1. Astragalus - sweet, slightly warm. Tonify the middle and replenish qi, strengthen the surface and stop sweating, raise yang and lift depression. It is used for insufficient lung qi, sunken internal organs, and chronic illness. When selecting, the ones that are slightly yellow in color and have a unique herbal aroma are better. Usually paired with some lean meat or chicken cooked with Adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum, Snow Fungus, etc., it can have therapeutic effects such as replenishing lung qi.

2. Gouqi——sweet and flat. Clears the liver and improves eyesight, nourishes the liver and blood, nourishes the kidneys and moistens the lungs. Used for liver and kidney deficiency, blurred vision, and liver heat. The top quality is that the grains are oval, plump, thick in flesh, red in color and dark in color, and sweet in taste. Eating red dates, wolfberry, and pork liver stew can have therapeutic effects such as clearing the liver, improving eyesight, and nourishing the liver and blood.

3. Barley - sweet, light and cool. Penetrates the lungs, relieves cough and resolves phlegm, diuresis and removes dampness. Used for kidney yang deficiency and spermatorrhea. Those with yellow and black color, insect-eaten and musty smell are inferior; those with white color, full grains, thick and heavy meat are better. Braised old duck with barley, barley, lentils and fresh lotus leaves has the functions of clearing heat and moistening the lungs, diuresis and dampness, and relieving summer heat.

4. Lotus seeds - remove the core: nourish the kidney and release essence, used for kidney yang deficiency and spermatorrhea; connect the core: clear the heart and relieve troubles, nourish yin and calm the mind, used for upset insomnia, yin deficiency, and clearing the mind Supplementary effect. When selecting, it is also better to have a slightly yellowish color, plump flesh, and thick meat.

5. Polygonatum odoratum - flat, light. Harmonizing, strengthening the spleen, clearing and replenishing lung qi, nourishing yin and clearing deficiency fire. Used for spleen deficiency and lung heat. The ones that are slightly yellowish and slightly moist are better. Those that are too white are smoked with sulfur. Those that are sour and yellow and black are aged products. Adenophora, Polygonatum odoratum, and tangerine peel stewed rabbit meat, and Adenophora polygonatum, lotus seed, lily and egg soup are all year-round health products.

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The correct way to choose medicinal materials for soup:

1. Syndrome differentiation, that is, analyzing and identifying the cold, heat, dryness, dampness, etc. of the disease Symptoms, be familiar with the cold, hot, lukewarm, cool and other properties of traditional Chinese medicine, and select symptomatic Chinese medicinal materials based on syndrome differentiation and treatment.

On the basis of syndrome differentiation, determine the formula of Chinese medicinal materials for soup. For example, those with qi deficiency can use ginseng and chicken, those with blood deficiency can use angelica and mutton, and those with both qi and blood deficiency can use Guiqi and sea cucumbers. Adenophora and Polygonatum odorifera: sweet and mild in nature and slightly cold in nature. They have the effect of nourishing yin, moistening the lungs and nourishing the stomach. They are suitable for people with yin deficiency and dry stools. In addition, different traditional Chinese medicines should be selected according to the physical condition.

2. Choose according to the four seasons. The way to maintain health is to pay attention to the differences in the four seasons. Changes in climate have a certain impact on human physiology and pathology, so supplementation must be done seasonally.

In the cold winter, it is advisable to use pungent, warming and tonic foods, mainly to strengthen yang and nourish the kidneys. Choose raw materials with heat-tonifying properties and boil them into soup to store energy and enhance the body's resistance. In addition, it is not advisable to take the same decoction for a long time. It needs to be changed according to changes in solar terms and physical constitution.

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