三片叶：薄荷叶、淡竹叶、荷叶

薄荷叶

薄荷芳香浓郁、清凉袭人，一直深受人们喜爱。《新修本草》将之列于菜部，称“亦堪生食”，因性味辛香而凉，口含之有冰块般清凉感觉，故为清暑降温之妙品，有解暑解渴，提神醒脑，清心开胃之效。

中医认为，薄荷性辛、凉，归肺、肝经。《本草纲目》：“薄荷辛能发散，凉能清利，专于消风散热。”

取鲜薄荷叶适量，洗净，开水冲泡或榨汁，饮之神清气爽。薄荷叶还可制成多种饮食：

将鲜叶适量洗净切碎，用开水焯一下，放少许盐、香油，为薄荷汤；鲜叶适量洗净，沸水冲泡，放少许砂糖，自然冷却后，为薄荷凉茶；

鲜叶15克煎汁，取汁与60克粳米煮粥，粥将成放入冰糖10克，稍煮即成薄荷粥；鲜叶适量用沸水稍煮，取汁冷却后放入冰箱冷冻成冰粒，为薄荷冰；鲜叶配金银花适量，沸水冲泡后焖5分钟，加入蜂蜜，为薄荷蜜汁等。

这些饮食都清凉解暑，生津败火，还能对付痱子和蚊虫叮咬，夏季常吃常喝对身体有益。

淡竹叶

淡竹叶味甘、淡，性寒，归心、胃、小肠经。具有清热泻火、除烦、利尿之功效。

淡竹叶主治热病烦渴。本品入心经能清心火以除烦，入胃经能泻胃火以止渴。

夏季消暑，新鲜淡竹叶大有用场。取新鲜淡竹叶适量，开水冲泡，每天喝一小杯，可解暑降火，除烦止渴，还能缓解炎热伤津引起的小便短少涩痛。

取鲜叶配金银花、白茅根各20克，用砂锅煮沸20分钟，去渣，加白糖适量搅匀，凉后置冰箱冷藏，每日2~3次饮用，既预防中暑，又利尿消肿，尤适合肾炎、尿血等患者饮用。

炎夏多发口疮、咽痛、目赤及皮肤疖痈之患，取鲜叶20克，水煎后取汁，加绿豆50克，大米100克，煮成稀粥，分顿随量食用，简单而有效。

荷叶从春天开始生长，“小荷才露尖尖角，早有蜻蜓立上头”；到夏天长开，出现“接天莲叶无穷碧”的壮观景象。

中医认为，荷叶性味苦涩，平，归肝、脾、胃、心经，有清暑利湿、升发清阳、凉血止血等功效。

作为药用，主要是取其芳香化湿和淡渗利湿的功效。就是说，荷叶本身带有的清香能够帮助食物的转化，其甘淡能够帮助人体把体内多余的湿气排出体外。

夏季的新鲜荷叶，气清香，食之解暑开胃，怡心爽身，最简便的方法是煎水代茶饮。

取鲜叶1张，洗净煎汤，用汤与大米60克煮成稀薄粥，粥将成时加入少量冰糖，稍煮，即熬制成了荷叶粥，每天喝一碗，能祛暑热之头昏脑涨，胸闷烦渴，小便短赤及泄泻等症。

夏日吃荤腥食物，可将食材用鲜荷叶包裹，或蒸或煮，既消油腻开胃口，又保营养不流失。

荷叶还有确卓的降压降脂减肥之效，行家有“减肥不离荷叶”之说，所以对“三高”病人及肥胖者来说，夏天吃鲜荷叶十分惬意。

英语翻译：

Mint leaf

Peppermint has a strong fragrance and coolness, and it has always been loved by people. "Xinxiu Materia Medica" lists it in the vegetable department, which is called "It can also be eaten raw". It is cool because of its spicy and fragrant taste, and the mouth has a refreshing sensation like ice cubes. Therefore, it is a wonderful product for cooling the heat and quenching thirst. , Refreshing, refreshing and appetizing effect.

Chinese medicine believes that peppermint is pungent and cold, which is attributed to the lung and liver meridians. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Peppermint can diverge, cool and clear, and specialize in dissipating wind and heat."

Take an appropriate amount of fresh mint leaves, wash, brew with boiling water or squeeze the juice, the drink is refreshing and refreshing. Mint leaves can also be made into a variety of diets:

Wash an appropriate amount of fresh leaves and chop them, blanch them with boiling water, add a little salt and sesame oil, to make a peppermint soup; wash an appropriate amount of fresh leaves, brew in boiling water, put a little sugar, and cool naturally to make peppermint herbal tea;

Fry 15 grams of fresh leaves, take the juice and 60 grams of japonica rice to cook the porridge. Put 10 grams of rock sugar in the porridge and cook for a while to make mint porridge; the fresh leaves are boiled slightly in boiling water, and the juice is cooled and placed in the refrigerator to freeze into ice cubes. , Is mint ice; fresh leaves with honeysuckle, brewed in boiling water and simmered for 5 minutes, add honey, mint honey juice and so on.

These diets are refreshing and relieving heat, promoting body fluids and fighting fire, and can also deal with prickly heat and mosquito bites. It is good for the body to eat and drink frequently in summer.

Light bamboo leaves

Light bamboo leaves are sweet and light in taste, cold in nature, and go to the heart, stomach and small intestine meridian. It has the effects of clearing away heat, purging fire, eliminating troubles, and diuresis.

Light bamboo leaves are mainly used for fever and polydipsia. This product can clear the heart fire by entering the heart meridian to relieve annoyance, and entering the stomach meridian can reduce the fire in the stomach to quench thirst.

To cool off the heat in summer, fresh light bamboo leaves are useful. Take an appropriate amount of fresh light bamboo leaves, brew with boiling water, and drink a small cup every day, which can relieve heat and heat, relieve irritation and thirst, and relieve the shortness and astringency of urine caused by heat and body fluid.

Take fresh leaves with 20 grams of honeysuckle and Imperata cylindrica roots, boil them in a casserole for 20 minutes, remove the residue, add some sugar and stir well. After cooling, store in the refrigerator and drink 2 to 3 times a day. It not only prevents heatstroke, but also diuresis and reduces swelling. It is especially suitable for patients with nephritis and blood in urine.

In summer, there are frequent aphtha, sore throat, red eyes and skin carbuncle. Take 20 grams of fresh leaves, decoct the juice, add 50 grams of mung beans, 100 grams of rice, and cook into gruel. effective.

The lotus leaf begins to grow in spring, "the little lotus shows its sharp horns, and dragonflies stand on its head long ago"; when it grows in summer, the magnificent scene of "infinite green lotus leaves" appears.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the lotus leaf is bitter and astringent in nature, and it returns to the liver, spleen, stomach, and heart meridian. It has the effects of clearing heat and dampness, promoting hair and clearing Yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

For medicinal purposes, it is mainly used to aromatize dampness and lighten dampness. In other words, the fragrance of the lotus leaf itself c