Pumpkin boiled with red dates, brown sugar and sugar can improve immunity, replenish qi and astringe lung qi. Used for poor immunity, bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis in the elderly, etc.

Pumpkin: Contains citrulline, arginine, asparagine, trigonelline, adenine, carotene, vitamin B, vitamin C, fat, glucose, sucrose, pentosan, mannitol wait. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", pumpkin is warm in nature and sweet in taste, and enters the spleen and stomach meridians. It has the functions of replenishing qi, resolving phlegm and pus, detoxifying and killing insects, regenerating liver qi, and replenishing liver blood.

Red dates: The Chinese herbal medicine book "Ben Jing" records that red dates are sweet in taste and warm in nature, and return to the spleen and stomach meridian.

Brown sugar: warm in nature, sweet in taste, enters the spleen, has the functions of replenishing qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach.

How to make brown sugar pumpkin and red date soup

1. Select 200 grams of pumpkin with a hard skin and orange flesh, and wash it with water

2. Pay attention to the pumpkin Do not peel

3. Use a knife to cut the washed pumpkin into equal-sized pumpkin pieces

4. Wash with clean water

5. Put the red dates and pumpkin pieces into the casserole

6. Add 600 ml of cold water to the casserole

7. Make the water cover the surface of the pumpkin pieces and red dates, turn up the heat and cook until the water boils< /p>

8. Turn to medium heat and cook until the pumpkin is cooked

9. Add 1 tablespoon of brown sugar to taste according to personal taste.