Huo Xiang: Huo Xiang promotes digestion, relieves stomach discomfort, and eliminates dampness. It has a good effect in preventing and treating summer colds, headaches, nausea and vomiting, chest distress, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Take 10 grams each time, divided into 2-3 servings. The dosage of fresh Huo Xiang can be increased to 30 grams.
Pei Lan: Pei Lan has the effects of relieving summer heat, eliminating dampness, invigorating the spleen, and harmonizing the stomach. It is commonly used to treat symptoms such as dizziness, chest distress, poor appetite, nausea and vomiting, and abdominal pain and diarrhea in summer. Take 15 grams each time, divided into 2-3 servings. The dosage of fresh Pei Lan can be increased to 30 grams.
Xiang Ru: Xiang Ru induces sweating, relieves exterior symptoms, dispels summer heat, and eliminates dampness. It is often used to treat symptoms such as fever, body aches, abdominal pain, and diarrhea in summer. It is a herbal medicine for treating "yin summer heat." Take 3-10 grams each time. It is not suitable for weak individuals who sweat a lot or those with "yang summer heat."
He Ye: He Ye has the effects of detoxifying, clearing heat, and invigorating the spleen. Fresh lotus leaves are especially good at dispelling summer heat and purifying impurities. It is used to treat conditions such as heatstroke, headache, prickly heat, and itching. Take 15 grams each time, divided into 2-3 servings.
Green Beans: Green beans have the effects of relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, detoxifying, clearing heat, and promoting diuresis. Drinking green bean soup or porridge in summer is effective in preventing heatstroke.
Zhu Ye: Zhu Ye has the effects of clearing heat, relieving irritability, clearing the heart, and promoting diuresis. It is used to treat symptoms such as restlessness due to heat, dark yellow urine, reduced urine output, and mouth ulcers. Take 10 grams each time, divided into 2 servings.
Watermelon Rind: Watermelon rind has the effects of clearing heat, quenching thirst, and promoting diuresis. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as restlessness, dryness, thirst, reduced urine output, and mouth ulcers in summer. Take 30 grams each time, simmer in water for 3-4 servings as tea.
Loofah Peel: Loofah peel has the effects of clearing heat and relieving irritability. Take 20 grams of fresh loofah peel, divided into 2 servings. It is used to treat symptoms such as heatstroke, restlessness, and thirst.
Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui: Huo Xiang Zheng Qi Shui mainly has the effects of dispelling summer heat, detoxifying, eliminating dampness, and harmonizing the middle. It can be used for patients with external contraction of colds, internal stagnation of dampness, manifested as colds, vomiting, and diarrhea.
Shi Di Shui: Shi Di Shui has the effects of dispelling summer heat, dispersing cold, and invigorating the stomach. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and gastrointestinal discomfort caused by heatstroke. It can be used as a preventive medicine for heatstroke for long-distance travelers and workers in high-temperature environments.
Ren Dan: Ren Dan has the effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, avoiding impurity, and stopping vomiting. It is a commonly used anti-summer heat medicine. It is mainly used to treat symptoms such as headaches and acute gastroenteritis (vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea) caused by high temperatures, as well as summer colds and food poisoning.
