Heat, one of the twenty-four solar terms, is a solar term that reflects changes in temperature. "Place" means to terminate, and the old people say "the summer is cold", which means that once the summer heat has passed, the summer heat will gradually fade. But the real autumn coolness has not yet arrived. During the summer, the weather turns from hot to cool, and many people will have a lazy fatigue, which is called "autumn fatigue", which is a natural phenomenon, just like spring weather change will occur spring sleepiness. However, reasonable adjustment of eating habits can effectively drive away autumn fatigue.
In the summer, people will eat less because of the hot weather and no appetite, but the body's consumption will not decrease. Therefore, when entering the heat, people can make up for it appropriately. However, it is not advisable to blindly take ginseng, deer antler velvet, ejiao and other "big supplement" supplements. Because, in the summer, people will eat some cold drinks and other foods that cause the spleen and stomach to be weak in order to get rid of the heat, so if you eat too much nourishing supplements in the autumn, it will lead to indigestion. Therefore, it is best to choose "moist but not greasy" and "supplement but not steep" when supplementing. It not only plays a tonic role, but also relatively easy to digest and absorb.
Summer food supplement: longan pickled porridge
Longan is also a guiyuan, and there are also places where the fruit of fresh branches is used as longan, and the dried fruit after sun-dried processing is guiyuan. The best domestic longan production area is recognized as being in the Quanzhou and Zhangzhou areas of Fujian Province, and almost all the longan used for tribute in ancient times came from here. This southern fresh fruit is in the same line as lychee, and its character is also very similar, which is more nourishing than lychee.
Longan/Guiyuan
Other ways to eat longan (guiyuan).
Shaoxing Guiyuan Rice Cake:
Ingredients: 2 cups of glutinous rice, 10 grams of cinnamon balls, 10 grams of cranberries, 2 cups of Shaoxing wine, 2 spoons of brown sugar, goji berries (optional).
Method: Cinnamon meat with Shaoxing wine to boil; round glutinous rice soaked in water for two hours after draining; the cinnamon meat + wine + cranberry + round glutinous rice together into the electronic pot, cooked after opening the pot lid mixed with brown sugar, like goji berries, at this time you can add, stir well, cover the pot lid and then stuff for 5 minutes.
Guiyuan Red Date Tea:
Ingredients: 40 g of cinnamon balls, 10 red dates.
Directions: Add all ingredients to 3,000 ml of water and cook for 30 minutes.
Ginseng Cinnamon Honey Drink:
Ingredients: Appropriate amount of American ginseng, appropriate amount of cinnamon balls, appropriate amount of honey.
How to do it: Add all the ingredients to the right amount of water and boil for 30 minutes, which is a delicious and strong drink.
Efficacy: American ginseng nourishes yin shengjin, Guiyuan calms the spirit and nourishes the blood, benefits the spleen and stomach. This honey drink can replenish weakness, benefit the stomach and promote blood circulation.