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What to eat to relieve heat? Recommend four heat-clearing and detoxifying recipes

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Asked on:Apr 12, 2026 12:48 AM

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  • Cailey Cailey

    Apr 12, 2026

      In summer, the hot weather is often unbearable and appetite is getting worse. At this time, the diet should naturally focus on clearing away heat and detoxifying. So what’s the best thing to eat to relieve the heat? Next, I recommend four heat-clearing and detoxifying recipes for your reference.

      Recipe 1. Bitter Melon Pork Ribs Soup

      Ingredients: 500 grams of bitter melon, 400 grams of pork ribs, appropriate amounts of green onions, ginger slices, Shaoxing wine, salt, and MSG.

      practice:

      1. Remove the stems and flesh of the bitter melon and cut it into pieces; Wash the spareribs and cut into small pieces.

      2. Add an appropriate amount of water to the pot, bring to a boil, add the pork ribs and cook to remove the blood foam, remove and wash.

      3. Turn on the heat in the pot, add the ribs and water, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the scum, add green onion slices, ginger slices and Shaoxing wine, switch to low heat and cook until the ribs are cooked and tender, then add the bitter melon and cook for about 10 minutes, add salt and MSG to taste.

      Efficacy: Bitter melon has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, improving eyesight, replenishing qi and replenishing essence, quenching thirst and relieving heat. Bitter Melon and Pork Ribs Soup has a bitter, sweet and moist smell. It has the effects of clearing heat, removing heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. It is a good product for clearing away heat and reducing fire in summer.

      Recipe 2: Bonito and Zucchini Lean Meat Soup

      Ingredients: 100 grams of dried fish (available in dry goods stores), 500 grams of zucchini, 150 grams of lean pork, and 3 slices of ginger.

      practice:

      1. Soak bonito for more than 40 minutes and wash; Scrape off the hair and skin of the zucchini, wash and slice.

      2. Wash the lean pork, cut into thin slices, mix with a little corn starch, light soy sauce, and raw oil and marinate for a while.

      3. Put the bonito and ginger in a wok and add 1500 ml of water (about 6 bowls) and boil over high heat for 10 minutes. Add the zucchini and boil for another 10 minutes. Add the lean meat and bring to a boil. Add an appropriate amount of salt and oil.

      Efficacy: Bonito has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach and replenishing yin and blood. The zucchini is a famous vegetable for relieving summer heat.

      Recipe 3. Artemisia annua and mung bean porridge

      Ingredients: Appropriate amounts of mung beans, winter melon, rice, artemisia annua and fresh lotus leaves.

      practice:

      1. Boil the artemisia annua and winter melon together in boiling water for 15 minutes, remove the residue and extract the juice.

      2. Wash and chop the lotus leaves, cook them with mung beans and rice for 30 minutes, then add Artemisia annua and winter melon juice, add rock sugar, cook until the porridge is cooked, let it cool and refrigerate for 2 hours before eating.

      Efficacy: This porridge has the fragrance of artemisia annua and fresh lotus leaves, and can exert its summer-relieving effect, helping mung beans and winter melon to dispel summer-heat and dampness. It is a porridge with good color and flavor, and has the functions of clearing heat, relieving heat, diuresis and stomach.

      Recipe 4: Cucumber, Lentil and Adzuki Bean Pork Ribs Soup

      Ingredients: One old cucumber, one or two each of lentils and adzuki beans, one rib, a small piece of tangerine peel, and two slices of ginger.

      practice:

      1. Wash the old cucumbers and cut them into large pieces, keeping the pulp and kernels.

      2. Wash the lentils and adzuki beans and soak them in water for half an hour. Drain the tangerine peel in clean water. blister Soft, scrape off the white flesh.

      3. Wash the spareribs and cut into pieces, boil in water and remove.

      4. Pour an appropriate amount of water into a clay pot and bring to a boil. Add all the ingredients and bring to a boil. Turn to simmer and simmer for an hour and a half. Add salt to taste and drink.

      Efficacy: Old cucumber clears away heat, quenches thirst and diuresis. Adzuki beans can help relieve edema, relieve irritability and heat, quench thirst, relieve alcoholism and dampness, etc. Lentils can strengthen the spleen and relieve heat and dampness. Spare ribs replenish qi and blood and increase calcium.