What are some healthy foods in summer?

　　1. Strengthen the spleen and replenish qi

　　The spleen and stomach are the central focus, which is the acquired foundation of the human body. Eating too much cold food in summer can easily damage the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. You can choose the following two spleen-strengthening foods to eat.

　　①Pumpkin: It has the effect of warming the spleen and strengthening the spleen. In summer, you should choose pumpkins that are not too sweet and not too floury, and choose light yellow and long gourd-shaped ones. Don't choose golden and red melons, because those melons have dense flesh and high sweetness, and eating them will easily increase body moisture.

　　②Lotus root: Eaten raw, lotus root has strong heat-clearing and stasis-removing effects. When lotus root is cooked, its nature is not too cold, and its spleen-strengthening effect is significantly enhanced. It can be stewed, steamed, or stir-fried.

　　2. Clear away heat and relieve summer heat

　　When you experience heat stroke symptoms such as irritability, chest tightness, and dizziness, you may wish to eat the following three foods to clear away heat and relieve heat.

　　①Mung beans: can clear away heat. Just make soup with mung beans alone, preferably without adding sugar. To clear away heat and nourish the stomach at the same time, you can cook porridge with mung beans and rice.

　　②Bitter Melon: It has the effect of removing heat and dispelling summer heat. It has a stronger effect of purifying heat than clearing heat, and can cleanse heat evil from the body. Some people like to blanch bitter melon in boiling water first, which will weaken its heat-removing effect, so it is best not to blanch it.

　　③Cucumber: It has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying and dehumidifying. The best way to eat it is to eat cucumbers cold, then mix them with vinegar sauce and add garlic. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that vinegar and garlic are warm foods that can prevent the coldness of cucumber from damaging the spleen.