Although autumn has already begun, still very hot during the day. Many people feel tired and bitter in their mouths, lacking appetite, and sometimes experiencing symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea. What should we do? TCM doctors suggest that you can eat some warm and thin foods properly, such as Congee, which is easier to digest. It can not only help supplement the water loss due to excessive sweating, but also quickly supplement blood sugar and energy.
Zheng Yanhua, Deputy Director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Panyu Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, advised a Chinese medicine doctor to add beans (such as mung beans and black beans), cereals (such as barley and oats), fruits and vegetables (such as pineapple and balsam pear), and dual-use ingredients (such as lotus leaves, honeysuckle, lotus seeds) when cooking Congee, which can enhance the health care effect of Congee and is a good summer food staple. If you cook fruit Congee, it will be more sweet and delicious to add fresh fruit before cooking. Do not add bone soup or onion or oil to avoid damaging the taste.
She recommends the following ways to eat, and interested neighbors can give it a try:
1. Hawthorn Congee increases appetite
Ingredients: 10 fresh hawthorn fruits, 200 grams of rice, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar.
How to do it: wash the fresh hawthorn fruit, cut it open and remove the stone, put it into the pot with the rice, add some water to cook Congee, and then add some rock sugar to taste according to your taste.
Characteristics: Hawthorn is sour, sweet and mild in nature, which can help appetizers and digestion, remove stagnation and accumulation, remove turbidity and reduce fat, and cooking Congee can help improve appetite.
2. Lily barley porridge dispels moist lung and calms nerves
Ingredients: 30g barley, 200g rice, 15g dried lily, and an appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: Soak Job's tears and dried lily slightly after washing, put them into the pot together with the washed rice, and add some water to cook Congee.
Features: Lily has a sweet and slightly cold taste, while Job's tears has a sweet and light taste, which is slightly cold and helps to moisten the lungs, dispel dampness, clear the heart, and calm the nerves.
3. White lentil Congee invigorates the spleen, dissipates heat and dampness
Ingredients: 50-60 grams of white lentils or 120 grams of fresh white lentils, with an appropriate amount of rice.
Method: Wash the white lentils and put them in the pot together with the cleaned rice. Add an appropriate amount and cook until the rice is cooked and the beans are rotten, then serve.
Characteristics: Strengthening the spleen to dissipate heat and dampness, especially for those with weak spleen and stomach, chronic diarrhea, diarrhea due to heat and dampness, and discomfort with thirst in summer.
4. Melon Congee is refreshing and heat clearing
Properly boil some towel gourd Congee, bitter gourd Congee, cucumber Congee, refreshing and heat clearing.
Luffa has a sweet and flat taste, which helps to clear heat and detoxify, and can be used as a dietary therapy for people with oral ulcers; Balsam pear Congee can clear the heart and reduce fire, but also increase appetite, which is more suitable for diabetes patients; Cucumber Congee is refreshing and delicious, which can replenish water and prevent constipation. Those who are troubled by constipation can try it.
Melons are easier to cook. You can first boil Congee and then add the melon cut into small pieces. Depending on your personal feeling, boil it and mix it well, then add seasonings appropriately. For example, adding a small amount of shredded ginger can help increase flavor and warm the stomach.
