What to eat in summer is good for the liver?

The liver is an important organ in the human body that mainly focuses on metabolism. The main reason why the liver is easily damaged in summer is that the liver is overloaded. The hot weather affects the blood flow and energy in the liver, and finally damages the liver tissue. In fact, there are many foods in life that are good for promoting liver health and can play a role in nourishing the liver. Below, the editor will introduce to you two summer liver-nourishing nutritional diet therapies to help you protect liver health.

1. Duck and Winter Melon Soup

Ingredients: 500 grams of winter melon, 500 grams of duck meat, 100 grams of lean pork, 50 grams each of water chestnut and coix seed, 1 lotus leaf, 5 grams of tangerine peel, and appropriate amounts of refined salt and MSG.

Preparation method: Wash the duck meat and lean pork and cut into pieces, wash the winter melon with skin and cut into pieces, wash the lotus leaves and cut into small pieces. Put the above four ingredients together with water chestnut, coix seed and tangerine peel into a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat first, then simmer over low heat until the duck meat is cooked through, add salt and MSG and it’s done. Serve as a side dish with meat and drink the soup.

Effect: nourishing yin and liver, strengthening spleen and removing dampness

2. Shredded pork with wolfberry

Ingredients: 50 grams of wolfberry, 400 grams of lean pork, 100 grams of cooked green bamboo shoots, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, soy sauce, lard, sesame oil, white sugar, MSG, and refined salt.

Method: Wash the wolfberries and set aside. Remove the fascia from the pork and cut into strips; cut the cooked bamboo shoots into thin strips of the same length. Heat up a wok, add lard, put the shredded pork and bamboo shoots into the wok at the same time, add cooking wine, add sugar, soy sauce, MSG and salt and mix well, add wolfberry and stir-fry for a few times, drizzle with sesame oil and mix well, then serve.

Efficacy: Nourishes the kidney and yin, resists aging and prolongs life. It is suitable for people with Yin-blood deficiency who suffer from thin body, fatigue, soreness of waist and knees, impotence, palpitations, dizziness, blurred vision, decreased vision, insomnia and forgetfulness, as well as anemia, sexual dysfunction, neurasthenia, etc.

In addition to eating more foods that are beneficial to liver health and following the two dietary therapy methods mentioned above to nourish the liver, everyone should also pay attention to their daily routine and not stay up late. In addition, drinking alcohol and being angry can damage the liver. Therefore, in daily life, you must maintain liver health and avoid these bad living habits. This will truly play a role in nourishing the liver.