What's the best soup to drink in hot weather?

Lycium barbarum sliced meat and egg drop soup

Ingredients: Lycium barbarum100g, lean pork10g, 2 eggs and 4 slices of ginger.

Practice: Wash the lean pork, cut it into small pieces, wash the medlar, put it in the pot for 3 minutes, and then add the eggs to boil.

How to eat: drink soup, eat lean meat and medlar.

Efficacy: nourishing yin and moistening dryness, nourishing blood and enriching blood, and improving eyesight.

Indications: dizziness caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney, with symptoms such as headache, numbness of limbs, palpitation, low back pain, dry mouth and throat, red tongue, little fur and rapid pulse.

Luffa and pork lean soup

Ingredients: loofah 250g, lean pork 150g, proper amount of oil and salt.

Practice: Wash the towel gourd, cut into pieces, slice the lean meat, put it in a pot, add 3 bowls of water, cook for about 1 hour, and season.

How to eat: drink soup, eat lean meat and loofah.

Efficacy: clearing heat and resolving phlegm, cooling blood and detoxifying.

Indications: cough due to lung heat, characterized by fever, cough, yellow and thick phlegm, yellow urine, red tongue with yellow coating and rapid pulse.

Winter melon fish soup

Ingredients: raw fish 1 strip (about 250g), 500g wax gourd, 60g red bean, and 5 shallots.

Practice: Cut raw fish (snakehead) open, remove scales and intestines, wash, cut wax gourd with skin, mash onion, wash red beans, and put them in a pot with 4 bowls of water. Cook raw fish and season with salt.

How to eat: Eat soup and raw fish, melon and red beans once a year.

Efficacy: clearing heat and relieving summer heat, diuresis and detumescence. Indications: Summer dampness is superior to yang, with symptoms of chills and fatigue, swollen face and floating limbs, short and red urine, and red tongue with white fur.

Watermelon ribs soup

Ingredients: watermelon rind 1/5 chunks, sparerib 150g, appropriate amount of salt, 4 bowls of water, boil over high fire, add the sliced watermelon rind, then simmer for 10 minutes, and add a little salt to taste.

How to eat: eat soup and ribs.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis.

Indications: For patients with fever, heatstroke, oral ulcer and hypertension in summer, tremella can be added to make soup, which can also be used as a material for female facial massage.

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Tips for fruit to relieve summer heat

In hot summer, we will inevitably eat some fruits to relieve the heat, so which fruits are the first choice?

pineapple

Pineapple originated in Brazil and was introduced to China in16th century. It contains a lot of fructose, glucose, vitamins A, B, C, phosphorus, citric acid and protease. It has a good effect of relieving summer heat, quenching thirst, promoting digestion and stopping diarrhea, especially in summer. But remember: don't overeat on an empty stomach, and soak the pulp in salt.

pawpaw

Papaya is very common in the south, and it is one of the "three tropical fruit trees". You can eat it directly. Stewed with rock sugar, it can clear the heart and moisten the lungs, quench thirst and relieve annoyance.