【Medicinal Recipe】
Shiitake Mushroom, Red Date, and Goji Berry Soup
【Preparation Steps】
1. Use hot water to remove impurities and blood from the chicken, then rinse with cold water.
2. Place the prepared chicken, shiitake mushrooms, and red dates in a pot and add enough water to cover all the ingredients.
3. Bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat until the chicken soup is cooked. Sprinkle with a few goji berries before serving.
4. The delicious Shiitake Mushroom, Red Date, and Goji Berry Chicken Soup is ready to be enjoyed without the need for additional seasoning. The soup is naturally sweet and flavorful.
【Medicinal Benefits】
This soup helps to nourish the blood, improve complexion, and boost the immune system. Shiitake mushrooms enhance the immune function of the body. By simmering the mushrooms together with the chicken, the beneficial components of the mushrooms dissolve into the soup, increasing the absorption rate by the body. Chicken soup itself also helps to improve the respiratory system's immune function, making it a double-effect remedy.
【Value of Shiitake Mushrooms】
1. Enhancing immune function: Shiitake mushroom polysaccharides can enhance the phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophages in mice, promote the production of T lymphocytes, and improve the cytotoxic activity of T lymphocytes;
2. Delaying aging: Shiitake mushroom extract has a clearing effect on hydrogen peroxide, eliminating hydrogen peroxide in the body;
3. Anti-cancer: Shiitake mushroom caps contain double-stranded nucleic acids, which produce interferon with anti-cancer effects after entering the body;
4. Lowering blood pressure, blood lipids, and cholesterol: Shiitake mushrooms contain purines, choline, tyrosine, oxidase, and certain nucleic acids, which can lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood lipids, prevent diseases such as arteriosclerosis and liver cirrhosis;
5. Shiitake mushrooms also have therapeutic effects on diabetes, tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis, and neuritis, and can be used for digestive disorders, constipation, etc.
Shiitake mushroom polysaccharides can enhance the vitality of helper T cells and strengthen the humoral immune function of the body. Extensive practice has shown that shiitake mushrooms have a wide range of anti-cancer effects and have been used in clinical treatment.
