What should you eat for heatstroke?
During the hot summer, many people suffer from heatstroke. So, what can you eat to quickly relieve the symptoms of heatstroke? Experts point out that when heatstroke occurs, it is best to eat some foods that clear heat and cool the blood. Below, the editor will introduce some foods that can quickly relieve the symptoms of heatstroke.
Banana: Sweet in taste, cold in nature, can clear heat and detoxify, and moisten the intestines. Suitable for intestinal dryness and constipation.
Bananas are one of the most popular fruits. Europeans call them "happy fruit" because they can relieve depression. Bananas are also a favorite weight-loss fruit for girls. Bananas are also known as the "fruit of wisdom," a legend stemming from the belief that the Buddha Sakyamuni gained wisdom by eating them. Bananas are highly nutritious and low in calories. They contain phosphorus, known as "the salt of wisdom," as well as rich protein, sugar, potassium, vitamins A and C, and plenty of dietary fiber, making them a very nutritious food.
From a nutritional perspective, bananas are a starchy and beneficial fruit, (so it's not advisable to eat too many, as it can easily lead to weight gain). From the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), bananas are sweet and cold in nature, which can clear heat and moisten the intestines, promoting intestinal peristalsis. However, they are not suitable for those with spleen deficiency and diarrhea. As with everything, there is a reasonable explanation. Bananas are cold-natured, and according to the principle of "treating heat with cold," they are most suitable for people with a "hot" constitution. Those with hemorrhoid bleeding or fetal restlessness caused by "heat" can eat raw banana flesh.
However, precisely because bananas are cold-natured, it is best for people with a "cold" constitution to avoid them. For example, those with a cold stomach (with a bland taste and bloating), a deficient-cold constitution (diarrhea, prone to dizziness), nephritis (also considered a deficiency-cold condition), or those with swollen feet during pregnancy should not eat raw bananas. Unless the banana flesh has been steamed or boiled, its cold nature is reduced, and then it can be eaten. As for a "cold" cough, bananas should generally not be eaten, but if they are steamed and then eaten, it is acceptable.
Watermelon: Sweet in taste, cold in nature, affects the Heart, Stomach, and Bladder meridians. Can clear heat and relieve summer heat, relieve vexation and thirst, and promote urination. Celery: Sweet and bitter in taste, cool in nature, affects the Liver and Stomach meridians. Can pacify the liver and clear heat, expel wind and promote dampness.
The watermelon is a major summer fruit. The ripe fruit contains a large amount of water, and the pulp generally has a sugar content of 5-12%, including glucose, fructose, and sucrose. The sweetness increases as sucrose content rises during the later stages of ripening. It contains no starch, and its sweetness may decrease during post-harvest storage as disaccharides are hydrolyzed into monosaccharides. The seeds can be eaten as a snack, and the rind can be processed into watermelon jam. In TCM, the juice and rind are used medicinally to clear summer heat and relieve fever.
Known as the king of melons, it was introduced from the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty, hence its name "watermelon." Watermelon is also an annual herb of the Cucurbitaceae family, originally from Africa. It is now grown in most parts of the country, except for a few remote and cold regions. The fruit is sweet and cold in nature.
Watermelon is a typical fruit of summer and a major summer fruit. On a scorching summer day or a hot, stuffy tropical night, a chilled watermelon can effectively relieve summer heat.
Watermelon pulp (flesh) has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, relieving vexation and thirst, promoting urination, and detoxifying alcohol. It is used to treat all types of heat syndromes, summer heat vexation and thirst, difficult urination, sore throat, oral inflammation, and drunkenness.
Watermelon rind is used to treat nephritic edema, jaundice from liver disease, and diabetes.
Watermelon seeds have the effect of clearing and moistening the lungs, harmonizing the middle burner to relieve thirst, aiding digestion, and can be used to treat spitting blood and chronic cough. The seed shells are used to treat intestinal wind bleeding and dysentery with blood.
Cabbage: Sweet in taste, neutral in nature, affects the Intestines and Stomach meridians. Can relieve heat and vexation, and promote smooth bowel movements.
Cabbage is suitable for everyone to eat. It is especially suitable for people with chronic habitual constipation, common cold, lung heat cough, throat inflammation, abdominal bloating, and fever. Applying cabbage leaves to the face can reduce the growth of pimples on the right side. Those with diarrhea should try to avoid eating cabbage. Rotting cabbage cannot be eaten, as under the action of bacteria, nitrates in the cabbage are converted into toxic nitrites. Nitrites can oxidize low-hemoglobin in the blood into methemoglobin, which loses its ability to carry oxygen, causing serious poisoning in people, leading to symptoms like dizziness, headache, nausea, rapid heartbeat, coma, and even life-threatening situations.
Cabbage is rich in crude fiber, which not only helps to moisten the intestines and promote detoxification but also stimulates intestinal peristalsis, promotes bowel movements, and aids digestion. It has a good effect on preventing colon cancer.
Amaranth: Sweet in taste, cool in nature. Can clear heat and detoxify, and promote bowel movements.
Amaranth is rich in calcium that is easily absorbed by the body, which can promote the growth of teeth and bones, maintain normal heart muscle activity, and prevent muscle cramps (spasms). It is rich in iron, calcium, and vitamin K, and has functions such as promoting blood clotting, increasing hemoglobin content and oxygen-carrying capacity, and promoting blood production. Amaranth is also a star on weight-loss menus; regular consumption can aid weight loss, promote detoxification, and prevent constipation.
Clears heat and detoxifies, brightens the eyes and benefits the throat. Amaranth is sweet and cool, good at clearing heat and dampness, clearing the liver and detoxifying, cooling the blood and dispersing stasis. It has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect on dysentery with red and white stools caused by damp-heat, and on red, painful eyes and a sore, swollen throat caused by liver fire blazing upwards.
Amaranth is cold in nature, so it is not suitable for people with a constitution of yin excess and yang deficiency, or those with spleen deficiency and loose stools or chronic diarrhea.
Amaranth should not be eaten with soft-shelled turtles, as it can cause poisoning.
People with allergic constitutions may suffer from phytophotodermatitis after eating amaranth and being exposed to sunlight. This condition is quite serious and requires great attention.
Amaranth and soft-shelled turtle are a forbidden combination... eating them together can cause poisoning.
Wild Rice: Sweet in taste, cold in nature, affects the Lung and Spleen meridians. Can clear heat and detoxify, relieve vexation and thirst, promote urination, and relieve constipation.
Wild rice is rich in vitamins that have an anti-hangover effect and can help alleviate drunkenness. The organic nitrogen in young wild rice exists in the form of amino acids and can also provide sulfur, making it delicious, highly nutritious, and easily absorbed by the body. However, because wild rice contains more oxalic acid, its calcium is not easily absorbed by the body.
1. Promotes urination to quench thirst and detoxifies alcohol:
Wild rice is sweet and cold, and its nature is slippery and beneficial. It can both promote urination to expel water, assisting in treating conditions like edema in the limbs and difficult urination, and clear summer heat to relieve vexation and thirst. It is especially suitable for consumption in summer, as it can clear heat and promote bowel movements, relieve vexation and detoxify alcohol, and also alleviate alcohol toxicity, treating unconsciousness from drunkenness.
2. Tonifies deficiency and strengthens the body:
Wild rice contains more carbohydrates, protein, fat, etc., which can supplement the body's nutrients and has the effect of strengthening the body.
3. Wild rice can reduce jaundice and is beneficial for jaundice-type hepatitis. For promoting lactation: 30 grams of wild rice, 10 grams of Tongcao (Tetrapanax papyriferus), stew with pork trotters.
Bitter Melon: Bitter in taste, cold in nature, affects the Heart, Spleen, and Stomach meridians. Can clear heat and promote dampness, detoxify and brighten the eyes.
Effects:
1. Bitter melon has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, nourishing blood and qi, tonifying the kidneys and spleen, and nourishing the liver and brightening the eyes. It has certain effects on treating dysentery, sores and swellings, summer heat fever, excessive heat rash, conjunctivitis, etc.
2. Bitter melon is very high in vitamin C, which has effects such as preventing scurvy, protecting cell membranes, preventing atherosclerosis, improving the body's stress response, and protecting the heart.
3. The active ingredients in bitter melon can inhibit the carcinogenesis of normal cells and promote the recovery of mutated cells, having a certain anti-cancer effect.
4. Bitter melon's momordica, known as the "fat killer," can reduce the intake of fat and polysaccharides.
Clears heart fire, detoxifies, brightens the eyes, replenishes qi and essence, quenches thirst and relieves summer heat, and treats carbuncles.
5. Bitter melon contains momordica saponins (also known as saponins), which have medicinal and health-care functions such as lowering blood sugar and lipids, anti-tumor, preventing osteoporosis, regulating endocrine, antioxidant, antibacterial, and improving human immunity.
Dietary Value
Bitter melon is bitter in taste, non-toxic, and cold in nature; it enters the Heart, Liver, Spleen, and Lung meridians.
It has the effects of clearing heat and relieving summer heat, brightening the eyes and detoxifying, lowering blood pressure and blood sugar, promoting urination and cooling the blood, relieving fatigue and clearing the mind, and replenishing qi and strengthening yang.
It is mainly indicated for heatstroke, summer heat vexation and thirst, summer carbuncles, excessive heat rash, red and swollen eyes, carbuncles and erysipelas, burns and scalds, oliguria, etc.
Beauty Effects
Bitter melon can moisturize and whiten the skin, and also soothe and moisturize the skin. Especially in the easily hot summer, applying chilled bitter melon slices can immediately relieve skin irritation.
Bitter melon is also known as: bitter gourd,锦 (金) lychee, bumpy grape, toad, red girl, cool melon, gentleman's vegetable. Bitter melon is native to eastern India and was introduced to southern China in the early Ming Dynasty. Bitter melon belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family; it is an annual climbing plant. Its stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits are very peculiar and can be cultivated as ornamental plants.
In TCM, acne is considered to be caused by the steaming of damp-heat accumulated in the spleen and stomach, or heat retention in the Lung meridian, or dysfunction of the digestive tract, or disharmony of Chong and Ren meridians rising and stagnating in the face.
Summer is a season prone to acne. When summer arrives, the temperature rises sharply, the body sweats more, the sebaceous glands secrete more sebum, and combined with non-breathable clothing or friction with the body, acne can break out explosively.
Bitter melon is cold and bitter in taste, entering the Heart, Lung, and Stomach meridians. It has the functions of clearing heat and quenching thirst, lowering blood pressure and lipids, beautifying the skin, and promoting metabolism. Bitter melon is rich in vitamin B1, vitamin C, and minerals. Long-term consumption can keep one energetic and is very beneficial for treating acne.
Therefore, in summer, one should eat less spicy, greasy, high-calorie, high-sugar, and coarse-fiber foods, and eat more vitamin-rich vegetables such as bitter melon and carrots, while also paying attention to drinking more water.
Cucumber: Sweet in taste, cool in nature, affects the Spleen, Stomach, and Large Intestine meridians. Can clear heat, detoxify, and promote urination. Loquat: Sweet and sour in taste, cool in nature. Can moisten the lungs and stop coughing, promote fluid production to quench thirst, and lower qi to stop vomiting.
Cucumber "is sweet and cold in taste, taking it can clear heat and promote urination." Modern nutrition experts point out: Cucumber is rich in nutrition, beneficial for fitness and preventing disease, contains sugars and glycosides, and also contains various free amino acids, carotene, vitamin B2, vitamin C; it also contains minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron, and has the effect of lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.
In daily life, using cucumber as medicine can often achieve unexpected results.
Pear: Sweet and sour in taste, cool in nature, affects the Lung and Stomach meridians. Can promote fluid production to moisten dryness, clear heat and transform phlegm. Millet: Sweet and salty in taste, cool in nature, affects the Kidney, Spleen, and Stomach meridians. Can clear heat and harmonize the middle burner, promote urination to treat strangury. Mung Bean: Sweet in taste, cool in nature, affects the Heart and Stomach meridians. Can clear heat and detoxify, relieve summer heat and promote urination. Mung Bean Sprouts: Same as mung bean. Tofu: Sweet in taste, cold in nature, affects the Spleen, Stomach, and Large Intestine meridians. Can clear heat and harmonize the middle burner, promote fluid production to quench thirst.
Pear is sweet and sour in taste and neutral, non-toxic, and has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, benefiting the spleen to stop diarrhea, and harmonizing the stomach to lower adverse qi.
People who eat more pears have a much lower chance of catching a cold than those who don't eat or eat few pears. Therefore, some scientists and doctors call pears "all-round healthy fruits" or "general practitioners." Now that air pollution is quite serious, eating more pears can improve the respiratory system and lung function, protecting the lungs from the effects of dust and smoke in the air.
Yellow pears are often used as medicine, especially for eliminating phlegm and reducing fire, detoxifying sores, treating colds, bronchitis, and cough. They are also effective for vexation and thirst with loss of voice, constipation, and alcohol detoxification.
Soybean: Sweet in taste, neutral in nature. Its effects, indications, and contraindications are the same as tofu.
Soybean is the most nutritious, known as the "king of beans," and is called by people "plant meat" and "green cow." Dried soybeans contain about 40% high-quality protein, the highest among all grains. However, some studies suggest that men should eat fewer soy products.
Wheat: Sweet in taste, cool in nature, affects the Heart, Spleen, and Kidney meridians. Effects: Nourishes the heart and calms the mind, clears heat and quenches thirst. Suitable for stomach heat pain and damp-heat diarrhea.
Wheat is rich in starch, protein, fat, minerals, calcium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin A. Due to different varieties and environmental conditions, the nutritional content varies greatly. In terms of protein content, wheat grains grown in a continental arid climate are hard and transparent with a higher protein content of 14-20%, and the gluten is strong and elastic, suitable for making bread. Wheat grains grown in humid conditions contain 8-10% protein, the grains are soft, and the gluten is poor, which shows that the geographical climate has a very important influence on the formation process of the product.
Kudzu Root (Ge Gen): Sweet and pungent in taste, neutral in nature, affects the Spleen and Stomach meridians. Effects: Clear heat and release the muscles, raise yang to stop diarrhea, diffuse and expel rashes, promote fluid production to quench thirst. Suitable for chronic diarrhea, and in modern times, it is used for gastric ptosis.
Kudzu root, dispels wind and cold, purifies the exterior, releases muscle heat, and stops vexation and thirst. It is a medicine that drains stomach fire. I have observed that among the medicines that release the exterior and expel pathogenic factors, there are many types. For example, Mahuang (Ephedra) pulls cold from the nutrient aspect of the Taiyang meridian, Guizhi (Cinnamon twig) resolves wind from the defensive aspect of the Taiyang meridian, Fangfeng (Saposhnikovia) and Suzi (Perilla leaf) dispel wind-cold on the surface of the Taiyang meridian, Gaoben (Ligusticum) and Qianghuo (Notopterygium) dispel cold-dampness on the surface of the Taiyang meridian; all are called dispersing medicines. However, the dispersing nature