PT Health Life – There are many types of drinks that help cool you down during the hot season. Below are 7 types of drinks for your reference.
Hot sun makes the body sweat a lot, easily dehydrated. Therefore, we need to compensate for lost water to keep the body balanced and prevent electrolyte disorders in the body due to dehydration.
1. Lemon water – a good cooling drink during the hot season
Lemon juice has the effect of creating new fluids, improving thirst, eliminating heat, and is used to treat dryness caused by heat.
Lemon has the effect of clearing heat, clearing the lungs, eliminating phlegm, has a sour taste, cool properties, detoxifies, increases resistance , and is anti-oxidant; attributed to the lung, stomach and liver meridians. Lemon juice has the effect of clearing heat and treating fever and inflammation.
Lemonade is a cheap, easy to buy, and easy to make beverage. Although it is a very good refreshing drink, do not overuse it because using too much lemon juice can also cause harm to health such as damaging tooth enamel, harming the stomach…
2. Orange juice
It is a fruit that is very rich in essential nutrients for the body: Vitamins, minerals, flavonoids, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties… has the effect of clearing heat, clearing the lungs, eliminating phlegm, and helping to reduce inflammation. sweet taste, cooling properties, detoxification, increased resistance, anti-oxidation; attributed to the lung, stomach and liver meridians.
Orange contains a lot of vitamin C, making it a very delicious and nutritious refreshing drink in the summer.
3. Green tea
Tea has the effect of clearing heat, reducing fire, digesting food, stimulating the nerves, preventing thirst and fatigue. When coming back from the sun or working outside in the sun, drinking green tea feels comfortable, reduces thirst, and makes you feel refreshed.
Green tea (green tea) has a greater cooling and detoxifying effect. Black tea (dried tea) tends to accumulate stagnant pepper. Drinking tea in moderation helps with good digestion. If you drink too much tea, it will damage the new fluid of the spleen, leading to poor appetite.
People with spleen and stomach problems should not drink a lot of tea. Tea is usually drunk in the morning and at noon. It should not be drunk in the evening because it stimulates the nerves and causes insomnia .
4. Coconut water
Coconut water has a cool, sweet taste; into the spleen, kidney and stomach meridians; cooling, thirst quenching, diuretic, detoxifying, hemostatic effects.
Coconut water contains a lot of water; contains protein, lipid, inorganic substances, carbohydrates, Ca, P, Fe and many amino acids, B vitamins. The content of magnesium and potassium is very rich and the mixture of substances in coconut water is similar to the fluid in cells so it is Used as nutritious water, to treat dehydration and restore electrolyte balance.
Coconut water has a cool, sweet taste; into the spleen, kidney and stomach meridians; cooling, thirst quenching, diuretic, detoxifying, hemostatic effects.
Coconut pulp has a sweet, neutral taste; into the spleen, kidney and stomach meridians; nutritious, laxative and diuretic effects; Treats sunstroke, heatstroke, fever, thirst, vomiting, dehydration, edema, decreased urination, itchy pimples, dermatitis, eczema…
5. Watermelon juice
In watermelon, water accounts for 90%. All parts of the watermelon are edible, even the seeds and rind. The white pulp can be stewed or stir-fried with other ingredients or used in salads. In addition to cooling effects, watermelon juice also helps prevent asthma, lower blood pressure…
6. Tapioca water
Kudzu (cat can) has a sweet taste, cool properties, has the effect of relaxing muscles, relieving heat, diagnosing, regenerating thirst, promoting yang de… supporting the improvement of heatstroke, high fever, Headache, measles, shoulder and neck fatigue… A cup of tapioca starch water will help you quench your summer thirst.
Note: Cat Can’s nature is cold and cold, eating too much can easily cause diarrhea and damage to the taste, so you need to use a moderate amount. People with severe colds should not use it, because it can easily cause colds to accumulate in the body and make it worse.
7. Sugarcane juice
Sugarcane is both eaten and used as a very good medicine. Sugarcane has a sweet taste, cold properties, benefits the lung and stomach meridians, has the effect of clearing heat and benefiting low energy, creating fresh and laxative properties, diuretic, eliminating fatigue, and aiding digestion. Using sugarcane is good for people with respiratory problems, high fever, detoxification, urinary incontinence, constipation, abdominal bloating, digestive troubles…
Sugarcane and sugarcane juice are very good foods and drinks, but if left for too long or not preserved well, it can easily create a favorable environment for disease-causing microorganisms.
Sugarcane is cold and has a very high sugar content, so people with weak spleen, bloating and loose stomachs and people with thirst-quenching disease (diabetes) should not use it much.
