Summer nourish the heart can eat bitter melon, green beans, pears, water chestnuts, cucumbers, winter melon, watermelon, watermelon, honeysuckle, maitake, lotus root, silver fungus, lotus seed, Poria, lily and other foods.
Summer is fire, the human body Yang Qi floating in the body surface, the coupling (pores) open, so you should eat some of the heat to remove the fire, nourish yin to promote Jin, clearing the heart and tranquillizing the spirit of the food to nourish the heart is better.
Clear heat to remove the fire class of food are bitter melon, green beans, pears, water chestnuts, cucumber, winter melon, watermelon, watermelon, honeysuckle, etc.; yin and Jin Jin class of food are maitake, lotus root, silver fungus, etc.; tranquilize the heart and tranquilize the mind class of food are lotus seed, poria, lily, etc..
The above foods can be eaten together, such as green beans, lily and lotus soup, pear and silver ear soup, etc. They can be made into drinks, such as maitake honeysuckle tea. If you need to eat heart-healthy foods in summer, please do so under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.