The Wood Lotus Fruit is a highly nutritious medicinal food ingredient that can be brewed into tea or cooked with other ingredients. It has the effect of invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, especially in treating coughs. Below, I will recommend several Wood Lotus Fruit dietary therapies.
1. Wood Lotus Fruit Stewed Pig's Trotters
Ingredients: 4 Wood Lotus Fruits, 1 pig's trotter.
Method: Wash the pig's trotter and blanch it in boiling water for a while. Remove and wash it. Wash the Wood Lotus Fruits. Add an appropriate amount of water to a pot, bring the pig's trotter to a boil, then simmer on low heat until cooked. Add cooking wine, salt, spring onion, and ginger to the pot and simmer until well flavored. Add the Wood Lotus Fruits and continue simmering until the pig's trotter is tender. Add monosodium glutamate, then serve.
Effect: Stewed Pig's Trotters with Wood Lotus Fruits is a highly effective folk remedy used in China to treat insufficient lactation in postpartum women.
2. Wood Lotus Fruit Sugar Drink
Ingredients: 5 Wood Lotus Fruits, an appropriate amount of honey (or white sugar).
Method: Wash the Wood Lotus Fruits, slice them, and put them in a pot with an appropriate amount of water. Bring to a boil, then add honey or white sugar and continue boiling.
Effect: Wood Lotus Fruit Sugar Drink is a folk remedy used to treat chyle. It also has certain therapeutic effects on insufficient lactation, nocturnal emissions, chronic diarrhea, and cloudy urine.
3. Wood Lotus Fruit Glutinous Rice Porridge
Ingredients: 60g Wood Lotus Fruits, 60g Euryale Seeds (shelled), a piece of fresh lotus leaf (the size of a palm).
Method: Cook the above ingredients with an appropriate amount of glutinous rice into porridge.
Effect: It treats weak spleen and stomach, loose stools, palpitations, restless sleep, sore lower back and excessive vaginal discharge in women with weak constitution.
4. Wood Lotus Fruit Tofu
Ingredients: Wood Lotus Fruits, lotus root powder, mint, sugar, etc.
Method: Use a piece of cheesecloth to wrap the Wood Lotus Fruit seeds, soak it in a bowl filled with cold water, and squeeze the cheesecloth. A viscous liquid will be extracted. Then add some lotus root powder or gypsum powder to the water to help coagulate. Put it in the refrigerator for three to four hours, and the liquid will become jelly-like. When eating, add sugar and mint water. The refreshing and cooling Wood Lotus Fruit Tofu is ready to be served.
Effect: It has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation, reducing swelling, detoxifying, nourishing the kidneys, and promoting lactation.
5. Wood Lotus Fruit Stewed Pig's Stomach
Ingredients: 1 cleaned pig's stomach, 40 Wood Lotus Fruits (core removed).
Method: Stuff the Wood Lotus Fruits into the pig's stomach and sew it with thread. After stewing, slice the pig's stomach and place it on a plate together with the Wood Lotus Fruits. Add an appropriate amount of sesame oil, salt, spring onion, ginger, and garlic for seasoning. Serve.
Effect: It has the effects of invigorating the spleen, nourishing the stomach, tonifying deficiency, and benefiting qi. It is suitable for conditions such as reduced appetite, weight loss, diarrhea, and edema.
6. Ginseng and Lotus Meat Soup
Ingredients: 10g white ginseng, 10 Wood Lotus Fruits.
Method: Soak the ingredients in an appropriate amount of water and add 30g of rock sugar. Steam for one hour and then consume. The ginseng can be reserved for the next day and steamed with Wood Lotus Fruits using the same method. It can be used consecutively for three times.
Effect: It has the effects of replenishing qi and invigorating the spleen. It is suitable for conditions such as post-illness weakness, spleen deficiency weight loss, fatigue, spontaneous sweating, and diarrhea.
