Cooling fruit in hot season

In hot weather, we often sweat more, so we may be at risk of dehydration and electrolyte deficiency. Supplementing with water, vegetables and fruits is essential.

According to traditional medicine, fruits with cold properties, in large quantities, have the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, and quenching thirst. That means they have the effect of cooling, quenching thirst, cooling and purifying toxins in the body. Therefore, in the hot season, you should eat a lot of these fruits.

The following fruits are easy to find, cheap and can provide many vitamins and minerals necessary for the body.

Papaya

Fruit flesh: sweet taste, neutral properties. Effects: heat clearing, detoxification, thirst quenching, spleen and stomach tonic, anti-inflammatory.

Therefore, eating papaya helps aid digestion, treat constipation, hemorrhoids, joint swelling, high blood pressure, high blood fat, gastritis, lack of milk, and hangovers.

Papaya leaves: anti-inflammatory effect, can be crushed and applied to swollen and painful areas.

Papaya contains a lot of beta-carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E, and many minerals such as calcium, potassium, etc. You can use papaya juice or mashed papaya as a suitable face mask.

Watermelon:

Fruit flesh: sweet taste, cold properties. Heat-clearing, detoxifying, diuretic effects. Treats jaundice, hepatitis, nephritis, high blood pressure, mouth ulcers, fever.

Melon rind: sweet taste, cool properties. Treats edema and high blood pressure.

Watermelon seeds: sweet taste, neutral properties. Laxative effect to treat constipation.

People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and stomachache should not eat watermelon.

Watermelon contains a lot of potassium which has diuretic effects and thus helps treat edema, nephritis, and high blood pressure.

Pineapple:

Fruit flesh: sweet, sour, neutral. Effects of clearing heat, generating body fluids, diuretic, benefiting the spleen and stomach, treating heatstroke, sobering up, aiding digestion, preventing intestinal cancer, lowering blood pressure.

Bark: diuretic, antidiarrheal, dysentery.

Pineapple juice: treats coughs and sore throats caused by heat.

Fresh pineapple should be soaked and washed in salt water before eating. If your tongue itches after eating, you should not eat it. People with weak spleen and stomach should cook pineapple in soup.

Eating pineapple after meals helps with digestion and reduces fat absorption into the blood. Eating pineapple has a diuretic effect, which helps treat high blood pressure and reduce swelling. Therefore, pineapple is a very good food for people with cardiovascular disease.

Plum

Fruit: sweet, sour, neutral. Effects of clearing heat, producing body fluids to quench thirst, promoting urination, and nourishing the liver. Treats toothache, periodontitis, sore throat, mouth ulcers, rash, frequent urination, and constipation.

Seed kernel: bitter taste, neutral properties. Effects of promoting blood circulation, dispelling blood stasis, laxative, diuretic. Treats bloating, indigestion, constipation.

Leaves: sour, sweet, neutral. Effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, treating high fever, treating edema.

Root: bitter taste, cool properties. Heat-clearing, detoxifying, and pain-relieving effects. Treats frequent urination, painful urination, dysentery, and rash.

Root bark: bitter, salty, cold. Effect of clearing heat and lowering gas, treating adverse gas, dysentery, rash.

People with a lot of phlegm should avoid using it.

Plums help secrete stomach acid, intestinal fluid, and increase intestinal motility, suitable for people with low stomach acid, bloating, indigestion, and constipation.

Coconut:

Coconut water: sweet taste, cool properties. Effects of producing body fluids to quench thirst, clear heat, diuretic, reduce swelling, treat fever and heatstroke.

Coconut rice: sweet, fatty, neutral. Helps nourish the spleen and kidneys, increase milk production, and treat indigestion in children.

Coconut root: bitter taste, neutral properties. Treats nosebleeds, stomachache, vomiting, diarrhea.

Coconut oil: antiseptic, treats itchy and chapped skin.

Fresh coconut water should not be left for too long to avoid spoilage. Do not eat too much coconut meat as it will cause bloating.

Dragon fruit:

Fruit: sweet, slightly sour, cool. Heat-clearing and body-renewing effect. Treats high blood pressure, obesity, and poor digestion.

Flower: sweet, bitter taste, slightly cold. Effect of moistening the lungs, stopping cough, cooling blood. Treating pneumonia, high blood pressure, diabetes, high blood cholesterol.

Body: heat-clearing, detoxifying. Treats high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and constipation.

People with weak spleen and stomach should eat less.

Lemon:

Fruit: sour taste, cool properties. Effects of producing body fluids to quench thirst, benefiting the lungs and moistening the throat, strengthening the spleen and eliminating phlegm. Treats coughs with phlegm, sore throat, heatstroke, high blood pressure, bloating, diarrhea, and loss of appetite.

Seeds: bitter taste, neutral properties. Effects of promoting blood circulation and pain relief.

effects of promoting qi and strengthening the spleen. Treats indigestion and abdominal distension.

Leaves: spicy, sweet, warm. Lung tonic and expectorant. Treats coughs with phlegm and chronic bronchitis.

People with stomach ulcers should use less.

Apple:

Fruit: sweet, slightly sour, neutral. Effects: clears heat, eliminates irritation, produces body fluids, nourishes the heart, calms the mind, moistens the lungs, strengthens the spleen and stomach, and laxative. Treats gastritis, enteritis, chronic pharyngitis, high blood pressure, insomnia, and anxiety.

Fruit peel: treats nausea, sour taste, vomiting due to pregnancy, cirrhosis, cough with phlegm.

Leaves: blood-cooling and detoxifying effects. Treats fever, dizziness, vomiting, acne, irregular menstruation, and reduces joint swelling.

Apples are high in sugar, so diabetics should use them sparingly.

Apples contain tartaric acid and hemicellulose which absorb cholesterol and excrete it, thereby reducing blood cholesterol levels.

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