Summer Tonic Recipes

In the summer heat, from the perspective of Chinese medicine, clearing fire and lowering dryness, tonifying the heart and calming the mind, and strengthening the spleen and stomach are the key to summer health. So what to eat for summer tonic?

Mung bean soup

Ingredients: some green beans Directions: Wash mung beans, add water to the right amount. Boil them over a rapid fire, take their soup, and drink it after it cools down. Effect: Mung beans are sweet and cold in nature. Boil the soup with the skin, it has a good effect on the summer heat. According to the Food Therapy Herbal, mung beans have the effect of tonifying and harmonizing the five organs. Eating mung beans in summer can cool down the summer heat and quench thirst. Tip: The first boiling soup drink has the effect of relieving summer heat. If boiled for a long time into porridge, it will not have the effect of relieving summer heat.

Job's tear porridge

Ingredients: 30 grams of barley, 50 grams of japonica rice. Practice: wash barley and japonica rice, add 500 ml of water, boil, boil until thick. Efficacy: barley is sweet and slightly cold, and has a good effect of strengthening the spleen and dispelling dampness. Summer dampness is too heavy, easily lead to the spleen and stomach disorder. So moderate consumption of barley has a good effect on improving loss of appetite and fatigue of limbs.

Cold tomatoes

Ingredients: two tomatoes, appropriate amount of honey Method: Wash the tomatoes and soak them in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then fish out and remove the skin. Cut the tomatoes into pieces, add the right amount of honey, stir slightly and serve. Efficacy: tomatoes are sweet with acidity and cold in nature. It has the effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, calming the liver and cooling the blood. The vitamin B3 in tomatoes has an important role in promoting digestion and maintaining healthy skin and nerves. Consumption of tomatoes in summer has a good diuretic and decongestant effect.

Corn soup

Ingredients: several corn kernels, a small amount of gravy powder and sugar. Directions: Boil the corn kernels in a pot, add the gravy powder and mix well, then add sugar and mix well. Efficacy: corn is sweet and calm in nature, which can regulate the middle and stomach. Regular consumption of corn has a good cardiovascular health effect. Corn oil can also effectively reduce blood cholesterol and soften blood vessels. For cardiovascular patients and the elderly, corn is the ideal food for summer tonic.

Winter melon soup

Ingredients: 300 grams of winter melon, a small amount of ginger Directions: Wash and cut the winter melon with its skin. Put ginger slices into water and boil, add winter melon slices, boil on high heat, turn down the heat and simmer for 2 minutes. Add salt to taste. Effect: Winter melon is sweet and slightly cold in nature. It has the effect of benefiting qi, eliminating heat and promoting water. Winter melon contains malonic acid, can effectively inhibit the conversion of sugar into fat, summer consumption can play a swelling diuretic, heat relief effect.