Traditional Chinese medicinal diet should be light and refreshing, and at the same time easily absorbed by our bodies. Therefore, the summer diet should mainly consist of liquid or semi-liquid foods, such as mung bean porridge and lotus seed porridge.
Medicinal Diet 1: Mung Bean and Coix Seed Duck Soup
Ingredients: duck, coix seed, mung bean, tangerine peel, salt
Instructions: Blanche the duck with boiling water, then rinse it with cold water and drain the water. Put the prepared duck, washed mung beans, and tangerine peel into a clay pot. Add an appropriate amount of water and boil over high heat for twenty minutes. Remove the oil and foam. Continue to simmer over low heat for two hours. Add salt to taste before serving.
Effects: This summer health-preserving medicinal diet can quench thirst, cool the body, promote diuresis, and moisturize the skin. Duck meat can effectively nourish yin, promote diuresis, and replenish deficiencies. Coix seed contains rich protein, which can effectively soften the keratin in the skin, making it smoother and fairer. Long-term consumption can also moisturize the skin. Mung beans can clear heat, detoxify, and relieve summer heat.
Medicinal Diet 2: Cassia Seed, Mung Bean, and Lean Pork Soup
Ingredients: cassia seed, mung bean, rapeseed, lean pork, rice wine, salt
Instructions: Put cassia seed, lean pork, and mung bean into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and bring to a boil over high heat. After boiling, add an appropriate amount of rice wine. Reduce to low heat and simmer for about forty minutes. Then add prepared rapeseed, bring to a boil over high heat, and cook for ten minutes. Add salt to taste before serving.
Effects: This medicinal diet can effectively clear heat, detoxify, and reduce blood pressure and blood lipids. It has a significant protective effect on the liver and has a refreshing taste. Cassia seed contains a large amount of emodin and rhein, which have anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, liver-protecting, and blood pressure-lowering effects. Mung beans can detoxify, relieve summer heat, and promote diuresis. Therefore, this health-preserving medicinal diet can effectively reduce the risk of chronic diseases.
