• Red Colored Food

Red colored foods are good for nourishing blood circulation systems.
“Red enters the heart”, mulberry, red watermelon, grapefruit, carrot, and tomato that are abundant in summer are great foods for the heart. Other red colored foods, such as red dates, red beans, red barley, red lentils, etc., are beneficial for nourishing blood float, lowering body fat, and improving cardiovascular and blood circulation.

•  Food that Reduce Water Retention

To reduce bloating and body heat, detoxify the body, and lose weight, you may eat more wax melon, bitter melon, lotus seeds, red beans, coix seed, yam, etc. Winter melon is also a treasure for the whole body, especially winter melon seeds can be used as medicine, as the best body scrub. You can get the most effects when cooking the melons unpeeled, and with the seeds crashed. 

Summer time is a great time to treat those discomforts last from last Winter! You can “cure” those winter sickness and adjust your physique in summer by maintaining a good summer diet regiment. Taking advantage of the hottest and most yang qi of the year, get more sun exposure, do more exercise to strengthen the body, and intake less food, you can improve allergies and reduce some chronic diseases that occur in winter, such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, rheumatism, etc.

•  Yellow Colored Food

Yellow food to invigorate the spleen and stomach. If you want to invigorate the spleen, you may eat more yellow, sweet food, especially grains and roots, such as: brown rice, oats, millet, corn, barley, pumpkin, yellow sweet potato.

Sweet potato can “replenish the organs, and coat the stomach. It has a lot of water-soluble fiber and has slightly less calories than rice. Therefore, people with spleen deficiency can use sweet potato as a staple food.

In addition, soybeans, soybean sprouts, yellow bell peppers, peanuts, cashews, walnuts, pineapples, mangoes, and papaya can also be supplemented in appropriate amounts during the summer.

Heatstroke is most likely to occur in summer.

To get rid of the water retention and heat in the body, you must drink plenty of water. This is the simplest and most effective way.

Using herbal teas to help slimming down and detoxify the body is a great way adding on top of eating right! 

TCM herbs such as lotus leaf, tuckahoe, and hawthorne are excellent for body detoxification!