Food - medicine to cure heatstroke, sunstroke

With simple ingredients and a little time, you can prepare simple dishes and remedies to help you quickly overcome heatstroke and sunstroke.

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- Green beans have a sweet, slightly cold taste, cool properties, have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, reducing pain and swelling, regulating the five internal organs, reducing discomfort when suffering from heatstroke very well. Green beans can be used to prepare dishes to help relieve heatstroke and sunstroke.

Green bean soup: Use green beans with shells, put them in a pot and cook until the beans are soft and cooked, season to taste and add perilla leaves.

Green bean porridge with a little rice is an easy-to-eat porridge that helps cool the body and prevent heatstroke and heatstroke.

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- Winter melon juice is also a very good drink to cool the body. To have a cup of winter melon juice as shown in the picture, you need 500g of winter melon, peel, wash, slice and squeeze the juice, drink 2 times a day to have the effect of preventing heat, acne, and prickly heat. To enhance the flavor, you can add a piece of pineapple to the juice.

- Cook artichoke soup or drink artichoke tea: Artichoke has the effect of nourishing the liver, purifying the blood, diuretic, good for the cardiovascular system. To cool down when you have a cold, you can use fresh artichoke flowers to make tea to drink or cook artichoke soup with lean meat, both have good cooling effects.

- Freshly squeezed sugarcane juice with fresh kumquat pieces is very good for people with internal heat, heat-prone body, mouth ulcers, dry throat, high fever and dehydration due to heatstroke.

- Drinking fish mint leaves cooked with rice water is also a safe and effective way to cool down the body. To prepare this drink, you just need to take fresh fish mint leaves, wash them, put them in a pot, boil them with clear rice water and drink.

According to Kienthuc