In summer, people are prone to suffering from heat stroke, and the combination of rain and heat is conducive to the growth and reproduction of bacteria. Perishable food deteriorates, causing gastrointestinal diseases such as enteritis and dysentery to occur.
In the southern province of Guangdong, there is a Hakka folk song circulating: “When people talk about bitter melons, I am bitter and bitter. I have to choose between the hardships and the sweetness.â€
The bitter gourd gets its name due to its bitter taste. Vitamin C is high (84 mg/100 g), and protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, carotene, vitamin B, and other nutrients are also available. Jiangsu bitter gourd contains 6.6 mg of iron per 100 grams, which is surprising. All generations of medicines believe that it has the functions of clearing away heat and purifying the eyes and detoxifying eyesight. Such as Li Shizhen said: "Bitter melon bitter, cold, non-toxic, with evil heat, lack of solution, pure heart and eyesight, Qi and impotence" effect. "According to interest in the diet spectrum" contains: "Bitter gourd and green is the bitter cold, polyester heat, eyesight, pure heart. Can sauce can be marinated, fresh baked meat first bitter taste, although the summer can juice condensate, in the cold who do not eat. The color is red, sweet and flat, nourishing blood, moistening the spleen and kidneys." In the summer, people are prone to suffering from heat stroke, which is combined with rain and dampness, which is conducive to the growth and reproduction of bacteria, perishable food, resulting in intestinal diseases such as enteritis and dysentery. Happened.
Therefore, it is extremely beneficial to the body to eat bitter gourd in summer. So how do you eat?
(1) Make herbal tea with bitter gourd and drink it in summer.
(2) Cut the bitter gourd into slices, salt it for a while, add meat, and cook it with garlic and bean drums. The color is delicious and fresh.
(3) Treat heat stroke, use one fresh bitter gourd, cut off and cut it, add tea, and then join, hang hanging in ventilated place, 5-10 grams each time, decoct or soak in water for tea.
(4) Fanre hot drink, use a fresh bitter gourd, cut open to simmer, chop, Shuijianbi.
(5) Acute dysentery, with a fresh bitter gourd, smashed mud, sugar amount, and uniform, two hours after the water filtered out, a cold service.