Raw materials: There are two kinds of almonds: sweet almond (south apricot) and bitter almond (north apricot). Nanxing is a kind of almond, which is sweet, flat and non-toxic. It contains amygdalin, fatty oil, sugar, protein, resin, lentinan and almond oil. It is a nutritious and soothing substance for moistening lung and relieving cough. Because it is rich in fatty oil (about 50% or more), it has better moisturizing effect.
Pig lungs are sweet and flat, which can cure lung deficiency, cough and hemoptysis, and have the effect of tonifying the lungs.
Practice: Wash pig lungs repeatedly with clear water. Cut the pig lung into pieces, squeeze it by hand, and wash away the foam in the pig lung trachea. Choose 15 to 20g of south apricot (be careful to choose south apricot instead of north apricot), put it in a clay pot and add water to cook it, and season it.
Function: It can be used for cough caused by dry weather in autumn and winter. In autumn and winter, lung qi stagnation, dry cough without phlegm, dry stool and dry throat have certain curative effects.
Recipe 2: Shashen Yuzhu Old Duck Soup
Raw materials: Radix Adenophorae, commonly referred to as Radix Adenophorae, is sweet and slightly cold, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. Contains alkaloids, starch, Eupatorium adenophorum, etc. It can nourish yin, clear lung, nourish stomach, promote fluid production, dispel deficiency-heat and treat dry cough.
Polygonatum odoratum is sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. Polygonatum odoratum is moist liquid, containing cucurbitacin, cucurbitacin, kaempferol glycoside, quercitrin, vitamin A, starch and mucus. It can nourish yin and moisten dryness, moisten intestines and relieve constipation.
Old duck, sweet, warm and non-toxic, enters the spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians. The function of nourishing yin and enriching blood.
Practice: Choose an old duck (note that you must choose an old duck), remove hair and dirt, and wash it. Then choose Adenophora adenophora and Polygonatum odoratum, each 30 to 50 grams, put them in a casserole, simmer 1 hour or more, and season.
Function: can treat lung dryness, dry cough, etc. It is also effective for constipation caused by physical weakness, body fluid deficiency and intestinal dryness after illness. This is also a very nourishing recipe.
Recipe 3: Stewed lean meat with lotus seeds and lilies
Raw materials: lily, sweet and slightly bitter, flat. Into the heart and lungs. Contains alkaloids such as colchicine, starch, protein, fat, vitamins, etc. It has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, nourishing yin, clearing away heat, clearing away heart fire, calming nerves, benefiting qi and regulating qi.
Lotus seeds, according to the "Materia Medica" records, have the function of "tonifying the middle energizer, nourishing the heart and benefiting qi". Compendium of Materia Medica also holds that lotus seeds have the functions of "nourishing the heart and kidney, thickening the stomach and intestines, consolidating essence and qi, forcing confinement, tonifying deficiency, benefiting the eyes and ears, and dispelling cold and dampness".
Lean pork, Chinese medicine believes that the main parts of pigs are beneficial. Lean pork is rich in animal protein. If it is eaten with lily and lotus seeds, the effect will be better.
Practice: Choose about half a catty of lean pork, then add 30g of lotus seed, 30g of lily and appropriate amount of water, stew in water and season. (Special note: Boiling means putting a lid on a container such as a bowl for holding food and steaming it in a steamer. )
Function: Stewed lean meat with lotus seeds and lilies is actually a nutritional collocation. Besides moistening dryness and nourishing lung, it can also treat neurasthenia, palpitation and insomnia. It can also be used as a tonic for the weak after illness. In short, it is a good dish that can be eaten often.
In addition, you can also choose 60 ~100g of lotus seeds and lilies, add appropriate amount of sugar and water, and cook them in sugar water, which not only tastes sweet and delicious, but also has high nutritional value, and also has the above effects.
Recipe 4: rock sugar tremella soup
Raw materials: tremella, also known as tremella, tremella. Tremella is sweet, light and flat, and enters the lungs and stomach. Contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, crude fiber, inorganic salt, etc.
Function: nourishing yin and moistening lung, nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production. Rock sugar, sweet in taste, flat in nature, enters the spleen and lung meridians. Tonifying the middle energizer, invigorating qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
Practice: Choose10 ~12g tremella, rinse it several times first, then put it in a bowl and soak it in cold boiled water (excluding tremella). Soak for about 1 hour, at which time the tremella swells, and then pick out the impurities. Then put tremella and appropriate amount of rock sugar into a bowl, add appropriate amount of cold water, and stew together for 2 to 3 hours.
Function: It has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening lung, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. It can be used to treat dry cough in autumn and winter, and can also be used as a tonic for the weak.
Autumn feels clean and dry, but it is prone to lung diseases, such as colds, coughs and asthma. If you don't treat it carefully, the symptoms will get worse. Traditional Chinese medicine has some health care methods for autumn lungs, which are summarized as follows.
In autumn, you should "lie down early to avoid the cold, get up early to enjoy the cool autumn", so that your spirit is stable and quiet and will not be affected by the cold air in autumn. Mentally, we should be "mentally restrained, not in a hurry or rashness", so that in the cold weather in autumn, we can still achieve peace and the lungs can breathe normally, which is the "way to maintain health in autumn".
Ancient medical books on diet and health care mentioned that cold drinks can hurt the lungs. In other words, if you don't keep warm properly, avoid cold, or eat cold food and drinks often, it is easy to damage lung function and cause diseases. So eat more corn, soybeans, black beans, wax gourd, tomatoes, lotus roots, sweet potatoes, pigskin, abalone, shellfish, sea cucumbers, pears and so on. In order to nourish the lungs, but choose according to personal physique and gastrointestinal function.
Exercise and health preservation "three strokes to replenish lungs in autumn": "the first stroke", with hands on your head, rotating and pitching 10 times. It can dredge the meridians of the neck, chest and back, promote blood circulation and improve the physiological function of the lungs. The second trick is to cross your hands over your head and swing your body from side to side 10 times. It can dispel rheumatism and cold pathogens between joints and treat lung diseases. The third trick is to pat the tibia (anterolateral calf) 10 times with both hands. It can open diaphragm, benefit lung qi and treat lung disease. It will be better if you can knock on your teeth when doing this exercise. The specific method is to tap your teeth 36 times and don't make any noise.
The raw materials of the medicated diet "Yiwei Decoction" are Radix Adenophorae 10g, Radix Ophiopogonis 15g, Radix Rehmanniae 10g, Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati 5g, and crystal sugar 30g, which are decocted in water for three times or taken as drinks. Used for dry cough, dry throat and dry mouth caused by lung fluid injury. Precautions: Do not take it for people with flu cough, spleen and stomach weakness and diarrhea.
Qingfei foods, such as carrots, pears, fungus, soybean milk, honey, etc. Qingfei pear: it can produce fluid to quench thirst, clear away heat and relieve cough. One way is to hollow out the inside and cook it with Fritillaria cirrhosa, rock sugar, honey, etc. The second is to cut into pieces with skin and steam them in a bowl. You'd better put rock sugar in the bowl. After cooking, you can mix in honey and eat it while it is hot. The third is to cut the skin into pieces and cook soup with papaya, candied dates and pig bones, which has the effect of clearing away lung heat and appetizing. Fourth, soak tremella in cold water and cook soup with pears, and add Lycium barbarum and jujube according to different tastes. In addition, it can also be mashed into pear crisp, eaten after adding rock sugar, and can also clear away heat and relieve cough. .
Traditional Chinese medicine has always paid attention to the homology of medicine and food, and attached great importance to improving the disease resistance of human body by regulating diet. Therefore, the therapeutic effect of improving immune function by nourishing lung qi is worthy of recognition. But people should first understand the efficacy of food when eating, such as eating white radish, which is more suitable for people with excessive phlegm and cough; Eating lily, with porridge and boiled water is better; Eating mung beans is suitable for people with strong internal fire; Water chestnut can clear away heat and produce fluid, and can be eaten raw or boiled in water. At the same time, because people's individual qualities are quite different, we should choose food according to our own situation, and at the same time pay attention to avoiding foods that are too spicy, salty and greasy. The following are several kinds of soup porridge for clearing away lung heat, moistening lung and nourishing lung, which can be selected according to your own situation.
First, there are two kinds of Qingfei decoction:
1, tremella, lotus seed, lily, sparerib soup:
Ingredients: tremella 75g, lily100g, ribs 500g.
Practice: Wash the above materials, add water, put them in a pot and cook for 3 hours.
2, mulberry white lily ribs soup:
Ingredients: 50 grams of mulberry bark, 75 grams of lily, 500 grams of ribs.
Practice: clean the above materials, add water, and then put them in the pot for one and a half hours.
Second, Runfei Tremella Decoction:
Ingredients: 5g tremella, 50g rock sugar.
Practice: Put the tremella into a basin and soak it in warm water for 30 minutes. After thorough exposure, remove the pedicle and impurities. Tear the tremella into pieces, put it in a clean pot, add a proper amount of water, boil it with strong fire, then simmer 1 hour, and then add rock sugar until the tremella is stewed.
Third, Runfei bean paste porridge:
Raw materials: soybean milk1000g, glutinous rice100g, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: Wash the glutinous rice, put it into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, cook slowly after the fire, pour in soybean milk until the rice grains bloom, continue cooking for 10 minute, and add appropriate amount of sugar.
Fourth, duck porridge:
Ingredients: duck 150g, glutinous rice 250g, cooking wine, a little salt.
Practice: Dice the duck first; Boil glutinous rice with water, then add duck meat, a little cooking wine and salt until the porridge is cooked.
Five, hairy belly blood soup:
Ingredients: duck blood 300g, hairy belly 150g (be careful not to add mutton, because mutton is hot and not suitable for eating when the temperature is getting higher and the weather is dry at the turn of spring and summer).
Ingredients: yellow throat, Monopterus albus, lunch meat, bean sprouts, vermicelli each 100g, Chongqing hot pot seasoning, pickled ginger, garlic, monosodium glutamate and sugar each a little.
Practice: first cut the duck blood into pieces and put it in a wok with clear water for use; Add a little clear oil, stir-fry ginger slices and garlic slices, and put them in Chongqing hot pot to boil; After the soup is cooked, add duck blood, hairy belly, yellow throat, eel, lunch meat, bean sprouts, vermicelli and so on. Until cooked (be careful not to overcook the hairy belly).
Tip: As the saying goes, "Blood washes the lungs". So, when should we not eat this soft and cheap blood tofu at this time?
Six, ham and winter melon soup:
Ingredients: sliced ham, sliced wax gourd.
Ingredients: shredded onion, shredded ginger, shrimp skin, salt, sugar and sesame oil.
Practice: put water in the pot to boil, put the wax gourd slices and ingredients in the pot to cook for 10 minute, then add the ham slices and take them out of the pot after 2 minutes; Add chopped green onion, sesame oil, salt and sugar before taking out.
Tip: This soup is delicious and delicious, suitable for spring and summer.