Soup herbs
Soup herbs
Introduction
Common herbs
Chinese herbs are used as soup ingredients. Through the combination of herbs and food, the medicinal effect of herbs enhances the nutritional value and food efficacy of the soup. Different herbs have different effects, and when choosing herbs, you should pay attention to the medicinal properties and choose the right herbs in order to achieve the purpose of nourishing the body.
Basic Information
Chinese Name
Soup Herbs
Purpose
To nourish the body
Medicinal Ingredients
Schisandra chinensis, Codonopsis pilosulae, Poria cocos, Colla Corii Asini, and so on
Characteristics
Different medicinal herbs have different efficacies
Introduction
By combining the medicinal herbs with food, and by using the medicinal herbs with food, we can achieve the purpose of soup nourishment. Different herbs have different effects, in the selection of herbs should pay attention to the medicinal properties, choose the right herbs, in order to achieve the purpose of health.
Commonly used herbs
Chen Pi: regulates the middle, smooths the qi and eliminates phlegm, and promotes the five viscera. (The flesh should be scraped and washed)
Tianqi: also known as Panax notoginseng, stops bleeding and disperses blood stasis. (Wash, pile crushed)
Wolfberry: also known as wolfberry, benefit the essence and eyesight, moisten the lungs and clear the liver, nourish the kidneys and benefit the qi. (washed)
Soup herbs
Soup herbs
Huai Shan: tonifying the spleen and lungs, clearing deficiency heat, and fixing the stomach and intestines.
Ginkgo Fungus: nourishes Yin, nourishes the stomach, moistens the lungs, nourishes the face, and is cholesterol-free. (Soak in water for 1 hour, tear)
Mu fungus: nourishes qi and blood, moistening the lungs and stopping bleeding, and has curative effect on arteriosclerosis. (Soak in water for 1 hour, add to boiling water for 5 minutes, remove and pass through cold water)
Southern almonds: also known as sweet almonds, moistening the lungs and calming the asthma, generating fluids and appetizers, moistening the large intestine. (Into the boiling water for 5 minutes, remove the clothes and wash)
North almonds: also known as bitter almonds, to remove phlegm and cough, laxative. (Same as Southern Almond)
Ching Tonic: Clear tonic (including jade bamboo, lily, lotus seed, longan meat, Job's tear grains, Chinese yam, Gorgon fruit)
North Astragalus: also known as Astragalus, tonifies blood, replenishes spleen and strengthens the muscles and bones.
American ginseng: benefits blood, tonifies the spleen and lungs.
Codonopsis pilosula: nourishes the spleen and tonifies the qi, generates body fluid and strengthens the qi.
Sand ginseng: nourishes yang and moistens the lungs, benefits the stomach, generates body fluid and clears heat.
Korean ginseng must: tonifying qi, generating body fluid, quenching thirst.
Lotus leaf: removing heat.
Ginseng: sweet, slightly bitter, slightly warm; contains ginsenosides, ginsenoside, calcium, magnesium, saponin, can calm the mind and nourish the heart, tonifying the lungs and qi, tonifying the five viscera, strengthening the spleen and stomach, saponin has a hemolytic effect, and can disseminate all kinds of blood stasis caused by rheumatic heart.
Gwei Zhi: sweet, pungent, warm, can enhance the metabolism to stimulate mucosal congestion, sharp joints, sweating, this meridian to warm the tendons, through the veins to remove the wind temperature.
Lingxian: pungent, bitter, suitable for the five viscera, dispersing wind-dampness, beneficial to the joints, dredge the whole body tendons and veins.
He Shouwu: bitter, sweet, slightly astringent, containing rhubarb acid has obviously promote intestinal peristalsis, containing lecithin used for the spirit of the weak, promote the development of blood newborns, have a strong cardiac effect.
Nightshade: bitter, sweet, slightly warm, can cure rheumatism and dizziness, anemia, insomnia.
Wu Yao: pungent, fragrant, bitter, warm, can stimulate the clearing of mucous membranes and paralyze the central role.
Huayama: sweet, flat, rich in starch liquid, can fill the five organs, strengthen the spleen and stomach, tonifying weakness, quench thirst, tonifying the spleen and the effect of water.
Cooked earth: sweet, warm, slightly bitter, containing sugar mannan mie fermentation, dixanthin and iron, etc., can nourish the kidney and blood, beneficial to the marrow to fill the essence of the nourishing, strong blood tonic, strong and strong nerves of the effect of the anaemia for the weak, neurasthenia, dyspnea, and so on.
Garden Pearl Grass: hot, pungent, has the effect of removing cold and dampness, aphrodisiac, strong heart, and help gas.
Protecting the heart vine: bitter, warm, slightly fragrant, evil pain and swelling, breaking the firm blood, diuretic and smooth blood circulation.
Poria: sweet, light, flat, containing poria enzyme, plant cellulose, glucose, fructose and ash powder, etc., in addition to the chest to help reverse qi under the heart knot qi, treatment of pain, cold and heat annoyance fullness, cough, diuretic, diuresis, diuresis, water dampness and the spleen and stomach, as a palliative agent for the palpitations of the heart under the palpitation, urinary incontinence, subcutaneous oedema, sleep restlessness syndrome.
Malt: sweet, flat, rich in vitamins, maltose and lecithin. Can and stomach digestion, break the cold, go to the heart and abdomen full of bloating, digestion and in the middle, for can help digestion, cure hurt food, stop eating stagnation go bitter thick and greasy, chest full of stuffy.
Yuzhu: nourishing yang and moistening dryness, generating fluids, clearing heat.
Chuanbei: moistening the heart and lungs, clearing heat and phlegm.
Lily: tonifying the liver and lungs, clearing heat and benefiting the spleen. (Soak in water for 1 hour)
Bamboo: clearing the lungs, tonifying the spleen, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm. (Soak in water for 10 minutes, cut into 4cm pieces and boil for half an hour at the most)
Xia Gu Cao: clears liver heat and lowers blood pressure. (Boil for 2 hours at most)
Sheng Di: cools the blood and detoxifies the toxin, diuretic.
Luohan Guo: clears the lungs and moistens the intestines.
Old amaranth stalks: detoxifying and clearing heat, tonifying blood, stopping bleeding, and facilitating urination. (Sold in traditional Chinese medicine stores, washed and cut into short pieces)
White fruit: benefit the lungs and qi. (Shell, into the boiling water for 5 minutes to pick up to remove the clothes, remove the heart)
Gorgonian fruit: tonifying the kidney to consolidate the essence, strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea.
Figs: moistening the lungs and clearing the throat, strengthening the stomach and clearing the intestines. (Sliced)
Bamboo cane: moistening dryness, harmonizing the stomach, clearing heat and removing toxins, and can dispel the fishy smell of snakes and other things.
Poria cocos: clearing away heat and dampness, detoxifying and diuretic.
Angelica: tonifying and blood, regulating menstruation and relieving pain.
Tianma: dispelling wind and calming fright.
Cordyceps Sinensis: tonifying loss and deficiency, benefiting essence, and resolving phlegm.
Jasmine: refreshing the mind, clearing fire and removing cold accumulation.
Snow clams: nourish the kidneys, tonify the lungs, strengthen the spleen. (Clear water soaked hair 5 hours, into the onion and ginger water rolled 5 minutes to take up, into the stew pot one and a half hours).
Lotus seed: has the effect of nourishing the spleen, stopping diarrhea, stopping the belt, benefit kidney astringent essence, nourishing the heart and tranquility. Commonly used in the spleen deficiency diarrhea, bring down, spermatorrhea, palpitations and insomnia.
Red dates: nourishing yin and yang, blood effect (washed, can be eaten raw, soup, tea)