Ze Xie is a highly valuable medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to being used as medicine, it can also be used as a food ingredient and has high nutritional value when used to make soups and porridges. Below, I will recommend several recipes using Ze Xie.
Recipe 1: Ze Xie Soup with Pork Bones
Ingredients: 80g of peas, 80g of barley, 12g each of Polyporus and Ze Xie, 5 red dates, 500g of pork bones, 3 slices of ginger.
Instructions: Wash all the ingredients separately. Soak the medicinal herbs. Remove the pits from the red dates. Crack the pork bones. Put everything in a clay pot and add 2500ml of water (about 10 bowls). Bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer for about 2 hours over low heat. Add salt to taste. Serves 3-4 people.
Benefits: This recipe helps to clear heat, eliminate dampness, moisturize, and nourish the body.
Recipe 2: Ze Xie and Crucian Carp Soup
Ingredients: 800g of old winter melon, 1/2 fresh lotus leaf, 12g each of Polyporus and Ze Xie (available at Chinese medicine stores), 80g of Job's tears, 1 crucian carp, 100g of lean pork, 3 slices of ginger.
Instructions: Wash all the ingredients. Cut the winter melon into chunks with the skin and seeds intact. Soak the Chinese herbs and Job's tears. Clean and fry the crucian carp until slightly golden, then add a little water. Put everything in a clay pot and add 3000ml of water (about 12 bowls). Bring to a boil over high heat and then simmer over low heat for two and a half hours. Add salt to taste. Serves 3-5 people.
Benefits: This soup helps to clear heat, relieve summer heat, and eliminate dampness.
Recipe 3: Ze Xie Porridge
Ingredients: 10g of Ze Xie, 100g of rice, a little sugar.
Instructions: Clean the Ze Xie and put it in a pot. Add enough water to make a decoction. Cook the rice with the decoction. When the porridge is cooked, add sugar and boil for another minute or two. Take 1-2 servings daily.
Benefits: Regular consumption of this porridge has a good therapeutic effect on conditions such as difficult urination, edema, diarrhea, cloudy urine, excessive vaginal discharge, phlegm retention, and kidney yin deficiency, as well as nocturnal emission and dizziness caused by excessive internal heat.
