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The weather is humid. What are your thoughts on diet?

In the wet season, it is easy to cause the stagnation of heat in the body, leading to liver fire or the leakage of body fluid. You can eat some foods that can clear fire and nourish liver, such as buckwheat, coix seed, shepherd's purse, spinach, shepherd's purse, celery, chrysanthemum seedlings, lettuce, eggplant, water chestnut, cucumber, mushrooms and so on. This kind of food is cool and sweet, which can clear fire, moisten liver and improve eyesight.

As for fresh fruit, although it has the effect of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, it is mostly sour and should not be eaten in humid weather. If you need to relieve internal heat, you'd better eat sweet bananas, raw pears, sugar cane or dried persimmons.

Supplemented with warm and sweet foods, such as cereals: glutinous rice, black rice, sorghum, millet and oats; Fruits and vegetables: such as sword beans, pumpkins, lentils, red dates, longan, walnuts and chestnuts; Carnivorous fish: such as beef, pork belly, crucian carp, carp, perch, grass carp, eel, etc. The human body absorbs rich nutrients from these foods and can nourish the liver and strengthen the spleen.

Eat some warm food, such as leek, garlic, onion, konjac, kohlrabi, mustard, coriander, ginger, onion and so on. This kind of vegetable is warm and spicy, which can not only dispel cold, but also inhibit and kill germs that breed in humid environment.