Summer eat "bitter" when measured 
 
 
Peng Yongjiang The second affiliated hospital of zhengzhou university 
 
 
China's traditional Chinese medicine to 

        Sorching summer, many bitter food to cool them down to hot, jianwei refreshing, such as balsam pear, asparagus lettuce, celery, green moss, and so on, they became a lot of common food family at the dinner table. 
 
        Indeed, the bitter taste of food not only helps to restore energy, eliminate the bad feelings caused by heat, also can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, strengthen the digestive function, appropriate eat this kind of bitter taste food, to maintain a healthy body is very good, but this does not mean that summer bear flavor food, the more the better, if the wrong way or eating too much, not only to health, and counterproductive, cause harm to human body. 
 
        Some bitterness of bitter food contains elements beneficial to human body, such as the effect of the balsam pear glycosides have fall blood sugar balsam pear, celery celery glycosides in has the effect of blood pressure, alkaloids in tea polyphenols and has a refreshing and antioxidant effect, a moderate amount of feeding is helpful to human body health. However, it does not mean that all of the bitter components in the melon and fruit is good for the body, some bitter foods contain chemicals that are harmful to human body, such as not ripe melon contains toxin is bitter melon, after eating can let a person abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, severe cases may even life-threatening. The laetrile in bitter almond, may produce cyanide after intestinal absorption, highly toxic, severe cases may cause eaters central nerve paralysis and even death. In addition, bitter cucumber also contains a certain toxins, unfavorable edible. 
 
        At the same time, the summer eat bitter food also vary from person to person. The doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, the bitter taste food belongs to cold resistance, dry wet purge, clear heat purging fire, qing xie is kind of food, is not suitable for the general physical weak, in addition, the old man and the child spleen and stomach weak, unfavorable also eat food too much bitterness. Suffering from gastrointestinal diseases such as cold, abdominal pain, diarrhea, should not eat bitter food, or it will lead to disease. 
 
        Bear method also has exquisite taste food, cold food effect is best, at the same time, when eating "bitter", as far as possible don't on an empty stomach, also not to be bitter foods to eat together with other.
 
 
 
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