The summer heat is the time of the year when the temperature and humidity are at their highest, and the human body will feel hot and humid on the surface. In this kind of “sauna day”, the human body in the most vigorous Yang Qi season is most susceptible to the summer heat and dampness evil invasion, appear body fatigue, dizziness, chest tightness, shortness of breath, thirst and nausea and other symptoms of heatstroke. At the same time, the body’s metabolism is vigorous, physical exertion compared to other seasons will be much larger, moving is sweating, the body water loss is serious. Li Aihua, director of internal medicine at the Second Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangdong Province, said that the summer season is very important to prevent summer water, homemade health drinks such as barley water can eliminate summer heat and dehumidification, jujube and wolfberry water can be beneficial to nourish yin and replenish blood, both to replenish water, but also beneficial to health.
1, barley water
Practice: take about 60 grams of barley clean, soak for 3 hours, and then cook for ten minutes. After cooking the barley water pour out to save, thick can be modulated according to personal taste. In addition, you can also fry the barley to make tea to drink. Generally speaking, the efficacy of barley water is not as good as soup and porridge.
Efficacy: Job’s tear, taste sweet, light, sex slightly cold. It can strengthen the spleen and benefit the stomach, facilitate urination and dispel dampness, which is helpful for problems such as weak spleen and stomach, loose stool and diarrhea, edema due to spleen deficiency and dampness, adverse urination or damp-heat paralysis and pain.
Note: It is not suitable for people with deficiency and cold body, pregnant women and women who are in menstruation period should avoid drinking it. In addition, sweat, constipation should not be consumed.
2, red dates and wolfberry water
Practice: select 10 grams of jujubes, wolfberry 8 grams, put the cleaned jujubes and wolfberries into a teacup, pour into the boiling water, simmer for 2 to 3 minutes on it. Of course, you can also add a small amount of rock sugar according to personal preference.
Efficacy: red dates taste sweet and warm, the main function is to replenish the middle and benefit the qi, nourish the blood and tranquilize the mind, often used in the spleen and stomach qi deficiency, blood deficiency and atrophy, blood deficiency, insomnia and sleeplessness and other symptoms. Wolfberry has a very good nourishing effect. Its nature is calm, sweet taste, kidney benefit essence, nourish blood and tranquilize the mind, nourish the liver and eyesight, produce fluids to quench thirst, moisten the lungs and relieve the effects of cough. Therefore, red dates and Chinese wolfberries with the two, can play a beneficial qi tonic yin tonic blood effect. After menstruation, especially due to excessive menstrual blood of women, often drink red dates and wolfberry water to help improve the pale and cold hands and feet.
Note: because of the wolfberry, jujube has tonic effect, so is a cold and fever, inflammation or diarrhea, it is best not to drink red dates and wolfberry tea.
3, lemon water
Practice: wash fresh lemon, cut into thin slices soaked in water, 1-2 slices can be, do not be too sour. It is recommended that the best choice of warm water, which is conducive to preserving the nutrients in the lemon. You can also put lemon slices in black tea or other beverages according to your personal preference.
Effect: Lemon is rich in vitamin C. According to traditional Chinese medicine, lemon is sour, sweet, flat, into the liver, stomach meridian, phlegm and cough, the efficacy of the spleen. For bronchitis, whooping cough, loss of appetite, heatstroke and thirst have a certain effect.
Note: Lemon is more acidic, so it should not be drunk in large quantities to avoid hurting the stomach. Excessive stomach acid and stomach disease patients should not drink lemon water.
4, Chenpi water
Practice: each time you can use boiling water to brew 3-5 grams of Chenpi, you can also add 2-3 small slices of Chenpi in other tea, according to personal taste increase or decrease, but the total amount should not be more than 20 grams. The total amount should not be more than 20 grams. After drinking, you can eat it together with the dregs.
Efficacy: According to traditional Chinese medicine, tangerine peel is sweet and bitter in flavor, warm in nature and belongs to the lung and spleen meridians. It can regulate qi and strengthen the spleen, dry dampness and resolve phlegm. Cooking, making soup with a few slices of Chenpi, not only taste good, but also can relieve stomach bloating, indigestion, loss of appetite, cough and phlegm and other discomforts, usually can also be brewed to drink.
Note: Yin deficiency, people with stomach fire should not eat more. Patients who are taking medicine are also not suitable to eat more.
5、Hawthorn water
Practice: generally used for soaking water are hawthorn dry, a cup of water can be put into 5-6 hawthorn, taste adjusted according to personal preference, the total amount is best not more than 30 grams.
Effect: Hawthorn is slightly warm, sweet and sour. It has the functions of promoting digestion, resolving stagnation, lowering blood fat, expanding blood vessels and so on.
Note: Hawthorn water should be consumed in moderation, because hawthorn promotes digestion mainly by promoting the secretion of digestive juices, so it will also produce certain stimulation to the stomach and intestines. Especially people who suffer from stomach disease should be cautious, and don’t drink hawthorn water or eat hawthorn on an empty stomach.
6、Lotus heart tea
Practice: Bubble lotus heart tea once use 2 grams of lotus heart can, also can take 3-6 with other tea together.
Efficacy: in a variety of homemade drinks, lotus heart tea may be the most “self-inflicted suffering”. Lotus heart is the greenish germ in the middle of the lotus seed, cold in nature, has the effect of clearing heat, tranquilizing the mind and strengthening the heart. The effect of clearing the heart fire is especially suitable for people who are irritable and insomniac because of the heart fire caused by internal blazing.
Note: people with cold spleen and stomach should be used with caution.
7, honeysuckle tea
Practice: take 5 to 10 grams of honeysuckle tea, put it into a cup with boiling water, cover the cup and simmer for a few minutes, the color and flavor of the tea soup will be better.
Efficacy: honeysuckle is also commonly used in folk medicine, its flavor is sweet, cold, with the role of clearing heat and detoxification, evacuation of wind-heat. It can be consumed in hot weather to clear heat and remove toxins and prevent heat stroke.
Note: Because honeysuckle is cold, it is not suitable for long-term consumption, especially cold body or female menstruation period is prohibited to drink, otherwise adverse reactions may occur.