Ingredients

500 grams of winter melon, 30 grams of lotus leaves, 50 grams of white lentils, and 150 grams of lean pork.

Method

Peel and cut the winter melon into pieces, put it into a pot with lotus leaves, lentils, and lean pork, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer for about 2 hours with a little salt. Just season.

Winter melon is the fruit of winter melon, an herbaceous plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. It tastes sweet, light and slightly cold in nature. Enters the lung, stomach and bladder meridians. Efficacy: Clear away heat and resolve phlegm, relieve restlessness and quench thirst, diuresis and reduce swelling.

The lotus leaf is the leaf of the lotus, a perennial aquatic plant of the Nymphaeaceae family. The taste is sweet, astringent and slightly bitter. Cool in nature. Efficacy: clear away heat and remove dampness, widen the chest and invigorate qi.

White lentils are the seeds of lentils, an annual herbaceous plant of the Papilion family. Sweet in taste and neutral in nature. Enters the spleen and stomach meridians. Efficacy: Strengthen the spleen, remove dampness, and relieve diarrhea.

Lean pork is sweet, salty and neutral in nature. Enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians. Efficacy Nourishes yin and moisturizes dryness.