Core tip: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the five internal organs of a person correspond to the four seasons. Spring nourishes the liver, summer nourishes the heart, autumn nourishes the lungs, winter nourishes the kidneys, and the last 18 days of the season nourish the spleen. Autumn is the time when lung qi is at its strongest and most powerful. Moisturizing the lungs at this time has the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. Recommend some simple and delicious home-cooked recipes for everyone to moisten dryness and nourish the lungs.

Stewed Pork Belly with Ginkgo

Ingredients: 50 grams of ginkgo, 1 pork belly, 100 grams of tofu skin, appropriate amounts of ginger slices, green onions, peppercorns, salt, and chicken essence.

Method:

1. Wash the mucus on both sides of the pork belly and rinse with water.

2. Put an appropriate amount of water into the pot, add pork belly and ginger slices, boil for ten minutes, take out and drain.

3. Soak the tofu skin and slice it; peel and core the ginkgo, wash and set aside.

4. Add water to the pot, add ginger slices and green onion segments, and bring to a boil.

5. Add pork belly, tofu skin, ginkgo and peppercorns, bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer for 2 hours.

6. Add salt and chicken essence to taste.

Nutritional Tips:

Ginkgo has a neutral nature, sweet, bitter, and astringent taste; it returns to the heart, lung, and kidney meridians. Ginkgo belongs to the Ginkgo family, the dry and mature seeds of the deciduous tree Ginkgo, harvested in autumn. Ginkgo contains crude protein, crude fat, reducing sugar, nuclear protein, minerals, crude fiber, riboflavin, vitamin C, selenium, calcium, magnesium and other ingredients. It has the effects of astringing lung qi, calming cough and asthma, and stopping turbidity. It has an auxiliary dietary therapy effect on coughs due to lung disease, asthma in the elderly with weak constitution, and various types of asthma with excessive phlegm. Modern research has found that eating ginkgo can also nourish yin and nourish the skin, resist aging, promote blood circulation, make people's skin and complexion rosy, and be energetic.

Pork belly is warm in nature and sweet in taste; it returns to the stomach meridian. Pork belly contains protein, fat, niacin, calcium, iron, sodium, phosphorus, vitamin E and other ingredients. It has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, dredging blood vessels, and replenishing deficiency and damage. "Bielu" believes that it can "replenish the vital energy". Pork belly is paired with pepper, which has the effect of warming and removing moisture.