The Chinese medicine will be called kelp "kombu", its flavor is salty, cold; into the liver, stomach, kidney, lung meridian.

It can soften and dissolve phlegm, dispel dampness and stop itching, and clear heat and water. It is used for goiter, choking, hernia, testicular swelling and pain, underbearing, edema and foot fungus.

Applied to cool and relieve summer heat: kelp, winter melon, green beans, each in appropriate amount, boiled in soup.

Tips

Because of some characteristics of kelp itself, so that there are two categories of people are not suitable for large quantities of kelp.

One category is pregnant women, on the one hand, kelp has a role in promoting birth, on the other hand, kelp is very high in iodine, it is too much to eat can affect the development of the fetus's thyroid, so pregnant women to eat with some caution.

The second is the kelp itself according to traditional Chinese medicine is cold, so the spleen and stomach cold people, when eating kelp do not eat too much, or with some of the cold substances with, otherwise it will cause gastric discomfort.

Because of global water pollution, kelp is likely to contain toxic substances - arsenic, so before cooking should be soaked in water for two or three hours, the middle of the water once or twice, but do not soak time is too long, up to 6 hours, so as to avoid the loss of water-soluble nutrients too much.

Pork bone has the effect of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, benefiting the essence and replenishing blood; it is suitable for those who have insufficient qi and blood, and those who have a deficiency of yin and poor nativity.