Fruits that help cool you down in hot weather.

During hot weather, we tend to sweat more, which can lead to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. Therefore, replenishing fluids and consuming plenty of fruits and vegetables is essential.

According to traditional medicine, fruits with cooling properties, especially those that are mostly used to clear heat, detoxify, and quench thirst, help to generate fluids. This means they help to relieve heat, quench thirst, cool the body, and remove toxins. Therefore, it is advisable to consume more of these fruits during hot weather.

The following fruits are readily available, inexpensive, and can provide many essential vitamins and minerals for the body.

Papaya

Fruit pulp: sweet taste, neutral in nature. Effects: clears heat, detoxifies, generates fluids to quench thirst, nourishes the spleen and stomach, reduces inflammation.

Therefore, eating papaya helps support digestion, treat constipation, hemorrhoids, joint swelling, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gastritis, insufficient milk production, and hangover relief.

Papaya leaves: have anti-inflammatory properties and 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 and potassium. Papaya juice or mashed papaya can be used as a suitable face mask.

Watermelon:

Fruit pulp: sweet taste, cooling properties. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, and promoting urination. It treats jaundice, hepatitis, nephritis, high blood pressure, mouth ulcers, and fever.

Watermelon rind: sweet taste, cooling properties. Treats edema and high blood pressure.

Watermelon seeds: sweet taste, neutral in nature. They have a laxative effect and treat constipation.

People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, or abdominal pain should not eat watermelon.

Watermelon is rich in potassium, which has diuretic effects and therefore helps treat edema, kidney inflammation, and high blood pressure.

Pineapple:

Fruit pulp: sweet and sour taste, neutral in nature. Effects include clearing heat, generating body fluids, promoting urination, benefiting the spleen and stomach, treating sunstroke, relieving hangover symptoms, aiding digestion, preventing colorectal cancer, and lowering blood pressure.

Bark: has diuretic effects and is used to treat diarrhea and dysentery.

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

Fresh pineapple should be soaked and rinsed in salt water before eating. If you experience an itchy tongue after eating, you should stop consuming it. People with weak or cold digestive systems should cook pineapple in soup before eating.

Eating pineapple after meals aids digestion and reduces fat absorption into the bloodstream. Pineapple also has diuretic effects, helping to treat high blood pressure and reduce swelling. Therefore, pineapple is a very good food for people with cardiovascular disease.

Plum

The fruit has a sweet and sour taste and is neutral in nature. Its effects include clearing heat, generating fluids to quench thirst, promoting diuresis, and nourishing the liver. It can treat toothaches, periodontitis, sore throats, mouth ulcers, rashes, painful urination, and constipation.

The kernel of the seed: bitter taste, neutral in nature. It has the effect of promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis, lubricating the intestines, and promoting diuresis. It treats bloating, indigestion, and constipation.

Leaves: sour and sweet taste, neutral in nature. Effects include clearing heat, detoxifying, treating high fever, and treating edema.

Roots: bitter taste, cooling properties. Uses include clearing heat, detoxifying, and relieving pain. Primarily used to treat frequent urination, painful urination, dysentery, and rashes.

Root bark: bitter, salty taste, cold nature. It has the effect of clearing heat and lowering qi, treating qi reversal, dysentery, and rashes.

People with excessive phlegm should avoid using it.

Plums help to secrete stomach acid and intestinal fluids, and increase intestinal motility, making them suitable for people with stomach acid deficiency, bloating, indigestion, and constipation.

Coconut:

Coconut water: sweet taste, cooling properties. It helps to quench thirst, clear heat, promote urination, reduce swelling, treat fever, and sunstroke.

Coconut flesh: sweet, creamy, and neutral in nature. It nourishes the spleen and kidneys, promotes lactation, and treats infantile malnutrition.

Coconut root: bitter taste, neutral in nature. Treats nosebleeds, stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Coconut oil: antiseptic, treats itchy skin and cracked skin.

Fresh coconut water should not be left for too long to avoid spoilage. Eating too much coconut flesh should be avoided as it can cause bloating.

Dragon fruit:

Fruit: sweet, slightly sour, cooling in nature. It has the effect of clearing heat and generating fluids. It treats high blood pressure, obesity, and poor digestion.

Flowers: sweet and bitter in taste, slightly cooling in nature. They have the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving cough, and cooling the blood. They treat pneumonia, hypertension, diabetes, and high blood cholesterol.

Body: Clears heat and reduces inflammation, detoxifies. Treats hypertension, high cholesterol, and constipation.

People with weak or cold spleen and stomach should eat less.

Lemon:

The fruit has a sour taste and a cooling nature. Its effects include generating fluids to quench thirst, benefiting the lungs and moistening the throat, strengthening the spleen, and eliminating phlegm. It treats coughs with phlegm, sore throats, sunstroke, high blood pressure, bloating, diarrhea, and loss of appetite.

Seeds: bitter taste, neutral in nature. Effects include promoting qi circulation and blood flow, and relieving pain.

It promotes the circulation of qi and strengthens the spleen. It treats indigestion, bloating, and abdominal pain.

Leaves: spicy, sweet, and warm in nature. They nourish the lungs and clear phlegm. They treat coughs with excessive phlegm and chronic bronchitis.

Patients with stomach ulcers should consume it sparingly.

Apple:

The fruit has a sweet, slightly sour taste and is neutral in nature. Its effects include clearing heat, relieving irritability, generating bodily fluids, nourishing the heart and replenishing vital energy, calming the nerves, moistening the lungs, strengthening the spleen and stomach, and lubricating the intestines. It treats gastritis, enteritis, chronic pharyngitis, hypertension, insomnia, and anxiety.

Fruit peel: treats nausea, sour taste, vomiting due to pregnancy, cirrhosis, and phlegmy cough.

Leaves: have blood-cooling and detoxifying effects. Treat fever, dizziness, vomiting, boils, irregular menstruation, and reduce joint swelling.

Apples are high in sugar, so people with diabetes should consume them sparingly.

Apples contain tartaric acid and hemicellulose, which absorb cholesterol and excrete it from the body, thus reducing cholesterol levels in the blood.

According to Health and Life