In the hot summer, you can make some medicinal meals to nourish yourself and your family. Medicinal meals have always been our traditional way of nourishing our bodies. Below, I recommend a few medicinal meals that not only have simple recipes but also taste good. Let's take a look!
1. Black Bean Chenpi Carp Soup
Ingredients: 20g black beans, 3g chenpi, 150g carp, 2 slices of ginger, 3g yellow wine, appropriate amount of broth, refined salt, whole white peppercorns, etc.
Method: Fry the carp until golden brown and place it in a bowl. After soaking and washing the black beans, add them to the bowl with washed chenpi, ginger, yellow wine, and broth. Cover the bowl with a piece of food-grade glass paper and seal it with a rubber band. Steam in a steamer for 1 hour, then add chicken broth and refined salt to taste.
Comment: Carp has a neutral nature and a sweet taste. It has the effects of invigorating the spleen, nourishing deficiencies, diuresis, reducing swelling, clearing heat, and detoxifying, as well as promoting menstruation and lactation. Black beans have a warm nature and a sweet taste. They are rich in protein and vitamins. They are good for nourishing the liver and kidneys, eliminating dampness, promoting diuresis, and nourishing blood and improving eyesight. Chenpi has a warm nature, a pungent and bitter taste, and the functions of regulating qi, invigorating the spleen, drying dampness, and transforming phlegm. When used together, it can promote diuresis and reduce swelling, invigorate the spleen and transform phlegm, and promote lactation and lactation.
Suitable for: People with various types of edema, oliguria, abdominal distension, phlegm-damp cough, and dull skin can eat it. It is especially suitable for pregnant women with edema and postpartum lactation disorders.
2. Lily Coix Seed Green Bean Stew
Ingredients: 100g lily, 50g coix seed, 50g green beans, appropriate amount of rock sugar.
Method: After washing the ingredients, put them in a bowl with rock sugar. Add an appropriate amount of water to the bowl, cover it with a piece of food-grade glass paper, and seal it with a rubber band. Steam in a steamer for 1 hour.
Comment: Lily has a slightly cold nature and a sweet taste. It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing the lungs, moisturizing dryness, and calming the mind. Coix seed has a slightly cold nature and a sweet and bland taste. It has the effects of invigorating the spleen and promoting diuresis, clearing heat and eliminating pus, relaxing tendons and dissipating blockages, beauty and skin care, and preventing and treating cancer. Green beans have a cold nature and a sweet taste. They are rich in vitamin B and have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving heat and diuresis, relieving restlessness, and quenching thirst. The combination of various ingredients can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve heat and quench thirst, and promote diuresis and calm the mind.
Suitable for: People who suffer from heatstroke, restlessness, red urine, lung deficiency with chronic cough, cough with heat, chest pain, coughing up pus, urinary tract infections, restlessness and insomnia, acne, tumors, etc.
3. Ginseng and Chinese Caterpillar Fungus Stewed Eel
Ingredients: 3g ginseng, 2 pieces of Chinese caterpillar fungus, 200g yellow eel, 2 slices of ginger, 6g yellow wine, appropriate amount of chicken broth, refined salt, chicken clear soup, etc.
Method: Cut the yellow eel into sections, blanch and wash away the blood and mucus, then place it in a bowl. After washing the medicinal ingredients, add them to the bowl with ginger, yellow wine, and chicken clear soup. Cover the bowl with a piece of food-grade glass paper and seal it with a rubber band. Steam in a steamer for 1.5 hours, then add an appropriate amount of chicken broth and refined salt to taste.
Comment: Yellow eel has a warm nature, a sweet taste, and is rich in vitamins and various trace elements. It is particularly rich in calcium and iron among common freshwater fish. It has the effects of replenishing qi and nourishing blood, dispelling wind, promoting meridian circulation, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and regulating blood sugar. Ginseng has a sweet and mild nature and is good for nourishing lung qi. It can replenish the middle qi, nourish blood, and generate fluid. Chinese caterpillar fungus has a sweet and mild nature and can benefit the kidneys, strengthen yang, tonify the lungs, relieve asthma, and stop bleeding and transform phlegm. When used together with yellow wine, it can enhance the effects of replenishing qi and invigorating the spleen, moistening the lungs and transforming phlegm, and nourishing the liver and kidneys.
Suitable for: People with kidney deficiency, weak lower back and knees, blurred vision, post-illness or postpartum qi and blood deficiency, cough with lung deficiency, chest pain, coughing up pus, loose stools due to spleen deficiency, organ prolapse, sallow complexion, and children with growth and development issues.
4. Clam and Bitter Gourd Fresh Soup
Ingredients: 200g clam meat, 5g bamboo fungus, 50g bitter gourd, 2 slices of ginger, 6g yellow wine, appropriate amount of clear soup, refined salt, etc.
Method: Slice the clam meat and blanch it to remove blood and mucus, then place it in a bowl. Remove the skin of the bitter gourd and slice it. Add the bitter gourd, washed bamboo fungus, ginger, yellow wine, and clear soup to the bowl. Cover the bowl with a piece of food-grade glass paper and seal it with a rubber band. Steam in a steamer for 2 hours, then add an appropriate amount of refined salt to taste.
Comment: Clam meat has a sweet and salty taste, a cold nature, and contains nutrients such as protein, nucleic acids, zinc, and calcium. It has the functions of nourishing yin and clearing heat, smoothing the liver and brightening the eyes, nourishing the skin, and softening and dispersing knots. Bamboo fungus has a mild nature and a sweet taste. It can invigorate the spleen, nourish yin, strengthen the stomach, and generate fluid. It can also replenish the five zang organs, enhance the body's immune function, inhibit tumors, and improve symptoms of diabetes. Bitter gourd has a bitter taste and a cold nature. It is rich in vitamin C and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, preventing heatstroke, clearing the heart, improving eyesight, reducing blood pressure, and lowering blood sugar. The combination of these three ingredients can enhance the effects of invigorating qi and nourishing yin, generating fluid and moistening dryness, clearing heat and detoxifying, preventing heatstroke, nourishing the skin and improving eyesight, enhancing immune function, and inhibiting and controlling cancer, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar.
Suitable for: People with dry mouth and throat, constipation, dry eyes, dry and dull skin, loss of appetite, easy fatigue, heatstroke-prone individuals, tumor patients, post-chemotherapy patients with yin deficiency and fluid depletion, and those with high blood sugar or high blood pressure.
