The traditional Sishen soup is made up of lotus seeds, yam, Gordon Euryale ferox and Poria. Some stores will use yam and lotus seeds with any two herbs of Poria, Gordon Euryale ferox or Coix seed. Because Sishen soup contains a lot of starch, if it is stewed separately, it will taste astringent, so it will generally be mixed with some protein foods to increase the smoothness. Besides the common pig intestines and pork bellies, it is also matched with lean pork.
nutritive value
1 and coix seed contain protein 16.2%, fat 4.65%, carbohydrate 79. 1%, vitamins, amino acids, coix seed, coix seed fat, triterpenoids and starch, etc., which have high nutritional value. Coix seed is cold and enters spleen, lung and kidney meridians. It has the functions of invigorating spleen, tonifying lung, clearing away heat and infiltrating temperature, and is also beneficial to balance blood pressure and blood lipid.
2. Lotus seeds are rich in calcium, phosphorus and potassium, with high nutritional value, which can nourish the mind, benefit the kidney, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and astringent the large intestine. Indications are nocturnal sleepiness, insomnia, forgetfulness, vexation and thirst, lumbago, weakness of feet, hearing loss, nocturnal emission, stranguria, chronic dysentery, asthenic diarrhea, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia of women, and stomach deficiency that makes them unwilling to eat.