Spring is a time of drizzling rain

When external dampness is blocked, people are prone to feel sleepy

At the same time, the dampness stagnates the spleen

affecting the transportation and digestion

symptoms such as bloating, thirst, and a lack of desire to drink more can occur

Therefore, spring health care should be based on dispelling dampness

The five-fingered walnut is a special medicinal herb from Guangdong.

It is very common in the mountains of the Hakka region in eastern Guangdong

Because its leaves look like five fingers

There are fine hairs on the leaves

The fruits look like peaches when they are ripe

So it's called the "five-fingered walnut", also known as astragalus

The effect is similar to that of Beiqi, which is a kind of Chinese medicine, and it has the same effect as Beiqi.

I'm sure the Cantonese will be happy to have one when they hear this

Bamboo Chicken with Five Fingered Walnut and Goji Gorgonzola in Casserole

Main effects: Strengthens the spleen and kidneys, and enhances the vitality of Qi and blood.

Recommended for people with weak spleen and stomach, insufficient qi and blood, and weak feet, as well as for daily family health care.

Ingredients: 50 grams of peach, 15 grams of wolfberry, 30 grams of Gorgon fruit, 20 grams of peanuts, 3 slices of ginger, 1 bamboo chicken (3-4 people).

Method: the five-fingered peach, wolfberry, gorgonzola, peanuts with water, slightly soaked, bamboo chicken pre-treated (remove the hair, claws, viscera, etc.), cut large pieces, all the ingredients and medicinal herbs together into the tile pot, add the right amount of water, large fire boiling and then switch to medium-small fire about 1 hour can be seasoned and eaten.

Soup comment: this soup is nourishing and not greasy, soup mellow flavor, soup in the gravy, peanuts are commonly used in soup material, can play a role in strengthening the spleen and stomach. Five-fingered walnut, also known as astragalus, slightly warm, sweet taste, have spleen tonic gas, qi and dampness, and activate the role, in addition to be used to supplement the gas, for foot tiredness and weakness, rheumatism paralysis pain also has a certain role, coupled with the complementary liver and kidney of the Chinese wolfberry, the soup is also suitable for use in the legs and feet of the elderly bad. Bamboo chicken is what we often refer to as black chicken, black chicken has a higher nutritional value compared to normal chicken, especially for women with insufficient qi and blood.

Five-finger hairy peach soup

The main effect: the benefit of qi, healthy spleen to dispel dampness

Recommended reasons: package you love a mouthful of soup to dispel dampness

Ingredients: five-finger hairy peach 15g, Poria 10g, Gorgonzola (dry) 10g, 15g of fried Job's tears, 15g of adzuki beans, Chen Pi 1 small corner, a piece of pork fan bone.

Directions: Wash the pork scallop and chop it into large pieces, blanch and standby. The other materials are cleaned and ready to go. Put all the materials into the soup pot, add 2000ml of water, boil over high heat and then turn to low heat, cook for about 1 hour, add salt to taste.

Soup Review:

Poria, Gorgon fruit, barley, red beans are all wet things, but they are all light with the effect of eliminating dampness, but no complementary. A flavor of dampness is also injurious to the suspicion of righteousness, five-fingered hairy peach can be just right for the task of supporting the righteousness of dampness. This soup with pig fan bone than pig bone is better, although the pig bone is more fragrant, but too fat rather affect the dampness. The pork scallop bone meat is lean but not firewood, after the soup to eat is also quite good.

Carp with five-fingered walnuts and lentils

Main effects: spleen, dampness, qi benefit

Ingredients: 30g of five-fingered walnuts, 30g of lentils, 500g of carp; ginger slices (3~4 people)

Method: carp washed and gutted and fried to yellow, and the rest of the material washed and put into the pot. Put together in a pot, boil over high heat and then turn to low heat for 1 hour, add salt to taste.

Soup comment: for the weak people, the five-fingered walnut complementary strength is just right, can ensure that the gas really "make up" into it, so as to better drive the role of lentils to dispel dampness. Carp spleen and stomach, in addition to dampness and water, "Materia Medica Jing Shu" mentioned crucian carp, "the only fish that can be eaten often", fish high protein and low fat, tender and easy to digest, is commonly used to supplement the deficiency of food materials. Therefore, this soup is very suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, or people who are old and weak, to make up for the middle and eliminate the dampness of the soup.

Five-fingered hairy peaches and corn in soup with lean pork

Main effects: eliminating dampness and benefiting the qi, strengthening the spleen and eliminating dampness Recommended for people who are fatigued, sleepy, dull, and have a thick and greasy tongue, as well as those who have a daily health care to get rid of dampness.

Ingredients: 100g of five-fingered hairy peach, 50g of dried Chinese mountain, 20g of cloud ling, 1 corn with beard, 3 figs, 300g of lean meat (3~4 people). Directions: Wash and clean five-fingered walnut, break short sections; wash and soak other herbs; peel off the skin of fresh corn and keep the corn whiskers, cut short sections; wash and cut lean pork into pieces. Put all the materials into the soup pot, add water, martial arts fire rolling 15 minutes after changing the fire boil for 45 minutes, add a little salt to taste. Soup comment: summer health care to dispel dampness and clear heat is appropriate, plain weak spleen and stomach should pay attention to the care of the stomach gas. Five-fingered hairy peach can dispel dampness, but also can benefit from the gas to strengthen the spleen to supplement the deficiency, Shu Jin and vitality, with the same spleen to dispel the role of Huishan, Yunling, as well as clearing the heat and dampness of the maize and corn, suitable for vegetative weakness and fatigue, loss of appetite, limbs sleepy, but also as a health care soup in hot and humid weather in the summer.

Recommended: Guangzhou Daily - Food in Guangdong & Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Nutrition