The main qi in autumn is dryness. When dryness invades the human body, a series of dry symptoms will appear, such as dry skin, chapped hair, dry mouth, dry nose, dry throat, dry tongue with little body fluid and sweat, dry cough without or without phlegm, or even sore throat, blood in phlegm, constipation and so on. To reduce or prevent the occurrence of autumn dryness, we should add more water and drink more soup. These soups should be "clean".

Clear soup can moisten our skin and internal organs, and reduce the harm of dryness and evil to the body. Here are some soups suitable for autumn.

◆ Siraitia grosvenorii and dried cabbage soup

Choose 1/3-1/2 Siraitia grosvenorii, 5g dried cabbage and 1g lean pork each time. Wash Siraitia grosvenorii and dried Chinese cabbage with clear water, wash lean pork and cut into coarse pieces. Put the three materials into a soup pot, and simmer the soup with strong fire first to make the dried Chinese cabbage soft and rotten. This soup can nourish yin, clear lung, moisten dryness and resolve phlegm.

◆ Braised old duck soup with Radix Adenophorae and Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati

In this soup, 5g of Radix Adenophorae, 3g of Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati, and old duck (half a big one and one small one) are selected. First, remove the hair and internal organs of the old duck, and cut it into coarse pieces; Wash Radix Adenophorae and Rhizoma Polygonati Odorati. Cook for an hour and a half on medium to slow fire, and season. This soup can nourish yin, moisten lung, nourish stomach and produce fluid.

◆ Stewed papaya with crystal sugar

Choose ripe papaya (one for the small one and half for the big one), peel, remove the core and cut into pieces, put it in a stew, add appropriate amount of crystal sugar, and stew for 1 hour. This product has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening and caring skin.

◆ Stewed pork lung soup with sword flower

3g of dried sword flower (25g for fresh sword flower) and 3g of fresh pork lung. Firstly, the pig lung is rinsed with clear water and then cut into thick pieces; Wash the sword flower with water. Then put them in a clay pot, add a proper amount of water, cook them for one hour with strong fire and then slow fire, and season them. This soup has the effects of moistening lung, clearing heat, tonifying lung and relieving cough.

◆ South Almond Stewed Sydney Soup

Take 12g of South Almond, one Sydney and 3g of white sugar. First soak the almonds in water and peel them, then cut Sydney into four pieces. Put almonds, Sydney and white sugar into a stew pot together, add 2 ml of clear water, stew for 1 hour, and then drink soup to eat Sydney. This soup has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and moistening lung.