Healthy food for women in summer

　　The scorching sun in summer and the continuous high temperature make many people lose their appetite and lose interest in eating. female Your body constitution is relatively weak, so your diet in summer is even more critical. Eating right can prevent the heat.； Eating the wrong food is not good for your body healthy . In fact, women's summer diet is mainly tonic, with the principles of strengthening the spleen, dispelling heat and reducing dampness.

　　First dish cucumber

　　Reason for being on the list: The most important impact of summer on the human body is summer heat dampness. When summer heat dampness invades the human body, it will cause open pores, excessive sweating, and qi deficiency. It can also cause spleen and stomach dysfunction and indigestion. Appropriate intake of cool vegetables is beneficial to producing body fluids and quenching thirst, relieving irritability and heat, clearing away heat and purging water, detoxifying and laxative. The cucumber we often eat is a representative of cool vegetables. Summer is also the peak season for cucumbers. They have high water content and are high in potassium and low in sodium. They are suitable for replenishing water and inorganic salts lost after people sweat a lot in summer.

　　Best combination: mashed garlic with cucumber. It is simple to make and uses very few ingredients. It also has the effects of sterilizing and increasing appetite.

　　Best way to cook it: Cold cucumber is the best way to eat it. People with weak spleen and stomach can stir-fry cucumbers or make dumplings stuffed with cucumbers.

　　The first fresh carp

　　Reason for being on the list: Carp in early summer are in their spawning season. When the fish is approaching the spawning period, a lot of fat and nutrients have been accumulated in the body. The body is plump and strong, so the meat tastes the most delicious and tastes sweet. The climate in summer is warm and humid. Drinking some carp soup appropriately can help dispel dampness, stimulate appetite, 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. It is suitable for all types of people, including children, pregnant women, and the elderly.

　　Best combination: In hot and humid weather, when eating carp, you can make soup with some dehumidifying ingredients, such as tangerine peel, winter melon, scallions, etc. cough Sometimes you can use carp and a little Sichuan scallop to make soup and eat it, which can relieve cough and asthma. Adzuki bean and carp soup is a classic dietary remedy for relieving nephritis edema. Eating the two together can enhance the effect of diuresis and reducing swelling.

　　Best cooking method: People are prone to heat in summer, so you can choose steaming, stewing, etc.

　　The first fungus fungus

　　Reason for being on the list: Fungus is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, and returns to the stomach and large intestine meridians.； It has the effects of replenishing qi, moistening the lungs, nourishing the brain, lightening the body, and cooling the blood. ； Fungus is known as the "blood vessel scavenger". Eating more black fungus in summer is helpful for detoxification and laxatives. On the other hand, it has the effect of cooling blood and increasing appetite.

　　Best combination: Tremella has the effects of moistening the lungs and promoting body fluids, nourishing qi and blood, nourishing the kidneys and replenishing essence. Warm both ears blister After steaming, put it in a steamer with rock sugar and water to make a double-ear soup, which has the effects of nourishing yin and moisturizing the lungs, nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the brain.

　　Best cooking methods: stir-fry, cold salad, or soup.

　　The first porridge mung bean porridge

　　Reasons for being on the list: Mung beans are known as "the best food and the best food for the world". In the hot summer, mung bean soup is people’s favorite refreshing drink. Mung beans are both edible and medicinal, and can be used to clear away heat, detoxify, relieve summer heat, diuresis, and treat summer heat, polydipsia, edema, etc. However, it should be noted that mung beans are medicinal and food products with cooling properties. If the body is weak or the spleen and stomach are weak, excessive consumption may cause symptoms. stomach ache diarrhea , people with yin deficiency should not drink large amounts, otherwise it will cause the deficiency fire to become strong and cause symptoms such as erosion of the corners of the mouth, swelling and pain of the gums.

　　Best combination: It can be combined with other beans such as rice or black beans to make miscellaneous bean porridge, which can supplement more trace elements and B vitamins.

　　First drink of sour plum soup

　　Reason for being on the list: The raw materials of sour plum soup are black plum, hawthorn, osmanthus, licorice, and rock sugar. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "If the plums are half-yellow when they are actually picked, they will be black plums if smoked." ”This decoction can eliminate food and harmonize the body, promote qi and dissipate stasis, produce fluid and quench thirst, converge lung qi, relieve troubles and calm the mind. Regular drinking can cure diseases and strengthen the body. It is a rare health drink in hot summer.

　　Homemade recipe: Ingredients: Dried black plum (half a catty), hawthorn (half a catty), sweet-scented osmanthus (one tael), licorice (one tael), born sugar or brown sugar. Method: 1. The dried plums and hawthorns bought from the dry goods market must be soaked in water first. 2. Wrap the soaked plums and hawthorns in gauze together with a small amount of osmanthus and licorice. 3. Fill the large pot with water, put in the gauze bag, and bring to a boil over high heat. 4. After boiling, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar or brown sugar for coloring. 5. Simmer over low heat for 6-7 hours. When about half of the water is boiled away, the sour plum soup is ready.