Dendrobium and Pig Lean Meat Soup is a Cantonese dish that can treat colds, fever, and sore throat. Dendrobium has a sweet taste and a cooling nature, and it has the functions of detoxification, clearing heat, and promoting diuresis and blood circulation. Pig lean meat nourishes yin and clears heat.
Picture of Dendrobium
【Ingredients】
Dendrobium 10g, Dendrobium 5g, Pig lean meat 150g, ginger slices as needed (for 1 person).
【Instructions】
Rinse the lean meat, then put it into a stewing pot with cleaned Dendrobium and Dendrobium. Add 300ml of water and stew over water for 2 hours.
【Suitable for】
Colds, fever, sore throat, dysentery, malaria, edema, beriberi, restlessness and heat in the chest, dry mouth and throat, etc.
【Nutritional value】
Dendrobium is sweet and neutral in nature, nourishes stomach yin, generates body fluids, and clears virtual heat. In recent years, the Chaoshan area highly recommends stewing or boiling soup with Dendrobium, and it is best to choose Huoshan Dendrobium, which is very fine in shape and golden in color, moist and chewy. This Dendrobium is thick and rich in fat, nourishes stomach fluids, and does not hinder the spleen with cooling concerns, making it a good product.
Dendrobium is a southern Chinese herbal medicine with a cold and bitter taste, and it has the functions of clearing heat, expelling exterior, promoting diuresis, and promoting blood circulation. Pig lean meat nourishes yin and strengthens the marrow, and it can not only be used as a medicinal guide in this soup, but also make the soup taste delicious and appetizing, thus giving the soup the function of nourishing yin and clearing heat.
Due to the heavy use of Dendrobium and stewing, it does not have a cold nature, so it is very suitable for people with weak constitution or for the elderly and children to use in summer.
【Efficacy and function of Dendrobium】
Chinese medicine believes that Dendrobium has the effects of promoting blood circulation, resolving stasis, diuresis, and clearing heat. It is commonly used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, bruises, rheumatoid arthritis, urinary tract infection, edema, wet heat leukorrhea, fever caused by external pathogen, malaria, sore throat, boils and carbuncles.
1. "Guangxi Materia Medica": "Promotes urination, purifies blood, disinfects. Used for dysentery, throat diseases, bruises, strengthens tendons and bones, disperses blood, relieves pain, treats beriberi."
2. "Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual of Guangzhou Troops": "Clears heat, resolves exterior, promotes diuresis. Used for colds, fever, heat headache, malaria, urinary calculi, chronic nephritis."
3. "Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual of Guangzhou Air Force": "Clears heat, promotes diuresis, strengthens tendons, disperses blood. Used for colds, persistent fever, rheumatoid arthritis, lower back and leg pain, sore throat, hypertension, nephritis edema."
