Clinical Manifestations of Summer Dampness Cold:
Feeling hot, slight aversion to cold, minimal sweating, heavy and achy limbs, dizziness and heavy-headedness, runny and turbid nasal discharge, restlessness and thirst with no desire to drink, chest tightness and nausea, short and yellow urine, thin yellow and greasy tongue coating, rapid and slippery pulse.
【Mung Bean Porridge】
Recipe: 50 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of glutinous rice, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Wash mung beans and glutinous rice, cook porridge, and when the porridge is cooked, add rock sugar and stir well before consuming.
Efficacy: Clearing heat and relieving summer heat.
Usage: Can be eaten for breakfast or dinner.
【Bitter Gourd and Lotus Meat Soup】
Recipe: 30 grams of bitter gourd, 1 lotus leaf, 50 grams of lean pork.
Method: Slice bitter gourd, fresh lotus leaf, and lean pork. Put all the ingredients in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil, and simmer for about 1 hour until the meat is cooked. Season to taste.
Efficacy: Clearing summer heat and detoxification, promoting diuresis and resolving dampness.
Usage: Drink the soup and eat the meat.
【Patchouli and White Bean Soup】
Recipe: 10 grams of patchouli, 12 grams of white beans, 6 grams of tangerine peel, 8 grams of lotus leaf, appropriate amount of white sugar.
Method: Grind the white beans into powder, and then decoct them together with patchouli, tangerine peel, and lotus leaf. After boiling for 10 minutes, filter and remove the residue, take the juice, and add white sugar to taste.
Efficacy: Clearing summer heat, dispelling dampness, and relieving surface symptoms.
Usage: Take once a day, drink it frequently at any time. Take continuously for 3-5 days.
【Magnolia Tea】
Recipe: 6 grams of tea leaves, 3 grams of magnolia, 3 grams of peppermint.
Method: Combine the three ingredients, brew with boiling water for 5 minutes.
Efficacy: Regulating qi and resolving dampness, clearing and benefiting the head and eyes.
Usage: Take 1-2 doses per day, drink in the morning and afternoon.
【Patchouli Drink】
Recipe: 10 grams of patchouli, 5 grams of magnolia, 5 grams of white beans, a little bit of sugar.
Method: Cut the patchouli and magnolia into small pieces, fry the white beans until they turn yellow and grind them into powder. Put them in a thermos cup, brew with boiling water, cover tightly, and soak for 1 hour. Add sugar to taste.
Efficacy: Inducing sweating to relieve surface symptoms, resolving dampness and promoting digestion.
Usage: Take 1 dose per day, divide into 2 servings.
