1, tremella and jujube soup
Boiling soup with big red dates is particularly popular now. The soup boiled with red dates can not only tonify the body, but also moisten the lungs and relieve cough. For people suffering from cold and cough, it is very beneficial to drink some soup boiled with red dates. It is recorded in the "Prescription for Effective Action" written by Yu Gu in the Tang Dynasty that boiling soup with red dates, tremella and rock sugar can relieve cough and moisten the lungs.
Ingredients: 20 grams of tremella (about half a flower), 20 red dates and 60 grams of rock sugar (the weight can be added or subtracted according to everyone's taste).
Practice: put the tremella in clear water, remove the pedicle, tear it into small pieces, put it in the pot with red dates and rock sugar, add 6 bowls of water, boil it with slow fire for another half an hour, and then turn off the fire.
2. Chenpi Pear Soup
"Compendium of Materia Medica" says that pears can "moisten the lungs and clear the heart, eliminate phlegm and reduce fire, and relieve sores and alcohol poisoning". According to experts, pears are the most common lung-clearing food, which have the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening dryness, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm. Sydney is sweet, moistens the lungs and cools the heart, dried tangerine peel regulates qi and dries the wet, and rock sugar moistens the heart and lungs. The combination of these three good things is the most suitable soup for drinking in dry season.
Ingredients: 2 Sydney, 20g dried tangerine peel, crystal sugar, medlar and water.
Practice: Wash and peel the pears, don't throw the skins on another plate, cut the pears into pieces and soak them in light salt water, don't throw the pears, and put them together with the pears; Put water in the pot, boil, add pear peel, pear core and dried tangerine peel, continue to boil over high fire, skim off floating foam, and turn to low heat for about 20 minutes; Take out the soaked pear flesh and drain the water, turn off the fire, take out the pear skin and pear core and throw them away, add the pear flesh and crystal sugar, then boil over high fire, and turn to low fire for 5- 10 minutes until the crystal sugar is completely melted; Turn off the fire and sprinkle with Lycium barbarum.
3, loquat leaf jujube soup
Eriobotrya japonica leaves are flat and bitter, and its main functions are resolving phlegm and relieving cough, regulating the stomach and reducing qi. Cooking soup with candied dates can not only eliminate the bitterness of loquat leaves, but also play the role of resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Ingredients: loquat leaves, platycodon grandiflorum, almonds15g, candied dates10g, crystal sugar.
Practice: all ingredients are cleaned for use; The loquat leaves are wrapped in cloth and tied tightly; Pour three bowls of clear water into the pot, add all the prepared ingredients, boil over high fire, and simmer over low heat; When the water in the pot is half left, put the rock sugar, melt it and stir it evenly.
4. Stewed lean meat with almond and fritillary bulb
Almond is one of the commonly used medicinal and edible herbs in autumn. Soup-making has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, relieving asthma, relaxing bowels, etc. For the elderly, almonds, especially southern almonds with relatively gentle drug effect, can often be used in medicinal diets. Stewed lean meat with almond and fritillary bulb has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. Suitable for chronic bronchitis patients with cough, sticky phlegm, or dry cough without phlegm.
Ingredients: bitter almond10g, Bulbus Fritillariae Cirrhosae 5g, lean pork 350g, 3 slices of ginger.
Practice: Wash the lean pork and cut it into pieces, wash the bitter almond and Fritillaria cirrhosa, put it in a stew pot with ginger, stew it in water for 1 hour, and add salt.