1, tremella and jujube soup
Nowadays, it is especially popular to make soup with big red dates. The soup made of red dates can not only nourish the body, but also moisten the lungs and relieve cough. For people who have a cold and cough, it is very beneficial to drink some soup cooked with red dates. It is recorded in the "Prescription for Promoting Qi" written by ancient jade in the Tang Dynasty that red dates, tremella and rock sugar can relieve cough and moisten the lungs.
Ingredients: 20 grams of tremella (about half a flower), 20 red dates and 60 grams of rock sugar (the weight can be added or subtracted according to everyone's taste).
Practice: put the tremella into clear water, remove the pedicle, tear it into small pieces, put it into the pot with red dates and rock sugar, add 6 bowls of water, cook it with slow fire for half an hour, and then turn off the fire.
2. Tangerine Peel and Pear Soup
Compendium of Materia Medica says that pears can "moisten the lungs and clear the heart, reduce phlegm and reduce fire, heal sores and relieve alcohol poisoning". According to experts, pears are the most common lung-clearing food, which has the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Sydney tastes sweet, moistens the lungs and cools the heart, dried tangerine peel regulates qi and dries the wet, and rock sugar moistens the heart and lungs. Together, these three good things are the most suitable soup to drink in dry season.
Ingredients: 2 Sydney, 20g dried tangerine peel, crystal sugar, medlar and water.
Practice: wash and peel the pears, don't throw the skins on another plate, cut the pears into pieces and soak them in light salt water, don't throw them away, and put them together; Put water in the pot, bring it to a boil, add pear skin, pear core and dried tangerine peel, continue to boil with high fire, skim the floating foam and turn to low heat for about 20 minutes; Take out the soaked pear meat, drain the water, turn off the fire, take out the pear skin and core, throw them away, add the pear meat and crystal sugar, then boil over high fire, and turn to low fire for 5- 10 minutes until the crystal sugar is completely melted; Turn off the fire and sprinkle with medlar.
3, loquat leaf red jujube soup
Eriobotrya japonica leaves are flat and bitter in taste, and their main functions are resolving phlegm and relieving cough, regulating stomach and lowering qi. Jujube boiling soup can not only eliminate the bitterness of loquat leaves, but also play a role in resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Ingredients: loquat leaves, platycodon grandiflorum, almond 15g, candied dates 10g, crystal sugar.
Practice: all ingredients are cleaned for use; The loquat leaves are wrapped in cloth and tied tightly; Pour three bowls of water into the pot, add all the prepared ingredients, boil over high fire and simmer over low fire; When the water in the pot is half, add the rock sugar, melt it and stir it evenly.
4. Stewed lean meat with almond and fritillary bulb
Almond is one of the commonly used medicinal and edible herbs in autumn. Soup has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, relieving asthma and relaxing bowels. For the elderly, almonds, especially southern almonds with relatively mild efficacy, can often be used in medicinal diets. Stewed lean meat with almond and fritillary bulb has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Suitable for chronic bronchitis with cough, phlegm, or dry cough without phlegm.
Ingredients: bitter almond10g, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 5g, lean pork 350g, 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash the lean pork into pieces, wash the bitter almond and Fritillaria cirrhosa, put them in a stew pot, add ginger, stew for 1 hour, and add salt.