
beyond the reach of poor people.

We enjoy a range of shakes and smoothies in this season. But here I want to mention some of the traditional drinks that people often use in daily routine to avoid heat stroke. These are all prepared with simple ingredients and useful to all whom living in hot areas around the world.
Lassi is a tradition to break the strictness of hot weather. It is a shake of yogurt with a lot of water. Sometimes the ratio of water is 10 times than yogurt. Why it is so? The logic behind as the elders told is of cold effectiveness. Drink it with sugar or pinch of salt or as plain, it tastes great and good in hot summer. We can rank it at first position and it deserves to be.
Sikanjbeen is a combination of lemon juice and water; it can also be drunk as required; sweet, salty or plain. One lemon is quite enough for one glass, sugar according to your diabetes level and salt up to your
blood pressure level. Do not drink it from any road corner stall, because they just mix flavors of lemon and sugar and you will find no purity in them. Also, there is a threat of hygiene.
Kachchi Lassi is also very good in hot summer. It is prepared with milk and water and ratio is not defined; it is all up to you. Normally, 1/8 glass of milk and remaining water with a pinch of salt is the best.
The pulp of dried and soaked plum and tamarind; both mixed with water and sugar; great in taste and also
well known to resist in hot weather.

Jiggery juice is also very popular on its own as well. It is also mixed with a lot of things like lemon, Tukham Malanga (some kind of black tiny seeds that become sticky after being soaked), barley husk (known as Sattu) etc. It is very refreshing cold drink.
These are some of the drinks still there are many like milk with almond, red syrup (Jam e Shirin and Rooh Afza) etc.
Normally, these drinks contain sugar element in all of them but still they can be molded as a requirement. Beside of these drinks, we should cover our head and shoulders to avoid excess heat. One should also take care while walking under the open sky; try to walk in shady areas. Trees have the best shade that once was a lot in our cities but now they are rare. We should motivate ourselves to grow more and more plants in our houses no matter how many places we have. They can be grown even in pots but their effect is long lasting.
Well, hoping some addition to this list from viewer’s side and waiting for sweat, tasty, pulpy, fragrant and ripe mangoes, that is the only good thing in hot summer.
Best regard.