The summer heat makes many people lose their appetite. In fact, the summer diet should be based on clear tonic, spleen, summer heat, dampness as the principle. How to make up for the summer in the end? Quickly look at what we have prepared for you – summer summer essential “eight treasures”. The first dish cucumber summer on the human body is the most important effect of summer damp, summer damp invasion of the human body will lead to open pores, excessive sweating, resulting in gas deficiency, but also cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, indigestion. Appropriate intake of cool vegetables is conducive to the production of fluids to quench thirst, remove the annoyance of summer heat, clear heat and water, detoxification and laxative. Cucumber is a representative of cool vegetables. It is high in water content and high in potassium and low in sodium, which is suitable for replenishing water and inorganic salts lost after sweating a lot in summer. Best with: Garlic puree with cucumber is simple to make, uses few ingredients, and has antiseptic and appetite-boosting properties. Best way to cook: Cold cucumber is the best way to eat. If you have a cold stomach or spleen, you can stir-fry cucumbers or make cucumber dumplings. The first fresh carp summer climate warm and humid, appropriate to drink some carp soup, helps to dispel dampness appetizer, water swelling. Carp is rich in high quality protein, minerals and vitamins, very easy to be digested and absorbed, including children, pregnant women, the elderly, including all kinds of people are suitable for eating. Best with: you can add some appropriate ingredients to dispel dampness together with soup, such as Chen Pi, winter melon, white onion and so on. When coughing, you can use carp and a little Sichuan shellfish to cook soup together to eat, can stop coughing and asthma. Red bean and carp soup is a classic recipe to relieve edema in nephritis, and the two together can enhance the efficacy of water retention and swelling. The best way to cook: summer people are easy to dry heat, you can choose to steam, stew, etc.. The first fungus fungus taste sweet, sex flat, to the stomach, large intestine, with beneficial gas, moist lungs, tonic brain, light body, cool blood and other effects. Fungus has a “vascular scavenger” said, summer eat more black fungus, not only is conducive to detoxification and laxative, but also cool the blood, increase appetite effect. Best with: the fungus and silver fungus soaked in warm water, with rock sugar and water together, put the steamer in the steamer, made of fungus soup, with nourishing yin moistening lungs, tonic kidney brain effect. Best way to cook: stir-fry, cold, make soup can be. The first meat duck “prevent bitter summer, eat eat duck”, duck meat is rich in protein and other nutrients that people need in the summer, and can prevent and cure diseases, especially suitable for summer consumption. Duck is a waterfowl, cold, from the Chinese medicine “hot cold” principle of treatment, where the body has hot people suitable for eating duck, weak, loss of appetite, fever, dry stools and edema people eat more beneficial. The best combination: can be added to the lotus root, winter melon and other vegetables stewed food. The best way to cook: It is best to stew duck meat in summer, which is both nourishing and delicious. The first grain Job’s tears Job’s tears are sweet, light and slightly cold in nature, containing vitamin B1 and a variety of amino acids. Cooking congee with Job’s tears in summer is a very good clear tonic to eliminate summer heat and fitness. It is recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica that Job’s tear grains can “strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, tonify the lungs and clear away heat. Cooking rice food, treatment of cold air. Decoction drink, facilitate urination hot shower.” Favorable water to eliminate swelling, strengthen the spleen to eliminate dampness, relieve tendon paralysis, remove pus and other effects, for the commonly used water seepage and dampness of food. Job’s tears is a good food to remove dampness in the body, and anti-cancer effect. In the summer, the air is wet and sticky, many people will be “heatstroke”, then eat some barley porridge, you can play a role in the treatment of dampness paralysis, gastrointestinal, edema, spleen and stomach. Best with: Job’s tears red bean porridge. Both dehumidification, and complementary heart, but also to strengthen the spleen and stomach, non-barley and red beans. The first porridge mung bean porridge mung bean has “food in the good, the food of the world of food grain” of the reputation. Mung beans are also food and medicine, can be used to clear heat and detoxification, summer heat, water, treatment of summer fever, thirst, edema and so on. Mung beans belong to the cool medicinal food, cold body or spleen and stomach cold people drink too much, there will be abdominal pain and diarrhea, yin deficiency should not drink a lot of people, otherwise it will lead to a strong fire and the emergence of the corners of the mouth erosion, gums swelling and pain and other symptoms. Best with: can be made with rice or black beans and other beans into mixed bean porridge, can add more trace elements and B vitamins. The first melon watermelon watermelon cold, sweet taste, return to the heart, stomach, bladder meridian, has the effect of clearing heat, thirst, diuretic in addition to annoyance. Often drink alcohol in the body is hot, often eat some watermelon can clear the fire to relieve heat, but also to strengthen the role of the liver to lift the toxicity of alcohol. Fresh watermelon juice and fresh melon rind can increase skin elasticity, reduce wrinkles, add luster. Summer sweating, with the sweat out, the loss of nutrients is also more, appropriate to eat some watermelon, not only can make up for the loss of water, but also increase nutrition. The best way to cook: watermelon can be eaten raw, can also be used to juice. Watermelon rind, can be used to boil water, fried vegetables. The first drink of sour plum soup The ingredients of sour plum soup are several kinds of plums, hawthorn, cinnamon, licorice and rock sugar. The Compendium of Materia Medica states, “The plum fruit is picked half yellow, and smoked as umeboshi.” The soup elimination of food and center, the Qi dispersal of silt, the production of fluids to quench thirst, astringent lung qi, in addition to the annoyance of peace of mind, often drink can get rid of diseases and illnesses, health care and strengthen the body, is the hot summer can not be missed health drinks. Ingredients: dried umeboshi (half a catty), hawthorn (half a catty), cinnamon (one or two), licorice (one or two), rock candy or brown sugar. Method: 1, dry umeboshi and hawthorn with water to soak, along with a small amount of cinnamon and licorice will soak the umeboshi and hawthorn with gauze. 2.Fill a large pot with water, put in the gauze bag and boil it over high heat. 3.After boiling, add appropriate amount of rock sugar or brown sugar that can play a role in coloring. 4, simmer for 6~7 hours, in the water is about half of the time, sour plum soup is made.