Summer is a season when heatstroke is easy to occur. After heatstroke, people feel uncomfortable. So how can we prevent heatstroke? What should we do if we get heatstroke? At this time, we need to cool down and relieve heat, and porridge can not only replenish water and nutrients but also prevent heatstroke. What to eat this summer? Let's enjoy a bowl of cooling and heat-relieving porridge together.
We know that there are many types of porridge, but not all of them have the effect of cooling and relieving heat. Let's take a look at what kind of porridge can help us prevent and treat heat.
Lotus Leaf and Poria Porridge
Ingredients: 1 lotus leaf (fresh or dried), 50g poria, 100g glutinous rice or millet, sugar to taste. Steep the lotus leaf in water and remove the residue to make soup. Add poria and cleaned glutinous rice or millet to the soup. Cook them together to make porridge. Add sugar before serving.
Effects: This porridge can clear heat, relieve summer heat, calm the mind, and stop diarrhea. It also has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on cardiovascular diseases and neurasthenia.
Mung Bean and Bamboo Leaf Porridge
Mung bean is one of the foods that people often use to clear heat and relieve summer heat, so making porridge with it is a great choice.
Ingredients: 100g glutinous rice, 30g mung beans, 10g lotus leaf, 10g bamboo leaf, 5g honeysuckle, 15g rock sugar. Wash the fresh lotus leaf and bamboo leaf with cold water and put them in a pot. Add a suitable amount of cold water to the pot, bring it to a boil, remove the residue, and collect the juice. Wash the mung beans and glutinous rice, soak them in cold water until they swell, and put them in the pot. Add about 1500ml of cold water. Boil it over high heat and then add honeysuckle and the juice of bamboo leaf and lotus leaf. Switch to low heat and simmer until the porridge is cooked. Add rock sugar to the porridge, stir well, and serve.
Effects: Bamboo leaf has a sweet, mild, and cool nature. It enters the heart, lung, and stomach meridians and has the effects of clearing heat, relieving restlessness, diuresis, and clearing the heart. It is suitable for dry mouth and thirst caused by fever and injury to body fluid, mouth ulcers caused by heart fire moving to the small intestine, and hot and painful urination or difficult urination.
Lily and Mung Bean Porridge
Ingredients: 50g mung beans, 50g white rice, 30g red rice, 30g sago, 15g dried lily, sugar to taste. Prepare all the ingredients. Wash and soak all the grains in water. Soak the dried lily in water for 30 minutes until soft. Put all the ingredients in the pot of an electric pressure cooker. Add sugar. Add a suitable amount of water. Cover the pot and press the "porridge" button. After the beep, open the lid and stir before serving.
Effects: This porridge can clear heat, detoxify, nourish blood, and calm the mind.
Peppermint and Glutinous Rice Porridge
Ingredients: 30g fresh peppermint, 60g glutinous rice, 20g rock sugar. Steep the peppermint in water and let it cool. Cook the glutinous rice to almost done. Add the rock sugar and peppermint soup. Cook for another minute or two and it's ready to serve.
Effects: This porridge has the effects of clearing heat, dispelling wind, cooling down, and soothing the throat. Peppermint has a cool and refreshing taste, making it very delicious.
Fresh Reed Root Porridge
Ingredients: 30g fresh reed root, 50g glutinous rice. Wash the fresh reed root and boil it to extract the juice. Wash the glutinous rice and cook it until it is 80% done. Add the reed root juice and continue cooking until the rice becomes porridge. Eat it on an empty stomach in the morning.
Effects: It has the functions of clearing heat, relieving restlessness, and eliminating bad breath.
Bitter Gourd Porridge
Ingredients: 100g bitter gourd, 20g rock sugar, 2g salt, 100g glutinous rice. Remove the seeds from the bitter gourd and cut it into small cubes. Put it in a pot with the washed glutinous rice and add an appropriate amount of water. Bring it to a boil over high heat, then add rock sugar and salt. Simmer over low heat until it becomes a thin porridge.
Effects: Bitter gourd has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, and clearing the heart and improving eyesight. It is very suitable for consumption in summer.
