Summer's three dog days are the hottest time of the year. Many people complain a lot during this period and can only live by eating cold drinks. But many older people would say that ice is not allowed in the dog days, so why can't ice food be eaten in the dog days?
1. It's true that you can't eat ice in the dog days
It's really not suitable to eat ice in the dog days.
The dog days are the most vigorous time in nature and human body. When the body's Yang is at its peak, it is bound to damage the body's Yang and spleen and stomach functions by using cold and cool products (ice drinks and air conditioners) to resist.
2. Avoid eating too much ice drink in three Fu days
Eating ice drink in the dog days will dilute the gastric juice, affect digestion, stimulate the intestine, cause hyperactivity of peristalsis, shorten the time of food staying in the intestine, and affect the digestion and absorption of food by the human body. In particular, patients with acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases should eat less or not.
3. Avoid ice drink after exercise
After strenuous exercise, the body temperature will rise and the pharynx will be congested. At this time, if the stomach and pharynx are stimulated by ice, they are prone to throat pain, hoarseness, cough, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.
4. Avoid unclean ice drink in sanfutian
Because Escherichia coli, typhoid bacillus and Staphylococcus pyogenes can survive at - 17 ℃, eating unclean cold drinks will damage your health.
5. What to eat in the dog days
1. Sandou soup
Materials: mung bean, red bean, black bean, brown sugar.
Method: wash the three beans and soak them in cold water for half an hour; put the three beans in the pot, add some water and let the young man simmer for about 40 minutes
Nutritional value: as early as in ancient times, it is recorded in the collection of materials in the compendium that soup is boiled every day, eaten with children, and pox is rare. In case of pox poison, it can also be drunk with this soup; if it is applied with ramming, the poison will disappear. Sandou soup is one of the best recipes in the dog days. It has the effect of detoxification, cooling and relieving fire.
After that, the bean fragrance overflows, and the bean becomes soft. Add some brown sugar.
2. Fried egg with balsam pear
Ingredients: a balsam pear and an egg.
Method: wash balsam pear, slice it, put the egg into the bowl, stir it into the egg flower; put some oil in the pot, stir fry balsam pear, when the balsam pear changes from dark green to light green and the quality becomes soft, add the egg flower; stir for two minutes, add some salt and monosodium glutamate.
Nutritional value: eating bitter food in summer can clear away heat and heat, relieve fatigue, and help people to spend summer healthily.
3. Spareribs with yam
Materials: 300g yam, 350g spareribs, a little scallion.
Methods: wash all the ingredients, remove the fishy smell and blood after the ribs are soaked in water; put some water in the pot to stew the ribs, and put the cut yam after the water is boiled; stew for about 20 minutes, the soup turns white, the fragrance is dispersed, and add some salt and green onion.
Nutritional value: hot and humid days, serious sweating, serious loss of trace elements of potassium and calcium, easy to damage Yin and consume gas, at this time, we should eat the food of nourishing blood and Qi, nourishing yin and spleen. Chinese yam spareribs are excellent Yin nourishing ingredients with calcium supplement effect.
4. Brown sugar ginger water
Ingredients: 100g brown sugar, 20g ginger.
Method: wash ginger and slice it; boil a pot of boiling water, add ginger and brown sugar, and cook for 30 minutes.
Nutritional value: there is a saying that eating carrots in winter and ginger in summer. Eating them in summer will produce Yang Qi, dispel dampness, expel toxin, dissipate phlegm and stop coughing. Drinking brown sugar and ginger water in sanfutian is in line with the principle of Yin-Yang integration and scientific health preservation.