Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer. It doesn’t take the doctor to prescribe medicine. In winter, there are two kinds of soup: dog meat soup and radish soup. Dog meat soup can keep out the cold (but I don’t eat dog meat). The radish soup is mainly used to relieve exhaustion. It is easy to catch a cold in winter and the stomach will be cold.
If the gas stays for a long time, it will turn into cold poison (then it will be difficult to cure), so after catching a cold, it is still good to drink some radish soup and mutton soup to relieve the body of excess gas. I am from Suzhou.
So in Suzhou we basically drink mutton soup in winter.
Zangshu mutton is very famous! It’s very fresh and makes you feel warm after drinking it.
Moreover, it has the effects of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang, warming the middle and dispelling cold, warming and replenishing qi and blood, appetizing and strengthening the spleen. With the arrival of winter, the climate turns from hot to cool, and the moisture in the air decreases. The human body will undergo a series of physiological changes caused by dryness. The main manifestations are
Symptoms include thirst, dry throat, hoarse voice, dry cough, and dry skin.
Chinese medicine has always advocated the use of diet to resist "dryness", and there is a health-preserving theory of "dryness moistens it".
Practice has proved that drinking more soups that nourish yin and moisturize dryness in autumn is very beneficial!
Imperata Gent, Snow Pear and Pig Lung Soup Ingredients: 200 grams of fresh Imperata Gent, 2 pears, 1 pair of pig lungs, 5 grams of tangerine peel.
Preparation method: Wash and cut the pig lungs into pieces, boil them in boiling water for 5 minutes, remove and rinse them; cut the snow pears into pieces, remove the heart and core; cut the Imperata root into short pieces.
Soak the tangerine peel in water until soft, simmer it with pig lungs, snow pear, and Imperata cogongrass root, and simmer over low heat for 2 hours.
Function: clearing away heat and moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, cooling blood, and aiding digestion.
It is used for body dryness, nosebleeds, cough, or dry cough without phlegm in autumn, or phlegm with blood, thick yellow phlegm, sore throat, hoarseness, dry lips and tongue, and constipation.
It is also suitable for patients with hepatitis, cirrhosis, tracheitis and pneumonia.
Sydney Southern Apricot Lean Meat Soup Ingredients: One fresh Sydney pear, appropriate amounts of southern almonds and lean pork.
Preparation method: Peel the pear, simmer it with southern almonds and lean pork for 2 hours and then drink.
Function: This soup functions to moisten the lungs, promote fluid production, clear away heat, resolve phlegm, relieve cough and moisturize dryness.
Sichuan clam apple drink material: one good apple, about 10 grams of Sichuan clam powder, and an appropriate amount of honey.
Preparation method: Cut the lid of the apple flatly, hollow it out, add 10 grams of minced Sichuan scallops and an appropriate amount of honey, cover the lid, secure it with toothpicks, simmer in water for 2 hours, and eat with the soup residue.
Function: Moisten the lungs, remove phlegm, relieve cough, used for cough with excessive phlegm, dry throat and thirst.
Dried vegetable duck kidney and candied dates soup Ingredients: 4 cured duck kidneys, 100 grams of lean pork, 250 grams of dried cabbage, and 5 candied dates.
Preparation method: Soak dried cabbage in water and cut into sections; soak duck kidney in warm water until soft and cut into pieces; wash lean pork.
Put all the ingredients into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, simmer for 2-3 hours, season and eat.
Function: Clears dryness and moisturizes the lungs, relieves coughs and promotes body fluids. It is used for dry cough without phlegm, dry throat, and thirsty to drink.
Pseudostellariae and lily lean meat soup Ingredients: 100g of Pseudostellariae, 50g of lily, half of Luo Han Guo, 150g of lean pork.
Preparation method: Wash the original pieces of lean pork, wash the Radix Pseudostellariae, lily, and Luo Han Guo, put them into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, add the lean meat, simmer over low heat for 1-2 hours, season and eat.
Function: clears and moistens lung dryness, replenishes lungs and promotes body fluid production.
It is suitable for people with qi deficiency and lung dryness, cough and shortness of breath, dry mouth and thirsty for drinks, dryness and heat that damage the lungs and dry cough and throat.
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