The weather has reached the summer solstice, and it is getting hotter and hotter. Due to the high temperature and humidity, coupled with frequent rainfall, the body's moisture level is too high. How can we get rid of the moisture? What foods can we eat to get rid of dampness? Don't worry, let me introduce it to you below.
What to eat in summer to get rid of dampness?
1. Corn silk
Corn has the effects of regulating the middle, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity, and diuresis. Corn silk has the function of diuresis, reducing swelling, and eliminating dampness. Take 15-30 grams of dried corn silk (double the weight of fresh corn silk) and boil it with water to remove the residue and extract the juice; or put the corn silk in a teacup, brew with boiling water, soak for ten minutes, and drink as a substitute for tea.
2. Winter melon
It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, detoxification, and relieving restlessness. It can eliminate excess water and dampness from the body through diuresis. When cooking winter melon, only a small amount of salt should be added, because adding too much salt will counteract the diuretic effect of winter melon.
3. Kapok
In traditional Chinese medicine, kapok is considered to have a sweet and cool taste and is attributed to the spleen, liver, and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxification, diuresis, invigorating the stomach, and relieving summer heat. It is quite effective in treating diarrhea, hemoptysis, bleeding, and skin diseases caused by dampness. In addition, kapok bark also has the effects of clearing heat, diuresis, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, and detoxification.
4. Millet
Millet does not contain gluten and does not irritate the intestinal wall. It is a relatively mild fiber and is easily digested. Therefore, it is suitable for use in detoxification meals. Millet porridge is very suitable for detoxification. It has the effects of clearing heat and diuresis, rich in nutrients, and also helps with whitening.
5. Oats
Oats can smooth the intestines and promote bowel movements, increase the volume of feces and increase water content, and promote gastrointestinal peristalsis in conjunction with fiber to play a role in defecation and detoxification. Steamed oats can be mashed and drunk as a beverage. Other ingredients such as apples and raisins can also be added when stirring to promote bowel movements and provide nutrition!
6. Purslane
It has the effects of clearing heat, removing dampness, dispersing blood, and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary tract infection, jaundice, and gingivitis.
7. Carrot
Carrots are very helpful in improving constipation and are rich in beta-carotene, which can neutralize toxins. Fresh carrots have better detoxification effects because they can clear heat, detoxify, moisten the intestines, and promote bowel movements. Crushed into juice and added with honey and lemon juice, it is refreshing, thirst-quenching, and beneficial for detoxification.
8. Coix seed
Coix seed can promote blood circulation and water metabolism in the body, play a diuretic and anti-inflammatory effect, and help improve edema-type obesity. Coix seed water is a good detoxification method. Boil the coix seed with boiling water until it becomes soft, add a little sugar according to personal taste, and it is a natural skin whitening product.
9. White kidney bean
White kidney beans have the effects of invigorating the spleen and stomach, clearing heat, and eliminating dampness. They are suitable for summer heat and dampness, weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, loose stools, diarrhea, edema, and leukorrhagia. White kidney beans have a mild nature and are suitable for most people. Especially for those with weak spleen and stomach, eating more white kidney beans can invigorate the spleen and stomach.
10. Onion
It has the effects of harmonizing the stomach, dispelling dampness and phlegm, detoxification, and killing parasites, and is suitable for chest tightness, stomach discomfort, cough with phlegm, and difficulty urinating.
11. Carp
In the hot and humid climate of summer, drinking some carp soup can help to dispel dampness, stimulate appetite, promote diuresis, and reduce swelling. From a nutritional point of view, carp is rich in high-quality protein, minerals, and vitamins, and is easily digested and absorbed.
12. Water celery
It has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for dysuria, hematuria, and leukorrhea.
13. Crucian carp
It has the effect of invigorating the spleen and removing dampness, and is suitable for spleen deficiency with poor appetite, weakness and fatigue, excessive thirst, edema, and difficulty urinating.
14. Lettuce
Lettuce has a sweet and bitter taste, cool nature, and enters the intestines and stomach meridians. It has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis. It is suitable for mild edema and difficulty urinating. It can be eaten cold or boiled in soup. It is best to eat it with the leaves. Lettuce is slightly cold in nature, so it is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach to eat too much.
15. Red adzuki bean
Red adzuki beans have a sweet taste and enter the heart and small intestine meridians. They have the effects of promoting diuresis, eliminating dampness, promoting blood circulation, draining pus, reducing swelling, and detoxification. Its clearing heat effect is weaker than mung beans, but its diuretic and dampness-eliminating effects are stronger. It can not only treat general edema, but also treat "ascites", which is ascites caused by liver cirrhosis. Red adzuki beans are generally used to make porridge or fillings.
