In the season of Grain Rain, there is more rainfall because after Grain Rain, the frequency of rainfall in each place will increase. Especially for women, if they don't eliminate dampness in time, the internal dampness in their bodies will continue to accumulate. So what should women eat to eliminate dampness? Below, I will introduce four soups for women to eliminate dampness and nourish their bodies. You can give them a try!
What soups can women have to eliminate dampness?
Winter Melon, Red Bean, and Fresh Fish Soup
Ingredients: 60g red beans, 750g winter melon, 2 fresh fish, 150g lean pork, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Wash the red beans and winter melon, and cut the winter melon into pieces with the skin on. Wash the fish and remove scales and internal organs. Fry the fish over low heat until it turns slightly yellow. Wash the lean pork and leave it in one piece without cutting it. Put all the ingredients and ginger into a clay pot, add 2500ml of water (about 10 bowls of water). Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 and a half hours. Add salt and oil according to taste. Serves 3-4 people.
Effect: Winter melon and red bean soup with fresh fish is light, not greasy, and nutritious. It also has the effect of eliminating dampness and invigorating the spleen. Red beans are commonly used in soup ingredients, with the functions of invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness, reducing swelling, and detoxifying. Winter melon can relieve heat, and fresh fish can invigorate the spleen and promote diuresis.
Hawthorn, Mung Bean, and Pig Stomach Soup
Ingredients: 40g hawthorn, 50g roasted mung beans, 2 fresh duck stomachs, 2 preserved duck stomachs, 200g pork, 14 dried tangerine peels, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Wash all the ingredients and soak them. Remove the core from the dried tangerine peels. Wash the fresh duck stomachs, open them up, and remove impurities without removing the gold inside the duck. Soak the preserved duck stomachs in warm water and wash them. Wash the pork. Put all the ingredients into a clay pot, add 2500ml of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Add salt to taste.
Effect: Invigorates the spleen, eliminates dampness, improves appetite, and relieves stagnation. Mung beans are sweet and warm in nature. They are a good medicine for invigorating the spleen, eliminating dampness, and are not greasy. They can be used for fatigue, poor appetite, and loose stools caused by spleen deficiency with dampness. Used in combination with hawthorn, it can invigorate the spleen, eliminate dampness, aid digestion, and improve appetite.
Astragalus and Codonopsis Soup
Ingredients: 25g astragalus, 20g codonopsis, 20g coix seed, 500g black-boned chicken, 50g lean pork, 3 slices of ginger.
Method: Blanch the black-boned chicken and lean pork in boiling water and set aside. Wash all the other ingredients. Put all the ingredients into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for about 1 and a half hours. Add salt to taste.
Effect: Astragalus is warm and sweet in nature and can replenish Qi and strengthen the surface. Codonopsis can nourish blood and generate body fluids, and is used to treat weakness of the spleen and lungs. Coix seed is cool and sweet in nature, and can invigorate the spleen, clear heat, and eliminate dampness. This soup can replenish Qi, invigorate the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach, and poor appetite in spring and summer.
Coix Seed and Pig Trotter Soup
Ingredients: 30g coix seed, 1 clean pig trotter (about half a kilogram).
Method: Crush the coix seed, wash the pig trotter and cut it into pieces, then put them together in a clay pot. Add 1500ml of water, yellow wine, ginger, and cover. Boil over high heat, remove the foam on the surface of the soup, then simmer over low heat for about 2 hours. When the pig trotter is tender, add salt, soy sauce, spring onion, and black pepper in order.
Effect: Invigorates the spleen, nourishes the stomach, eliminates dampness, and strengthens the waist and knees.
Women should know about these foods that eliminate dampness
1. Coix Seed
This food, I guess I don't need to explain it, many women already know. Because it is the most common food to eliminate dampness, many women like to cook it with other ingredients, such as boiling it with red beans or lamb.
2. Red Bean
This is also a food that is very effective in eliminating dampness, and it can also beautify the skin. It is recommended to cook red beans into soup by adding water. Of course, you can also add other ingredients, such as black beans or mung beans, to cook the soup. These soups can help eliminate dampness in the body and reduce the harm caused by dampness to women.
