Today, the editor will recommend three dietary therapy recipes for preventing and treating colds in the summer.

　　1. Ginger and brown sugar drink

　　Ingredients: 15g sliced ​​ginger, appropriate amount of scallion whites, 20g brown sugar.

　　Instructions: Cut the white part of the scallion into 3 cm long sections (3 sections in total), add it to 500 g of water along with ginger, bring to a boil, and then add brown sugar.

　　Efficacy: Relieves vomiting, promotes sweating to relieve exterior syndromes, harmonizes the middle jiao and dispels cold. It is suitable for those with wind-cold type common cold, fever, headache, body aches and no sweating.

　　2. Watermelon and tomato juice

　　Ingredients: Watermelon and tomatoes, in appropriate amounts.

　　Instructions: Remove the flesh and seeds from the watermelon, and squeeze out the juice using cheesecloth. Blanch the tomato in boiling water, peel off the skin, and squeeze out the juice using cheesecloth as well. Combine the two juices and drink as a tea substitute.

　　Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, relieves summer heat and dampness. Can treat summer colds with symptoms such as fever, thirst, irritability, dark and hot urine, poor appetite, and indigestion.

　　3. Mung bean tea

　　Ingredients: 50g mung beans, 5g green tea, 15g rock sugar.

　　Instructions: Wash the mung beans, crush them, and put them in a bowl with tea and rock sugar. Pour boiling water over them and steep for about 20 minutes before drinking.

　　Efficacy: Clears heat and detoxifies, treats influenza with symptoms such as sore throat and hot cough, and can also be used to prevent influenza.