1. Bitter gourd
Bitter in taste with cold nature, it clears away heat and purges pathogenic fire. The bitter taste could stimulate he secretion of sputum and gastric, so as to promote digestion.
2. Lotus seed
At the beginning of summer, when the weather gradually turns hot, according to theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), it is a good time for heart physiological activity. Lotus seed is the best choice for nourishing heart. Sweet in taste and slight cold in nature, the lotus seed also nourishes spleen and kidney except for the heart.
3. Pease
In summer, people get tired easily, and have bad appetite and sleep. They get reluctant to do exercises, and the mass of food accumulated in the stomach does harm to the health. Therefore, it is fundamental to clear up the intestines and stomach, for which the pease serves best for the coarse fiber it contains.
4. Strawberry
The strawberry not only looks tempting, but also serves well in promoting digesting juice secretion and gastrointestinal motility, and getting fid of spare cholesterol and harmful heavy metal.
5. Orange
In summer, the sweat takes away much of potassium ion, the hypokalemia caused by which could lead to tiredness and forceless state, dizziness and headache, and loss of appetite. The effective means to avoid potassium deficiency is to have food with it, which is abundantly contained in orange.
6. Seed of Job’s tears
Sweet in flavor and slightly cold in nature, the seed of Job’s tears deduces diuresis to alleviate edema, and tonifies spleen and clears the damp, and stretches the tendon and eliminates the pain. It also clears away heat and eliminates pus. Taking cooked seed of Job’s tears and ormosia has diuresis and xeransis.
In addition of the food to maintain healthy, sleeping is another important project. To comply with the overabundance of yang (the light or male side of nature) and weakness of yin (the dark or female side of nature), it’s better to go to bed a little late at night and get up early in the morning. Then taking an afternoon nap not only makes up for the deficient sleep of the night, but also meets the maintaining demand in accordance with the physiological character of the body.
