Hot days might as well eat more "bitter"

Xu Chengwen Fushun city rehabilitation guidance center for disabled persons' federation

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Hot and wet in summer, all kinds of disease is easy to decide, if you can eat more food containing "bitter taste", is conducive to physical and mental health.

        Modern medicine thinks, the bitter taste food contains amino acids, vitamins, alkaloids, glycosides, trace elements, anti-bacterial anti-inflammatory, antipyretic QuShu, refreshing, eliminate fatigue, and other medical and health care function. Bitter foods can promote the secretion of gastric acid, increase the acid concentration, to increase appetite.

        Bitter melon aka LaGua, LiangGua. Its rich nutrition, rich in protein, fat, sugar, calcium, sodium, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, balsam pear, etc. Unripe melon can make vegetables to eat, after the mature, flesh can be eaten raw, melon soup, and salad, but also stir-fried, also can cook with meat, fish, crispness, distinctive flavour, can increase appetite and feed digestion, in addition to the heat, weary themselves, quiet your yiqi an aphrodisiac, and so on.

        Almond contains bitter apricot kernels glucoside, so very bitter taste, but eating it can cough asthma, runchang purge, suitable for the common cold cause cough, phlegm, effect is good.

        Tea tea taste bitter, slightly cold, can alleviate a variety of toxins. Research proves that tea leaves contain a rich bioactive substances - tea polyphenols. Tea polyphenols to heavy metal ion precipitation or restore, and through the combination of protein and inhibition of bacteria and viruses, and also have corresponding inhibition on a variety of carcinogenic substance. In addition, the tea polyphenols can reduce blood fat, increase the elasticity of red blood cells, prevent thrombosis, ease and delay the atherosclerosis and high blood pressure, protect the normal functions of heart head blood-vessel.

        In addition, common the bitter taste of the food and chrysanthemum, lily, lotus leaf, etc, these bitter foods also contain alkaloid, glycoside, bitter peptides, nitro compounds, and calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron, magnesium, zinc and other mineral elements, have soared, prompting fashionistas, diminishing inflammation, moisturizing the effect of detumescence, spleen benefit stomach.

        But is important to note that bitter taste food one time shoulds not be too much to eat, so easy to cause nausea, vomiting, spoil one's appetite, etc.

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