During the Jingzhe solar term, eat five more vegetables and basil to clear away heat.

　　1. Basil is sweet and pungent in taste.

　　It has been listed as a dietary therapy product as early as the Tang Dynasty. Sun Simiao, a doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said in "Qianjin Prescription" that it can "relieve the qi, nourish the spleen and stomach, and eliminate phlegm". Basil has obvious effects on calming the liver and clearing away heat. It has a good effect on people with excessive liver yang, such as high blood pressure, dizziness, irritability and heat, restless sleep, and hot cough with phlegm. It has the effect of moistening the intestines and laxative, especially suitable for treating internal heat constipate who.

　　2. Water spinach, also known as water spinach, is sweet in taste and mild in nature.

　　It can be stir-fried, made into soup, or served cold. Because of its bland taste, it is often not taken seriously by people and its medicinal value is ignored. Ji Hui's "Fangcaomuzi" calls it "the strange vegetable of the south" because it can detoxify poisons such as mushrooms, arsenic, kudzu, cassava, etc.; it can treat centipede and poisonous snake bites such as stranguria and blood in the stool, leucorrhea in women, coughing up blood due to lung heat, nose bleeding and unknown poisoning. It is recorded in books that it can be used internally to treat dysentery, and externally used to treat sores, pain and swelling. Purple water spinach contains insulin-like substances, so diabetic patients can help control blood sugar.

　　3. Shepherd's purse is sweet in taste and warm in nature.

　　Li Shizhen said: "The seedlings will appear after the winter solstice, and the stems will grow five or six inches tall in February and March, and they will bloom with fine white flowers. ”Shepherd's purse is the earliest seasonal wild vegetable to herald spring. Because of its fragrant and delicious taste, it is commonly used among the people to make wontons, stir-fry pheasant meat, or cook soup with tofu. But most people are unaware of its medicinal value. clinical It is often used to treat a variety of hemorrhagic disease , such as hematuria, women's functional Uterus Bleeding, fundus bleeding, gum bleeding, etc. in patients with hypertension, etc. Its good hemostatic effect is mainly caused by the shepherd's purse acid contained in it. There are two kinds of shepherd's purse on the market, one with short leaves, a strange fragrance, and good hemostatic effect; the other is artificially grown, with wide leaves, not too fragrant, and has poor medicinal effect.

　　4. Ginger is pungent and slightly warm.

　　Everyday, some ginger should be added as seasoning when cooking fish, meat, chicken, duck, shrimp, crab, etc. The medicinal effects of ginger include removing coldness, removing fishy smell, stopping vomiting, sweating, coughing, and nausea. Ginger peel is diuretic and can cure bacillary dysentery. Leave the ginger peel for hot dysentery and scrape off the ginger peel for cold dysentery. Because ginger's properties are elevated, it is not advisable to eat it at night, because the qi of ginger is astringent at night, so it is not advisable to do the opposite to enhance its properties. Take 3 slices of ginger and 10 red dates decocted in water to treat gastric and duodenal ulcers and diarrhea caused by spleen and stomach deficiency. It is often highly effective. It must be noted here that those with severe internal heat and those with yellow and dry tongue coating should not eat ginger.

　　5. Leeks are sweet and pungent in nature and warm in nature.

　　It is a good stimulant and tonic, which has the functions of strengthening the stomach and aphrodisiac. All caused by kidney yang deficiency Dream People with enuresis, diarrhea, backache, frequent urination, bedwetting in children, and women with backache and excessive leucorrhea can eat leeks regularly, so it is also called "Qiyangcao". If fried with Kaiyang (shrimp), the effect will be better. However, those with internal heat, constipation, dry mouth and tongue should avoid leeks. Leeks may cause blindness, and people with eye diseases such as conjunctivitis should also avoid eating them.