Clearing Summer Heat
It seems a bit early in the season to be writing this blog, but San Francisco is experiencing a heat wave. If you work in the heat or you are out enjoying the sunny weather, there are simple things you can do for yourself to keep from overheating and keep your system cool while you work or play.
Drinking peppermint tea is cooling and refreshing; it clears surface heat and moves the Liver. Chrysanthemum tea is particularly helpful in the summer as it too clears Heat, calms the Liver, reduces summer fever, and relieves headache and dry-eyes due to Wind-Heat. Or you can combine equal parts chrysanthemum flowers and
peppermint leaves with a quarter part of goji berries for a lovely summer drink. Brew in hot water for 5 minutes, strain, and then drink hot or refrigerate for a cool drink. Watermelon juice is also a tasty way to relieve summer-heat and it nourishes the yin fluids–this link on watermelon juice goes into greater detail.
Tags: headache, nourishing fluids, Recipes, summer heat
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July 14th, 2011 at 15:31
[...] can do for themselves to cool down and stay comfortable; I offered a few suggestions in a previous blog. But if you live in San Francisco you know that summer isn’t like that, and that what you [...]