Text/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Chen Hui
Correspondent Lin Jinhai Liu Qingjun
Recently, the Guangdong region has ushered in a sweltering heat and high temperature that has not been seen in many years.
Professor Wu Wei, director of the Department of Internal Medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, recommended two herbal tea recipes for heatstroke prevention.
【Hydraulic Herbal Tea Recipe】(4-5 people)
Composition: 30g of mulberry leaves, 30g of chrysanthemum, 30g of Prunella, and 20g of frangipani.
Practice: Put the above medicines in the pot. If there is no diabetic patient at home, add 2-3 candied dates and fry together; if there is a diabetic patient, add 1 carrot (about 150-200g) sliced and fry together.
Add water until 1-2cm submerged the medicinal materials, or add 2000-2500ml of water, simmer for 30-40 minutes, and turn off the heat when the aroma is strong.
It can be re-fried.
Substitute for tea.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and dispelling summer heat, nourishing yin and producing body fluid.
Precautions
1. People with spleen deficiency in constitution are recommended to drink warmly; young people and those with strong constitution can drink warmly or coldly.
When you go to work or work, you can pack it in a thermos and drink it instead of tea.
2. Those whose constitution is prone to deficiency-cold or spleen deficiency and loose stools should not drink or drink less.
【Fresh Recipe for Heatstroke Prevention and Sheng Jin】(4-5 people)
Composition: 5-8 fresh water chestnuts, 2 fresh carrots (about 300g), 50g fresh Rhizoma Imperatae root, 50g fresh lotus leaf, 300-400g bamboo cane, 50g coriander (also known as coriander) (below).
Method: Wash the fresh water chestnuts and smash them with the skin; slice the fresh carrots and break the bamboo cane.
Put the above ingredients into a pot, add 2000-2500ml of water, simmer for 30-40 minutes, and turn off the heat.
It can be re-fried.
Efficacy: Promote fluid and quench thirst, dispel heat and dampness.
Precautions
1. In the Lingnan area, the soil is low and the land is thin, the spleen and stomach are weak and popular, and the summer heat is hot, people often suffer from damp heat and yin loss in the body.
This recipe uses authentic fresh herbs or ingredients, which have the effect of producing body fluid and quenching thirst.
The elderly or those with stomach problems, cough and asthma, and cardiovascular diseases should drink it warmly; young people and those with strong constitution can drink it cold, or even put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold to relieve the heat.
This recipe is especially suitable for smokers and alcoholics.
Can be used for tea.
2. If you have diabetes at home, do not add bamboo cane.
3. For those with deficiency of the spleen and stomach, 3 slices of ginger, 3g of dried tangerine peel and 20g of jujube can be added for frying.