When the cold wind blows and air-conditioning attacks, and you want to warm yourself from head to toe, don’t forget to eat red food. Red food is considered to have a warming and tonic effect in traditional Chinese medicine. It can dispel cold and warm the palace, activate blood and nourish blood, which is of great benefit to women's bodies.

Today, we will teach you a warm-up dish - "Five Red Soup". As the name suggests, Wuhong Tang is based on five red ingredients: red dates, wolfberry, red beans, brown sugar, and ginger. The combination of these ingredients is simply a golden combination for health and warmth in winter.

Red dates nourish qi and blood, wolfberry improves eyesight and nourishes the liver and kidneys, red beans strengthen the spleen and kidneys, brown sugar nourishes qi and blood, and ginger repels cold and warms the stomach. The five ingredients complement each other and together form this bowl of nutritious and excellent five red soup.

Making Wuhong Tang is not complicated and can be completed in just a few steps. Wash the red dates, wolfberries and red beans and soak them separately for half an hour. Then, put all the ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for about an hour. Add brown sugar to taste.

The cooked Wuhong Tang has a fragrant aroma. Drink a bowl while it is hot and your whole body will feel warm. If you are afraid of the cold and have cold hands and feet, you might as well drink more Wuhong Tang. It can help you expel the cold from the inside out and warm your body.

In addition to Wuhong Tang, there are many other red foods that are also very suitable for winter tonic, such as:

Sweet potato: warm in nature, sweet in taste, and has the effect of replenishing qi and replenishing deficiency. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen, nourishing the stomach, laxative and detoxifying. In autumn and winter, sweet potatoes are both delicious and healthy.

Hawthorn: slightly warm in nature, sour and sweet in taste, has the effects of digesting food and removing accumulation, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and lowering lipids and blood pressure. Drinking hawthorn soaked in water or made into hawthorn cake are both good choices.

Longan: warm in nature and sweet in taste, it has the effects of nourishing qi and blood, benefiting the heart and spleen, calming the nerves and promoting sleep. Dried longan made into tea or porridge has a very good nourishing effect.

In the cold winter, eating more red foods can not only help you warm up against the cold, but also nourish your body.