What can’t you eat during Lesser Heat? What are the dietary precautions for Lesser Heat?
“A thunderclap in Lesser Heat turns into the Rainy Season.” As the solar term that officially marks the beginning of the summer season, Lesser Heat is like a forewarning of the hot summer. Want to know more about the days and lucky and unlucky days in the fifth month of the lunar calendar? Come to the fortune teller website to find out what each day of the fifth lunar month of 2018 will be like.What can’t you eat during Lesser Heat?The fifth month of the lunar calendar was called the "poisonous month" in ancient times. During the Lesser Heat season, the weather gradually becomes hotter, mosquitoes increase in number, and bacteria grow. In such weather, the slightest carelessness may lead to illness, so we should pay more attention to our daily habits and diet.1. Avoid eating too much spicy food. The weather is hot during the Lesser Heat period, and eating overly irritating foods can easily burden the stomach and intestines. 2. Avoid excessive consumption of cold drinks and carbonated beverages, such as ice cream, ice bricks, popsicles, frozen drinks, etc., so as not to damage the spleen and stomach, and accumulate moisture and produce phlegm. 3. The days are long in summer, and the nights in the Lesser Heat are cool and comfortable, so it is inevitable that you will feel like having a drink. The temperature in summer is already hot, and according to the physical principle of "thermal expansion and cold contraction", blood vessels are in a stage of expansion. After alcohol enters the body, it is digested and absorbed by the stomach and enters the blood vessels, causing the blood vessels to be in an "excited" state, which invisibly increases the pressure on the blood vessels. Therefore, it is better to drink less alcohol at the beginning of the dog days of summer. 4. The weather is hot in summer, the body sweats more, and water loss is more serious. Therefore, we must always pay attention to replenishing the body with enough water, because water can reduce the content of fat, cholesterol and sugar in the blood, thereby achieving the effect of reducing blood viscosity. Therefore, we must consciously replenish our bodies with water. 5. Eat less high-fat and high-oil foods. Too greasy food can cause blood concentration to increase and blood flow to slow down. In the long run, it will cause the blood vessel walls to thicken, and in severe cases, it will cause blood vessel blockage. The consequences of vascular obstruction are very serious and can easily lead to blood vessel rupture and tissue necrosis. What are the dietary precautions for Lesser Heat?1. Drink more soup to clear away heat and relieve summer heat. During the Lesser Heat season, when people sweat a lot and lose a lot of body fluids, drinking more soup can not only replenish water in time, but also facilitate digestion and absorption. The best soup to drink is mung bean soup. Mung bean is cool in nature and has the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. Mung beans can be added to some food or medicine to make delicious soups that clear away heat and relieve summer heat, such as mung bean mint soup, mung bean pumpkin soup, mung bean coix seed soup, and mung bean honeysuckle soup. In addition, use 100 grams each of watermelon peel and peanuts, 50 grams each of malt and coix seed, cook them into soup and drink it, which has a good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat.2. Eat more porridge to nourish yin, nourish health, and strengthen the spleen and stomach . Eating more porridge is a traditional health care method in China and is very good for the body. Porridges used to prevent heatstroke include mung bean porridge, lotus leaf porridge, fresh lotus root porridge, raw reed root porridge, etc. You can also use 15 grams each of Cassia seed and white chrysanthemum, 60 grams of polished rice, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar to cook into porridge as a refreshing drink during the Lesser Heat. In addition, add appropriate amounts of white-heart sweet potatoes and mustard greens to rice and cook it into porridge, which has the effect of relieving heat and inducing sweating. 3. Eat more fruits to quench thirst. Melon juice is sweet and can not only quench thirst, but also clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Watermelon is sweet, juicy and cool in nature. It is the best melon for clearing away heat and quenching thirst. In addition, cantaloupe and cucumber can be eaten raw after washing, or drunk after juicing, which have a good effect of clearing heat and relieving summer heat. Kiwi fruit contains a large amount of vitamin C and has a very good effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. It is a fruit and beverage often chosen by people working in high temperatures or outdoors. Mix pear juice, water chestnut juice, lotus root juice (or sugarcane juice), Ophiopogon japonicus juice and fresh reed root juice together to make a five-juice drink, which has the good effect of promoting salivation and quenching thirst, clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. 4. Eating more green vegetables is good for digestion and defecation. The weather is hot and humid during the Lesser Heat, and people generally like to eat light, delicious and non-greasy food. Green vegetables have these characteristics and are rich in vitamins and proteins. Therefore, you should try to eat more green vegetables, such as various beans, melons, Chinese cabbage, coriander, fennel, etc., which not only supplement nutrition but also have the effect of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. For example, cucumbers, winter melons, and bitter melons all have very good effects in clearing heat and relieving summer heat. It can be eaten raw or stir-fried with a little lean meat. Except for pumpkin and golden gourd which are warm in nature, bitter gourd, loofah, cucumber, melon, watermelon, melon, tomato, eggplant, celery, lettuce, asparagus, watercress, and jicama are all cool vegetables during the Lesser Heat. |
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