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 health and body nourishment. The following are some medicinal meals recommended by the editor. Not only are they easy to make, but they also taste great. Let's take a look!
Double Ear Soup
Ingredients: 10g white fungus, 10g black fungus, 30g rock sugar.
Preparation: Remove impurities from the white fungus and black fungus, soak them in warm water, remove the stems, wash them and put them in a bowl. Add rock sugar and water. Steam the bowl of fungus in a steamer until it is cooked.
Usage: Eat the fungus and drink the soup 1-2 times a day.
Benefits: Nourishes yin, tonifies the kidneys, and moistens the lungs.
Application: For dry cough with little phlegm, blood in the phlegm, restlessness, thirst, dry and itchy throat, sore and weak lower back and knees, bone steaming heat, low-grade fever in the afternoon, nocturnal emission, insomnia, as well as Yin deficiency related conditions such as arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension, retinal hemorrhage, and pulmonary tuberculosis.
Grass Carp and Winter Melon Skin Soup
Ingredients: 150g fresh grass carp, 60g winter melon skin, 30g coix seed, monosodium glutamate, salt to taste.
Preparation: Remove the internal organs of the grass carp, remove the gills, wash it clean; wash the winter melon skin and coix seed, put them in a gauze bag, tie it tightly, and put it in a clay pot together with the grass carp. Add enough water and stew until the fish is cooked. Remove the medicine bag and add monosodium glutamate and a little salt to season.
Usage: Serve as a side dish, according to taste.
Benefits: Tonifies qi, invigorates the spleen, promotes diuresis, and reduces swelling.
Application: For spleen deficiency with chronic nephritis, chronic pyelonephritis, and nutritional edema.
Solomon's Seal Tea
Ingredients: 10g Solomon's Seal.
Usage: Grind the Solomon's Seal into coarse powder and brew it with boiling water to make tea.
Benefits: Nourishes yin, moisturizes dryness, generates fluids, and relieves thirst.
Application: For heartburn, insomnia, polydipsia, excessive hunger, burning pain in the stomach, dry cough with little phlegm, itchy and painful throat, hoarseness, low-grade fever in the afternoon caused by yin deficiency. Also suitable for chronic atrophic gastritis, pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes, coronary heart disease, and other conditions related to yin deficiency.
Note: It is not suitable for those who often cough up phlegm, feel chest tightness and abdominal distension, and have poor appetite.
Honeysuckle Tea
Ingredients: 2g honeysuckle, 2g cassia seed, 2g sophora flower, 4g dandelion, 6g chrysanthemum flower.
Preparation: Put the ingredients in a sand pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and decoct.
Usage: Drink as tea.
Benefits: Clears heat, relieves summer heat, eliminates toxic substances in the body, and reduces fat and weight.
Application: For clearing heat and toxins, reducing inflammation, and promoting diuresis.
