foods that strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach, promote blood circulation and benefit qi, which will help to improve these discomforts, such as yam millet porridge, pumpkin steamed bread, sorghum corn rice, lily tremella lotus root soup, Hericium erinaceus lotus root soup and so on.

In the rainy season, in addition to adjusting diet, we must pay attention to environmental hygiene, maintain a cheerful mood, and insist on indoor exercise in order to effectively avoid the decline of immunity. In the rainy season, the sun is scarce, but when there is sunshine, remember to go out and bask as much as possible. If you don't stay in the sun, remember to eat more foods rich in vitamin D and calcium.