What are the foods that can clear away heat and dampness in summer?

Summer is not only extremely hot, but also very humid, especially in the south. Many people suffer from dampness in their bodies, which causes them to feel poorly spirited and physically weak. So what are some foods that can clear away heat and dampness in summer?

1. Lotus Leaf and Poria Cocos Porridge

Ingredients: 1 lotus leaf (fresh or dried), 50 grams of Poria cocos, 100 grams of polished rice or millet, and appropriate amount of white sugar.

Preparation method: Boil lotus leaves in water and remove the residue. Add Poria cocos and washed polished rice or millet into the water; cook together into porridge, add sugar to taste before serving.

Efficacy: Lotus leaf is a food that can be used as both medicine and food. According to traditional Chinese medicine, lotus leaves are slightly warm, mild and spicy in nature, and enter the heart, liver and lung meridians. Lotus leaves have the effects of clearing heart fire, calming liver fire, purging spleen fire, reducing lung fire, as well as clearing heat and nourishing the mind, lowering blood pressure and promoting diuresis, and astringing fluid and stopping sweating. This porridge clears away heat and relieves summer heat, calms the mind and soothes the nerves, stops diarrhea and dysentery, and has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on patients with cardiovascular diseases and neurasthenia.

2. Apple, wolfberry, brown sugar, millet porridge

Ingredients: 1 apple, 50g millet, some brown sugar, some wolfberry

Method: Prepare the millet. Wolfberry brown sugar apple. Wash the millet with clean water. Peel the apples and cut into pieces. Add millet and apples and appropriate amount of water into a soup pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 20 minutes. Add wolfberries and brown sugar. Continue to simmer for 10 minutes.

3. Yam and Red Dates Porridge

Ingredients: yam, white lentils, red dates, cored lotus seeds, hawthorn strips, and raisins.

Method: Soak the white lentils and red dates for a while, peel the white lentils, remove the cores of the red dates, and dice the yam for later use. Put white lentils, yam and lotus seeds into the pot and stew until crispy and soft. Finally, add the hawthorn strips and raisins and cook for another three minutes.

Efficacy: This porridge can replenish qi and blood, protect the liver and strengthen the spleen, clear away heat and dampness, make people's complexion rosy and full of energy. Drinking it regularly can regulate the human gastrointestinal tract, improve metabolic function, eliminate excess waste, have a weight loss effect, and has a good therapeutic effect on high blood pressure and high blood lipids.

4. Red Bean and Lotus Root Soup

Ingredients: 1 lotus root, 100g red beans, some water

Method: Prepare the ingredients, wash the red beans and soak them in clean water for forty minutes. Wash the lotus root, peel and clean the radish, then cut into pieces. Put lotus root and red beans into a cooking pot and add appropriate amount of water at one time. Bring to boil over high heat. Remove the lid and turn off the heat. Pour the entire pot into the preheated electric stew pot. Cover the pot and turn on the power. Stew over high heat for 2 hours. If you like salty food, you can add salt to taste. If you like bland food, no salt is needed.

5. Barley and red bean porridge

Ingredients: Job's tears and red beans in a ratio of 2:1.

Method: Wash the coix seed and red beans and soak them overnight. Put all the ingredients into a pot, add water and bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer until the barley is cooked. You can add some rock sugar or brown sugar when drinking.

Efficacy: To remove dampness, nourish the heart, and strengthen the spleen and stomach, the best products are coix seed and red bean. Summer is the time when the heat is unbearable, and it makes people wet inside and outside. These two medicines can nourish the blood and remove dampness.

Job's tears, called "Coix seed" in traditional Chinese medicine, is listed as a top-grade medicine in "Shennong's Herbal Classic". It can cure dampness and arthritis, benefit the intestines and stomach, eliminate edema, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and long-term use can make the body lighter and benefit the qi.