Many people know that winter is a good time to take tonic, in fact, the turn of summer and autumn should start to pay attention to. Because summer is the hottest season of the year, it is also the season when the human body consumes the most, and the elderly are very prone to injury and depletion of gas in summer, which leads to the deficiency of gas and water. For this reason, in the summer and autumn, the elderly should take supplements to strengthen the spleen and stomach on the one hand, to promote digestion and absorption, and at the same time, to relieve heat, to quench thirst. The tonic should be small, light and tasty. As for dietary supplements, lean pork, quail meat, duck meat, goose meat, milk, snapper, longan meat, bee’s milk, sugar cane, pear, jujube, mung bean, watermelon, etc. can be taken. For medicinal tonic, you can take American ginseng, princely ginseng, astragalus, angelica, dendrobium, etc. Elderly people are also suitable for porridge tonic in this season, such as lotus seed porridge has the effect of benefiting the kidney and fixing the essence, strengthening the spleen and astringent intestine, nourishing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, benefiting the qi and anti-decay, which is suitable for kidney deficiency, weakness and palpitation, loose stools, false annoyance and insomnia, and polyuria at night. Hawthorn porridge strengthens the spleen and eliminates stagnation, dissolves food and disperses blood stasis, and can treat hypertension, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia, angina pectoris, abdominal pain, food accumulation and diarrhea in the elderly. Wood fungus porridge can moisten the lung and produce fluid, benefit the qi and stop the bleeding, tonify the deficiency and strengthen the heart, and is suitable for weak lung qi, weak body sweating, dry and itchy throat, dry stool, chronic blood in the stool and bleeding hemorrhoids. Coix seed congee strengthens the spleen and stomach, reduces water retention and swelling, clears heat and pus, and is suitable for senile swelling, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, rheumatic paralysis and excessive leucorrhea. In addition, lily porridge, astragalus porridge, grape porridge, tomato porridge, red date porridge, etc., all have their own characteristics, the elderly can choose to eat according to their specific circumstances.