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As the summer heat approaches, Cantonese people use this tree root to make soup, which can dispel dampness and relieve summer heat, and the whole family can drink it.
In two days, we will enter the summer solar term among the 24 solar terms, which belongs to the fifth solar term in summer. "Summer" stands for hot, which means slight heat. It is hotter than the previous solar terms in summer, but it is not very hot. The summer heat is a long summer, and the summer heat is also relatively heavy. At this time, diet and health care should pay attention to clearing heat, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness.

My family often uses chicken soup with chicken bone grass in summer, which has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness. Often stay up late or eat fried or fried food, and boil some chicken bone soup when it is on fire, which can be drunk by all families. Abrus cantonensis is one of the herbs that Guangdong people like to use to make soup. It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, benefiting the stomach and strengthening the spleen. People who don't understand it think it is a root, and they are worried that the boiled soup will be bitter and difficult to drink. In fact, Abrus cantonensis has a unique medicinal aroma, which can be reconciled with meat and other ingredients. Using Abrus cantonensis to make soup, together with the two ingredients of red beans and barley, has a better effect of eliminating dampness, and then put candied dates.

Ingredients: 20 grams of Abrus cantoniensis, 350 grams of pig bone, 30 grams of adzuki bean, 50 grams of coix seed, proper amount of salt, 2 candied dates and 2 slices of ginger.

Practice: 1, Coix seed and adzuki bean are soaked in water in advance 1 hour;

2. Wash the pig bones, put a proper amount of water in a small pot, add 2 pieces of ginger, put the pig bones in, continue to cook for 1 min after the water boils, and boil the bleeding foam, then pick up the pig bones and rinse them to drain;

3. Rinse Abrus cantoniensis and put it in the soup pot;

4. Soak Coix seed and adzuki bean for one hour in advance, and then pour them into the soup pot;

5. Add candied dates, pour in appropriate amount of water, boil over high fire and turn to low heat for 50 minutes;

6. Finally, add salt to taste. Everything can be eaten except Abrus cantoniensis.

The soup for clearing away heat, detoxicating and eliminating dampness came out. I like to make it myself. It tastes very good.

Tip: According to the Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines, Abrus cantoniensis "clears away heat and promotes diuresis, soothes the liver and relieves pain, and treats acute and chronic hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, stomachache, stinging urine and snake bite".